Month: February 2020

An association of federal judges will convene for an urgent meeting Trump’s interference in the Department of Justice’s sentencing of Roger Stone, USA Today reported. The DOJ leadership overruled their prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years in prison for Stone, who was convicted in November on seven charges of witness tampering, false statements,…

The Federal Judges Association will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss concerns members have over President Trump and top Justice Department officials intervening in the case of longtime Trump friend and adviser Roger Stone. The association has more than 1,000 members, and says it supports a “fair, impartial, and independent judiciary.” The group’s…

LAS VEGAS — Bernie Sanders “has a lot of questions to answer” about how his supporters attacked members of a union online after they criticized his “Medicare for All” health care plan, Elizabeth Warren said Monday. “I’ve said before that we are all responsible for what our supporters do, and I think Bernie has a…

Beijing (AFP) – China on Wednesday ordered three reporters from American newspaper the Wall Street Journal to leave the country over what Beijing deemed a racist headline, in one of the harshest moves against foreign media in years. The expulsion came as Beijing also slammed Washington’s decision to tighten rules on Chinese state media organisations…

By Huizhong Wu BEIJING (Reuters) – China has revoked the press credentials of three journalists of the Wall Street Journal after the newspaper declined to apologize for a column with a headline calling China the “real sick man of Asia”, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing made “stern representations” to…

Reuters/Pool China is expelling three Wall Street Journal reporters, accusing the newspaper of publishing a racist headline about the country’s battle with coronavirus. On February 3, the Journal had published an op-ed by a foreign-affairs academic titled “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia.” The “sick man of Asia” is a 19th-century term that…

* Prospect of direct Turkey-Syria confrontation looms * Turkish troops flood border area * Russia says it will keep keep talking * Humanitarian crisis grows * (.) By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Suleiman Al-Khalidi ANKARA/AMMAN, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a Turkish military operation to push back a Syrian government…

A score or so migrants crouch in the dark corridor of the safe house where they have been waiting for a month. Today, their turn has come to go back on the road again – not across the US border, however, but deeper into Mexico, to save their skins. Outside, a minivan pulls up, driven…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the “top levels” of the Malaysian government long suspected that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 almost six years ago was a mass murder-suicide by the pilot. Abbott was prime minister when the plane carrying 239 people vanished on March 8, 2014,…

A student lost her purse in 1957. It was discovered behind a locker 62 years later originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A student’s purse that went missing 63 years ago in 1957 has been discovered between a set of lockers and wall during repairs and has turned into a long-lost time capsule from the 1950s. Patti…