Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was so thrilled with the sweetheart plea deal his legal dream team scored for him in Florida that he threw in an added bonus — nearly $1 million worth of donations to their favorite charities, including a tony Manhattan prep school.
Jordan Chariton reports on The Washington Post's unreal fact check of Bernie Sanders' criticism on income inequality--that its own fact checker admitted was true.
Read MoreJordan reports on Harvard offering a fellowship to ex-MI Gov. Rick Snyder, who many blame for the failures of solving the Flint water crisis.
An African-American family is suing the city of Phoenix, Arizona, after police held them at gunpoint because their 4-year-old daughter had allegedly taken a doll from a Family Dollar store. In a video, officers point guns and yell at the family, and one officer even threatens to shoot the 4-year-old girl’s father, in the face. The girl’s mother, is heard saying she is unable to hold her hands up because she is holding a child and that she is pregnant.
Read MoreHill’s firing is a major defeat for the right to advocate for Palestinian rights, to freely critique the Israeli government, and for the ability of journalism and public discourse in the U.S. generally to accommodate dissent.
Read MoreIn 2011, Patrik Ryan, then working at a firm called Berico Technologies, compiled a plan to create a real-time surveillance operation of left-wing groups and labor unions, hoping business lobbyists would pay top dollar to monitor and disrupt the actions of activist groups across the country. At one point, the proposal included the idea to spy on the families of high-profile Democratic activists and plant fake documents with labor unions in a bid to discredit them.
Read MoreThe agency … removed “honesty” as its top priority. Since at least May 2016, the surveillance agency had featured honesty as the first of four “core values” … alongside “respect for the law,” “integrity,” and “transparency.” On January 12, however, the NSA removed the mission statement page. Now, the parts about honesty and the pledge to be truthful have been deleted.
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