🇺🇸 **James Comey sends a cryptic message after Flynn guilty plea**
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Former FBI Director James Comey wrote what appeared to be a biblical subtweet on Friday shortly after Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security advisor, pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents in December 2016. 

"But justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream," he wrote on Twitter and Instagram.

"But justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream," 

Comey didn't mention Flynn directly, but the former law enforcement official is connected to the Flynn case in several ways.

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🇺🇸 **ABC Makes "Epic Mistake", Retracts Bombshell Flynn Story**
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Having caused chaos in financial markets briefly, set the liberal media on fire with 'I told you so's, and sparked a renewed round of #ImpeachTrump demands, ABC News issued a 'clarification' to their bombshell Flynn report that not only negates the entire story but provides President Trump with another round of ammunition to fire against the 'fake news' media.

Here is the full 'clarification':

**During a live Special Report, ABC News reported that a confidant of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said Flynn was prepared to testify that then-candidate Donald Trump instructed him to contact Russian officials __during the campaign.__**

That source later clarified that during the campaign, Trump assigned Flynn and a small circle of other senior advisers to **find ways to repair relations with Russia and other hot spots.**

__**It was shortly after the election, that President-elect Trump directed Flynn to contact Russian officials on topics that included working jointly against ISIS.**__
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🇺🇸 **Trump: I’m not worried about Flynn’s guilty plea**
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President Trump on Saturday addressed for the first time his former national security adviser’s admission that he lied to FBI investigators about his contact with Russian officials.

“No, I’m not” worried about what Michael Flynn will tell investigators, Trump told reporters.

**“What has been shown is no collusion," he said. "There’s been absolutely no collusion so we’re very happy.”**

Flynn, as part of a plea deal announced Friday, has agreed to cooperate fully with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference and alleged collusion between Trump campaign officials and Moscow.

Trump has maintained that his campaign did not collude.
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🇺🇸 **FBI Agent Who Supervised Trump-Russia Probe Reportedly Sent Anti-Trump Text Messages**
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A top FBI agent at the center of both the Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team for exchanging derogatory text messages about the president with a colleague.

Peter Strzok, a veteran FBI investigator, was shuffled off to the FBI’s human resources department by Mueller after the Justice Department’s inspector general opened an investigation into the texts, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

And according to The Washington Post, Strzok exchanged the messages with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who was also assigned to and later removed from Mueller’s team. Strzok and Page, who works for FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, were reportedly having an extramarital affair.

The text messages showed Strzok and Page reacting with anti-Trump sentiments to certain news events, including the presidential debates.
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🇺🇸 **Nghia Hoang Pho, former NSA employee, pleads guilty to retaining top-secret intelligence**
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A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency’s elite hacking team has pleaded guilty in connection with mishandling top-secret documents reportedly stolen afterwards by Russian hackers. Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, pleaded guilty in a Baltimore federal court Friday to a single count of willfully retaining national defense information in violation of federal law, the Department of Justice announced afterwards.

Pho was hired in 2006 as a developer for the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team, and from 2010 through 2015 he brought home both hard copies and digital versions of sensitive documents containing closely held secrets, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Some of the classified files were transferred onto Pho’s personal computer at some point and likely compromised by Russian hackers, The New York Times reported Friday, citing government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. Pho faces up to 10 years in prison, according to the Justice Department. He’s currently scheduled to be sentenced on April 6, 2018.
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🇺🇸 **Trump’s EPA will no longer require mining companies to prove they can clean up after themselves**
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had a December 1 deadline to take action on an Obama-era proposal which would have required hardrock mining companies to prove they had the financial means to clean up mining sites. The proposal was met with opposition from mining groups and Republican lawmakers in western states.

“After careful analysis of public comments, the statutory authority, and the record for this rulemaking, EPA is confident that modern industry practices, along with existing state and federal requirements address risks from operating hardrock mining facilities,” Pruitt said.

The EPA decided “the degree and duration of risk associated with the modern production, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous substances by the hardrock mining industry does not present a level of risk of taxpayer funded response actions that warrant imposition of financial responsibility requirements for this sector.”
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🇺🇸 **Kate Steinle Jury that Acquitted Illegal Alien Killer Was Stacked with Millennials, Not Sequestered**
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Despite Kate Steinle’s murder sweeping the nation and galvanizing a grassroots movement of pro-American immigration reformers and Angel Parents — the family members of Americans killed by illegal aliens — to demand an immigration policy that works in the American publics’ interests, the jury was not sequestered, as juries sometimes are in high-profile trials.

The report also revealed that most of the jurors appeared to be in their 20’s and 30’s, with the pool of individuals including at least two tech workers, and degrees ranging from high school diplomas to PhDs. The Mercury News described the jury as “a cross-section of today’s San Francisco” where the foreign-born population is more than 30 percent of the overall county population.

In 2015, a local news station interviewed Zarate. In this interview, the illegal alien admitted that he had relocated to San Francisco because of its sanctuary city policy. “Sanchez said he knew San Francisco was a sanctuary city where he would not be pursued by immigration officials,” the report added. Since Steinle’s death in 2015, the state of California has become a sanctuary state, Breitbart California reported in October, allowing illegal aliens to roam freely across the West Coast region without being detained or deported by federal immigration officials.
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🇩🇪 **German minister calls for lifting of ‘Nazi-era’ ban on abortion ads by doctors**
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The Justice Minister called on lawmakers to do away with a law that still prohibits doctors from advertising the practice of pregnancy termination. According to the minister, an influential Social Democrat, paragraph 219a of the German criminal code “makes it complicated for women to get access to information [on abortion services] in extreme cases,” and represents “a relic of the Nazi era,” local media report.

“The times in which the state enjoyed the right to control its citizens’ bodies have thankfully vanished into the past,” Maas remarked. Under German law, anyone who publicly offers or advertises abortion services is subject to up to two years in jail or a fine, according to Deutsche Welle.

Abortion in Germany is permitted upon condition of mandatory counseling, and also in cases of medical necessity. Termination of pregnancy is covered by public health insurance in cases where the pregnancy was caused by rape and/or the mother’s health is seriously endangered.
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🇺🇸 **‘Your DNA is an abomination’: University under fire for publishing anti-white article**
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Martinez begins his article, entitled: “Your DNA is an abomination,” with a tweaked Robert Oppenheimer quote about the detonation of the first atomic bomb he helped develop. **“Now I have become white, the destroyer of worlds,”** Rudy Martinez, a student at Texas State University, wrote in an Op-Ed published by the University Star on Tuesday.

Martinez then rambles about his justifications for hating white people. In the piece, Martinez claims that white people in the US are an “aberration” who descended from Europeans and abandoned their identity “in search of something ‘new’ - stolen land.”

The article does not include any biological reasons why white people are inferior, and seems to flip the script at one point, saying that **being white is more of a choice. *“You were not born white, you became white. You actively remain white. You are estranged from yourself and, in that absence, have been instilled with an allegiance to a country that was never great,”*** the piece continues.

Denise Cervantes, the editor of the paper, issued an apology after the piece “received widespread criticism.” The editorial board also issued an apology, saying that Martinez was fired after they received hate mail and “numerous” death threats. “We allowed a hateful column to be published and hurt our community that deserves better,” they wrote.
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🇺🇸 **Donald Trump Dumps Michelle O’s Lunch Rule and Brings Chocolate Milk Back to Lunchrooms**
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The Trump administration is ending yet another of Michelle Obama’s hated, overly strict school lunch rules by bringing chocolate milk back to school lunch menus.

Perdue has been dismissing Michelle Obama’s signature school lunch rules all year. Perdue also slammed Obama’s rules as leading to too much waste. “If kids aren’t eating the food, and it’s ending up in the trash, they aren’t getting any nutrition — thus undermining the intent of the program,” he said.

The School Nutrition Association and the School Superintendents Association have been supportive of Perdue’s efforts to scale back Obama’s rules. The groups recently noted that the “overly prescriptive regulatory requirements” of Obama’s school lunch program had forced school districts to “financially subsidize meals at the expense of educational programs.”

Critics of Obama’s lunch rules pointed out that they led to higher costs for schools across the country. In the fiscal year 2015 alone, Obama’s school food requirements cost school budgets an additional $1.22 billion.
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🇩🇪 **Salzgitter in Germany bans any more migrants from arriving**
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In Salzgitter, things are abruptly changing. It's pro-refugee Mayor has declared a moratorium on any more foreigners coming to join the 5,800 who have already arrived. He admitted a few weeks ago: 'Right now, we are overwhelmed. We have received too many in too short a time. The locals are having fears for the future.'

**Even the migrants living in Salzgitter**, which sits on a lake in Lower Saxony, north-west Germany, **agree there is a crisis.** 'Not everyone can come or there will be nowhere to sleep and no free chairs in the schools,' says Khaled Rasti, a 32- year-old Syrian from Damascus, who with his wife Slivi, 30, is wheeling two-year-old Jodi — one of their three children — in a pushchair near the Christmas market.

This town's decision to refuse any more migrants is a slap in the face for Mrs Merkel, who relentlessly lectured her nation that 'We can do it' when she unilaterally welcomed 1.5 million migrants, many of them Muslim, from the war-shattered Middle East and impoverished African states in 2015. **Today, increasing numbers of ordinary Germans feel the influx has been too large and too fast for the incomers to integrate properly. Already, six per cent of the German population is Muslim.**
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🇩🇪 **Germany offers money for migrants who go back home**
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Germany wants to support rejected asylum-seekers who voluntarily move back to their home countries with a one-time payment of 3,000 euros ($3,570). The Interior Ministry says those who qualify can apply by a Feb. 28 deadline and they would get the money once they return home.

Migrants who agree to go back even before their asylum request is rejected have already been offered 1,200 euros per adult and 600 euros per child under a different program for almost a year. They are now eligible to apply for both programs.

But the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported Sunday that 8,639 migrants participated in the returnee program between February and October, even though there are about 115,000 rejected asylum-seekers in Germany —many of whom can't be deported for humanitarian reasons.
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🇩🇪 **In One German Region, Unemployment of Migrant Crisis Arrivals is 96 Per Cent**
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While the number is up from last year, when 24 migrants were in full-time positions, **the total percentage of the total migrant workforce on work is only 3.6 per cent**, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung reports. “The refugee target group still presents a special challenge,” head of the district employment agency Thomas Holz said. Mr. Holz said the main issues are the language barrier and the recognition of qualifications and academic degrees from overseas.

The German Federal Employment Agency claimed last year that **74 per cent of the newly arrived migrants were only fit for menial labour jobs** and are unlikely to fill the vacancies for skilled labour that is in demand.

Many economists have countered the idea that mass migration will benefit the German labour market in the long term. A report published by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg last year said that **mass migration would more than likely hurt long-term economic growth** due to language and quality of qualifications from abroad.

Migrant unemployment will mean that the state and the German taxpayer will continue to pay for the food, clothing, and housing of recently arrived migrants. A report from the German Federal Agency for Employment (BA) earlier this year claimed that half a million asylum seekers were living on government handouts. **In total, the German government spent €21.7 billion (£19.1 billion/ $25.8 billion) on migrant programmes in 2016.**
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🇺🇸 **Zuckerberg’s twin rivals become 1st Bitcoin billionaires**
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The twin brothers who successfully sued Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he stole the concept for Facebook are now billionaires after investing their lawsuit winnings in Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency surpassed a record high of $11,700 on Sunday.

According to the Telegraph, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss bought 1 percent of all currently mined Bitcoin for a price of $11 million in 2013. Since then, the $11 million crypto-bet has ballooned by almost 10,000 percent, making the twins the first Bitcoin billionaires.

The twins describe Bitcoin as “better than gold.” The cryptocurrency, which was introduced in 2009 as an alternative to government-controlled fiat, has enjoyed a meteoric rise in value over the last year. Now up more than 12-fold for the year, one Bitcoin was selling at below $1,000 on January 1. It remains to be seen whether Mark Zuckerberg will claim credit for the twins’ wise investment.
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🇺🇸 **Groups demand University of Chicago pay slavery reparations**
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A group of community organizers met at the University of Chicago last Tuesday and “urged” the school to “make amends” for its past ties to slavery. The Chicago Maroon reports N’COBRA was joined by the Reparations at UChicago Working Group, whose research concluded the university should pay restitution due to its ties to 19th century politician Stephen Douglas. Douglas’s land grant to the original university was “bankrolled by profits from his slave plantation.”

“The University of Chicago is founded by slaveholders and the labor of enslaved people can actually be traced through the years,” said Guy Emerson Mount, one of researchers. “The labor of enslaved people actually translates into buildings, endowments, and real hard material resources.”

N’COBRA and the Working Group also want the university to establish a “truth and reconciliation committee,” and for the city to “discontinue any current and future contracts” with the school until it agrees to their demands.
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🇺🇸 **Mattis: 'Enemy is Collapsing' Faster Than Media Predicted**
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Secretary of Defense James Mattis touted the rapid success of the U.S.-backed military campaign against the Islamic State to reporters en-route to Egypt Saturday.

“The enemy is collapsing. In many cases, faster than many people in the media forecasted,” Mattis declared. “You know, I always stayed away from timelines for this very reason. It’s usually slower or faster than any timeline.”

Mattis has consistently been reluctant to put a timeline on the U.S. military presence in Syria, but highlighted the recent withdrawal of approximately 400 Marines from the country after successful operations against ISIS. The 400 Marines are being sent back to the U.S. after supporting the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in their military campaign against ISIS.
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__***Bitcoin hits all-time high above $11,700 as recovery accelerates
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Bitcoin jumps 8 percent to an all-time high of $11,773.83, according to CoinDesk.
The gain marks a surge of 30.5 percent, or nearly $2,753, from a Thursday low of $9,021.85.
Bitcoin had topped $11,000 Wednesday, only to drop more than $1,000 in a few hours amid high trading volume that exchanges initially struggled to keep up with.

🇺🇸 **Armed with assault rifle, Pierce County man prepares to battle 'lizard people'**
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PARKLAND, Wash. -- A 55-year-old Eatonville man armed himself with an AK-47 and a pistol over the weekend to battle "the lizard people," the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said.

The man told law enforcement that President Trump had called to warn him.

The man ended up being sent to a hospital for treatment and a mental health evaluation.

Just after 8 p.m. Saturday, a witness called 911 to report a white Jeep Cherokee was stopped at 108th Street South and Pacific Avenue South in Parkland.


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<:trump:284711336934375425> **Pompeo: Trump tweets actually 'help' CIA**
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CIA Director Mike Pompeo said on Saturday that President Trump's Twitter habits have actually helped his agency gather and understand intelligence.

Asked by Fox News's Bret Baier in a panel discussion at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, Calif., whether Trump's propensity for Twitter complicated the CIA's work, Pompeo demurred, saying that the agency has gathered important intelligence by observing how U.S. adversaries react to the president's tweets.

"I've actually seen it help us," he said. "I have seen things the president has put on his Twitter account actually have a real-world impact on our capacity to understand what's going on in other places in the world."

"That is, our adversaries responded to those tweets in ways that were helpful to us to understand command and control issues, who's listening to what messages, how those messages are resonating around the world."

Pompeo, a former Republican congressman from Kansas, has served at the helm of the CIA since January and is said to be close to Trump, frequently delivering his daily intelligence briefings.
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **Trump's rage would 'break most hardened men and women into little pieces': Lewandowski, Bossie book**
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Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie offer a look into a Trump campaign that was defined by fits of rage, fast food, and competing forces of unconditional loyalty in their upcoming book.

In the new tell-all, titled "Let Trump Be Trump,” obtained in advance by the Washington Post, the former campaign manager and senior aide explain the “expletive-filled tirades” the then-candidate would often unleash on his staff when things didn’t go as planned.

“His wrath is never intended as any personal offense, but sometimes it can be hard not to take it that way,” they wrote. “The mode that he switches into when things aren’t going his way can feel like an all-out assault; it’d break most hardened men and women into little pieces.”

Besides his rage, his diet wasn’t the healthiest either. The men describe how Trump’s four main food groups on the campaign trail consisted of McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke.

The book states president would order from McDonalds **“two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”**
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🇺🇸 **REPORT: NFL Taking Money From Breast Cancer, Veterans Funds, To Pay For 'Social Justice' Settlement**
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San Francisco 49er Eric Reid shocked even the left-leaning Slate when he told the magazine in an interview Saturday that the NFL intends to use money slated for breast cancer charities and the "Salute to Service" veterans fund to pay for a seven-year, $89 million "social justice" program designed to placate protesting players.

The NFL announced the nearly-$100 million initiative last week as a way of "settling" with a coalition of players who have been kneeling during the national anthem since the start of the season — a group led by now-former 49er, out-of-work second string quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Philadelphia Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins and retired NFLer Anquan Boldin.

At the time of the announcement, however, details about where the money would come from were unclear. The NFL said only that owners would be allowed to allocate funds into “projects dealing with criminal justice reform, law enforcement/community relations and education.” But, Reid says, the money spent on these projects isn't new — it's simply being reallocated from existing charitable giving projects.
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🇬🇧 **British aid for Syria being funneled to extremists… again**
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The UK government has suspended a foreign aid project in Syria amid allegations that funds are being pocketed by extremists groups. It is yet another report of British taxpayers’ money reaching the wrong hands. Allegations were also made concerning extremists from the Syrian Al-Qaeda branch, Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front), directly choosing officers for two stations in the country’s north-western Idlib province.

Earlier this year, it was revealed how Britons are donating hundreds of thousands of pounds to Islamist extremists - sometimes without knowing so. According to Home Secretary Amber Rudd, such money represents the extremists’ primary form of income. The Home Office also found that overseas funding was a “significant source of income” for a small number of suspected radical bodies.

Reports in October also claimed that British charity aid convoys are being used to funnel funds to terrorist organizations in Syria. An FCO spokesman said: “We take any allegations of co-operation with terrorist groups and of human-rights abuses extremely seriously and the Foreign Office has suspended this program while we investigate these allegations.

“We believe that such work in Syria is important to protect our national security interest but of course we reach this judgment carefully given that in such a challenging environment no activity is without risk. That is why all our programs are designed carefully and subject to robust monitoring,” he added, according to the BBC.
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🇮🇱 **US recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital would be 'major catastrophe' - Turkey**
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US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel would be a "major catastrophe" which would lead to new conflicts, Turkey has warned. It follows reports that President Donald Trump is preparing to formally acknowledge the city as the Jewish state's capital.

"If the [current] status of Jerusalem is changed and another step is taken... that would be a major catastrophe," Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said during a televised press conference on Monday, as quoted by AFP. "It would completely destroy the fragile peace process in the region, and lead to new conflicts, new disputes and new unrest."

Bozdag, who is also the Turkish government's spokesperson, also told Reuters on Monday that Jerusalem's current status was determined by international agreements and must be preserved. "The status of Jerusalem and Temple Mount have been determined by international agreements. It is important to preserve Jerusalem's status for the sake of protecting peace in the region," he said.
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🇺🇸 **Trump Lawyer: 'President Cannot Obstruct Justice'**
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John Dowd, President Trump's outside lawyer, outlined to me a new and highly controversial defense/theory in the Russia probe: A president cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice.

The "President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution's Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case," Dowd claims.

Dowd says he drafted this weekend's Trump tweet that many thought strengthened the case for obstruction: The tweet suggested Trump knew Flynn had lied to the FBI when he was fired, raising new questions about the later firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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🇺🇸 **Mueller Yanks Comey’s Immunity Deal; Falling Out Between Former FBI Bosses Puts Comey in Danger**
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There has been a reported falling out between U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller and ex-FBI Chief James Comey in recent weeks which leaves Comey potentially vulnerable to possible criminal charges, according to Justice Department and FBI sources.

Any immunity agreement that was previously on the table protecting Comey is now off the table, according to multiple DOJ sources. For months since he was fired by President Donald Trump in June, Comey has been testifying and acting like a major D.C. player with little to worry about. But at some point in recent weeks, that has changed based on new information about Comey’s tenure at FBI which has been uncovered during Mueller’s probe, sources said.

A high-ranking DOJ veteran in June said they were confident Mueller has granted a complete get-out-of-jail-free-card deal for Comey: a coveted immunity deal in exchange for cooperating as a key witness. Now, however, that official and others say there has been a seismic shift that dissolved any agreements between the two former FBI directors. And it appears Comey has shared this development with his inner circle as well, sources confirmed.

Comey’s previous deal insulated him against prosecution for his role in many controversial FBI cases and emerging scandals. However, absent a deal protecting him from Mueller’s team or a grand jury, Comey could be implicated in a number of growing probes.
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🇺🇸 **Former Dem Congresswoman Sentenced To Five Years In Prison On Corruption Charges**
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Former Florida Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown was sentenced to five years in federal prison Monday on number of charges including tax fraud and tax crimes. A judge sentenced Brown to five years in prison and a 3-year supervised release. Brown will be forced to surrender to authorities sometime after Jan. 8., according to CBS 47.

The jury convicted Brown of stealing money from a fake charity, One Door For Education. The “charity” was supposed to give scholarships to children who could not afford school but instead the Democratic congresswoman used the donations to go on trips and purchase expensive items. She also used the money to host parties.

Brown’s attorney was pleading for a probation deal to avoid jail time, but the judge slapped Brown with five years behind bars.
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🇺🇸 **Donald Trump Formally Endorses Roy Moore**
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Donald Trump endorsed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on Monday morning with a pair of messages on the president’s Twitter account about political prudence.

Moore, a Republican who is facing Democrat Doug Jones in a December 12 special election for the open Senate seat, has been credibly accused of pursuing teenage girls, while he was an adult in his thirties, for romantic and sexual relationships. He’s also been accused of molesting one of those teenagers when she was 14.

The former Alabama state supreme court chief justice has denied the allegations, but the vast majority of Moore’s would-be Senate colleagues have said they believe the women bringing the allegations and have either withdrawn or declined to endorse Moore.
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🇺🇸 **Supreme Court OKs full enforcement of Trump travel ban**
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The Trump administration's request to enforce the third incarnation of Trump's travel ban was approved Monday. The Supreme Court ruling rolls back lower court rulings that restricted enforcement based on bona fide relationships with US persons or businesses. Such exempt relationships had included grandchildren, grandparents, nieces, nephews and cousins of US persons.

The travel ban on US entry for nationals from **Chad**, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen will be in full effect, while it also undergoes challenges in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, and the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, according to AP.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, liberals on the high court appointed by presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama respectively, would have left the lower court rulings in place, according to AP.
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🇮🇹 **Police raid Italian fashion giant Gucci's offices over suspected £1.1 billion tax avoidance**
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Italian police have raided the offices of fashion giant Gucci over suspected tax evasion, the company confirmed on Monday. The global fashion house is accused of declaring several years worth of Italian sales in Switzerland, thereby saving around 1.3 billion euros (£1.14bn)in domestic tax, Italian media reports.

The investigation is reportedly based on information from a former senior Gucci employee who has since left the company, which is part of French luxury group Kering.

The Italian tax dragnet has since extended to tech giants - 318 millions euros of Italian revenue for Apple and 306 million for Google while investigations are also under way regarding Amazon and Facebook.
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🇺🇸 **Dismissed FBI agent changed Comey's language on Clinton emails to 'extremely careless': report**
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The former FBI official, who was recently fired from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia team over messages critical of President Trump, reportedly edited a key phrase that removed possible legal implications in former FBI Director James Comey's statement about his decision on the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Peter Strzok, who served as a counterintelligence expert at the bureau, changed the description of Clinton's actions in Comey's statement, CNN reported Monday, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

One source told the news outlet that electronic records reveal that Strzok changed the language from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless," scrubbing a key word that could have had legal ramifications for Clinton. An individual who mishandled classified material could be prosecuted under federal law for "gross negligence."

Strzok, who served as the No. 2 official leading the probe into the Clinton email server, has been thrust into the center of controversy after news of his dismissal from Comey's team.

In July 2016, Comey said that Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of State was "extremely careless," but he added that "no reasonable prosecutor" would charge her.
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<:moonman:283655821190234122> **College Paper Fires Writer Who Called White DNA ‘An Abomination’**
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A college paper fired a writer who called the DNA of white people “an abomination,” according to a Monday report.

Texas State University student journalist Rudy Martinez said that “white death will mean liberation for all” in the November column and The University Star fired him after previously retracting and apologizing for the column, reported The College Fix.

“The author of this column has jeopardized the atmosphere of inclusivity at this university and will no longer be published in The University Star,” read a correction from the paper’s editorial board.

Along with constructive criticism, the editorial board said that the paper has received death threats and “hate mail,” as well as threats to defund The University Star.

“Ontologically speaking, white death will mean liberation for all,” said Martinez in his now-retracted column. “Accept this death as the first step toward defining yourself as something other than the oppressor. Until then, remember this: I hate you because you shouldn’t exist. You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.”

“The column’s central theme was abhorrent and is contrary to the core values of inclusion and unity that our Bobcat students, faculty, and staff hold dear,” said Denise M. Trauth, president of Texas State.
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🇺🇸 **Pro-Doug Jones Super PAC Using Voter Intimidation Tactics — Ad Claims ‘Your Vote Is Public Record’**
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Highway 31, a Birmingham-based pro-Doug Jones super PAC is using what could be perceived as voter intimidation tactics against Roy Moore by suggesting the votes cast in a December 12 special election are “public record.”

Beginning last week, some Alabamians were posting on social media about encountering online pre-roll video advertising making such a claim.

One declares Moore to be a “child predator,” a claim apparently based on a report that lays out decades-old allegations that he acted inappropriately and that he engaged in sexual misconduct with underage women while employed as a prosecutor in Etowah County, AL in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

After leveling the “child predator” charge, the narrator tells viewers their vote is public record, and their community will know if they “helped stop Roy Moore.”

“If you don’t vote, and Roy Moore – a child predator – wins, could you live with that? Your vote is public record and your community will know whether or not you helped stop Roy Moore,” she said.

Another shorter advertisement, clocked at five seconds, also declares your vote public record and says “you community will know whether or not you helped stop Roy Moore.”

At the end of each of those videos, the group Highway 31 claims responsibility for the ad and directs viewers to its website.
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🇺🇸 **Mueller Subpoenas Trump Deutsche Bank Records**
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Special prosecutor Robert Mueller zeroed in on President Donald Trump’s business dealings with Deutsche Bank AG as his investigation into alleged Russian meddling in U.S. elections widens.

Mueller issued a subpoena to Germany’s largest lender several weeks ago, forcing the bank to submit documents on its relationship with Trump and his family, according to a person briefed on the matter, who asked not to be identified because the action has not been announced.

“Deutsche Bank always cooperates with investigating authorities in all countries,” the lender said in a statement to Bloomberg Tuesday, declining to provide additional information.
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🇩🇪 **Over 200 flights canceled as German pilots refuse to deport rejected asylum seekers**
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Pilots in Germany are refusing to deport rejected asylum seekers, leading to the cancelation of more than 200 flights.

A freedom of information request revealed that 222 scheduled flights were forced to be canceled over the course of 2017 as pilots refused to play a part in returning people to Afghanistan, which is still reeling from years of occupation by Western forces.

Deutsche Welle reports that 140 of the canceled flights were to take off from Frankfurt Airport, which is the largest in the country. Dusseldorf Airport, where activist groups regularly hold demonstrations against deportation, saw 40 flights canceled.
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🇵🇷 **Puerto Rico Pays Gov’t Employees $100 Million in Bonuses After Asking for $94 Billion in Federal Disaster Relief**
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Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello Nevares asked federal taxpayers to pay $94 billion towards the island’s recovery from Hurricane Maria, then reportedly spent $100 million on Christmas bonuses for the territory’s government employees. The governor’s aides argue that the bonuses had been part of the budget approved last summer and that they are a longstanding tradition allowed under the law, the Washington Times reports.

Rossello requested the $94 billion federal aid package in November, estimating that $31 billion of the funds would go toward rebuilding homes and $18 billion would go toward repairing electric utilities.

“Puerto Rico has demonstrated time and time again that its government is incapable of responsibly handling its finances. This is yet another such instance,” Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), a member of the House committee with oversight over Puerto Rico, told the Washington Times in a statement after the bonuses had been revealed.
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