Virginia governor under FBI probe over campaign donations: CNN
Terry
McAuliffe, Virginia's Democratic governor and chairman of Hillary
Clinton's 2008 presidential run, is under federal investigation over
contributions to his 2013 campaign, CNN said on Monday, citing unnamed
U.S. officials. The U.S. Justice Department's year-long investigation
has focused, at least in part, on whether contributions to McAuliffe's
gubernatorial campaign, including $120,000 from a Chinese businessman,
Wang Wenliang, violated the law, according to CNN. Investigators have
"scrutinized" McAuliffe's time as a board member of the Clinton Global
Initiative, part of the charitable foundation set up by former President
Bill Clinton, CNN said, citing unidentified government officials
briefed on the case.Read More ...
Sanders: Democratic convention could be 'messy'
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — Bernie Sanders predicted Monday that the Democratic
National Convention in Philadelphia could be "messy" as he pushed the
party to adopt his progressive agenda, but added, "Democracy is not
always nice and quiet and gentle."Read More ...
Va. school board votes to require students to use bathrooms matching their biological gender
The
Grayson County School Board in Virginia has voted unanimously in favor
of requiring students to use locker rooms and bathrooms matching their
biological gender.Read More ...
John Hickenlooper says he probably would serve as Clinton’s running mate
On Monday, May 23, at 1:30 p.m. ET, Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric speaks with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper about the 2016 presidential race where the fight for the Democratic nomination wages on between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, looking toward the general election, new polls show Clinton and Trump in a dead heat. Hickenlooper will also talk about his memoir, “The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics.”
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Head of TSA security operations removed from position
WASHINGTON
(AP) — A House committee said Monday that the head of security
operations at the Transportation Security Administration has been
replaced.Read More ...
Top Republicans bash VA secretary for ‘ludicrous’ comment about Disneyland lines and veterans’ care
Secretary
of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald caused a small uproar
among leading Republican politicians on Monday after he said hospital
wait times were not the best way to measure veterans’ satisfaction with
the agency. Or what’s important?” McDonald said at a Christian Science
Monitor breakfast, the Washington Post reported. Speaker of the House
Paul Ryan and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump were
among those who criticized McDonald’s comments.Read More ...
Veterans hold Trump Tower protest after Donald Trump’s charity fundraising drive comes up short
A
group of veterans went to Donald Trump’s headquarters in midtown
Manhattan on Monday to demand an apology and answers after the
presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s campaign admitted a
veterans fundraiser did not raise as much money as he had initially
claimed. “We’re here as a group of veterans to reject Donald Trump,”
McCoy said. The protest came on the heels of a Washington Post report
published Saturday, in which Trump’s campaign manager, Corey
Lewandowski, said the fundraiser only brought in about $4.5 million.Read More ...
Even Lindsey Graham is reportedly telling Republicans to support Donald Trump
Lindsey
Graham is now urging members of his party to support Donald Trump, the
presumptive GOP nominee. “I’d rather lose without Donald Trump than try
to win with with him. At the time, Trump was also firing off scathing
attacks against Graham, then one of his rivals in the race for the GOP
nomination.Read More ...
Mission not quite accomplished: Obama’s antiterrorism legacy
Three
years ago today, Barack Obama gave a major counterterrorism address at
the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. It
was what his aides call a “framing” speech, an effort to knit together
an overarching approach to the fight against radical terrorists.
Predictably, Obama touted his administration’s key successes. Osama bin
Laden was dead, the core al-Qaida organization in Pakistan was “on a
path to defeat,” and there had been no “large-scale” terror attacks on
U.S. soil since he had taken office.Read More ...
Officer acquitted on all charges in Freddie Gray case
A
Baltimore officer was acquitted of assault and other charges Monday in
the arrest of Freddie Gray, dealing prosecutors a second straight blow
in their attempt to hold police accountable for the black man’s death
from injuries suffered in the back of a police van. The judge who
decided Officer Edward Nero’s fate in the non-jury trial concluded Nero
played little role in the arrest and wasn’t responsible for the failure
by police to buckle Gray in. Nero, who is white, was the second of six
officers charged in the racially combustible case to stand trial.Read More ...
Supreme Court rules for black Georgia death row inmate
The
U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively overturned a black man’s 1987
conviction for murdering a white woman, rebuking Georgia prosecutors for
unlawfully excluding black potential jurors in picking an all-white
jury that condemned him to death. The 7-1 ruling handed a major victory
to Timothy Foster, who is 48 now and was 18 at the time of the 1986
killing of Queen Madge White, a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher, in
Rome, Georgia. Prosecutors, however, still could seek a new trial.Read More ...
IS blasts in Syria regime heartland kill more than 148
More
than 148 people were killed in bombings claimed by the Islamic State
group in northwestern Syria, the deadliest attacks to date in the
regime's coastal heartland. Seven near-simultaneous explosions targeted
bus stations, hospitals and other civilian sites in the seaside cities
of Jableh and Tartus, which until now had been relatively insulated from
Syria's five-year war. The attacks on strongholds of President Bashar
al-Assad's regime came as IS faces mounting pressure in Syria and
neighbouring Iraq, where a major offensive to retake the jihadist-held
city of Fallujah is underway.Read More ...
Obama banishing Vietnam War vestige by lifting arms embargo
HANOI,
Vietnam (AP) — Eager to banish lingering shadows of the Vietnam War,
President Barack Obama lifted the U.S. embargo on selling arms to
America's former enemy Monday and made the case for a more trusting and
prosperous relationship going forward. Activists said the president was
being too quick to gloss over serious human rights abuses in his push to
establish warmer ties.Read More ...
White House: No invite issued to ex-POW for Hiroshima visit
TOKYO
(AP) — A U.S. veterans group says an American who was held by Japan as a
prisoner of war during World War II will accompany President Barack
Obama on his historic visit to Hiroshima this week, but the White House
said Monday that no such invitation has been issued.Read More ...
Wild US election fascinates, worries Iran after nuclear deal
TEHRAN,
Iran (AP) — After decades of officially-imposed detachment from the
"Great Satan," Iranians are this time transfixed by the wild U.S.
presidential campaign, mindful that the next White House occupant could
have direct impact on their lives.Read More ...
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