A top FBI official with 27 years standing has reportedly been fired by the bureau after its director, Kash Patel, became enraged by press stories revealing he had used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match. read more
Trump's aides have promised transparency about the funding of a new ballroom, but the White House withheld the identities of several donors to the project, including some with business before the administration, The New York Times found. read more
Nicholas Kristof: After the United States-China summit planned for Thursday, President Trump may crow about his deal-making skill. Aides may suggest that he deserves a Nobel Prize for negotiation " but I invite you to roll your eyes. read more
Since the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to legalized gambling in 2018, and most states permitted people to wager on their phones, gambling scandals, once rare in sports, have become a new American pastime. And prop bets have proved particularly ripe for manipulation. read more
As the price of Trump's ginormous ballroom continues to rise, questions remain about how it will be funded. read more
Anyone who "looks Latino," speaks Spanish in public?
Fair game.
That's why Gloria Estefan carries a passport card in her wallet (www.thetimes.com).
Lived here for 66 of her 68 years and it's ...
"Ihre Papiere bitte!"
Meet the grifty fundraiser behind Trump's gaudy ballroom
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This monument to Trump's fragile ego and mental deterioration as well as his boundless tackiness and venality functions, as I've said from the get-go, as an undisguised combination graft magnet and money laundry.
One of the two outbounders ended up KIA; the other survived the war, but was gassed. (As was American actor Walter Brennan, which gave him a voice that kept him in business for decades).
"If you ask where is the Picasso of England or the Ezra Pound of France, there is only one probable answer: still in the trenches."
Robert Hughes*
* ("World War One destroyed an entire generation. We don't know and we can't even guess what might have been painted or written if the war had never happened. As for the waste of minds, we know the names of some who died: among the painters, Umberto Boccioni, Franz Marc, August Macke; the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brezska; the poets Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen. But for every one whose name survives there must have been scores, possibly hundreds of those who never had a chance to develop."
shapersofthe80s.com)
Sounds like that school needs to put an emphasis on studies that include familiarizing students with and an understanding of the basics of the Holocaust in particular and effin genocide in general, pronto.