The U.S. and Venezuela "have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations," the State Department announced Thursday. read more
The Middle East is on fire, the planet on the verge of world war, the Homeland Security director just ousted. It'd hard to pay attention to anything else. Still, if you want to know why news that the FBI has begun to turn over long-concealed "prohibited access" files to Congress might matter, just ask Seymour Hersh. Fifty-two years ago, on December 21, 1974, the famed muckraker printed "Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents In Nixon Years" in the New York Times. Hersh disclosed that "intelligence files on at least 10,000 American citizens were maintained by a special unit of the C.I.A.," and spoke of "evidence of dozens of other illegal activities." These misdeeds were part of a trove of dirty secrets in the CIA's past that came to be known as the agency's "Family Jewels." Some sources Racket spoke with this week recalled the case in conjunction with news about the discovery of a cache of secret files at the FBI.
A tense encounter turned violent in San Francisco's troubled Tenderloin neighborhood Thursday evening when Mayor Daniel Lurie's vehicle was blocked by several men, sparking an attack that left at least one security officer injured. The confrontation unfolded around 5:40 p.m. near Cedar and Polk streets, according to the San Francisco Police Department. Officers assigned to the mayor's protective detail became engaged in a physical altercation with two unidentified male suspects after the mayor's vehicle was stopped in the roadway. Video from the scene shows a security detail member being taken to the ground as officers worked to subdue the suspects. One officer sustained visible injuries during the altercation. The
When a 41-year-old mother is murdered at a bus stop, who bothers to protest? Stephanie Minter's death is as closely tied to the nation's immigration debate as Alex Pretti's or Renee Good's. But while Pretti and Good died while trying to prevent the enforcement of our country's immigration laws, Minter died precisely because those laws were not enforced. Abdul Jalloh, the man alleged to have stabbed Minter to death in Fairfax County, Virginia, should never have set foot in America.
Governor Newsom tonight: "You would not know Kamala Harris without Willie Brown" Fact-check: TRUE
" If you truly gave a --- about energy issues and policies, you would be all in for Biden and the Democrats' move to alternative energy sources"
Those sources suck. Wind and solar are worse than fool's gold. One good thing that came during his administration - Congress passed a bill for the creation of several new nuclear power plants and auto pen signed it into law.