Monday, April 30, 2018


By Grabien, April 29, 2018

BOLTON: "We will be when we do sit down. I think it’s something the president has thought a good deal about already and I think people around the world have already given him credit for establishing the preconditions for this to happen in the first place. President moon of South Korea for example has been very clear that but for the pressure, the economic pressure, the political military pressure that President Trump has put on North Korea we would not be where we are today."

By Mirror, April 28, 2018

Saudi Arabia's sports authorities have closed a women-only gym after a promotional video showing a woman exercising in tight-fitting clothing appeared online.

Saudi sports authority chief Turki al-Sheikh announced the suspension of the gym's license on Twitter, tweeting: "We are not going to tolerate this."

By National Review, April 28, 2018

While promoting his memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, former FBI director James Comey sat for what turned out to be a tough but fair and refreshingly civil interview by Bret Baier, host of Fox News’s Special Report. (See Part 1 and Part 2.) Owing to President Trump’s comparatively unhinged interview earlier in the day on Fox & Friends, the Trump–Comey feud over alleged leaking of classified information is drawing most of the media attention. But something more important is less apparent: Comey has implicitly confirmed what we’ve been saying here for well over a year: In the Clinton emails caper, the fix was in.

By LA Focus News Paper, April 28, 2018

The Pakistani doctor jailed after allegedly helping American forces hunt down Osama bin Laden has been moved by prison authorities, prompting speculation he is to be released.

Shakil Afridi was accused of treason and locked up after running a fake vaccine programme which helped the CIA confirm the al-Qaeda leader’s presence in the city of Abbottabad.

By San Diego Union Tribune, April 29, 2018

Some people associated with the Central American migrant caravan, which arrived in Tijuana this week, have crossed into the United States illegally in the last 24 hours, federal officials said Saturday.

A pregnant woman and some children as young as 4 were detected entering the U.S. through a canyon that authorities described in a statement as dark, treacherous and “notorious for human and drug smuggling.”

By NBC , April 29, 2018

Less than 200 Central Americans, part of a caravan of asylum seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego, left a cross-border rally Sunday afternoon, prepared to turn themselves in to U.S. authorities.

Before they could cross the border, however, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said the border was at capacity for people without appropriate entry documentation. 

By The Hill, April 29, 2018

White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) President Margaret Talev on Sunday lamented that comedian Michelle Wolf’s routine during the organization’s annual dinner was “not in the spirit” of its mission.

Talev said in a statement late Sunday that she has heard from members of the association that Wolf’s performance did not reflect well on the WHCA's efforts to celebrate journalism and the First Amendment.

By The Hill, April 29, 2018

The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is taking heat the day after comedian Michelle Wolf took shots from the stage at presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

A number of observers in attendance felt the former "Daily Show" comedian went over the line with her jokes, which drew heavy conservative fire on Sunday.


By ZeroHedge, April 30, 2018

Scores of migrants gathered at the U.S. border began scaling the San Diego "wall" while shouting "Gracias, México!" presumably to thank the Mexican government for allowing them to travel from Central America to the U.S. border in the hopes of obtaining asylum from the Trump administration. 

By WND April 29, 2018

The pastor of a San Francisco progressive Episcopal church is defending his support for holding the first-ever “Beyoncé Mass.”

No kidding – a “Beyoncé Mass.”

“I know there are people who will say using Beyoncé is just a cheap way of trying to get people in the church,” said Jude Harmon, the founding pastor of the Vine, a ministry of Grace Cathedral Church.

By Bloomberg, April 29, 2018

Kim Jong Un is turning on the charm ahead of his summit with Donald Trump, adding pressure on the U.S. president to ease sanctions against North Korea even before it’s made any significant concessions.

The 34-year-old dictator plans to invite foreign journalists to witness the shutdown of North Korea’s main nuclear weapons test site in May, South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s spokesman told reporters on Sunday. The revelation came shortly after Kim pledged “complete denuclearization” at a meeting with Moon on Friday, without providing further detail.

By Star Tribune, April 30, 2018

Richard Painter, a longtime Republican who was chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush’s White House, intends to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota this year as a Democrat, according to a filing he made recently with federal elections officials.

Painter, a persistent and frequent critic of President Donald Trump on national cable TV news appearances and on Twitter, is expected to announce his candidacy at a Monday news conference.

By ABC News April 29, 2018

A Russian mixed martial arts fighter who has connections with President Donald Trump, the president's personal attorney Michael Cohen and Russian President Vladimir Putin was questioned this week by the FBI, his manager confirmed Saturday.

Fedor Emelianenko was questioned by agents who met him in his hotel room on Tuesday, manager Jerry Millen said before Emelianenko's Bellator MMA heavyweight fight against Frank Mir. Millen declined to detail his client's conversations with the agents.

By ABC News, April 29, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration has its "eyes wide open" on whether to trust North Korea in any negotiations to end the country's nuclear program.

Pompeo was responding to a question from ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl on "This Week" Sunday in an exclusive first interview of the new secretary of state.


By Daily Caller, April 29, 2018

Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik called on MSNBC to conduct a full investigation into its host Joy Reid to help maintain the network’s credibility as a news organization.

“This has been bubbling in the Internet and in social media for a long, long time,” Zurawik said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday. “She brought it on her show Saturday morning. NBC News now owes us an investigation of this.”

By Variety, April 29, 2018

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took aim at Michelle Wolf’s racy White House Correspondents dinner performance, saying that she “bombed” and that the event itself was a “very big, boring bust.”

Trump skipped the dinner, but was at a rally in Washington, Michigan.

By Daily Caller, April 28, 2018

MSNBC host Joy Reid repeatedly claimed to have evidence that anti-gay posts on her old blog were fabricated by hackers, only to admit on Saturday that she had no such evidence.

Archives of Reid’s blog posts, first dug up by a liberal Twitter user on April 19, show Reid accusing several prominent political figures of being secretly gay, and using homophobic jokes to denigrate her political opponents.

By The Blaze April 24, 2018

During her radio show Monday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham castigated advertisers who bailed on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” at Parkland, Florida, student David Hogg’s prompting.

Ingraham also blasted leftists for mocking her and other conservatives who share her values.

By CBS News, April 27, 2018

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Subway safety fears are growing after several high-profile violent incidents.

Surveillance videos shows a man arguing with an MTA clerk just before police say he lit several matches and threw them into the booth’s money slot in an attempted arson. Another image appears to show him making a menacing gesture with his hand, as if pointing a gun.

By CNN, April 30, 2018

(CNN) Former FBI Director James Comey on Sunday called the House Intelligence Committee Republicans' year-long Russia investigation "a wreck" that damaged relationships with the intelligence community and the federal court that grants warrants to surveil foreigners.

The committee released a redacted version of the GOP report on the panel's Russia probe Friday, which found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in its attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election. The report also disputed the intelligence community's assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to help elect Donald Trump.

By Axios, April 29, 2018

The White House Correspondents' Dinner ended with a barrage of vulgar anti-Trump jokes by comedian Michelle Wolf, who attacked the appearance of White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who was sitting with her at the head table.

What they're saying: White House officials in the audience thought Wolf's patter went too far, and thought the attacks on Sanders and Kellyanne Conway were too personal.

By Grabien, April 28, 2018

TRUMP “But to protect our families we must secure our borders. The good thing about the caravan. People are watching. People are watching. You watch how horrible -- They are coming in from Honduras. They are coming in from other places. They are taking this long trek up Mexico. We want Mexico to help us and we have to demand it. But Mexico is going to help us. But there are hundreds of people out of maybe 2,000.

By Black America Web, April 28, 2018

Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown who was shot and killed by police in August of 2014, has announced that she will be running for Ferguson City Council according to The Root.

After her son’s death, McSpadden threw herself into law enforcement reform having received her high school diploma, written a book, campaigned all over against police brutality and campaigned with Hillary Clinton for her 2016 bib for President.