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“That wasn’t true, was it, sir?” Mr. Berke asked. Mr. Lewandowski struggled to answer, ultimately telling the lawyer, “You can interpret it any way you like.” But when pressed, Mr. Lewandowski said: “I have no obligation to have a candid conversation with the media whatsoever, just like they have no obligation to cover me honestly, and they do it inaccurately all the time.” “You are admitting that on national television…

WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) — Democratic Party political donor Ed Buck was charged Tuesday with allegedly running a drug den out of his West Hollywood apartment and providing methamphetamine to a 37-year-old man who suffered an overdose last week, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office said. Buck, 65, was charged with one felony count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house. According to the DA’s…

President Donald Trump did his best to appeal to Latinx voters during his rally on Monday evening in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. His “best,” however, was profoundly bizarre. In one especially odd moment, Trump remarked upon how white one of his key Latino surrogates looks. “He happens to be Hispanic, but I’ve never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do. So I haven’t…

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Twitter and Facebook last month suspended hundreds of thousands of accounts and operations that they said were part of a Chinese state-linked disinformation campaign designed to discredit pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. A few days later, Google followed suit, banning 210 YouTube channels that it said it had identified as part of a similar disinformation effort. Twitter published a list of the most active 936 accounts it banned and more…

Isrseli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu had sought an outright majority with his allies to secure immunity from an expected indictment. | Amir Levy/Getty Images Israel By ASSOCIATED PRESS 09/17/2019 08:47 PM EDT Updated 09/17/2019 10:14 PM EDT 2019-09-17T10:14-0400 JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell short of securing a parliamentary majority with his religious and nationalist allies in national elections Tuesday, initial exit polls showed, setting the stage for…

Iran’s attack on two Saudi oil facilities on Saturday is a challenge to the Saudis as well as to the American-led international order. Iran deserves a forceful retaliation. And the Saudis are the ones who should deliver it. After all, it was Saudi Arabia that was attacked, and Saudi Arabia’s oil-export dependent economy affected. It is also Saudi Arabia’s credibility now most at risk. For reasons of historic theology and…

Iran’s attack on two Saudi oil facilities on Saturday is a challenge to the Saudis as well as to the American-led international order. Iran deserves a forceful retaliation. And the Saudis are the ones who should deliver it. After all, it was Saudi Arabia that was attacked, and Saudi Arabia’s oil-export dependent economy affected. It is also Saudi Arabia’s credibility now most at risk. For reasons of historic theology and…

Isrseli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu had sought an outright majority with his allies to secure immunity from an expected indictment. | Amir Levy/Getty Images Israel By ASSOCIATED PRESS 09/17/2019 08:47 PM EDT Updated 09/17/2019 10:14 PM EDT 2019-09-17T10:14-0400 JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell short of securing a parliamentary majority with his religious and nationalist allies in national elections Tuesday, initial exit polls showed, setting the stage for…

Isrseli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu had sought an outright majority with his allies to secure immunity from an expected indictment. | Amir Levy/Getty Images Israel By ASSOCIATED PRESS 09/17/2019 08:47 PM EDT Updated 09/17/2019 10:14 PM EDT 2019-09-17T10:14-0400 JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell short of securing a parliamentary majority with his religious and nationalist allies in national elections Tuesday, initial exit polls showed, setting the stage for…

Iran’s attack on two Saudi oil facilities on Saturday is a challenge to the Saudis as well as to the American-led international order. Iran deserves a forceful retaliation. And the Saudis are the ones who should deliver it. After all, it was Saudi Arabia that was attacked, and Saudi Arabia’s oil-export dependent economy affected. It is also Saudi Arabia’s credibility now most at risk. For reasons of historic theology and…

The White House has said it is exploring using police to remove homeless people from the streets, a vague threat that has escalated concerns about Trump pushing a law enforcement crackdown in California. A new report from the president’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) said “policing may be an important tool to help move people off the street and into shelter or housing where they can get the services they…

UPDATE, 4:27 PM: Running late out of a big donor shindig in Palo Alto earlier today, Air Force One has just landed at LAX nearly an hour behind schedule. As Donald Trump deplanes and gets in Marine One in the next few minutes for a possibly augmented trip to DTLA before his Beverly Hills fundraiser tonight, LAPD are closing down streets all over the well heeled town and West L.A….

Juliet Eilperin Brady Dennis September 17 at 9:44 PM The Trump administration plans this week to revoke California’s long-standing right to set stricter air pollution standards for cars and light trucks, the latest step in a broad campaign to undermine Obama-era policies aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, two senior administration officials said. The move threatens to set in motion a massive legal battle between California…

Former Trump presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will testify about the Mueller report before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday in what’s sure to be a circus of a hearing. (It begins at 1 pm ET and you can watch it at this link, or right here.) Lewandowski will be pressed about an episode special counsel Robert Mueller outlined in which President Trump met with him and tried to get him…

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CLOSE President Donald Trump is weighing in on the Democratic primary field hours before his would-be opponents face off on the debate stage in Houston. (Sept. 12) AP WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is planning to revoke California’s authority to set its own vehicle emission standards, blocking an environmental effort by the deeply blue state that has long irked President Donald Trump. An administration official speaking on the condition of anonymity to…

President Trump’s plane lands at LAX for a fundraising dinner in Beverly Hills, California. #FoxNewsLive #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge. A top five-cable network, FNC has been the most watched news channel…

Contemporary Washington and a modern news business often driven by technology rather than judgment doesn’t have a modern version of Cokie Roberts in its midst, and that is a loss to us all. She saw her fellow citizens with responsibilities of power as who they are, flawed, fragile, ambitious, dedicated human beings trying to drive the nation forward because, well, its our country, and citizens have to drive it. That…

OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP/Getty Images In an exchange with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), Corey Lewandowski denied feeling “squeamish” about delivering President Trump’s message to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He said he instead took his children to the beach around the time he was being asked to deliver it. Lewandowski also denied Johnson’s assertion Trump “hounded” him about getting the message to Sessions, but he seemed to slip up when he said Trump…