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Video Carrie Severino: Latest Kavanaugh allegations a shameful attempt to reignite baseless smears Author of ‘Justice on Trial’ Carrie Severino weighs in on the controversy over the New York Times story. The short-lived new “allegations” against Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh were so weak that Senate investigators didn’t follow up on them during the confirmation process, author Carrie Severino said Monday. “This is the weakest of the weak type of allegations. It’s…

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Video Carrie Severino: Latest Kavanaugh allegations a shameful attempt to reignite baseless smears Author of ‘Justice on Trial’ Carrie Severino weighs in on the controversy over the New York Times story. The short-lived new “allegations” against Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh were so weak that Senate investigators didn’t follow up on them during the confirmation process, author Carrie Severino said Monday. “This is the weakest of the weak type of allegations. It’s…

A maintenance employee, who works for the nonprofit agency whose building was the site of today’s explosion, was among the injured, according to LEAP (Life Enrichment Advancing People). In a statement posted on Facebook, the agency said there were many heroes today who saved lives today. “First responders and a LEAP maintenance person were injured in the blast. Our hearts go out to anyone injured or impacted today,” the agency…

The Working Families Party, the labor-aligned progressive group whose electoral influence has grown since the 2016 election, has endorsed Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for the Democratic presidential nomination, a boon to her candidacy as she attempts to position herself as the main challenger to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The party endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont during the last presidential cycle, at which time he described…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have seized a vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 250,000 litres of diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates, Iran’s semi-official Students News agency ISNA reported on Monday. “It was detained near Iran’s Greater Tunb island in the Persian Gulf…the crew have been handed over to legal authorities in the southern Hormozgan province,” ISNA said, without elaborating on the nationalities of the crewmen….

Some analysis here from CNN correspondents on the ground in Saudi Arabia and Iran: Saturday’s attacks strike “at the heart of the country’s lifeblood and the basis of its economy,” says CNN’s International Diplomatic Editor, Nic Robertson, from Riyadh. The 19 strikes at two facilities were the result of “very clear and careful precision and planning,” he adds Saudi Arabia is now expected to offset the impact of these attacks…

Apple is becoming a camera company Apple’s new iPhones can still send texts, download apps, and make video calls, but the company spends a lot of time and effort marketing its new phones as powerful photography… Technologyread more

Apple is becoming a camera company Apple’s new iPhones can still send texts, download apps, and make video calls, but the company spends a lot of time and effort marketing its new phones as powerful photography… Technologyread more

Apple is becoming a camera company Apple’s new iPhones can still send texts, download apps, and make video calls, but the company spends a lot of time and effort marketing its new phones as powerful photography… Technologyread more

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar fell while safe havens and currencies of oil-producing countries rallied on Monday, following an attack on Saudi Arabian refining facilities that disrupted global oil supply and heightened Middle East tensions. Oil prices surged nearly a fifth at one point following the strikes on two plants, including the world’s biggest petroleum processing facility in Abqaiq, which knocked out more than 5% of global oil supply. Yemen’s…

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Purdue Pharma, the company that made billions selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy in White Plains, New York, days after reaching a tentative settlement with many of the state and local governments suing it over the toll of opioids. The filing was anticipated before and after the tentative deal, which could be worth up to $12 billion over time, was struck. “This settlement framework avoids wasting hundreds of…

MIAMI (AP) — Beachgoers on the southeastern U.S. coast should be wary of potentially dangerous rip currents caused by Hurricane Humberto, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday. Late Sunday, Humberto strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph). The storm was about 785 miles (1,260 kilometers) west of Bermuda and moving northeast at 3 mph (5 kph). The U.S. National…

The blow is stunning. The attacks on Saudi oil facilities have knocked out half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production. The kingdom is the world’s largest oil exporter. The state-owned company that produces the oil, Aramco, is probably the world’s most valuable enterprise. And oil provides one-third of the world’s primary energy. It is hard to think through the global ramifications of an event such as this, because we know so little…

Julián Castro, who was housing secretary under President Barack Obama, and Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont, also called for his impeachment. Image Kamala Harris, a Democratic senator from California, said on Twitter that Justice Kavanaugh’s place on the Supreme Court was “an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice.”CreditT.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times Mr. Trump, who nominated Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, defended him on…

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Gusty winds are still affecting portions of the northwestern Bahamas and Humberto, only a couple of weeks after Hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama. The death toll currently stands at 50 after Dorian wreaked havoc but search and rescue teams are still searching through destroyed neighbourhoods. Meanwhile, a small low-pressure system is producing an elongated area of disorganised showers and thunderstorms over the central tropical Atlantic. The…

​Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota made her first Sunday news show appearance on CBS’s Face The Nation, addressing comments made last week by the son of a 9/11 victim, who accused her of not understanding the outrage caused by her previously dismissive comments on the attack. Show moderator Margaret Brennan brought up the New York 9/11 memorial service, where a speaker wore a t-shirt inscribed with Omar’s prior controversial…