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President Trump blasted Fox News on Twitter Sunday night — saying the news giant “is now loading up with Democrats” and “even using Fake unsourced New York Times as a ‘source’ of information.” “Watching @FoxNews weekend anchors is worse than watching low ratings Fake News @CNN or Lyin’ Brian Williams,” Trump tweeted. “(Remember when he totally fabricated a War Story trying to make himself into a hero, got fired. A…

(CNN)Right after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked Southern California on July 4, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, a lifelong Angeleno, tweeted that it was the longest quake she’d ever felt. ‘);$vidEndSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–active’);}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = {thumb: ‘none’,video: ‘us/2019/07/06/california-earthquake-news-set-anchors-vpx.cnn’,width: ‘100%’,height: ‘100%’,section: ‘domestic’,profile: ‘expansion’,network: ‘cnn’,markupId: ‘body-text_44’,theoplayer: {allowNativeFullscreen: true},adsection: ‘const-article-inpage’,frameWidth: ‘100%’,frameHeight: ‘100%’,posterImageOverride: {“mini”:{“width”:220,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190706074723-earthquake-news-anchors-small-169.jpg”,”height”:124},”xsmall”:{“width”:307,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190706074723-earthquake-news-anchors-medium-plus-169.jpg”,”height”:173},”small”:{“width”:460,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190706074723-earthquake-news-anchors-large-169.jpg”,”height”:259},”medium”:{“width”:780,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190706074723-earthquake-news-anchors-exlarge-169.jpg”,”height”:438},”large”:{“width”:1100,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190706074723-earthquake-news-anchors-super-169.jpg”,”height”:619},”full16x9″:{“width”:1600,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190706074723-earthquake-news-anchors-full-169.jpg”,”height”:900},”mini1x1″:{“width”:120,”type”:”jpg”,”uri”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190706074723-earthquake-news-anchors-small-11.jpg”,”height”:120}}},autoStartVideo = false,isVideoReplayClicked = false,callbackObj,containerEl,currentVideoCollection = [],currentVideoCollectionId = ”,isLivePlayer = false,mediaMetadataCallbacks,mobilePinnedView = null,moveToNextTimeout,mutePlayerEnabled = false,nextVideoId = ”,nextVideoUrl…

Video Iran plans to ‘take the next step’ to enrich uranium closer to weapons-grade levels Iran wants to set new terms for the nuclear deal with the E.U. by July 7th. While national security experts will debate the merits of the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration for years to come, one thing is clear: the pact always ensured Washington and Tehran were headed towards a nuclear crisis….

Rep. Justin AmashJustin AmashAmash: ‘High-level’ Republicans privately thanked me for supporting Trump impeachment Amash says Pelosi is making a ‘moral’ and ‘strategic’ mistake on impeachment Amash responds to Trump: Congress is elected to defend the Constitution, not ‘one person’ MORE (Mich.) doubled down on both his support for impeaching President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocratic senator: White House has ‘used cruelty to children’ as a tool of immigration policy Amash: ‘High-level’ Republicans…

After Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly arrested Saturday night on charges of sex trafficking of minors, links between the billionaire and President Donald Trump have emerged, including a 2002 quote from Trump that Epstein “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Trump biographer Tim O’Brien tweeted the quote on Saturday, which is from a New York Magazine profile of Epstein, which…

A surveillance camera in San Francisco, which recently banned police from using facial-recognition software. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Drew Harwell July 7 at 3:54 PM Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through hundreds of millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show. Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents…

Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, who has done original reporting on details of the alleged sex trafficking crimes of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein for the past several years, joined MSNBC Sunday morning to discuss the evidence against Epstein and the “rogues gallery” of rich, powerful, and famous people who are suspected to have used his services. Epstein was arrested Saturday in New Jersey on sex trafficking charges. “I’ve…

President Trump has called former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden “a reclamation project,” adding that “some things are just not salvageable.” Trump made the remarks on Twitter Saturday, and he went on to say: “China and other countries that ripped us off for years are begging for him. He deserted our military, our law enforcement and our healthcare. Added more debt than all other Presidents combined. Won’t win!”  The…

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  NEW YORK (AP) — Wealthy financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday in New York on new sex-trafficking charges involving allegations that date to the early 2000s, according to law enforcement officials. Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager who once counted as friends former President Bill Clinton, Great Britain’s Prince Andrew, and President Donald Trump, was taken into federal custody and is expected to appear Monday…

Deploying Royal Marines from its Gibraltar territory at the Mediterranean Sea gateway, Britain on Thursday seized an Iranian oil tanker it says is breaching European Union sanctions against trade with Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime. This is proof of Britain’s increasing alignment with America on Iran. Britain insists it supports EU efforts to stabilize the Iran nuclear agreement. But London knew full well the fury its seizure would spark in Tehran….

RIDGECREST, Calif. — Three-year-old River Webb calls them “boom-booms.” That’s one way to describe a pair of powerful earthquakes that rocked Southern California over the holiday weekend, centered in this Mojave Desert city of 28,000 situated between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. A magnitude 6.4 hit on the Fourth of July followed by a 7.1 the next day, making for the strongest earthquakes to hit Southern California in at least…

In this Thursday, July 4, 2019, photo made available by U.S. Navy, two F/A-18 Super Hornets assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW 7) drop 1000-pound general-purpose bombs during an Independence Day air power demonstration next to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in Arabian Sea. The USS Abraham Lincoln was rushed to the Mideast amid tensions between the U.S. and Iran as its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers…

Jeffrey Epstein, pictured here in an undated photo, was arrested Saturday and charged with sex trafficking, according to media reports. Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images Jeffrey Epstein, pictured here in an undated photo, was arrested Saturday and charged with sex trafficking, according to media reports. Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images The multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested…

Bolstered by a strong economy, Donald Trump reached the highest job approval rating of his career in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll and runs competitively for reelection against four of five possible Democratic contenders. Yet he remains broadly unpopular across personal and professional measures, marking his vulnerabilities in the 2020 election. Forty-four percent of Americans approve of Trump’s overall job performance, up a slight 5 percentage points from April…

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So many earthquakes have rocked the high desert of Southern California since Friday’s 7.1-magnitude temblor that the U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday it is unable to “count all events.” The quakes — there have been more than 3,000 associated with the two major shakers —are part of a sequence that is sure to continue rumbling in Searles Valley and Ridgecrest, California, seismologists say. Late Friday,Lucy Jones, a seismologist at the…