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CLOSE A Florida statute portraying an iconic moment at the end of World War II was vandalized by a person spray painting hashtag #metoo on it. Buzz60’s Mercer Morrison has the story. Buzz60 STUART, Fla. – The “kissing sailor” statue in Sarasota, a replica of the famous Times Square photograph taken after the end of World War II, was spray painted with #MeToo, just after the man in the photo died,…

The draft memo also referenced another close Trump associate, Thomas J. Barrack, who served as chairman of the president’s inaugural committee. It said that Mr. Trump had appointed Mr. Barrack as a special representative to implement the plan, which it called “the Middle East Marshall Plan.” The memo also directed agencies to support Mr. Barrack’s efforts. The Democrats’ investigation comes at a sensitive time, when lawmakers of both parties are…

Sen. Bernie Sanders has raised more than $1 million for his 2020 presidential campaign in less than four hours, his team confirms, putting him well ahead of other contenders who launched their bids with strong financial support. Sanders, I-Vermont, formally joined the presidential race Tuesday morning, telling “CBS This Morning” he intends to win the Democratic nomination and the White House next year. “We’re gonna win,” he told “CBS This…

Video Klobuchar: We need to stop governing from chaos Presidential candidate and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar talks about joining the crowded Democratic field for 2020. CNN anchor Don Lemon had some flattering words for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, following a town hall he moderated on Monday night. Likely voters in New Hampshire got the opportunity to ask the 2020 candidate a wide variety of questions from student debt, health care,…

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz rejected Democratic complaints that his Independent 2020 campaign will guarantee President Trump’s re-election, and said Democrats themselves will guarantee a Trump victory by nominating a “radical left” nominee. “The stakes are too high to cross our fingers and hope the Democratic Party nominates a moderate who can win over enough independents and disaffected Republicans, and even fellow Democrats, to defeat Trump next year,” Schultz wrote…

Wait, I owe the IRS? The first tax filing season under the new federal tax law is proving to be surprising, confusing — and occasionally frightening — for some Americans, especially those accustomed to getting money back from the government. Take Andy Kraft and Amy Elias of Portland, Oregon. The couple had grown comfortable getting a small refund each year, a few hundred dollars or more. Then they found out…

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“These Democrats like to call themselves progressive,” said Senator Rick Scott, a Florida Republican. “They’re regressive.” In the United States, as the Democratic Party moves left, putting forward ambitious climate change proposals like the Green New Deal, Mr. Trump has branded party members as socialists. He has employed similar language against Mr. Maduro. “We condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being…

Video Sen. Kamala Harris: Facts still unfolding in Jussie Smollett case Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris pressed on whether she still stands by her characterization of the alleged Smollett attack as a ‘modern day lynching’; Peter Doocy reports. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared to be caught off guard Monday when she was asked about the latest developments in the alleged attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. During an appearance…

Video Mexico announces plans to close shelter housing 1,600 migrants: Will they go to Texas? A Mexican national who was detained by Border Patrol for illegal re-entry died Monday at a hospital in Texas, becoming the third detainee since December to die while in custody. U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman said the 45-year-old man was initially apprehended Feb. 2 and requested medical attention. He was taken to a medical…

Matt Zapotosky February 18 at 10:23 PM Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein plans to leave the Justice Department in mid-March, an official familiar with the matter said Monday night, and an announcement on his successor is expected imminently. Rosenstein, the No. 2 Justice Department official who has spent nearly two years in the hot seat since appointing Robert S. Mueller III to lead an investigation into whether President Trump’s…

Congress is on its own separate track to challenge the president’s declaration. The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives may take a two-prong approach when it returns from a recess. One would be to bring a lawsuit of its own. Lawmakers could also vote to override the declaration that an emergency exists, but it is doubtful that Congress has the votes to override Mr. Trump’s certain veto, leaving the courts a more…

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Politics President Donald Trump said Monday that “a new day is coming in Latin America,” as he sought to rally support among the largest Venezuelan community in the U.S. for opposition leader Juan Guaido. Speaking at Florida International University in Miami before large American and Venezuelan flags, Trump said the U.S. stands behind Guaido, whom the U.S. recognizes as the country’s rightful president, and…

Harrison Smith February 18 at 7:02 PM When Japan’s surrender was announced on Aug. 14, 1945, George Mendonsa grabbed his date, ran out of a Rockettes performance at Radio City Music Hall and headed for a nearby bar in Times Square. He was a Navy quartermaster on leave, dressed in uniform, and after downing a few drinks began walking the streets, where he spotted a young woman in a white…

Hey, Short Listers: I’m jamming out to Dolly Parton as I write this because I enjoy the Queen of Country’s music, even if her husband doesn’t. It’s Kirk Bado in for Ashley Shaffer with today’s most-talked-about stories.  First, the Grand Canyon: Tourists, employees and children were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation for nearly two decades inside a museum building at the Grand Canyon, according to the park’s safety director. She called the first lady an ‘ape’. Looks like she committed fraud, too….

Kent County Sheriff personnel investigate the scene of a fatal shooting near the corner of 19 Mile NE and Division Avenue NE at a property on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, near Cedar Springs, Mich. WOOD-TV reports Kent County Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young says authorities discovered the victims at a property near Cedar Springs, a community about 30 miles north of Grand Rapids. (Neil Blake/MLive.com/The Grand Rapids Press via AP) SOLON TOWNSHIP,…

(CBS) –“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, upset after a racist letter sent to the show’s studio didn’t get a “bigger reaction,” is suspected of paying two men to attack him a week later, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation. “When the letter didn’t get enough attention, he concocted the staged attack,” a source told CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards. Other sources corroborated that information. TIMELINE:  Key Developments…

“Being associated too closely with the U.S. carries too much baggage anywhere in Latin America,” said Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group. “And when you have a leftist government that rallies its base on these issues of American imperialism, it plays closely into their narrative.” Mr. Isacson, who directs the group’s security and defense program, also expressed concern about the tension that the…

Media captionMcCabe: “There were concerns about Trump’s intent” US President Donald Trump has issued an angry response after a TV interview on Sunday alleged that officials had held discussions to have him removed. Mr Trump tweeted of “illegal and treasonous” behaviour and an “illegal coup attempt”. In the interview, ex-acting FBI chief Andrew McCabe said talks had been held in 2017 about invoking a clause that can remove a president…