But that was in 1987, and authors beware: whom the gods would destroy, they first put on the best-seller list. Events since then have-not smashed Kennedy’s thesis, but they have roughed it up. Today the U.S. military burden seems more manageable: with the Warsaw Pact collapsing, the Pentagon itself has proposed a 25 percent cut in American defenses. Instead of suffering from military overstretch, the United States is cutting itself some slack....
Cerrone (28-6, 1 NC) won eight consecutive fights and looks to avenge his August 2013 loss to the champion. Dos Anjos (24-7) will make the first defense of the championship he won from Anthony Pettis at UFC 185. In the co-main event, former UFC heavyweight champ Junior Dos Santos (17-3) returns from a one-year layoff against former Strikeforce heavyweight kingpin Alistair Overeem (39-14, 1 NC). Here is everything you need to know about UFC on Fox 17: Cerrone vs....
It has been an interesting 95 days since TMZ released an audio tape of Clippers owner Donald Sterling talking to his “personal assistant,” comments that became an instant viral sensation, offering statements that were racist and offensive. Four days after the audio became public, NBA commissioner Adam Silver — less than three months after taking over from David Stern — banned Sterling from having any involvement in the NBA for life, and announced the association would take the necessary steps to revoke Sterling’s 33 year ownership of the Clippers....
Katie Phang, legal analyst and MSNBC host, was reacting to the unsealed transcripts of the testimony Trump gave as part of the suit brought forward by former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll accused the former president of raping her at a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in New York in the mid-1990s. Trump denies the allegation. Carroll is suing Trump for defaming her character while denying the allegations, including stating in a 2019 interview that she was “not my type....
“Well, I think it’s a lack of respect for our country,” Trump said. “I think it’s a lack of appreciation for our country, and it’s a very sad thing. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, actually. You know, you are talking about a major sport, maybe the major sport, and when you see that and it leads to a lot of other things. I think it’s a great lack of respect and appreciation for our country and I really said they should try another country, see if they like it better....
In a late night tweet, the president claimed that: “Nancy Pelosi just stated that ‘it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump’s fate.’ @FoxNews In other words, she thinks I’m going to win and doesn’t want to take a chance on letting the voters decide. Like Al Green, she wants to change our voting system. Wow, she’s CRAZY! Trump’s was referencing a letter that Pelosi wrote to House Democrats circulated on Monday in which she actually said: “The weak response to these hearings has been, ‘Let the election decide....
An Emerson College poll released on November 1 shows President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are tied in the county with 48 percent each, while three percent of respondents said they were backing a third candidate. None of those surveyed were undecided but Biden led among independent voters with 50 percent to 44 percent. The president’s approval rating in Vigo County stands at 49 percent. This is higher than the national average of 44....
Despite previously pledging to force Democrats to raise the debt ceiling using the Senate’s potentially time-consuming budget reconciliation process, McConnell recruited Republican support earlier this week to block a potential filibuster—a plan that came to fruition on Thursday when 13 GOP senators joined him by voting to allow Democrats to fast-track their bill. Trump reacted to the deal with anger on Friday, insisting that Republicans could have had a “first-class ticket for victory over the Democrats....
The clip claiming to feature Trump is a so-called “deepfake”—a technological tool which which animates celebrities and other public figures to make it seem like they are saying words they never said, or transplants their faces onto another person’s body to act out a scene. In the near 30-second video, a robotic sounding fake Trump says he is returning to social media by joining RuTube, the Russian version of the video hosting site YouTube....
The dispute is one of a number of claims to have been made in Frankly, We Did Win This Election, a book by The Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender which is set to be released on July 13. According to an extract, published by Axios, while sat in the Situation Room with then Attorney General Bill Barr and former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Trump had “exaggerated claims” about the violence in cities last summer and then “alarmed officials” by announcing he had put Milley “in charge” of attempting to suppress the protests....
The ex-president is facing an investigation in the key swing state’s Fulton County about whether or not his phone call with Raffensperger, whom Trump implored to “find” 11,780 votes to tilt the election in his favor, amounts to interfering in the election. The state’s investigation is coupled with the House select committee that is investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year, which is seeking to determine the extent of Trump’s involvement in inciting the violence....
The New York Post reported this week that a Delaware computer repair shop owner found emails and other information on Hunter Biden’s laptop that was dropped off in April 2019 but was never picked up. Trump’s lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani gave the emails to the Post and has been releasing more information, including text messages, on his own website. “I hear they have stuff coming out that you wouldn’t even believe,” Trump told a rowdy crowd in North Carolina, just hours after the New York Post released its second report on emails suggesting Hunter Biden used his father’s position as vice president for his own financial benefit....
Hegseth appeared as a guest on the channel’s Jesse Watters Primetime on Tuesday, to discuss Trump’s description of the Russian president as “savvy” and “genius” for his tactics in the Donbass region of Ukraine. The Fox News segment started with a collage of clips from MSNBC, NBC and CNN outlining concerns about Trump’s relationship with Putin and claims that the former U.S. president had colluded with Russia during the 2016 election....
The eldest son of former President Donald Trump shared a tweet from The New York Times on Monday featuring an article about the cost of the dinner and made reference to previous criticism of the administration in July. The Times’ article did not mention President Joe Biden but highlighted the ongoing problems in the supply chain and the increased cost of ingredients. The newspaper’s official account had tweeted: “Thanksgiving 2021 is shaping up to be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday....
Trump’s approval rating on Wednesday was 44.3 percent, according to a Real Clear Politics average of more than a half-dozen major polls. That is higher than Obama’s average approval rating of 43.9 percent on September 18, 2011, by the same measure. The 45th president’s average approval rating surpassed that of his predecessor on Monday and stayed on top for the next two days. Trump’s average approval rating on Monday was 44....
A probe by Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah into Trump National Golf Club Westchester centers on whether officials in the town of Ossining, which includes the club’s location of Briarcliff Manor, were misled about the property’s value, The New York Times reported. The investigation is separate from a wider investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office into the Trump Organization and adds to legal scrutiny on the former president and his family business....
Democratic rival Joe Biden has seen his chances of a win increase slightly, according to online polls. Oddschecker, which aggregates betting data from dozens of bookmakers, gave Trump odds of 15/8 and Biden odds of 4/9 to secure the election, a spokesman told Newsweek. Put simply, this means Trump has an implied probability of 34.8 percent compared with Biden’s 69.2 percent. Biden has been the betting favorite to win the 2020 Presidential election since May, a month-by-month analysis shows....
On Monday, Mazars announced that it can no longer work for the Trump Organization as a decade’s worth of financial statements cannot be “relied upon.” In a February 9 letter to Trump Organization attorney Alan Garten, the company also included a Bates number reading 00525838—a legal term which suggests Mazars has handed over at least 525,838 pages of material to prosecutors. The statements of financial condition from June 30, 2011 to June 30, 2020, which Mazars has essentially withdrawn, are a key part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation into allegations Trump inflated the value of some New York properties to obtain better bank loans and other financial benefits....
The highly anticipated cricket game, Don Bradman Cricket 14, will feature a new addition, ‘the career mode’, a first for all cricketing games. The career mode means the player selects a side, and progresses through five ranks, climbing higher and higher in the hope of earning the right to join or even captain their international side. The game begins by picking a playing position for the rookie player in the side, either batsman, bowler, all-rounder or even wicket-keeper based on the performance of the gamer....
What Israel had to do to defend itself would one day serve to defend the free democratic world as a whole. While on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden has made clear that he would like to renegotiate the JCPOA, the Iranian nuclear deal of 2015. We would all prefer to live in a world where diplomacy and negotiations could substitute for armed conflict. However, that is not the world we inhabit....
