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Month: October 2019

Top House Republican says he’s donating money connected to indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will donate money raised in connection with indicted associates of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, a spokesman said Thursday. “These contributions were made ahead of events sponsored by Protect the House, a joint fundraising committee that McCarthy helped form last cycle,” a spokesman for McCarthy told CNN. “The

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Who’s who in the Giuliani-linked indictment

Two men tied to Rudy Giuliani’s effort to solicit Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election have been arrested and charged with unrelated campaign finance violations. The men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were already in the spotlight as House Democrats ramp up their inquiries and prepare for articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Now

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Korean War Veterans Receive Medals

Click here for updates on this story     MILTON, PA (WNEP) — A group of veterans stood proudly outside the American Legion on Thursday honoring two fellow vets. Sgt. Richard Winter and Sgt. James Turner were presented with medals for their service in the Korean War. Sgt. Winter lives in Watsontown and served in Korea for

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Hampton Public Schools to receive grant supporting mental health services

Click here for updates on this story     HAMPTON, Va. (WTKR) — The Virginia Department of Education was awarded a five-year, $2.5 million federal grant to improve mental health services for students in six high-need school divisions, including Hampton City Schools. The funds, which were awarded under the U.S. Department of Education’s Mental Health Service Professional

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FEC chairwoman says she ‘will not be silenced’ after Republican lawmaker requests ethics investigation

Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub said on Thursday that she “will not be silenced” after a Republican congressman requested she be investigated for ethics violations for her public statements. Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois, who was named an honorary state chair for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign last week, sent a letter on Friday

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How the extreme-right gamified terror

It was an eerily familiar scene. A gunman livestreaming an attack on a head-mounted camera, in the style of a first-person shooter video game, and uploading it along with an extremist tirade. The parallels between the attack on a synagogue in the German town of Halle and other recent far-right shootings points to a wider

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Bernie Sanders says he’s back. Is he?

Despite what he’s said, Bernie Sanders is not actually scaling back the campaign, telling NBC News that he “misspoke.” “I misspoke the other day. I said a word I should not have said and media drives me a little bit nuts to make a big deal about it,” Sanders said on Wednesday. “We’re going to

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How ‘The Good Place’ made the cast, creative team and maybe even the viewers better people

“It felt a little bit like what I imagine sending your kid off to college feels like,” says Kristen Bell about wrapping up “The Good Place,” currently in its fourth and final season on NBC. “It’s a good and bad feeling.” That’s indicative of the thoughtful, philosophically-inclined and morally-minded comedy’s theme, the constant push-pull between

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