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Michael Cohen's phone number. (646) 853-0114

>>114460
>phone number.

Can someone in the States try dialling this?

>McCain also quietly traveled to Syria in 2013 to meet with rebels fighting President Bashar Assad’s forces. That visit took place amid meetings in Paris involving efforts to secure participation of Syria’s fractured opposition in an international peace conference in Geneva.

>It’s unusual, however, for members of Congress to visit Syria, which has no diplomatic relations with the United States. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, generated a backlash when she visited Syria in January and met with Assad. Gabbard, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, is an outspoken opponent of what she’s called “our counterproductive regime change war” in Syria.

>But Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Gabbard gave Assad credibility by meeting with him.

>Lawmakers have accused the Assad government of war crimes and even genocide as the number of people killed during the violence in Syria continues to mount. The war, now in its sixth year, has killed hundreds of thousands of people, contributed to Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II and given the Islamic State group room to grow into a global terror threat.

>>114419
Why say it's a 'secret' trip? If it's secret then why is a mainstream news outlet reporting on it.

>>114441

Secret to avoid tipping off any potential assassins or attacks. The news gets told about it after the trip is done and the danger has passed (occasionally a reporter might tag along under condition that they don't talk about the trip until it's over). This isn't uncommon for any politician visiting a war zone.

>CNN has also reached out for comment to the four state attorney generals who co-signed the August 2013 letter to ask if they were aware the letter had been drafted by Devon Energy officials.

>More than 7,500 pages of emails from the Oklahoma attorney general’s office obtained and released by the Center for Media and Democracy through an Open Records Act shed light on Pruitt’s relationship with Devon Energy, including allowing the energy giant’s top lobbyists to draft and edit letters sent on Pruitt and other state attorney generals’ behalf to top federal officials.

>The newly released emails confirm years of cushy ties between Pruitt and Devon Energy dating back to at least October 2011, when Pruitt also signed a letter quietly drafted by Devon Energy officials and sent it to the head of the EPA. That exchange was first reported by The New York Times in December 2014.

>That type of exchange took place multiple times in years to come, according to the released emails.

>A month before one of Devon Energy’s top lobbyists sent the draft letter on fracking to Pruitt’s deputy solicitor general Clayton Eubanks, Eubanks gave Devon Energy officials the opportunity to edit a separate letter addressed to the EPA — this time about the regulation of methane emissions, a dangerous pollutant.

>“Attached is the final draft of the methane letter to EPA regarding the 7 NE States NOI to sue over the regulation of methane emissions. We have received good support on this and I would like to get the letter out in the morning. I thought we should insert a sentence or two regarding the recent EPA report indicating their initial estimates on methane emissions for two categories were too high,” Eubanks wrote in a May 2013 email to Bill Whitsitt, Devon’s executive vice president of public affairs. “Any suggestions?”

>Less than three hours later, Whitsitt replied with proposed additions to the letter from him and his team.

>The next day, Pruitt sent the letter that included Whitsitt’s changes, word-for-word.

>At the time, Devon Energy had been leading the fight against the EPA’s system of measuring methane emissions.

>“There’s no mention of Pruitt questioning anything they (the energy industry) are doing or saying. This is a direct cut and paste type relationship,” said Liz Perera, the Sierra Club’s climate policy director, who said the emails make clear Pruitt “not only has a good relationship [with the] fossil fuel industry but he’s dependent on them to provide research and talking points.”

>Perera said she was especially struck by the absence of any mention of the earthquakes occurring in Oklahoma at the time, which scientists believed to be tied to fracking activity in the state.

>“Pruitt never expressed concern about the increased number of earthquakes believed to be linked to the fracking activity in Oklahoma. He never mentioned launching an investigation into the earthquakes,” Perera said.

>Hundreds of other emails showed regular contact between Pruitt’s top aides and Devon Energy’s lobbyists and public affairs executives, including frequent phone calls and in-person meetings between those officials — as well as meetings between Pruitt and Whitsitt.

>Whitsitt also sent along talking points and other draft letters to Pruitt’s office in 2013 following “conversations with Attorney General Pruitt.”

>CNN could not immediately confirm whether Pruitt officially used those letters and talking points as well.

>The emails also showed that Pruitt was close with other groups beyond Devon Energy.

>In a May 2013 email, Pruitt’s executive assistant emailed Richard Moskowitz, the general counsel of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers association, after “General Pruitt asked that I email you” to put Moskowitz in touch with Eubanks, Oklahoma’s deputy solicitor general.

>“Thank you again for the information you provided during General Pruitt’s visit and please do not hesitate to contact me if there is anything else we can do for you,” Pruitt’s assistant wrote in the email.

>Some conservative groups are defending Pruitt’s close relationship with the industry. “Despite hyperventilating from fringe groups on the left, these emails show that Scott Pruitt was a dutiful and responsible Attorney General who fought daily on behalf of the people that elected him,” Jeremy Adler of America Rising Squared told CNN. “There was no new information in these emails to support the left’s anti-Pruitt fever dreams, instead they showed that he behaved like any accomplished public servant, working with key industries in his state to help his constituents.”

>>114442
>theintercept

Try again later with non-fake news

>>114443
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTuIKLQSTHY it is fake news now

>>114443
What's fake about it?

>>114076
fuck off to /pol/ nigger with your race bait trash, oh wait you dont have the balls so you post it here

>>114102
Where were you in the "white trash crash" thread?

>>114102
yellowed, wonky tooth nigger detected

So they want to cook the books so to speak.

"The books" is not the account of a fish and chip restaurant; its the account of an economy. Lots of data to sift through and different interpretations are possible.

>>114354

The proposed characterization doesn't seem entirely unreasonable. Problem is that it's a shamelessly political move and everyone knows it.

>>113638
Gee its almost like republicans are a bunch of democrat shills

They're all the fucking same. Even the new one playing a new game.

4chan: home to the whiniest whiners that ever whined. They cant even win without whining. SAD.

>For the first time, researchers discovered three Earth-like worlds orbiting an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years away in another star system. The star, known as TRAPPIST-1, isn't the kind of star scientists expected to be a hub for planets. It's at the end of the range for what classifies as a star: half the temperature and a tenth the mass of the sun. They were also able to study the atmospheres of two of the planets and both planets had more compact atmospheres that are comparable to those of Earth, Venus and Mars. This led the researchers to determine that the two planets are primarily rocky, more evidence that they could support life.

>NASA announced the Kepler telescope had discovered 1,284 exoplanets, the most announced at one time. Of those newly discovered planets, nine orbit in the habitable zone of their star and nearly 550 are possibly rocky planets roughly around the same size as Earth.

>A couple of months later, NASA said Kepler's K2 mission had discovered 104 more exoplanets. Four are between 20% and 50% larger than Earth and have the potential to be rocky -- signs that they could potentially support life. Astronomers have already ruled out two of them because they're too hot for life as we know it, but the other two -- K2-72c and K2-72e -- are in their star's favorable "habitable zone," where liquid water could pool on the surface and support life.

>The single dwarf star these four planets are orbiting is cooler and less than half the size of our sun, which means that even though they are close to their star, they are still within the habitable zone.

>Last August, researchers confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun. It is the closest exoplanet to us in the universe.Given the fact that Proxima b is within the habitable zone of its star, meaning liquid water could exist on the surface, it may also be the closest possible home for life outside of our solar system.
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>The Kepler mission will end in October 2017. The team has until then to produce a final discovery catalog and quantify scaling for identifying exoplanets, as well as leaving data measurements for the scientific community as a way to pass the baton on to future missions, said Natalie Batalha, Kepler mission scientist.

>The K2 mission, which launched in 2014, is extending Kepler's legacy to new parts of the sky and new fields of study, adding to NASA's "arc of discovery." It has enough fuel to keep identifying candidates until summer 2018. It is helping bridge the gap between Kepler and TESS as far as identifying targets for the James Webb Space Telescope to observe.

>These other missions -- like TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, in 2017 and the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018 -- will continue the search for life beyond Earth.

>Compared to Kepler, TESS will use a similar transit method for observing planets, when they pass in front of their parent stars. While Kepler looked at one portion of the sky for stars that were further away for a longer time, TESS will observe the entire sky and focus on the brightest and closest stars, each for 30 days.

>The James Webb Space Telescope is capable of observing large exoplanets and detecting starlight filtered through their atmosphere, which will enable scientists to determine the atmospheric composition and analyze them for gases that can create a biological ecosystem.

>While the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to look at targets discovered by K2 in some detail, it will be able to focus on at least 10 exoplanets in great detail. In about a decade, NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, will be able to image these planets for the first time.

>So, just how many exoplanets do we estimate are out there in the galaxy for NASA to study and discover? Tens of billions. NASA wants to increase its understanding from the habitable zone to habitable environments and living worlds.

>posting literally very fake news

>The weekend’s events, coming in the wake of last week’s public exchanges with Trump, served to heat up a long-simmering tension between some leaders of the nation’s Jewish community and the Trump White House.

>The perpetrators of the cemetery vandalism and their motives were not yet established. Police in University City, an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, were just launching an investigation, reviewing video surveillance at the cemetery, operated on a not-for-profit basis by The Chesed Shel Emeth Society and calling on anyone with information to come forward.

>Because of the Sabbath, the cemetery does not operate on Saturday, Anita Feigenbaum, director of the Chesed Shel Emeth Society told The Washington Post in a phone interview.

>A groundskeeper arrived Monday morning to find gravestones overturned across a wide section of the cemetery, the oldest section as it happens, bearing the remains of Jews who died between the late 1800s and the mid-20th century.

>She called it a “horrific act of cowardice,” beyond anything the cemetery had experienced in the past.

>The cemetery was founded in 1888 by the Russian Jewish community in St. Louis “to aid all Jews who needed burial whether they had the money or not. They started with the burial society and then extended to hospitals and houses that help the poor and the sick. To this day that’s what we do. We are not for profit. We help in this horrible time in a person’s life.”

>Feigenbaum had walked through the cemetery during the day and had not yet completed counting the number of damaged stones, most of them pushed over, off their bases. So far she said she had found than 170. Feigenbaum said she was starting to hear from families of people buried there. “We will reach out to the families that are affected,” she said.

The cemetery holds the remains of more than 20,000, she estimated.
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>She said she was getting an “outpouring of support from across the United States” with people volunteering to help with repairs and was deeply appreciative.

>Separately on Monday, the Anti-Defamation League reported a wave of bomb threats directed against Jewish Community Centers in multiple states, the fourth series of such threats since the beginning of the year, it said.

>“While ADL does not have any information at this time to indicate the presence of any actual bombs at the institutions threatened, the threats themselves are alarming, disruptive and must always be taken seriously.”

>Bomb threats were called in at Jewish Community Centers in 11 cities across the U.S.: Albuquerque, Amherst, Birmingham, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville, St. Paul, Tampa and Whitefish Bay, Wis. Since January, there have been 69 bomb threat calls targeting 54 centers in 27 different states, according to the Jewish Community Center Association.

>In Amherst and Buffalo, the community centers were briefly closed after a threat was phoned to the Amherst center. Disruption was the goal, said Richard A. Zakalik, the local New York JCC executive director, to the Buffalo News on Monday. “They accomplished what they wanted,” Zakalik said to the Buffalo News. “The whole point was to scare and disrupt.”

>No devices or bombs were found in connection with the threats; the Jewish Community Center Association described all of Monday’s incidents as “hoaxes.” The FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department will probe the series of calls for federal violations, according to the Star Tribune.
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>Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network, the security affiliate of Jewish Federations of North America, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the bomb threats appeared to originate from the “same serial caller.” Noting that not every building which received a call decided to evacuate, he said that the community centers were “very well-equipped to handle this.” The centers also increased their security measures after the threats, the JCCA noted.

>The weekend spate of anti-Semitic threats were not limited to the U.S. In Canada, a 70-year-old Toronto woman named Helen Chaiton said that her mezuza, the case containing Hebrew verse traditionally affixed to a doorpost, had been vandalized twice over the weekend. Chaiton and her neighbors also found that the vandals had left behind sticky notes with swastikas, the CBC reported.

>Responding to an inquiry from NBC News about the threats, the White House tweeted back: “Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom. The President has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable.”

>The tweet from Ivanka Trump, a convert to Judaism, appeared to be unsolicited and drew generally favorable reaction, but also questions about why her father, the president, seemed reluctant to speak out.

>The ADL issued a statement on Feb. 16, characterizing Trump’s news conference reaction as “mind-boggling.”

>“On two separate occasions over the past two days, President Trump has refused to say what he is going to do about rising anti-Semitism or to even condemn it,” the ADL said in the statement. “This is not a partisan issue. It’s a potentially lethal problem - and it’s growing.”
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>>113591
>that font
>my eyes

>>113591
If she posted about a Donald Trump not my president protest instead, she would have gotten a raise.

What an idiot.

>>113596

Sorry, that was the only picture available in the article.

Wow!!! I never thought this would happen in my lifetime. Can't wait to go to my doctor now.

>>112549
fuck you & your shitty stoner blogs
get a real fucking source idiot

Sounds like you need some pot for your mental issues dude!

>>112134

Two more rapEst-killers (psychopaths) who in all likelihood merely put down a rapist (male). RapEsts are everywhere, though they're usually caught having poisoned their husbands for insurance money. Same thing.

Access to internet news from around the world has certainly enlightened me about how many psycho females are out there killing people. I was ignorant but now I see...

>>112134
Convenient timing while Samsung gets deeper into corruption charges.
I dont want to sound like a dprk-shill.
But I'm sure this benefits samsungs stock.

It's like something out of Tarantino.

>>110153
Yes he has the legal authority to do so.

>>110154
Trump (Bannon) can try whatever he likes, but the ruling will stand.

8 USC 1182(f)

Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline.

>In November, the racism and anti-Semitism of the alt-right movement were on display in Washington when its members gathered to celebrate Trump's victory.

>Atlantic magazine, which is recording footage of Spencer for a documentary, published a video of the same event showing audience members apparently giving the Nazi salute.

>"Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!" Spencer declared.

>His remarks then were filled with racist imagery -- including references to "the black political machines" and Latino housekeepers -- as he bashed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's minority supporters.

>Speaking to CNN on Wednesday, Spencer said his support for Trump had waned.

>"I am getting worried that he won't work on really big important issues like immigration," Spencer said. "That he'll get caught up on little things like making fun of people on Twitter."

>Spencer denied being a white supremacist in a December 2016 interview with Ganim. But, in that interview he said, "Only white people can support what we call Western civilization." He also has said there should be a "peaceful ethnic cleansing," meaning individuals not of European descent should voluntarily leave the United States.

>>102125
All this does is prove him right.

I hope next time he is carrying, loaded, prepared to put down some crazed animal leftshit idiot.

>injuring people because they have different youtube tier opinions than yourself
>wanting to kill a literal who
north korean behaviour, neck yourselves

Masked person from the middle of nowhere? Sounds like a publicity stunt to me. A bit of the old Wounded Gazelle Gambit, perhaps?

>Leshchenko disavowed the texts in question, telling POLITICO on Tuesday “I've never written any emails or messages to … Manafort or his family. I don't know their contact details.” He added he said “I have nothing to do with” the email address from which the texts were sent.

>And in a Facebook post, he wrote that the “correspondence with Manafort's daughter is obviously fake.”

>The White House did not respond to a question about whether Trump had met with Tulub, a hunting buddy of Yanukovych’s who had served as part of government when Yanukovych was prime minister. But a White House official questioned the chronology supporting the claim, explaining that Trump had not worked with Manafort before the 2016 campaign.

>In a Tuesday interview, Manafort denied brokering a 2012 meeting between Trump and Tulub, also pointing out that he wasn’t working for Trump at the time.

>However, Manafort did confirm the authenticity of the texts hacked from his daughter’s phone. And he added that, before the texts were sent to his daughter, he had received similar texts to his own phone number from the same address appearing to be affiliated with Leshchenko.

>He said he did not respond directly to any of the texts, and instead passed them along to his lawyer. He declined to provide the texts to POLITICO.

>The hacked correspondence from his daughter’s phone, much of which is unrelated to Paul Manafort’s work, appears to have first surfaced a couple weeks ago in an anonymous post on a so-called darknet website run by a hacktivist collective.

>While the post hints in its introductory text that the hacker or hackers have additional information on Manafort, it includes only a handful of screenshots of texts from Manafort’s daughter’s cellphone and some apparently supporting data files.

>The images began circulating this week in political circles in Kiev and Washington.
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>It comes at a time when there’s intense interest in the connections between Trump’s inner circle and pro-Russian interests. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional committees alike are looking into contacts between Trump’s associates — including Manafort — and Russian officials during the presidential campaign, and the U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Russian intelligence engineered cyber-attacks on Democratic officials and groups with the intent of boosting Trump’s presidential campaign by damaging that of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

>The screenshots of hacked texts to Manafort’s daughter do not include any information indicating the date on which they were sent.

>But Manafort said that the first of the texts arrived shortly before The New York Times published an August expose revealing that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine had obtained documents — which have since come under scrutiny — that appeared to show $12.7 million in cash payments earmarked for Manafort.

>Manafort challenged the authenticity of the documents. And, while he said he could not be sure whether the texts apparently referencing them were in fact sent by Leshchenko, he said “I find it coincidental that I got these texts, and then he released these phony journals.”

>The Times story identified Leshchenko, a former investigative journalist who has built a reputation as an anti-corruption crusader, as a key player in revealing the documents. They appear to be from a ledger maintained by the Party of Regions, which Yanukovych headed. With financing from pro-Russian oligarchs, Manafort and his team helped resurrect Yanukovych’s career and get him elected prime minister in 2007 and president in 2010. But Yanukovych fled Ukraine for Russia under the protection of Russian President Vladimir Putin amid widespread 2013 protests over government corruption.
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>The documents eventually were provided to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, a government agency that had signed an evidence-sharing agreement with the FBI in late June — less than a month and a half before it released the ledgers.

>The Times reported that the payments earmarked for Manafort were “a focus” of an investigation by Ukrainian anti-corruption officials, while CNN reported days later that the FBI was pursuing an overlapping inquiry.

>Leshchenko held a press conference after the stories to highlight the documents, urging Ukrainian and American law enforcement to aggressively investigate Manafort.

>“I believe and understand the basis of these payments are totally against the law — we have the proof from these books,” Leshchenko said during the news conference, which attracted international media coverage. “If Mr. Manafort denies any allegations, I think he has to be interrogated into this case and prove his position that he was not involved in any misconduct on the territory of Ukraine,” Leshchenko added.

>Manafort denied receiving any off-books cash from Yanukovych’s party, and said that he had never been contacted about the ledger by Ukrainian or American investigators. Nonetheless, the swirling controversy from the ledger reports forced him to step down from Trump’s campaign.

>Yet, after Trump’s surprising victory over Clinton, Ukrainian officials appeared to back away from claims about the ledger and their investigations thereof.

>The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine told POLITICO in December that a “general investigation [is] still ongoing” of the ledger, but it said Manafort is not a target of the investigation. “As he is not the Ukrainian citizen, [the anti-corruption bureau] by the law couldn’t investigate him personally,” the bureau said in a statement.
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