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Reuters held story about Beto O’Rourke until after Senate race (Washington Examiner)
Reuters held on to a report about former congressman Beto O’Rourke and his participation in a hacking group as a teenager until after the 2018 Senate race in Texas, which he lost to incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
O’Rourke, now 46, announced Thursday he’s running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. A day later, Reuters reported he was a member of a computer hacking group called the Cult of the Dead Cow and authored a series of writings under the name “Psychedelic Warlord.” [Read More]
Dutch shooting: Utrecht police arrest suspect after three killed (BBC)
Five others were injured in the incident, and authorities say the attacker’s motive remains unclear.
Gokmen Tanis, a 37-year-old Turkish man, was detained several hours after the attack. It is not yet clear where he was arrested.
The incident sparked a city-wide manhunt and the closure of schools. [Read More]
President Trump accused the media on Monday of straining to find ways to blame him for last week’s massacre in two New Zealand mosques that left 50 people dead.
“The Fake News Media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand. They will have to work very hard to prove that one,” Trump tweeted. “So Ridiculous!” [Read More]
Political Powerlessness Is Expensive (Tablet Magazine)
Ilhan Omar is both a canny political operator and a con artist who specializes in gutter smears. And thus there is no question about who won the fight she picked with Nancy Pelosi and Democratic congressional leadership, desperate to sweep the party’s anti-Semitism problem under the rug.
Speaking live on CNN before the introduction of a resolution that was originally intended to condemn anti-Semitism, and indirectly Omar, but wound up condemning “all forms of hate,” Pelosi looked like a deer caught in the headlights, stuck between one of the Democrats’ traditional constituencies and the party’s insurgent progressive base. [Read More]
CNN iReport Was Source for Unverified Claims in Russia ‘Dossier’: Report (Breitbart)
Christopher Steele, the former British spy who created the anti-Donald Trump Russia “dossier,” used unverified information he found on a CNN website where users generated their own content, he told a court last year.
Fox News reported Saturday that Steele, testifying in a defamation lawsuit filed by Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev last year, said that he obtained information about one of Gubarev’s companies on “something called CNN iReport.” (The lawsuit was dismissed in December.) [Read More]
When Jaim Foster began teaching nearly two decades ago in Nebraska, he said he was discouraged from being an openly gay educator. He had championed LGBT causes at his liberal arts college but suddenly found himself switching pronouns when telling students about his boyfriends.
“I was told I had to stop being that advocate, and I had to go back into the closet because it wasn’t really safe,” the teacher recalled. “You could be fired.” [Read More]
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