LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned in 2011 over an earlier sexting scandal, will plead guilty Friday to charges of transferring obscene material to a minor, said USA Today. The former Democrat Congressman from New York will appear in a federal courtroom in Manhattan to enter a guilty plea under an agreement with federal…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Veteran journalist Bob Woodward said Friday the media’s eagerness to fight President Donald Trump is getting in the way of good journalism. Too many members of the press are “binge drinking the anti-Trump Kool-Aid,” he said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “Stick to the reporting,” he said, adding: “One of the realities…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The Austin City Council voted Thursday to counter sue the state of Texas over a recently enacted ban of sanctuary cities, setting up a legal fight that could expand to include other cities. By a 10 to 1 vote, the council approved legal action against Senate Bill 4…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr The National Rifle Association is suing the state of California over a law restricting magazine capacity to 10 bullets or less the organization argues is an unconstitutional limitation. The NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) and the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA) are spearheading the lawsuit, the second launched…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley BuzzFeed and reporter Jason Leopold are suing half a dozen federal agencies for access to government records concerning President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter. Should the suit succeed, the records could provide definitive answers to the wide range of allegations that the president has made through his…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday he never thought Hillary Clinton was a “great candidate,” and wasn’t the best person to take on Donald Trump. “I never thought she was a great candidate,” he said at the SALT hedge fund conference in Las Vegas. “I thought I…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Swedish prosecutors have dropped their preliminary investigation into an allegation of rape against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, bringing an end to a seven-year legal standoff, reports the Guardian. “At this point, all possibilities to conduct the investigation are exhausted,” said Sweden’s director of public prosecutions, Marianne…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Claiming to be primed for civil war, a Venezuelan general issued orders to prepare for the future use of snipers against anti-government protesters, according to a secret recording of a regional command meeting held three weeks ago at a military base in the northwestern Venezuelan city of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Richard Pollock Federal prosecutors slapped a multi-billion dollar Medicare fraud charge against United Health Group (UHG) and a key subsidiary President Barack Obama’s former top insurance official once headed, according to an investigation by The Daily Caller News Foundation. It was the third time health fraud charges have been…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch U.S. intelligence overheard a Russian operative brag about targeting Hillary Clinton in the upcoming 2016 presidential election as payback for an “influence campaign” the former secretary of state ran against Vladimir Putin five years earlier. Senior intelligence officials told Time that a Russian military intelligence officer with…