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Biden appeals for policing legislation after meeting with family of George Floyd Felicia Sonmez, Eugene Scott, Colby Itkowitz, John Wagner © Oliver Contreras/Bloomberg President Biden speaks while visiting the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington on Monday. President Biden issued a plea for policing legislation Tuesday after meeting privately at the White House with family members of George Floyd on the first anniversary of his death in the custody...

Last Call for 5.13.21 — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics Last Call — A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics. First Shot Top Republicans in the Senate are planning a post-Special Session fishing trip, and donors are welcome to join. Senate President Wilton Simpson and Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, who is set to succeed him, will host a Key West fishing fundraiser May 25-27. The agenda includes a VIP dinner on May 25, welcome receptio...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 5.14.21 Another poll found Florida voters largely support the Gaming Compact recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Seminole Tribe of Florida Chairman Marcellus Osceola Jr. The poll, commissioned by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, found 68% of voters approve of the deal, which would give the Seminole Tribe exclusive rights to oversee sports betting in Florida, both on their own properties and through pari-mutuels...

Yes, Trump Officials Spied On Reporters. But Every President Abuses The Press President Richard Nixon held his first news conference as the countrys chief executive on Jan. 27, 1969 in Washington. ASSOCIATED PRESS / AP The revelation last week that the Trump Justice Department had spied on three Washington Post reporters’ phone records barely caused a stir. But as much as I’d like to think that such behavior would shock the conscience, I can understand why the story failed to resonat...

Published May 11, 2021 at 1:25 PM CDT Views of the News logo NBC says it won’t broadcast the Golden Globe Awards in 2022, responding to on-going controversies surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Is another network likely to pick it up, or could this be the beginning of the end for the annual awards event? Also, the Justice Department seizure of reporters’ telephone and email records, a new executive editor at the Washington Post, and Facebook’s latest attempt to...

The Trump administration spied on journalists. The Biden administration defended it. On Friday, Devlin Barrett, a reporter at the New Yorker). The records in question covered a period between April and July 2017, during which time Nakashima, Miller, and Entous collaborated on storiesabout Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Justice Department only notified the reporters of its actions last week; it said that it also obtained a court order to get their email records, but did not foll...

In new financial disclosure, Trump reports apparent payment through his personal attorney to adult-film star In new financial disclosure, Trump reports apparent payment through his personal attorney to adult-film starby wpjljron Wednesday, May 16th, 2018.In new financial disclosure, Trump reports apparent payment through his personal attorney to adult-film starIn new financial disclosure documents, President Trump reported reimbursing his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for an expenditure ove...

Trumps DOJ snooped on reporters at the Washington Post Duration: 04:15 Washington post reporter Devlin Barrett discusses his reporting about how the Trump-era Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of three Post journalists. "This is a thing that happens regardless of who is in power," he notes, as a "culture of leak hunting" has been "growing inside the government for a long period of time."

Theres a new bombshell report on the actions by the Justice Department under Donald Trump. "The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russias role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials," Devlin Barrett reported on Friday for The Washington Post. "In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Pos...

Sources say letting Greene keep committee assignments while ousting Cheney from leadership would have looked bad.