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As several Obama-era officials return to the White House under President Joe Biden, their reunion comes with fuller pockets and deeper ties to corporate interests, new financial disclosure reports show. According to ABC News' analysis of the most recent disclosure reports, many of Biden's top White House officials, including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, and coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients, have substantially multiplied their wealth over the past few years. Rice, who is among the wealthiest members of the Biden White House team, dramatically increased her wealth since...

There are "significant differences" between former President Richard Nixon's impeachment process and President Donald Trump's, according to journalist Tom Brokaw, including how the two leaders handled difficult times in office. "Nixon was always aware of being presidential," Brokaw told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday night. "Trump plays from the gutter frankly." Last week, the House of Representatives voted along party lines to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstructing Congress. Trump has maintained his innocence since the inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine was launched in September, calling the process a "witch hunt," and his supporters, including Republican legislators,...

uesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Ron Reagan, Jr., son of former President Ronald Reagan, said President Donald Trump is an “imbecilic sociopath.” Reagan said, “You asked a few minutes ago if there was any other president we could remember would say anything like this about a fellow American citizen, and the answer is no, not publicly. If the last two years taught us anything, it’s that Donald Trump does not appreciate or grasp the grandeur and the dignity of the office he holds. And you are quite right if they are good people they grow into to the extent that they...

Comedian Michelle Wolf on Sunday compared President Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump to herpes during a segment on her Netflix show. Wolf also compared Ivanka to vaginal mesh, an implant used to treat pelvic organ prolapse that has recently come under fire for causing significant medical complications. “Ivanka, you’re like vaginal mesh,” Wolf said in a segment about how to insult Trump administration officials in public. “You were supposed to support women but now you have blood all over you and you’re at the center of a dozen lawsuits.” Wolf's remarks are just the latest inflammatory comments from a...

Donald Trump’s campaign says a British man is countering claims that the GOP presidential nominee groped a woman on a cross-country flight more than three decades ago.The man says he was sitting across from the accuser and contacted the Trump campaign because he was incensed by her account — which is at odds with what he witnessed.“I have only met this accuser once and frankly cannot imagine why she is seeking to make out that Trump made sexual advances on her. Not only did he not do so (and I was present at all times) but it was she that was...

A company in Shanghai which collects "gutter" oil. (Photo/Xinhua) Joincare Pharmaceutical Group, which is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, has been accused of using recycled waste cooking oil as an ingredient in antibiotics, reports the Shanghai Securities News. Citing the indictment filed by prosecutors with the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang province, the newspaper said Joincare was the largest user of the "gutter" oil produced by Gelin Biology Company in Jinan, Shandong province. Gutter oil refers to waste oil collected from restaurants and illegally reused. The prosecutors said Gelin sold its gutter oil to a company called...

The brand new Romney-Ryan ticket experienced quite a Sunday -- addressing packed rallies in North Carolina, sitting down for a joint interview on 60 Minutes, then wrapping up in Wisconsin for an humongous homecoming rally for Paul Ryan. Official estimates pegged the crowd at roughly 13,000 in Waukesha. This is what enthusiasm looks like: (picture at link)Ryan got the crowd energized with a sentimental ode to the state that he and his family have called home for generations. He wiped away tears of emotion as the Badger State audience showered him with cheers. After ceding the microphone to Mitt Romney,...

One of the principal beneficiaries of the Arab uprisings has been Al Jazeera television. Viewers are praising the English and Arabic channels' comprehensive coverage of the revolts while the Obama administration continues to court the network as part of its signature foreign policy goal of improving ties with the Arab and Muslim worlds. On August 1, 2011, Al Jazeera English (AJE) began broadcasting to two million cable subscribers in New York—the third major U.S. city to carry the station after Houston and Washington, D.C.[1] AJE's gutsy, driven reporting—one commentator aptly commended its "hustle"[2]—has won it friends in high places: Secretary...

On June 7, 1995, the Washington Times printed a letter to the editor from a man named Thomas Colton Ruthford in which he described the Nazis and how Hitler came to power and then abused that power. In light of current events, this letter could be quite chilling. There are those who say that "Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it," but I would like to modify that and say that, "The only lesson we learn from history is that we don't learn from history." Gary ****************************** **** Letter to the Editor 6/7/95 - Arlington,...

The common rat is very adept at dodging and evading, and it took the combined efforts of MSNBC’s Tim Russert and Senator Hillary Clinton to corner a two-legged rodent named Barack Obama long enough to get him to use the word “reject” in conjunction with the endorsement of the prominent racist, anti-Semite, and Catholic-hater Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Transcript of recent Democratic debate in Ohio (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/politics/26text-debate.html?pagewanted=19&_r=2&bl&ei=5087&en=0667d0ff53b714a8&ex=1204261200&adxnnlx=1204122265-9mtE1lD3c1IvYZ00LZq%20zw). Note how Obama equivocates over Farrakhan’s endorsement until backed into a corner. ...As much as we dislike Hillary Clinton, it is obvious that she knows what it means to “reject” the...

U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) listens to testimony of U.S. Army General David Petraeus, the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the state of the war in Iraq on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 11, 2007. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES)

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.— A man charged with murder after shooting and killing a suspected burglar last year was released after prosecutors did not request bail. Charles Chieppa, 57, pleaded innocent to second degree murder Friday in New Bedford Superior Court. Family members of the slain man, Frank Pereira Jr., 24, said Chieppa should not have been allowed to go free. "We have wanted to see him in jail since the day it happened," Pereira's sister, Missy Cimbron, told The Standard Times of New Bedford. "A life was taken. Regardless of the situation, you should be in jail." Cimbron said the...

Bush's Ohio Valley Why has he stopped campaigning here? By Chris Suellentrop Posted Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, at 1:37 PM PT Could he win without Ohio? Maybe. COLUMBUS, Ohio—White House press secretary Scott McClellan wandered into the press cabin on Air Force One this week to let the media know where President Bush would be campaigning. On Thursday, Pennsylvania. On Friday, Pennsylvania and Florida. On Saturday, Florida. Those are two of the presidential campaign's "Big Three" states, which nearly everyone assumes will decide the election. The glaring omission: Ohio. "Why aren't we going to Ohio? The president hasn't been there...

Democratic Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday that former President Clinton may be hitting the trail to campaign for him in the final two weeks before Election Day. Clinton has spent the last six weeks recovering from heart surgery, with his doctors instructing him to get plenty of rest. Kerry campaign officials have eagerly awaited word whether Clinton could get out to personally encourage voters to support the Democratic presidential nominee. Kerry told a Pennsylvania TV station that Clinton may come help him in the state where polls showed the Democrat tied with President Bush. "I think it's possible in the...