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There's a new battle brewing between the White House and a hard-nosed member of the media. Brian Karem, a regular at the White House who writes for Playboy magazine, received a letter on Friday saying his "hard pass" will be suspended for 30 days starting Monday. The letter from press secretary Stephanie Grisham cited his conduct at President Trump's event with social media allies on July 11, when Karem had a heated exchange with pro-Trump radio host Sebastian Gorka. Grisham intended to keep the letter private, according to a source, but Karem chose to make it public in a tweet...

He (PDJT) did not take questions, which prompted some in the press corps, seated at the back because those attending the president’s social media summit were given prime seats at the front, to shout out questions per usual. Playboy’s Brian Karem was being especially vocal, prompting Dr. Sebastian Gorka, host of the radio show American First on Salem Radio Network and former Deputy Assistant to President Trump, to confront Karem calling him a “punk.” Everyone there captured the confrontation, which drew chants of “Gorka” from the social media summit attendees, with one person yelling that the former Trump official could...

What an ugly display. On Thursday, Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his much anticipated review on FBI and DOJ actions during the Hillary Clinton email investigation. But rather than discuss the findings from the report that reveal anti-Trump bias and corruption at the highest levels of the Department of Justice and FBI, the liberal White House reporters peppered Sarah Huckabee Sanders with questions on the Obama policy of splitting children of illegal aliens from adults. Liberals are determined to blame Trump for a policy that was on the books during the Obama years. At one point CNN political analyst Brian...

'Watermelon bomb' transporter gets 18 years Etgar Lefkovits Jun. 17, 2002 A Palestinian sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Jerusalem District Court yesterday for transporting a bomb stuffed in a watermelon last year in a failed terror attack, was also behind a thwarted plot to bomb a restaurant in Jerusalem's Ein Karem neighborhood, according to court papers released yesterday. Balal Odeh, 24, of east Jerusalem, a graduate of Bethlehem University, received the watermelon bomb last July 27 from an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Using his Jerusalem identity papers to travel freely into...