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We are starting to get more details on what occurred during the FBI’s nearly 10-hour raid of Donald Trump’s home in Florida, though, it’s not the government that’s providing them. On Tuesday evening, Trump’s lawyer revealed that authorities didn’t even want to present a warrant, and when they finally did, the warrant had the probable cause sealed.As to what was seized, the list is illuminating, and not in a good way for the FBI’s conduct. According to a report from The Washington Post, citing information leaked to them by the government (which says a lot on its own), the boxes...

Kristan Hawkins, mother, podcaster, and president of Students for Life of America, says that she and her family are saying goodbye to Disney World and all it entails. What are the details? In a fiery op-ed for Fox News, Hawkins said that she's heartbroken over what she describes as Disney's "more progressive" slant. "Upon watching its newest movie with Pixar entitled 'Turning Red,' it’s clear that the clock has finally struck midnight for Disney’s era of whimsical fairy tales with moral lessons," she wrote. "Gone are the innocent days of 'bibbity-bobbity-boo;' Disney has now transformed into a political propaganda machine...

Amid a standoff over actions to potentially remove President Trump from office, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told colleagues she phoned the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss 'precautions' to prevent Trump from starting a war or accessing nuclear launch codes. Pelosi released the letter just minutes before House Democrats were to meet to discuss whether to go ahead with a second impeachment of Trump, after he egged on his supporters in their march to the Capitol that led to a riot and multiple deaths – including of a Capitol Police officer. She headed her comment: 'Preventing an...

Resist Obama/Reid's nomination power playBy Rick Manning - 03/14/12 03:56 PM ET Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) nomination power play under the guise of a created emergency on the federal bench is both absurd and dangerous. The truth is that Reid is setting up a constitutional crisis over the Easter congressional district work period allowing President Obama to “recess”-appoint a bevy of judges and others without the advice and consent of the Senate. The Constitution does not require that the Senate approve the president’s choices for the judiciary, and in fact, the Senate is supposed to be anything but...

<p>LOS ANGELES — A Southern California Republican Party official was under fire yesterday after allegations she sent an email that included an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape.</p> <p>An email reportedly sent by party central committee member Marilyn Davenport shows an image, posed like a family portrait, of chimpanzee parents and child, with Obama's face artificially superimposed on the child. Text beneath the photo reads, "Now you know why no birth certificate."</p>

LOS ANGELES – A Southern California Republican Party official was under fire Saturday after allegations she sent an email that included an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape. An e-mail reportedly sent by party central committee member Marilyn Davenport shows an image, posed like a family portrait, of chimpanzee parents and child, with Obama's face artificially superimposed on the child. Text beneath the photo reads, "Now you know why no birth certificate." Davenport, when reached by The Associated Press, said she would provide a written statement with her response, but several hours later she had not issued...

A member of the Tea Party has sent a racist email with a picture of Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees, it has been revealed. The email sent by Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party, was titled: 'Now you know why - no birth certificate.' The attached picture showed a mocked-up photo of the President as a baby chimpanzee being held by his so-called parents - also chimps in human clothing. Racist: The email, which included a picture of the Obama family as chimps, was...

Even as Californians head to the polls to decide Tuesday whether cities will need two-thirds voter approval to get into the public power business, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission is scrambling to unveil its own green energy proposal. Commission staffers are trying to work out a deal by Tuesday with Power Choice LLC, the consortium the PUC selected to deliver green power. Even if they succeed, one thing is becoming clear, those close to the talks tell us - customers will be paying considerably more than what they fork over now to PG&E. The Board of Supervisors has threatened to...

A senior executive for Microsoft has said the firm could pull out of non-democratic countries such as China. Fred Tipson, senior policy counsel for the computer giant, said concerns over the repressive regime might force it to reconsider its business in China. "Things are getting bad... and perhaps we have to look again at our presence there," he told a conference in Athens. "We have to decide if the persecuting of bloggers reaches a point that it's unacceptable to do business there." "We try to define those levels and the trends are not good there at the moment. It's...

Seven people who usually devote their public service hours to the stolid realities of electricity were drawn Thursday morning into a passionate exploration of beauty, poverty and class. Should one neighborhood, peopled with articulate and well-off homeowners, have a proposed power line rerouted when equally unsightly lines brand other neighborhoods? The answer, for four of the seven directors of Sacramento Municipal Utility District, was "yes, but ... ." They argued the debate was not really about poverty at all, only about using good judgment and being responsive to the community. The suggestion that affluence had anything to do with Thursday's...

<p>"TIME" magazine's Michael Ware is one of the few western journalists to have met with insurgents in Iraq. He wrote about his experiences in the current edition of "TIME" magazine. Michael is the winner of numerous journalistic awards, including the Magazine Publisher Association's prestigious "journalist of the year" in 2001. Michael joins me now from Baghdad. Michael thank you being here.</p>