Tag: Latvia

Today in 5 Lines President Trump continued his tirade against Amazon, tweeting that the company is costing taxpayers “many billions of dollars” through subsidized rates at the U.S. Post Office. During a meeting with the heads of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Trump claimed “nobody has been tougher on Russia” than he has, and said he planned to have the military guard the U.S.-Mexico border until a wall is built and security is tightened. Seventeen states and seven cities are suing the Census Bureau and Commerce Department in an attempt to remove a new citizenship question from the 2020 Census questionnaire. San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said at least four people have been transferred to the hospital with gunshot-related injuries after a shooting at YouTube’s headquarters. The two candidates are Rebecca Dallet, a center-left former prosecutor and circuit court judge, and Michael Screnock, a lawyer and former conservative activist. The race has received national attention as another test of the nation’s mood heading into the midterms. If Dallet wins, it would change the ideological balance of the state’s Supreme Court to four conservatives and three liberals. : Special Counsel Robert Mueller has so far been silent about the hacking of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta—and that’s notable. : Fifty years after the Holy Week Uprising following King’s assassination, American cities remain segregated, and extreme poverty is rising. (David French, National Review) Did Fake News Actually Sway Voters to Vote Against Clinton?