Chief Thomas Cummings, who oversees Long Island’s Southampton Village and its population of 3,307 people, raked in a total of $441,945.82 last year, but has an annual base salary of $263,829, according to the New York Post. Night differential pay, vacation, holiday pay, Medicare, retirement contributions, “Cleaning/Clothing/College,” and more all …
Read More »FBI roasted over Boulder shooting after report suggests suspect Alissa was known to intelligence officials
Ahmad Alissa, a 21-year-old man from Denver who went on a shooting rampage at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder on Monday evening, has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder. The mass shooting has caused an outcry, including calls for strict gun control and for a crackdown …
Read More »Cosmic shower: Locals report seeing bright ‘meteors’ in Britain, Cuba and US (VIDEOS)
A dashcam recorded a bright ball of light flying across the sky over the island of Jersey, a British territory in the English Channel. Around the same time, locals in the UK reported hearing a loud bang in the southwestern counties of Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and Somerset. The sound was …
Read More »US intel report claims Russia ‘probably’ tried to sway 2020 election (as well as Iran, Venezuela & Cuba… but not China)
A 15-page Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) released on Tuesday purported to review “foreign threats” to the last election, finding that most of the countries Washington has a grudge against – Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba – had acted in various ways to “influence” the outcome of the race. Prepared in …
Read More »Trump chastises WaPo for ‘hoax’ report after paper corrects story alleging ex-president pressured Georgia election official
The now-discredited story, published in January, alleged that Trump had instructed the state’s top elections investigator to “find the fraud” that led to Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory, and that she would be a “national hero” if she did. But on Monday, the paper issued a lengthy correction after an …
Read More »Another excuse to stay? Report on failures of US ‘gender programs’ in Afghanistan says they should continue anyway
“Support for gender equality: Lessons from the US experience in Afghanistan” was among the flurry of reports produced for the new administration and presented at the end of February by John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The 242-page volume goes over the entire history of US …
Read More »Biden’s business-as-usual with MBS after Khashoggi report proves any US admin puts a price tag on its principles
The United States government recently confirmed reports that the public had long identified as true: That Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, personally ordered the execution of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and US resident. While his government released the report, President Joe …
Read More »Twitter called out for ‘double standards’ after it singles out report on UK influence op in Russia with ‘hacked materials’ label
A story published late last week by Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal showed how major news agencies like Reuters and the BBC worked in secret with the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to cultivate a group of foreign reporters – many based in Russia and Russia’s near-abroad – to reliably promote …
Read More »‘Blacklist’ site asks people to report everyone who voted for Trump to ‘unmask’ them
“This is insane. The Founders are rolling over in their graves,” RealClearPolitics cofounder Tim Bevan tweeted on Tuesday, including a link to the site in a subsequent tweet. According to screenshots posted of the site, it is run by an anonymous and “diverse group of patriots and People of Color …
Read More »IAEA report confirms Iran’s 20 percent uranium enrichment, says no explanation given for undeclared nuclear particles
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also says that Iran has produced 17.6 kg of uranium enriched to the 20 percent level – as the country had already announced – matching its target of 10 kg a month, according to Reuters. Iran’s hardline-led parliament passed a bill …
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