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In November, Takieddine also took back his claim that he delivered suitcases carrying a total of five-million-euros ($6 million) from Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to Sarkozy’s chief of staff in 2006 and 2007, to help his successful presidential campaign. … [Read more...] about Claim That Kickbacks from Arms Deals Funded French Presidential Election Campaign Goes to Court

The closure has been ordered to ensure safety and security within the area of the National Special Security Event designated by the Department of Homeland Security for the 59th presidential inauguration, according to a statement from the National Park Service, which has been working with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office, Metropolitan Police Department and the United States Secret Service. … [Read more...] about Who’s attending Biden’s inauguration?

A couple of weeks ago, Joe Scarborough invited Paul Krugman onto his MSNBC show. The meeting of the brilliant but prickly Krugman with the dopey but genial Scarborough held the promise of a cataclysmic matter-touches-antimatter collision of an unpredictable and frightening scale. Instead, they passed right through each other. Krugman has been arguing for years that the political elite has been in the grips of a dangerous fallacy that immediate budget austerity is necessary and even helpful to economic growth, a fallacy, he points out, that has powerful adherents but flies in the face of actual economics. Scarborough attempted to discredit Krugman by pointing out that such figures as Admiral Michael Mullen, Council of Foreign Relations President Richard Haas, and former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles all disagree with him. It never seemed to occur to him that touting the support of influential noneconomists would confirm rather than refute Krugman’s analysis. … [Read more...] about Wow, Joe Scarborough Doesn’t Understand Economics at All

“Because it’s California, just about anything he did about immigration affected Californians,” said Bill Hing, a professor of law and migration studies at the University of San Francisco, where he directs the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic. “Things are going to get better (under Biden), but it’s not going to change overnight. Too much needs to be undone.” … [Read more...] about Five ways Trump changed California — including one that helped Democrats

The nation’s attention began to focus on the civil rights movement in the mid-1950s when a young black preacher, Martin Luther King, Jr., led the successful drive to desegregate public buses in Montgomery, Ala. King organized non-violent protests against southern segregation, the struggle for black equality and voting rights. On January 20, 2014, Americans pay tribute to King’s efforts.   Televised footage of violence against civil rights demonstrators sparked a wave of sympathetic public opinion.    “He taught us that our job was to redeem the soul of America from the triple evils of racism, war and poverty,” said Andrew Young, a civil rights activist who was a close friend of King.   By August 1963 the push for equality had grown significantly and 250,000 participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.   “When we arrived at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial there were just hundreds and thousands of people,” … [Read more...] about US Honors Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.