Wall Street Journal – by Peter Nicholas and Colleen McCain Nelson

WASHINGTON—Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that she is closing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information while she was secretary of state, officially ending the yearlong legal drama that had threatened the presumptive Democratic nominee’s bid for the presidency.

The nation’s top law-enforcement official said in a statement that she had met with Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and the career prosecutors and agents who had investigated Mrs. Clinton’s use of a personal email server while she was the State Department’s top official. “I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, yearlong investigation be closed and that no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation,” she said.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Closed by Attorney General”

Washington Post – by Dan Lamothe

A Marine Corps officer who has been locked in a legal battle with his service after self-reporting that he improperly disseminated classified information will use Hillary Clinton’s email case to fight his involuntary separation from the service, his lawyer said.

Maj. Jason Brezler’s case has been tied up in federal court since he sued the service in December 2014. He became a cause celebre among some members of Congress, Marine generals and military veterans after he sent a classified message using an unclassified Yahoo email account to warn fellow Marines in southern Afghanistan about a potentially corrupt Afghan police chief. A servant of that police official killed three Marines and severely wounded a fourth 17 days later, on Aug. 10, 2012, opening fire with a Kalashnikov rifle in an insider attack.   Continue reading “Marine’s defense for disseminating classified information will cite Hillary Clinton’s case”

Miami Herald – by Charles Rabin

There was an auction at Marlins Park on Wednesday. The items on the block weren’t high-priced baseball players but the finely tuned, spectacularly expensive automotive fleet of a notorious Miami drug kingpin.

By Wednesday morning, a shiny black 2006 Ferrari Enzo was likely on its way out of town, having already received a bid of more than $1.9 million. And the number was climbing.   Continue reading “Feds auction high-end cars seized from drug lord”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate, in an election-year standoff over immigration, has blocked two measures stemming from last year’s deadly San Francisco shooting involving an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally.

Absent sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration system, the first measure would have barred federal funds from sanctuary cities, jurisdictions that resist turning over immigrants to federal authorities. The second measure would have increased the maximum sentence for illegal re-entry into the country, with up to a 10-year penalty for an individual denied admission or deported at least three times.   Continue reading “Senate blocks 2 bills on immigration”

Yahoo News

Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, alleging that the network’s chairman and chief executive fired her after she refused to sleep with him.

According to the suit filed Wednesday in New Jersey Superior Court, Carlson alleges that she was terminated by Ailes on June 23 after she complained about a toxic workplace environment and “rebuffed his sexual advances.”   Continue reading “Gretchen Carlson files sexual harassment suit against Fox News chief Roger Ailes”

The Hill – by Scott Wong

Facing a conservative revolt, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday expressed confidence that anti-terrorism legislation would receive a vote on the House floor before Congress leaves town next week for the long summer recess.

“I think there is still a path forward …” Ryan said at a news conference after a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file Republicans. “Yes, we are [confident] because we feel this issue needs to be addressed.”   Continue reading “Speaker: Anti-terror bill will get vote”

CNBC

President Barack Obama said Wednesday the U.S. will keep 8,400 troops in Afghanistan through the end of the year.

“Maintaining our forces at this specific level, based on our assessment of security conditions and the strength of Afghan forces, will allow us to continue to provide tailored support to help Afghan forces continue to improve,” Obama said.   Continue reading “Obama says 8,400 US troops will remain in Afghanistan at the end of 2016”

Wall Street Journal – by JENNY GROSS and ALEXIS FLYNN

LONDON—A high-profile inquiry into the U.K.’s role in the Iraq war delivered a scathing account of the decision by the government under then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to join the invasion, saying the legal basis for doing so was “far from satisfactory.”

The long-awaited findings, published in a roughly 6,000-page report Wednesday, concluded that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed assessments of intelligence and that the seriousness of the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was presented with a certainty that wasn’t justified.   Continue reading “U.K.’s Long-Awaited Chilcot Report into Iraq War Criticizes Legal Basis for Invasion”

Yahoo News

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A retired police dog wandering a neighborhood attacked and dragged a man in Southern California after he gave the animal a bowl of water because he thought it looked thirsty, authorities said Tuesday.

The man’s family members were forced to stab the German shepherd with steak knives when the dog wouldn’t release the victim and dragged him from a front lawn into a street Sunday, John Welsh, spokesman for the Riverside County Animal Services Department, told The Associated Press.   Continue reading “Retired police dog attacks, drags man in California”

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Ecclesia – by Richard Anthony

Introduction

Words have a tremendous impact on us. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or evil. The basic tool for the manipulation of truth is the manipulation of words. If one can control the meaning of words, one can control the people who use those words. Likewise, the basic tool for the preservation of truth is the preservation of God’s words. If one understands the original meaning of God’s words, we can more easily recognize those who try to manipulate and control others through deception and the altering of the original definitions of words.   Continue reading “The Power of Words – The Words of His Kingdom and the Words of the World Compared”

ABC News

FBI Director James Comey said today that the agency is not recommending any charges be pressed against Hillary Clinton as a result of the investigation into her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey said.   Continue reading “FBI Recommends No Charges Should Be Filed Against Hillary Clinton”

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Antonius Aquinas

It has been theoretically demonstrated and seen in general practice that a monetary system of 100% metallic money devoid of central banking checks monetary inflation, prevents a general rise in the price level, and eliminates the dreaded business cycle while making all sorts of monetary mischief nearly impossible.  A gold standard is not only economically superior to any paper money scheme, but is morally just, which is why it is hated by the politically well-connected, academics, politicians, and the rest of the Establishment.   Continue reading “The Gold Standard: Friend of the Middle Class”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It is well known that the FBI still does not have roughly 30,000 emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her private server due to Clinton categorizing them as personal and not work related. We have also reported that Russia may be in possession of those emails, and according to Judge Andrew Napolitano, there is a debate going on in the Kremlin about whether or not to release them.   Continue reading “Senator Admits The FBI Is “About To Ask Putin For His Copies Of Hillary’s Emails””

Fox News

HARTFORD, Conn. –  A Connecticut father and son are headed for a court showdown with the Federal Aviation Administration over whether the agency can force them to disclose information about drones shown in two YouTube videos firing a gun and deploying a flame thrower in their backyard.

Austin Haughwout, 19, of Clinton, and his father, Bret Haughwout, are refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the U.S. attorney’s office on behalf of the FAA, saying the subpoenas violate their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and questioning the agency’s authority to regulate recreational drones.   Continue reading “Dad, son fight FAA over gun-firing, flame-throwing drones”

AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say an off-duty New York City police officer fatally shot a man after being attacked during a road rage incident.

It happened early Monday morning in Brooklyn.

Police said the officer was driving his personal vehicle in the East New York neighborhood when he was involved in a traffic dispute with a 37-year-old man in another car.   Continue reading “Off-duty NYC cop fatally shoots man after traffic dispute”

Yahoo News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Bank of Israel bought “hundreds of millions” of dollars of foreign currency on Monday, dealers said, after the shekel (ILS=) continued to strengthen for a fifth straight session.

One dealer at an Israeli bank said the central bank started buying at a dollar-shekel rate of around 3.84. The exchange rate, which quickly moved to 3.85, had weakened to 3.90 on June 27 in the wake of the Brexit vote.    Continue reading “Bank of Israel buying ‘hundreds of millions’ of dollars: sources”

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Fox News

The long-awaited House committee report on the 2012 Benghazi attacks revealed a striking irony: In the end, the forces that came to evacuate State Department and CIA officers that night were not fellow Americans, but a secret unit of former military officers from the Qaddafi regime that Washington – and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – had helped overthrow.    Continue reading “Americans at Benghazi post were rescued by Qaddafi officer militia, report reveals”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

An armed grandma who confronted three suspects in her home said, “I decided that it’s either them or me.”

The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon in Boynton Beach, Florida.

According to CBS 12, a suspect began “banging” on the grandma’s door and ringing her doorbell around 12:45 pm. Through the peephole she saw the suspect leave and return with “a T-shirt over his head” and she noticed he was “putting on gloves.”   Continue reading “Armed Grandma Who Foiled Invasion: ‘I Decided That It’s Either Them or Me’”

Reuters

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, under mounting pressure to advance gun-control legislation, will vote next week on a measure to keep guns out of the hands of people on government terrorism watch lists.

Republican and gun lobby sources said the legislation, due to be introduced as part of a terrorism package, was likely to be a National Rifle Association-backed bill brought by Representative Lee Zeldin of New York as the companion to a Senate Republican measure from Senator John Cornyn of Texas.   Continue reading “House of Representatives reignites gun-control debate with planned vote”