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‘There’s a lot more there’: Mueller ups the stakes in Trump-Russia inquiry

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Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were indicted on financial charges, but George Papadopoulos was the surprise as the Russia inquiry enveloped the capital

For a moment in court, the mask slipped. Paul Manafort glanced at his lawyer and smirked, like a TV mafia boss with reasons to be confident. It was the look of a man who, after decades of work as a lobbyist for murderous dictators in Africa and Asia, was not about to be rattled by the prospect of house arrest.

But less than a mile away, another man displayed rather less equanimity. Donald Trump woke before dawn on Monday and, instead of heading to the Oval Office, lingered in the White House residence. “Trump clicked on the television and spent the morning playing fuming media critic, legal analyst and crisis communications strategist, according to several people close to him,” the Washington Post reported.

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Billionaire Joe Ricketts vaporizes DCist and its related network of local news sites

They were good news sources – he is just an anti-union a-hole – has nothing to do with any business model other than not wanting to honor labor law and his employees. m398301*100xx1368-1371-17-0.jpgThe billionaire owner of DNAinfo, Gothamist and its affiliates, including DCist, abruptly shut down the network of local news sites at 5 p.m. Thursday, citing a business model he said could not support the product.

All traffic to DCist, Gothamist and its sister sites in Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere redirected Thursday afternoon to a statement from Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD AmeriTrade and DNAinfo, who had acquired Gothamist only a handful of months ago. The sites’ collective archives…

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Far Right ‘Journalist’ Banned From Uber & Lyft After Making Racist Tweets About Muslims

grin – more guts than twitter. Far Right 'Journalist' Banned From Uber & Lyft After Making Racist Tweets About Muslims

In the aftermath of Tuesday’s terror attack on the Hudson River Greenway bike path, city officials preached tolerance and unity. But, of course, white supremacist trolls gonna troll, and one far-right activist trolled so hard she got herself kicked off Uber and Lyft for targeting Muslim drivers in her tweets. Sad! [ more › ]