Feds Release New Guidelines To Bolster Social Media Security After CENTCOM...
The guidelines call for agencies to integrate security systems built in to many social media networks, like two-step verification for logins, on all their accounts. WASHINGTON — New government social...
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Sen. Al Franken Sent A New Letter To Uber Calling For Better Answers On Its...
Sen. Al Franken is following up on quesitons he felt were unanswered in Uber’s first letter. “I was—and still am—concerned about the lack of detail in the response.” Beck Diefenbach / Reuters...
View ArticleAfter Blizzard Misses NYC, De Blasio Pokes Fun At Himself By Reading Onion...
The mayor read fictional quotes of himself predicting the dire effects of the storm. w.soundcloud.com The article included fictional de Blasio quotes, and warned that "the furious hoarfrost bearing...
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Some In Pro-Israel Lobby Argue Democrat's Hesitation Will Benefit Sanctions Bill
Sen. Bob Menendez said Tuesday he wouldn’t support a vote on his own co-authored bill before the March negotiation deadline. Gary Cameron / Reuters WASHINGTON — After Senate Democrats made it clear on...
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Democratic Bill: Limit War Against ISIS To Three Years With No U.S. Combat...
“There is no doubt that our current offensive amounts to war, and Congress should take action both to authorize its prosecution and to set limits on that authorization,” Rep. Adam Schiff tells...
View ArticleHow To Name A Super PAC
Some of these are real political action committees through which people raise millions and millions of dollars for politicians. Most of them are not. Reclaim America PAC Restore Our Future PAC Salvage...
View ArticleMike Huckabee: I Wasn't Talking About Fox News When I Called Women "Trashy"...
“The reporters who took those headlines and made those stories up made ‘em up out of thin air. It’s an outright lie.” w.soundcloud.com Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, a potential Republican presidential...
View ArticleLoretta Lynch: Undocumented Immigrants Could Still Face Deportation Under...
“I didn’t see anything in the opinion that prevented action being take [against] individuals who might otherwise qualify” for deferred deportation, Lynch says. View Video › WASHINGTON — Undocumented...
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Bobby Jindal's Super PAC Makes Its 2016 Pitch To Donors
Letter obtained by BuzzFeed News presents the Louisiana governor to Republican donor class as a “once-in-a-lifetime leader.” No mention of his recent criticism of Islam, though. Bobby Jindal speaks at...
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Supreme Court Halts Next Three Oklahoma Executions During Court Case
The court ordered the state to postpone the executions until a legal challenge involving the use of a contested sedative in the lethal injection process is resolved. The execution chamber at the...
View ArticleObama's Attorney General Pick Doesn't Agree With Him That Pot Isn't Dangerous
Loretta Lynch tells the Senate, “I certainly don’t hold that view and don’t agree with that view of marijuana.” View Video › WASHINGTON — President Obama's pick to be the next Attorney General of the...
View ArticleScott Walker On 2016: I'd Rather Be "Bland" Than "Dumb, Ignorant, Corrupt......
“I’d rather have bland and uncharismatic than dumb or ignorant or corrupt or any of the other things they would label other would-be candidates out there — or old for that matter.” w.soundcloud.com...
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Sorry, Conservatives: Republican Leadership Isn't Going To Block Loretta Lynch
A senior aide tells BuzzFeed News that if Obama’s attorney general pick passes a committee vote (which seems likely), Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will not stop a full Senate vote — despite calls...
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Scott Walker's "Our American Revival" PAC Uses Foreign Stock Videos In Debut Ad
“America stands on the brink.” Republican Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday the creation of a political action committee to help him raise money as he mulls a presidential run. The PAC, "Our...
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White House: The Federal Government Still Opposes Legalizing Marijuana
“The Federal Government opposes drug legalization because it runs counter to a public health and safety approach to drug policy,” a White House official tells BuzzFeed News after Loretta Lynch...
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Plenty Of Innuendo, But No Hard Evidence Of New Clinton Sex Scandal
Much-discussed documents in Jeffrey Epstein affair don’t live up to the hype. Carlo Allegri / Reuters Over roughly the past month, coverage of Bill Clinton's travels with financier and convicted sex...
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Top Democrat On Benghazi Committee: Gowdy Knew Hillary Clinton Would Testify...
Things are getting heated. UPDATE: This post has been updated with Gowdy’s response letter. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters WASHINGTON — The top ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Benghazi...
View ArticleDavid Duke Says He Might Run For Congress Against "Sell Out" Steve Scalise
“He elected supposedly David Duke without the baggage but he is not David Duke, he’s certainly—he’s basically, condemning the people of his district who voted overwhelmingly for me to be their US...
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Senate Democrats Leave Door Open To Skip Netanyahu Speech
Only one senator asked by BuzzFeed News — Sen. Ben Cardin — said he’d definitely go. ASSOCIATED PRESS Susan Walsh WASHINGTON — When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session...
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Top Congressmen: Turkey Must Do More To Stop ISIS Fighters Moving Into Europe
“This is a war. And they certainly aren’t treating it that way.” ISIS fighters have been leaving Iraq and Syria and passing through Turkey into Europe, BuzzFeed News reported Thursday. French citizen...
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