Jon Queally

FBI Director: The Only Reason Assange Not ‘Apprehended Yet’: He’s Out of Reach

« Who wants the FBI and CIA directors to be the arbiters of what is and is not real ‘journalism’? »

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Par Jon Queally
FBI Director James Comey pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, FBI director James Comey said that while he wouldn't "confirm whether or not there are charges" pending against the WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, the reason he "hasn't been apprehended is because he's inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London." While speculation has

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White House Confirms Plans To Rewrite Libel Laws To Target Press

Effort to rewrite libel laws, says press secretary, ‘is being looked into substantively and logistically’

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Par Jon Queally
White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)

White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed Monday that the Trump administration is actively—and in his words "substantively"—reviewing the nation's libel laws as it explores ways it could more easily sidestep First Amendment protections and target press coverage or news stories it deems objectionable. On Sunday morning, White House chief

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‘Beyond a Red Line’: Trump Might Just Launch Surprise Attack on Syria

Despite no hard evidence yet about who is behind horrific chemical-related massacre, president indicates he will just do whatever he wants.

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Par Jon Queally

Does President Donald Trump assume his administration can just launch a surprise, unilateral military attack against Syria? "I'm not saying I'm doing anything one way or another, but I'm certainly not going to be telling you." —President Donald Trump. The clear impression he left during a Wednesday afternoon press conference at the White

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Civilian Casualities Surging Under Trump

‘In short,’ says one analyst, ‘Trump has been demanding that the US military consider dropping many of the restrictions which help protect civilian lives on the battlefield.’

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Par Jon Queally
Residents carry the body of several people killed in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, March 24, 2017. Residents of the Iraqi city's neighborhood known as Mosul Jidideh at the scene say that scores of residents are believed to have been killed by airstrikes that hit a cluster of homes in the area. (AP/Felipe Dana)

The carnage continues. And appears to be growing. With the war that President George W. Bush started and that President Barack Obama failed to end now in the hands of President Donald Trump, global outrage and condemnation was expressed over the weekend as details emerged over a U.S. bombing in Iraq that may have killed 200 or more innocent

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Survey: Majority Of Americans Increasingly Stressed About The Country’s Future

Survey finds ‘stunning’ level of anxiety is being caused by nation’s political climate and prospects for the future.

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Par Jon Queally
A man dressed in red-white-and-blue sits on the curb during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

(REPORT) --- Americans have been taking to the streets in record numbers since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, but amid that uptick in resistance something else has been rising within the nation's electorate: personal anxiety and stress caused by the nation's new political reality. According to a new survey by the American

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Bernie Sanders: Trump ‘Is a Fraud’ Sending Nation In ‘Authoritarian Direction’

« I don’t mean to be disrespectful… but this guy’s a fraud. »

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Par Jon Queally
Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

(REPORT) --- "I don't mean to be disrespectful," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning, "but this guy's a fraud." The immediate reference was to a meeting President Donald Trump held with Wall Street executives on Friday in which he vowed—in what Common Dreams reported as a "spectacular betrayal"—to repeal key

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Public Outrage, Not Trump’s Tepid Rebuke, Upends GOP Attack On Ethics Panel

Trump wasn’t against gutting the independent congressional watchdog, point out critics, just the « timing » of the move.

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Par Jon Queally
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. discusses the move by House Republicans to eviscerate the independent Office of Government Ethics, during a network television interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

(ANALYSIS) --- Following an overnight public relations disaster that followed a Republican Party vote to eviscerate the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, GOP lawmakers made an abrupt u-turn on Tuesday by withdrawing the reform proposal before a final vote on a package of rules that will guide the new legislative session. In the wake of

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