Author: Freedom Watch

Lagoa’s Role in Florida Could Be a Factor in Trump’s Supreme Court Pick By Patricia Mazzei and Adam Liptak New York Times September 22, 2020 MIAMI — As a young associate in a prestigious Miami law firm, Barbara Lagoa took on an unusual pro bono case, one without a supervising partner and against a formidable adversary: the Clinton administration. Ms. Lagoa represented a relative of a 5-year-old boy found off the Florida coast after his mother had drowned trying to cross over from Cuba. His name was Eli����n Gonz����lez. Federal agents would eventually seize Eli����n and return him…

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Bob Woodward on Trump’s pandemic response: ‘In covering nine presidents, I’ve never seen anything like it’ By Kate Sullivan CNN September 22, 2020 Washington (CNN)Journalist Bob Woodward on Tuesday said in all of his years reporting on nine different presidents, he has “never seen anything like” President Donald Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic. “Two hundred thousand Americans dying. I think in covering nine presidents, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Woodward told Jeff Zucker, the chairman of WarnerMedia News and Sports, at the Citizen by CNN 2020 conference. “The visitation of the medical nightmare on the American population…

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Il Forno cuts ties with Duke: ‘We only serve top 10’ The Chronicle September 22, 2020 Our breadsticks are for smart children. Not you.” The writing is on the wall. Il Forno will soon part ways with Duke. Too good for us, It will lift off and ascend far, far away, like E.T. at the end of the film E.T. (spoilers for the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film E.T.). And maybe we deserve it. After all, the number of chairs and tables in West Union has reduced significantly since last year, likely a byproduct of budget cuts due to…

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Vermont grocery store worker fired after apprehending purse snatcher New York Post September 21, 2020 This good Samaritan stopped a thief from stealing a woman’s purse, and his reward was losing his job. A Vermont grocery store worker nabbed a purse snatcher — and was fired for his efforts. Amir Shedyak, 20, who worked at the Hannaford supermarket in his hometown of Essex for four years, and was even an employee of the month, was canned after a heroic act in August. As he was starting his shift, a man approached him and told him a woman had…

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Joe Biden mistakenly says 200 million people have died from COVID-19 in US New York Post September 21, 2020 Joe Biden said during a campaign speech in Philadelphia that about 200 million people have died of the coronavirus in the US — or nearly two-thirds of the population — though the number is just shy of 200,000. “If Donald Trump has his way, the complications from COVID-19, which are well beyond what they should be — it’s estimated that 200 million people have died — probably by the time I finish this talk,” the Democratic presidential nominee said…

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Iran vows ‘hit’ on all involved in US killing of top general AP NEWS September 20, 2020 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The chief of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Saturday to go after everyone who had a role in a top general’s January killing during a U.S. drone strike in Iraq. The guard’s website quoted Gen. Hossein Salami as saying, “Mr. Trump! Our revenge for martyrdom of our great general is obvious, serious and real.” U.S. President Donald Trump warned this week that Washington would harshly respond to any Iranian attempts to take revenge for the death of…

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Cartoon Journalist Asks Joe Arpaio If People Will S**t On His Grave By David Moye HuffPost September 19, 2020 Joe Arpaio may have just had the crappiest interview in his career, thanks to some animated “journalists.” The controversial former Arizona sheriff appeared on “Tooning Out the News,” a satirical CBS All Access series that features cartoon “journalists” interviewing real-life newsmakers. Anyone expecting the animated anchors to throw softball questions at Arpaio were in for a shock. A third of the segment detailed a long list of what the show called Arpaio’s “atrocities,” and the first question didn’t take…

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