NEWS SUMMARY AT THIS HOUR-THURSDAY 9/20/2018
(UPDATES, EDITING AND EXPANSION UP THROUGH 815AM)
President Donald Trump is taking his "Make America Great Again" mid-term election tour to Las Vegas today. The President is banking on his personal popularity and persona to boost Republican candidates, even ones backed by those known for opposing his immigration policies like the "Cheap Labor Express" US Chamber of Commerce.
In Nevada's race for governor's there's a third force present with the candidacy of Ryan Bundy from the ranching family that has been fighting federal attempts to shut down their cattle business for nearly three decades since the days of Republican President George H.W. Bush.
The Bundy's supported Donald Trump for president with patriarch Cliven Bundy writing his endorsement from jail in 2016 as he was facing charges over the Bunkerville Standoff. Those charges were dismissed earlier this year because of prosecutorial misconduct.
But the federal prosecutors including Republican US Assistant Attorney Steve Myhre backed by the Republican US Attorney for Nevada appointed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions want the charges reinstated and they are appealing to the Ninth Circuit Court.
GOP candidate for governor Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who did not support the Bundy's in their struggle with the federal government, was in on the pre-rally conference call with the White House yesterday and is part of the rally featuring the President tonight.
In Nevada's race for governor's there's a third force present with the candidacy of Ryan Bundy from the ranching family that has been fighting federal attempts to shut down their cattle business for nearly three decades since the days of Republican President George H.W. Bush.
The Bundy's supported Donald Trump for president with patriarch Cliven Bundy writing his endorsement from jail in 2016 as he was facing charges over the Bunkerville Standoff. Those charges were dismissed earlier this year because of prosecutorial misconduct.
But the federal prosecutors including Republican US Assistant Attorney Steve Myhre backed by the Republican US Attorney for Nevada appointed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions want the charges reinstated and they are appealing to the Ninth Circuit Court.
GOP candidate for governor Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who did not support the Bundy's in their struggle with the federal government, was in on the pre-rally conference call with the White House yesterday and is part of the rally featuring the President tonight.
President Trump says: "I don't have an Attorney General". He made those comments in an interview with Hill.TV. He added that he is "very disappointed" with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The President also said that documents he ordered declassified will reveal that the FBI initiated a "hoax" that led to Robert Mueller's appointment as a Special Counsel to investigate allegations of Russian collusion.
An Israeli delegation is in Russia led by its air force chief to explain Israel's side of the Monday night incident in Syria that ended up with a Russian surveillance plane being shot down during an Israeli air attack. 15 Russian military personnel died.
Russia says the 4 Israeli F-16's used the Russian plane as a decoy to draw fire from Syrian anti-aircraft missiles.
Israel has released before and after pictures showing that the building targets was destroyed in the attack.
What originally appeared to be a suspected nerve agent attack on a couple sickened in a Salisbury, England restaurant last Sunday now looks like it may be a hoax.
A couple, Alex King and Anna Shapiro, were taken to hospital ill. But they were tested for the nerve agent Novichok, blamed in two other incidents that sickened four and killed one of them earlier this year, and then released from hospital.
Shapiro, who is an Israeli citizen of Russian ancestry, told "The Sun" newspaper that she was "targeted by the Russian state". Now police are investigating the matter as a possible hoax.
An Israeli delegation is in Russia led by its air force chief to explain Israel's side of the Monday night incident in Syria that ended up with a Russian surveillance plane being shot down during an Israeli air attack. 15 Russian military personnel died.
Russia says the 4 Israeli F-16's used the Russian plane as a decoy to draw fire from Syrian anti-aircraft missiles.
Israel has released before and after pictures showing that the building targets was destroyed in the attack.
What originally appeared to be a suspected nerve agent attack on a couple sickened in a Salisbury, England restaurant last Sunday now looks like it may be a hoax.
A couple, Alex King and Anna Shapiro, were taken to hospital ill. But they were tested for the nerve agent Novichok, blamed in two other incidents that sickened four and killed one of them earlier this year, and then released from hospital.
Shapiro, who is an Israeli citizen of Russian ancestry, told "The Sun" newspaper that she was "targeted by the Russian state". Now police are investigating the matter as a possible hoax.
The woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault says she needs more time.
That's the word Christine Blasey Ford's lawyer is putting out in response to requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for her to tell her side of the story. The deadline for her to respond is tomorrow.
What's being asked for is an FBI investigation to occur first before she speaks to the committee. That would amount to delaying Senate votes to confirm Kavanaugh ahead of the Supreme Court's term opening session next month.
Among those calling for an FBI probe first is Alabama Democrat Senator Doug Jones, who won a narrow victory in a Special Election last December after sexual assault allegations were leveled against the Republican candidate, Judge Roy Moore.
Men who've been accused of sexual misconduct and or sexual assault are telling their experiences.
Former Canadian host Jian Ghomeshi's essay "The Fall of Men" was published online in the October 11th edition of the "The New York Review of Books".
Its caused a storm and led to Ian Buruma's departure as editor of the publication.
Ghomeshi was fired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2014 and criminally charges with seven counts of sexual assault and one count of choking. Some charges were dropped and he was acquitted of the others
And former pubic radio host John Hockenberry also wrote a 7,000 word piece of "Harper's Magazine" about his attempt to "find a road back from personal and public shame" after he lost his job when an independent probe determined he harassed and bullied people he worked with.
The "San Antonio Express-News" reports that Cody Wilson, the Austin, Texas man who published plans to create 3-D printed guns, is charged by police with sexual assault of a girl under 17.
The complaint says that Wilson met the girl online, then in person. The police officer involved says the victim told authorities she had sex with him at a hotel and was paid 500 dollars in cash.
The producers of the children's series "Sesame Street" have put out the word about some key characters.
The Children's Television Workshop says that "Bert" and "Ernie" are puppets and they have no sexual orientation.
There's been discussion online in recent days about "Bert" and "Ernie" being gay.
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