A lawyer for a former FBI lawyer leaking word out this Friday that his client is to enter a guilty plea in connection with the US Justice Department probe into the origins of the Russia collusion investigation aimed at President Trump.
The FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is claiming through his defense counsel that his alteration of an email used to justify a wiretap on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page was based on information he thought was accurate.......BBC NEWS
Congress's General Accounting Office claiming in a report that the Homeland Security Secretary and his Deputy Secretary were invalidly appointed to their positions.......POLITICO
The US Postal Service, headed by a supporter of President Trump, warning about mail-in voting this November. The Postal Service saying that millions of votes may not make it in time to be counted on November 3rd in letters to state governments across the country.......BBC NEWS
"If this continues, they will receive their answer in kind"
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking in Istanbul today after what he said was an attack on a Turkish warship escorting a vessel searching for oil and natural gas in waters claimed by Greece.
On Wednesday an incident described as a "slight collision" in the disputed waters between a Greek warship and a Turkish warship......AL JAZEERA QATAR
The leading opposition candidate in last Sunday's disputed presidential election in Belarus calling for more protests this weekend. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya calling for peaceful rallies after being forced to flee to the neighboring country of Lithuania....BBC NEWS
A UN human rights official says that the number of those killed in protests since the election in Belarus may be higher than the government is saying........TASS
A US State Department official touring the damaged parts of Beirut says the FBI is getting involved in an international investigation of the August 4th explosion in the city's port that has killed at least 172, injured 6-thousand and made some 300-thousand homeless.
US Undersecretary for Political Affairs David Hale said Lebanon's government to change saying the country needed "economic and fiscal reforms". Hale urging change in the country to "make sure something like this never happens again".
The Iranian backed Hezbollah movement is a key player in the current Lebanese government......MIDDLE EAST MONITOR
THE US BID TO EXTEND AN ARMS EMBARGO ON IRAN CONTAINED IN THE 2015 JCPOA NUCLEAR AGREEMENT FAILED IN THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL.
CHINA AND RUSSIA EXERCISING THEIR VETO POWER WITH NO VOTES IN THE COUNCIL. THE US AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC VOTING YES. THE OTHER 11 NATIONS ON THE COUNCIL INCLUDING FRANCE, GERMANY AND THE UNITED KINGDOM ABSTAINED.....
JERUSALEM POST
PRESS TV IRAN
TANKERS CARRYING IRANIAN FUEL TO VENEZUELA HAVE CHANGED COURSE FOR THE UNITED STATES. THE TANKERS ARE COVERED BY US WARRANTS FOR THEIR CONTENTS TO BE SEIZED AND THEIR OWNERS HELD TALKS WITH US AUTHORITIES.
IRAN'S BRIEF SEIZURE OF A SHIP WEDNESDAY IN THE PERSIAN GULF SAID TO BE RELATED TO THE ACTIONS OF A GREEK OWNER IN BOWING TO THE US WARRANTS......REUTERS-THE NATIONAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
The Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif visiting Lebanon in the aftermath of the explosion disaster. Iran an important player in Lebanon with the Iranian backedHezbollah movement as noted earlier a key element of the country's government.....PRESS TV IRAN
Yale University is discriminating against Asian-Americans and Whites who apply for admission. This is the result of a US Justice Department investigation. Yale says that it "racially balances its classes" and uses race as a determining factor claiming that the Justice Department's assessment is "meritless" and "hasty".
Assistant US Attorney General Eric Dreiband, who heads the civil rights division, says Yale "imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants". The Justice Department demanding that Yale stop its race based admission practices....THE INDEPENDENT-UK
The US is suspending charter aircraft flights to Cuba beginning in October. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying Cuba uses funds it gets from the flight to support the regime in Venezuela.......STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS STATEMENT
THE US AIRCRAFT CARRIER RONALD REAGAN STRIKE GROUP CONDUCTING EXERCISES TODAY IN THE CONTESTED WATERS OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. THE EXERCISES COME AMIDST TENSIONS WITH CHINA.......REUTERS STRAITS-TIMES SINGAPORE
THE US SIGNING A DEAL TO SELL 66 F-16 FIGHTER JETS TO TAIWAN .......ANI NEWS INDIA
President Trump issuing a new executive order today aimed at the Chinese owned video app TikTok with its specific target TikTok's 2017 acquisition of a lip-sync video app that was merged into TikTok.....BUSINESS INSIDER
THE US DESIGNATING THE CHINESE 'CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE' WHICH OPERATES ON US COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES AS A 'FOREIGN MISSION' WHICH FORCES THE ORGANIZATION TO MAKE DISCLOSURES TO THE US GOVERNMENT ABOUT ITS OPERATIONS.......US STATE DEPARTMENT 'FACT SHEET'
A federal rule that limits the amount of water that can come out of a shower head is being changed. The move comes as President Trump has made comments about how low water flow from faucets and shower heads and how it impacts his routine. BBC News offers its version of the story......BBC NEWS
A judge in California siding with Los Angeles County's Grace Community Church allowing indoor services without restrictions on singing and the number of people attending imposed due to COVID-19. The ruling will be in force while the case is resolved......WASHINGTON TIMES
THE WORLDOMETERS CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR THE USA TODAY ADDED 60,600 NEW CASES. TOP STATES CALIFORNIA AT 10,316, TEXAS AT 8,690 AND FLORIDA AT 6,148. OTHER STATES NUMBERS INCLUDE ILLINOIS WITH 2,296, VIRGINIA WITH 1,216, KANSAS WITH 1,192 AND NEVADA WITH 1,099.
WORLDWIDE 277,061 NEW COVID-19 CASES ACCORDING TO WORLDOMETERS INCLUDING 65,609 FROM INDIA AND 49,274 FROM BRAZIL. OTHER NATIONS INCLUDE COLOMBIA WITH 11,306, SPAIN 2,987, FRANCE 2,846 AND ISRAEL WITH 1,258.
The coronavirus story around the world as reported by BBC News on its daily blog........BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 8/14/2020
In other news.......
President Trump visiting his seriously ill younger brother Robert in a New York hospital.......ASSOCIATED PRESS TV ONE NEW ZEALAND....BBC
That's the way it really is Friday August 14th, 2020, another day in the Dictatorship of COVID-19.
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