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Gowdy slams Mueller team over leaks about charges in Trump-Russia probe

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Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the leader of the House’s top investigative committee, slammed special counsel Robert Mueller on Sunday for allowing the news media to learn that he and his legal team now have charges in their Russia investigation. Read More:: 'DO SOMETHING!': Trump Lashes Out As The Russia Investigation Heats Up “In the only conversation I’ve had with Robert Mueller, I stressed to him the importance of cutting out the leaks,” Gowdy, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s kind of ironic that the people charged with investigating the law and the violations of the law would violate the law.” Mueller and his team have for roughly the past five months been leading a Justice Department investigation into whether anybody associated with the President Trump’s 2016 White House campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election outcome. On Friday night, CNN reported that Mueller’s team has filed the first charge...

Dan Brown faces possible new plagiarism lawsuit over ‘The Da Vinci Code’

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Author Jack Dunn prepares new case against Brown in U.K. Bestselling novelist Dan Brown has just published his latest thriller “Origin.” But Brown, among the highest-paid writers in the world, is facing the prospect of a new plagiarism lawsuit for copyright infringement from New England author Jack Dunn, who alleges the 2003 global bestseller “The Da Vinci Code” includes scenes, plots and storylines copied from Dunn’s 1997 novel “The Vatican Boys.” A Massachusetts federal judge dismissed an earlier copyright infringement case brought against Brown by Dunn in 2007. Dunn tells MarketWatch he is reviving his plagiarism claims against Brown’s publisher Penguin Random House and is preparing to issue a new case for copyright infringement, this time in the U.K. High Court. Also Read:: Pentagon Makes SHOCK Announcement About Women In Military, People TICKED Dunn has hired full service London-based law firm Keystone Law. In a letter to Penguin Random House, Keystone stated they intended to issu...

GOP lawmakers propose new conditions on health bill

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Two top Republicans announced a bill Tuesday restoring federal subsidies to insurers while including tough conditions sought by the White House. Senate Democrats have enough votes to kill it, but the measure underscores the changes the Trump administration and congressional conservatives say they want in exchange for resuming the payments. The proposal seeks changes in President Barack Obama’s health care law that go far further than provisions in bipartisan legislation that is stuck in the Senate. That compromise has stalled as President Donald Trump has flashed contradictory signals about whether he supports it and conservatives — especially in the House — have complained it doesn’t revamp Obama’s statute strongly enough. Tuesday’s GOP alternative — by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady of Texas — highlighted the party’s internal differences over the issue. At a lunch Tuesday with GOP senators, Trump apparentl...

Heads Up! Cross the Street. Then Update Facebook | Reading This While Walking? In Honolulu, It Could Cost You...

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Pedestrians on Hotel Street at Fort Street Mall in Honolulu. Honolulu enacted a law, set to take effect Wednesday, that allows the police to fine pedestrians up to $35 for viewing their electronic devices while crossing streets in the city and surrounding county.   You see them everywhere: people walking with their eyes glued to their mobile phone screens on busy streets. But walking and texting can be dangerous — a nd cities in the United States and Europe have begun to do something about it. Honolulu has passed a law, which will take effect Wednesday, that allows the police to fine pedestrians up to $35 for viewing their electronic devices while crossing streets in the city and surrounding county. Honolulu is thought to be the first major city to enact such a ban. ::Also Read:: U.S Air Force Preparing B-52 Bombers For 24-Hour Alert Status “This is really milestone legislation that sets the bar high for safety,” said Brandon Elefante, the City Council member who proposed the bill....

Former US Spy Chiefs Urge Congress To Renew Internet Surveillance Law

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The program, authorised under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allows US spy agencies to eavesdrop on and store vast amounts of digital communications from foreign suspects living outside the United States. Former US intelligence officials who worked for both Republican and Democratic presidents urged Congress on Monday to renew an internet surveillance program they said has stopped terrorist plots and helped policymakers steer through international crises. ::Also Read::   U.S Air Force preparing B-52 bombers for 24-hour alert status The program, authorised under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allows US spy agencies to eavesdrop on and store vast amounts of digital communications from foreign suspects living outside the United States. It will expire on December 31 if Congress does not act. "We have personally reported to our Presidents - Republican and Democratic - and to the Congress details of plots disrupted based on informati...