Black People Politics : 'Something is wrong' with presidential election, says civil rights leader Diane Nash

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Russian Billionaire Could Be Link Between Trump, Russia

He was a business partner with a former Donald Trump campaign manager. He’s a wealthy Russian oligarch who made billions in natural gas—possibly with help from President Vladimir Putin—and he was also tied to Ukraine’s Russia-friendly former President Viktor Yanukovych ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-billionaire-could-between-trump-224555897.html

Natural gas titan Dmitry Firtash could be extradited to the U.S. to face corruption charges after an Austrian court ruled against him Tuesday




Greg Price
International Business Times
February 21, 2017



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GOP members of Congress meet with protests at town halls

FAIRVIEW, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn returned to her district Tuesday in Tennessee and was greeted by tough questions on topics from health care reform to President Donald Trump's cabinet appointees. She also was met with protests ...

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JONATHAN MATTISE
Associated Press
February 21, 2017


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1,000 protesters greet Mitch McConnell at Kentucky speech


LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (AP) — Nearly a thousand people have crowded behind a chain link fence to try to catch Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's attention as he made his first stop on a tour of Kentucky during the congressional recess.

The protesters on Tuesday chanted, "No ban, no wall, Mitch McConnell take our call," a reference to the senator's clogged voicemail system during the first month of Donald Trump's presidency ...

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ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
February 21, 2017


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Russia Compiles "Psychological Dossier" on Trump

In preparation for meeting him in person, Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to get inside U.S. President Donald Trump's head.

NBC, a group of retired diplomats and members of Putin's staff are currently compiling a "dossier on Donald Trump's psychological makeup" for the Russian leader; a senior Kremlin adviser revealed that "its preliminary conclusions is that the new American leader is a risk-taker who can be naïve," while former Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Fedorov added that Trump "doesn't understand fully who is Mr. Putin - he is a tough guy" ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-compiles-psychological-dossier-trump-144644447.html

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Gina Mei
Cosmopolitan
February 21, 2017


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Ben Carson

Fired HUD employee: Trump's visit to museum 'a step in the right direction'

(CNN)A Department of Housing and Urban Development employee who was fired for an 2016 op-ed he wrote that criticized then-candidate for president Donald Trump says he has no regrets and does not take his dismissal personally.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/17/politics/singleton-hud-fired-trump/index.html
HUD official fired for criticizing Trump
In Republican consultant Shermichael Singleton's op-ed for The Hill, he criticized Trump's rhetoric about African-Americans during the campaign ...

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By Leinz Vales, CNN
Updated 2:23 AM ET, Wed February 22, 2017


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