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Gambling with the gov’t’s dime: Pentagon employees used work credit cards at casinos, strip clubs

It’s no surprise that government workers like to party ‒ just look at the myriad Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Agency scandals. Even the Pentagon has gotten in on the action, with employees using government travel cards at strip clubs and casinos.  Read Full Article

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House Democrats Request an FBI Probe Into Trump’s Possible Connections to Russian Hackers

Clearly, we’re in an election cycle.  Democrat members of the House are asking the FBI to investigate Donald Trump’s links to Russia and the possibility that he may be involved in the recent DNC hacks that caused so much trouble going into the DNC convention. The ranking members of the House committees on oversight and

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Newly Revealed Benghazi Emails Bring Hillary Clinton’s Server Scandal Full Circle

This is like Watergate all over again. The FBI successfully recovered nearly 15,000 emails previously deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private server, and we now know that at least 30 of those emails discussed the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. These newly discovered Benghazi emails will add fuel to the fire surrounding Clinton’s decision to

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Washington, Idaho elections can’t be hacked, officials say

Federal officials asking states to step up election security but Washington and Idaho officials believe their systems are secure. The FBI is warning state officials to boost their election security in light of evidence that hackers targeted related data systems in two states.  Although Washington and Idaho officials received those warnings, they said the systems

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WSU home used to hide large stash of alleged stolen goods from storage unit burgs

The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office has allegedly discovered a large stash of stolen items inside a home at Washington State University’s Dairy Center. A man who lives and works at the WSU Knott Dairy Center has been arrested for allegedly conducting a major string of storage unit burglaries. Deputies responded to a report of a

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Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) has vetoed a bill to raise the Garden State’s minimum wage to $15.

Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday shot down an attempt to raise New Jersey’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in the next year and to at least $15 over the next five. Christie announced his veto at an event at a market in Pennington, saying it would burden small businesses and describing the proposal

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Chris Brown turns to Instagram amid police standoff

Singer Chris Brown’s Instagram account got a lot more interesting today. With police outside of his Los Angeles home, who were following up on a report that Brown pulled a gun on an unnamed woman, the singer started posting Instagram videos criticizing the LAPD. Meanwhile, local news stations have been broadcasting footage of the standoff on Facebook Live for much of

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Seattle weighs new rules for businesses with hourly workers

All the more reason for fast food restaurants to lay off minimum wage employees and replace them with technological solutions.  Do progressives not know? Or do they not care? This is Econ-101.  Seattle leaders have proposed new scheduling rules for hourly retail and food-service employees, including requiring employers to schedule shifts two weeks in advance

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UI accused of trapping, killing feral cats without approval

Two state agencies say the University of Idaho failed to seek approval for a program that trapped and euthanized feral cats on campus. The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports that officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said Monday that they would not have issued authorization to the university, which campus veterinarian Peter Autenried

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Last year, an average of $720 per student in Idaho came from voter-approved supplemental levies

Moscow has the 5th largest levy in Idaho: $9,586,000.  Moscow also has the 5th largest collection of money from supplemental levies in Idaho between 1992 and 2014: $128,692,000.  As the Legislature’s Public School Funding Formula Committee opened its meeting today, Tim Hill of the Idaho State Department of Education shared stats on supplemental levies approved by

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Growing Media Chorus Says Presidential Debates Are ‘Rigged’

Via Reason Magazine: Yesterday, for a second time, the Chicago Tribune editorialized in favor of letting Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson into the three presidential debates scheduled between Sept. 26 and Oct 19. “The hurdle in Johnson’s way,” the editorial board correctly observed, “is the terms set by the private, nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.” Those terms, first announced

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FBI to Release Report on Hillary’s Emails as Early as Tomorrow

 This is going to be a big one: (CNN)The FBI expects to publicly release as soon as Wednesday the report the bureau sent to the Justice Department in July recommending no charges in the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, according to multiple law enforcement officials. The release is in response to numerous FOIA requests including

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Is Obama Going to Try Ratifying the Paris Climate Accord Without Senate Approval?

The Washington Times reports President Obama is prepared to enter into the Paris climate accord as early as this week even though Republicans have insisted that the pact must be ratified by the Senate, according to a report out of China. The South China Morning Post reported that Mr. Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are “set to jointly announce their ratification”

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