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Former FBI Director Says Trump 'Begging For A Jail Term' After Hush-Money Verdict: 'He Needs To Spend Some Time Behind Bars'
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 7:25am | 493Former FBI director James Comey has commented on the potential jail sentence for former president Donald Trump following a guilty verdict in his hush money criminal trial. What Happened: Comey shared his views during an interview with CNN on Tuesday, where he remarked, “I would ordinarily...
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Ex-Trump Official Says Rule Of Law Has Passed The Stress Test With Hush-Money Trial, Flags This As 'Danger For All Americans'
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 8:27am | 624Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday shed light on his former boss Donald Trump and the ongoing investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Stress Test: The Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, was too slow to act and it cost us, said Comey on MSNBC’s...
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Does Marijuana Enhance Ability To Code? New Study Reveals Vast Majority Of Programmers Have Used Cannabis While Working
Monday, December 27, 2021 - 2:40pm | 847Cannabis is apparently sparking creativity in software programmers, as over one-third of those surveyed in a new study said they've used marijuana while working, finding it helpful in getting into the "programming zone," Marijuana Moment reports. Titled "Hashing It Out: A Survey...
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Feds Bust Reputed Bitcoin Baron In $4 Billion Scheme To Launder Drug Money, Ransomware, Bribes And Identity Theft Scams
Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 12:35pm | 689A Russian criminal mastermind used his bitcoin currency exchange to launder $4 billion from a vast network of interlocking syndicates engaged in public corruption, identity theft, ransomware extortion, dark web drug deals and a raft of other global cybercrimes, federal prosecutors allege. A grand...
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State Election Officials Baffled By Report 39 States 'Hit' By Russian Hackers
Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 1:16pm | 643State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems. The June 13 Bloomberg story said that...
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Sessions Can't Recall, Refuses To Comment On Any Conversations With Trump About Russia
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 5:00pm | 505Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday he supported President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was leading the investigation into Russian collusion in the presidential election, but couldn’t recall or wouldn’t reveal any conversations with the president...
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Oil Down 15% Year To Date; What's In Store For The Rest Of The Year?
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 3:51pm | 875Bearish sentiment has taken hold of crude oil prices as various analysts and agencies have slashed their forecast for this year and next. On Wednesday, oil fell a little over 5 percent to a one-month low of $45.72, taking the year-to-date loss to 15 percent. However, there has been a recovery on...
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Pot War, Muslim Travel Ban, Russia Probe: Jeff Sessions In The Middle Of Troubled Trump Issues
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 10:53am | 888Embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the first U.S. senator to endorse President Donald Trump’s candidacy, finds himself swept up in virtually every issue that has confounded the administration’s efforts to advance any sort of an agenda. Front and center is his role in whether the...
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I Read The Tweets Today, Oh Boy: A Week In The 140-Character Life Of Donald Trump
Sunday, June 11, 2017 - 9:46am | 1214His team’s well-laid plans to make this week all about infrastructure went off the rails for President Donald Trump, done in by a familiar foe: a barrage of off-topic tweets delivered with all the finesse of a bunch of bazooka blasts. He called the mayor of London “pathetic” two...
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The 'Fear Index' Hasn't Been This Low Since 1993
Friday, June 9, 2017 - 2:07pm | 357The volatility index, commonly dubbed as the "fear index," hasn't this been low in years. But how many years exactly? Two? Five? Ten? Try 23 years. The CBOE volatility index traded to 9.37 on Friday, marking its lowest level since December 27, 1993, CNBC noted. Accordingly, the exchange-traded note...
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Larry Kudlow To Donald Trump: Get Your Act Together
Friday, June 9, 2017 - 12:02pm | 374CNBC's Larry Kudlow, an informal adviser to President Donald Trump, thinks now more than ever the White House needs to get its "act together" or risk getting "creamed" in the 2018 midterm elections. Now that the debacle surrounding former FBI Director James Comey is arguably over, it's time for...
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Comey Demolishes Infrastructure Week, Calls Trump A Liar
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 3:24pm | 823So much for “infrastructure week.” Former FBI Director James Comey took a wrecking ball to President Donald Trump’s policy diversion from the monumental problem plaguing the administration: Russian collusion with the 2016 election. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee...
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Politics Here And Abroad: Muted Market Volume Amid Comey's Testimony And UK's Election
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 1:22pm | 401Thursday's trading session is being overshadowed by former-FBI Director James Comey's testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The very public profile of Comey's comments on President Donald Trump and any potential interference from Russia in 2016's president election appear to be...
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Comey Who? Markets Don't Care About What The Ex-FBI Head Has To Say
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 9:29am | 430Former FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Thursday, but does anyone care anymore? According to Jonathan Golub of RBC Capital Markets the answer is yes and no — depending on who you ask. The media certainly cares about...
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5 Big Takeaways From Comey's Prepared Testimony About Trump: Loyalty, Russia, 'The Cloud' And More
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 3:19pm | 908Ousted FBI director James B. Comey, over the course of nine awkard private conversations, said President Donald Trump threatened his job, demanded his loyalty, and asked him to drop the probe into the Trump team’s dealings with Russia before ultimately firing him. Comey’s prepared...