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EXCLUSIVE: Read The Strzok-Page Texts The DOJ Handed Over To Congress (The Daily Caller)
The Daily Caller News Foundation has obtained the missing text messages the Department of Justice released to members of Congress between two former FBI employees who were highly critical of President Donald Trump.
The text messages are between FBI special agent Peter Strzok and FBI counsel Lisa Page, who were in an ongoing, intimate relationship. The Justice Department was able to recover the text messages, which were exchanged between Dec. 16, 2017 and May 23, 2017, after they were believed to be missing from a technological failure on the part of FBI-issued cell phones. [Read More]
Editorial: Brat’s big idea on health care (Richmond.com)
Rep. Dave Brat is pushing one of the best big ideas floating around Congress these days. His H.R. 247 would dramatically increase the size, scope, and flexibility of health savings accounts — which have been one of the few indisputably successful health care reforms in the past couple of decades.
The accounts allow people to save money — tax free — so they can help pay for some of their own medical costs. That creates an incentive to pay attention to prices, which adds a modicum of market discipline to an industry that’s terribly expensive because, among other things, most payments are made with what feels like and often is other people’s money. [Read More]
Kim Jong Un steps across Korean border, makes history (AP)
In a historic summit more striking for its extraordinary images than its substance, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in set aside a year that saw them seemingly on the verge of war, grasped hands and strode together Friday across the cracked concrete marking the Koreas’ border.
The sight, inconceivable just months ago, may not erase their failure to provide any new measures on a nuclear standoff that has captivated and terrified millions, but it allowed the leaders to step forward toward the possibility of a cooperative future even as they acknowledged a fraught past and the widespread skepticism that, after decades of failed diplomacy, things will be any different this time. [Read More]
The House Intelligence Committee on Friday declared that it found “no evidence” of collusion between the Russian government and Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, releasing a heavily redacted final report on its yearlong Russia investigation.
The Republican-authored report — released over Democratic objections — stated the committee “found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government.” The committee did, however, “find poor judgment and ill-considered actions by the Trump and Clinton campaign.” [Read More]
On Thursday, Broward County student Kenneth Preston, 19, published the findings of an in-depth investigation he has conducted over the last two months that has uncovered some alarming details about how the Broward County School Board neglected school safety leading up to the Parkland massacre.
Preston confronted the school board two weeks ago and gave his account of what he’d learned to The Hill. In his initial findings, Preston said that he believed that since 2014, the school has only spent around 5% of the over $100 million available to it specifically for school safety. In his new report, he details ways that the failure to invest in school safety may have led to the deaths of some of the students in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting. The school board’s embrace of progressive programs, including The Promise Program and the Behavior Intervention Program, Preston maintains, has protected problem students — like the student who eventually slaughtered 17 people in February — shielding them from effective disciplinary measures and thus allowing them to remain threats to their peers. [Read More]
A social network built around STD status: The future of dating? (WJLA)
Creators of a Virginia-based app are trying to change the dating game — in a healthy way.
The app is called Social Health Registry and is essentially a registry that shows an individual’s sexually transmitted diseases status. The status are based off self-reported health records uploaded by the user. Those with a clean record get a badge on their account.
“The user would go get tested with the provider of their choice, and then upload their own results,” co-founder Oksana Wright said. [Read More]
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