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President Trump said Tuesday that first lady Melania Trump "is doing really well" as she recovers from kidney surgery."Our great First Lady is doing really well. Will be leaving hospital in 2 or 3 days. Thank you f...

Jerry Richardson announced in December he was selling the team amid an NFL investigation into sexual and racial misconduct in the workplace.

'Cult of personality'

Next week Valve is bringing its Steam Link app to iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Steam Link will allow users on the aforementioned devices to stream their Steam game libraries while connected to a host system (Mac or PC) via a 5GHz network or wired Ethernet connection.

Valve reports that Steam Link will support both MFi controllers like the SteelSeries Nimbus, along with its own Steam Controller. In preparation for next week’s launch, Steam has enabled Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity for its controller via the Steam Client Beta. It means that users can now connect their Steam Controllers directly to eligible devices, bypassing the need for its USB wireless receiver. more…

Get ready to bet legally on the Saints or your favorite college team this football season, now that the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down the federal law that permitted sports betting only in Nevada and a handful of…

BATON ROUGE – The upcoming special session will allow lawmakers another chance – and maybe not the last – to halt deep cuts to the state healthcare system, the Commissioner of Administration for the Governor’s Office said Monday.

“It is apparent from all objective standards, juvenile crime is surging in the City of New Orleans," said District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro.

A student in Alabama jumped into action when he realized his school bus driver may have been drunk.

The boy’s father is believed to have been under the influence of methamphetamine when he set the 1-year-old down and walked away.

Former Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren and Eric Bolling "have been approached" to host prime time programs on Newsmax TV, the New York Post ...

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She underwent an "embolization" procedure Monday morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, her office announced.

(Daily Mail) Three million Facebook users had their most intimate details exposed as a new data protection scandal hits the social media platform.

In the latest of a string of security breaches, a report from New Scientist has revealed a popular personality app insufficiently protected the ‘anonymous’ data of participants.

The quiz, called myPersonality, collected highly sensitive data, including psychometric test results that revealed how neurotic or extrovert an individual was.

'Reinforces the notion that the states can resist the federal government'

What were they thinking?

A New York man having some landscaping done in his backyard discovered a buried safe filled with valuables that were stolen seven years ago.

Footage filmed by gang of attack in popular resort near Naples helped catch suspects

Islamic invasion of Europe pushed into overdrive.

While Michael Cohen had impressive success in hustling various corporations such as Novartis, AT&T, Columbus Nova and Korean Aerospace into believing he held a royal flush due to his proximity with Donald Trump, and was paid millions in "consultancy" fees for his "leverage" (even though all that AT&T got out of its $600K payment was a lawsuit and an interview with Mueller, hence the company's admission that "hiring Cohen was a bit mistake"), nothing compares to the feat Kim Jong Un pulled off in the past month, when shortly after the collapse of North Korea's nuclear test site, which effectively precluded Pyongyang from nuclear research and development for the foreseeable future, Kim "voluntarily" agreed to "halt" the country's nuclear program, and leveraged what was basically an earthquake into a historic diplomatic accord and political detente with the US and president Trump.

As a reminder, on April 21, Kim said the site, Punggye-ri, built in a secluded mountain valley northeast of Pyongyang and the site for all six of the regime’s nuclear blasts, would be shuttered and further tests had been suspended.

As a further reminder, last week we reported that a team of international seismologists concluded that the Punggye-ri nuclear test site had became unusable following a catastrophic collapse last October that left more than 200 North Korean workers buried alive. The findings in turn confirmed the work of a team of Chinese seismologists who published their work shortly before North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un declared that he would shutter the site as a gesture of friendship toward South Korea and the US.

In other words, Kim had nothing to lose and everything to gain by announcing he was halting North Korea's nuclear program.

Fast forward to today when North Korea announced it would begin officially dismantling its already collapsed nuclear test site around May 23-25 when a ceremony will be held - "weather permitting" - to oversee the shut down, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Saturday, quoting the Foreign Ministry. Pyongyang invited foreign journalists, including those from the US, to cover the event.

The dismantling will involve collapsing all tunnels with explosions and blocking their entrances. All observation facilities, research buildings, and security posts will be removed, KCNA reported.

And while journalists from China, Russia, South Korea, the UK and the US, will be invited to cover the event, in light of the unknown amounts of highly toxic radioactive material that is set to blanket the nearby area following the "controlled demolition", they may want to reevaluate their presence.

Of course, the biggest irony in all of this is that North Korea's "dismantling" ceremony will merely put the finishing touches on what nature had already done in the past year: a recent study  found that North Korea’s largest underground nuclear test under Mt. Mantap has actually moved the mountain.

Based on the data, scientists have revealed that Mt. Mantap shrank by 0.5 meters (about 20 inches) and expanded by nearly 3.5 meters (11 feet). The study was conducted by analyzing regional and global seismic recordings, as well as before-and-after radar measurements of the mountain’s surface using imaging satellites.

It remains unclear if Trump has been made aware that Kim is only engaging the US in a denuclearization effort not because he wanted to, but because he had no other choice.

"The lawsuit explains that these outcomes are the culmination of years of political activism by Cuomo against the NRA and gun rights organizations"

It seems Rudy Giuliani might’ve spoken out of turn once again, because he’s walking back his statements about President Donald Trump getting involved in the merger negotiations between AT&T and Time Warner.

Yesterday, the president bashed the “fake news” media while reacting to AT&T’s statement that it regrets paying $600,000 to his embattled personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. In the midst of all this, Giuliani continued his ongoing press tour by telling HuffPost that the president was behind the Justice Department’s efforts to halt the AT&T-Time Warner merger.

“The president denied the merger. They didn’t get the result they wanted,” said Giuliani. “Whatever lobbying was done didn’t reach the president.”

That comment set off alarm bells over the DOJ’s independence from the White House, as well as the possibility that Trump was interfering in U.S. markets — so Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders came out to tell reporters a different story.

WH Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders contradict’s Giuliani’s claim that the president “denied the deal” between ATT & Time Warner saying that the WH’s initial denial of POTUS’ involvement still stands. “The Department of Justice denied the deal,” Sanders tells me.

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 12, 2018

Now it appears Giuliani is doubling back and telling CNN’s Dana Bash that Trump didn’t actually interfere with the merger talks.

New: While President Trump was opposed to the AT&T-Time Warner merger during the campaign and has been consistent on that, “he didn’t interfere” with the Justice Department case, Giuliani tells @DanaBashCNN. “He told me directly he didn’t interfere.”

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) May 12, 2018

The developments come amid reports of Trump’s growing frustration with Giuliani, and it also comes not very long after the former New York mayor had to walk back his statements about the president reimbursing Cohen for his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels – another conflicting story.

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The town of Ball violated the constitutional rights of one of its officers when it fired him back in 2011, resulting in a $300,000 judgment that just was paid last month.

Jerome Hopewell was sworn in Friday afternoon as the new Alexandria city marshal, and he's ready to get to work.

Facebook ads linked to Russian businesses targeted users in Louisiana immediately following the events, apparently to sow outrage among locals before the U.S. elections..

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney defended one White House aide’s offputting comments about Sen. John McCain, saying it wasn’t intended to have that much impact because it was a “joke” that was made in a “private” meeting.

Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Mulvaney about what he thought of White House Director of Surrogate and Coalitions Outreach Kelly Sadler saying that it doesn’t matter if McCain opposes President Donald Trump‘s pick to lead the CIA because “he’s dying anyway.”

“They are awful,” Mulvaney said of the comments on Cavuto Live. Despite calling the comment “awful,” Mulvaney then went on to defend his colleague’s mocking of a man with brain cancer.

“That was said in a private meeting inside the White House. It’s not like, you might say something really nasty about me off the air and it really doesn’t have that much impact. You come on-air and say it officially now that’s a problem,” Mulvaney said. “This was a private meeting inside the White House. It was a joke. It was a badly considered joke that she said fell flat.” The budget director later added that he is “disappointed” that someone leaked the comment from the private meeting.

Cavuto noted that some have called for Sadler’s firing in light of the ill-conceived remark.

“Do you think that’s right?” Cavuto asked.

“I don’t,” Mulvaney responded.” You have to have freedom to speak in a private meeting. We have all said things in private that we would never say publicly. I think she handled it appropriately.”

Sadler reportedly called McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, after making the remark.

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