Vice President Vance and former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be in New York City on Friday morning to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The event is being held at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan, built adjacent to Ground Zero. During the tragic incident in New York, 2,753 people were killed. That number includes civilians and those in the towers, first responders and the people on American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. The victims' families will read their names aloud during the ceremony.
Billionaire Leon Black is suing the House Oversight Committee to block future subpoenas in its Jeffrey Epstein probe. Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA), member of the Oversight Committee, joins Alicia Menendez to discuss the move.
Former President Bill Clinton celebrated his 80th birthday at the Hamptons estate of Alex Soros, the son of billionaire Democratic megadonor George Soros, kicking off a nationwide string of fundraising events for the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. The intimate gathering over Clinton's birthday weekend drew Huma Abedin, the longtime Hillary Clinton aide, to […] The post Bill Clinton turns 80 and turns his birthday into a fundraising machine — with help from the Soros family appeared first on American Almanac .
Former President Bill Clinton celebrated his 80th birthday at the Hamptons estate of Alex Soros, the son of billionaire Democratic megadonor George Soros, kicking off a nationwide string of fundraising events for the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. The intimate gathering over Clinton's birthday weekend drew Huma Abedin, the longtime Hillary Clinton aide, to the younger Soros's waterfront property in the Hamptons. Page Six first reported on the party and the broader fundraising push on Wednesday. Clinton's actual birthday fell on August 19, but the celebrations, and the asks, have stretched well beyond a single night. A Democrat insider described the strategy bluntly: the birthday is a vehicle. Clinton and his allies…Open
Former Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a husband into office, has died of natural causes at 94, closing a career defined by fierce independence and landslide victories in the heartland. Her son, Bill Kassebaum, confirmed the death to The Associated Press on Friday. He described […] The post Nancy Kassebaum Baker, first woman elected to the Senate on her own, dead at 94 appeared first on American Almanac .
Former Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a husband into office, has died of natural causes at 94, closing a career defined by fierce independence and landslide victories in the heartland. Her son, Bill Kassebaum, confirmed the death to The Associated Press on Friday. He described his mother as someone who never treated her seat as a partisan possession. Bill Kassebaum told the AP that his mother "loved Kansas" and "loved people from Kansas and representing Kansas for 18 years in the U.S. Senate." He added a line that captures the kind of Republican she was: "She was an independent-minded Republican who was willing to stand up for what she thought was right, even if that…Open
Bill Clinton holds the distinction of being the only elected president since World War II to lose both houses of Congress while leading a trifecta. […] Source
A New Mexico investigative commission claims at least 35 women and girls were likely abused at Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling desert ranch, and the state is now suing the Justice Department for allegedly stonewalling the investigation. The New Mexico Survivor's Truth Commission released a 119-page preliminary report detailing years of alleged sexual abuse at Epstein's Zorro […] The post New Mexico commission identifies at least 35 likely victims at Epstein's Zorro Ranch, sues DOJ for blocking probe appeared first on American Almanac .
A New Mexico investigative commission claims at least 35 women and girls were likely abused at Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling desert ranch, and the state is now suing the Justice Department for allegedly stonewalling the investigation. The New Mexico Survivor's Truth Commission released a 119-page preliminary report detailing years of alleged sexual abuse at Epstein's Zorro Ranch, a 7,500-acre compound near Santa Fe. On the same day, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., against the Department of Justice and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accusing the federal government of blocking the state's criminal investigation into what happened on the property. The twin actions, the report and…Open
