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from Bloomberg
Media/News Company
The U.S. and Canada have agreed on a trade deal that would save the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral bloc, according to three people familiar with the matter. President Donald Trump has approved the developments and the expectation is that an agreement will be announced on Sunday night, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian officials are working on the final touches.
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from CBC News (Canada)
Provincial Archives project to give genealogists, others fast access to 'goldmine'
Hundreds of Anglican Church registers dating back to the 1790s will be a lot easier to access after they are scanned and put online in a project underway at the Provincial Archives. The goal of the project, undertaken with the Anglican Diocese of Fredericton and the New Brunswick Genealogical Society, is to make it easier to access some important records housed at the archives in Fredericton. The registers include information about baptisms, marriages and burial dates and locations. "Once material is digitized you're looking at a lifetime of maintenance issues that are far more complicated than simply putting the physical records into a cold storage vault. You're looking at ongoing expenses for digital storage, ensuring the formats stay accessible, ensuring that software that can read the digital material is available and sustainable, and so on."
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.Democrats Try to Blow Open the Flake-Coons FBI Compromise
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s administration will not “micromanage” the FBI’s supplemental investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh — but Democrats are pushing to do just that. “The White House counsel has allowed the Senate to dictate what these terms look like and what the scope of the investigation is,” Sanders told Wallace. “The White House isn’t intervening. We’re not micromanaging this process.” Sanders cautioned, however, that “we cannot allow the people that have acted in bad faith to determine and allow this to become a total fishing expedition by the FBI.”
Graham Calls for Investigation of Feinstein’s Office, Ford’s Lawyers
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called for a “full-scale investigation” of the “despicable process” the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats followed regarding Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s, when both were high schoolers in suburban Maryland. “I’m [going to] call for an investigation of what happened in this committee, who betrayed Dr. Ford’s trust, who in Feinstein’s office recommended Katz as a lawyer, why did Ms. Ford not know that the committee was willing to go to California, [and] who released the anonymous letter given to the committee by Cory Gardner,” Graham told ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos. Graham said that the referral of Ford to the first of her attorneys, Debra Katz, was “illegal” and “inappropriate.” He said he believes Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) denial of personal involvement in leaking Ford’s identity to the press. But Graham limited his belief solely to Feinstein, saying that he “likes” and “respects” the 85-year-old ranking minority member of the committee, which referred Kavanaugh’s nomination to the full Senate on Friday.
Kellyanne Conway Reveals She Was a Victim of Sexual Assault
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway dropped a painful bombshell on CNN Sunday morning during an interview with Jake Tapper on “State of the Nation.” She revealed that she herself was a victim of sexual assault. (See the interview in the video below.) Conway brought up her own experience while discussing the multiple allegations of sexual misconduct that have been leveled against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who gave emotional testimony last Thursday — as did his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford — before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Anita Hill’s Case Proves Christine Blasey Ford Has a Lot to Gain
When Professor Anita Hill resigned from the faculty of the University of Oklahoma law school in 1995, she wasn’t teaching. She was instead working on the first of two books for which she had a deal worth more than $1 million with the Doubleday Publishing Company. It’s doubtful Hill (pictured above, left) would have been able to command such a price had she not, four years earlier in 1991, claimed that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her former boss at a federal agency, had made improper sexual advances toward her. The $1 million advance Hill received in 1993 following the Thomas debacle would be worth more than $1.7 million today.
Some Things Aren’t Funny, ‘SNL’ — The Kavanaugh Family’s Pain Is One of Them
NBC show mocked the Supreme Court nominee's love of friends, his calendars, even his high school virginity. In classic fashion, “Saturday Night Live” kicked off its new season with a cold open using Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s emotional testimony this past Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee as fodder. Actor Matt Damon played the nominee (he’s seen in character in the photo above) — and portrayed him as a hot-tempered beer lover who doesn’t “know the meaning of the word ‘stop.'”
Chuck Grassley Destroys Bernie Sanders’ Request for Yet Another FBI Kavanaugh Investigation
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Saturday — and in it, Sanders requested that the FBI not only investigate accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against the president’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, but also the truthfulness of the answers Kavanaugh gave last Thursday during an emotional hearing that was televised live. Grassley responded to Sanders’ letter and political posturing late Saturday night in terse and definitive fashion.
‘SNL’ Cuts Off Kanye West’s Pro-Trump Speech, Tells Him Not to Wear MAGA Hat
The right-leaning rapper says he was 'bullied' behind the scenes for daring to stand up for conservatives on the leftist show.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia
Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church press service Vasily Anisimov in his interview with Radonezh Radio spoke about the meeting of Patriarch Alexei II, Patriarch Bartholomew and Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia in Odessa in 1997. "It turns out that the American ambassador in Ukraine called the patriarchal residence, demanding Patriarch Bartholomew to the phone, saying that the USA, which supports the Constantinople Patriarchate, support Filaret's schismatic "Kiev Patriarchate" in Ukraine and demanded that no such address be signed. One phone call, and moreover in a cynical and humilitaing form for Patriarch Bartholomew, thwarted the overcoming of schisms," Anisimov said.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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