STONE ASSOCIATE IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH MUELLER
Conservative writer and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel Robert Mueller.
The talks with Corsi — an associate of President Donald Trump and GOP operative Roger Stone — could bring Mueller’s team closer to determining whether Trump or his advisers were linked to WikiLeaks’ release of hacked Democratic emails in 2016, a key part of his long-running inquiry.
Corsi provided research on Democratic figures during the campaign to Stone, a longtime Trump adviser. For months, the special counsel has been scrutinizing Stone’s activities to determine whether he coordinated with WikiLeaks. Stone and WikiLeaks repeatedly have denied such coordination.
Disapproval of Trump’s handling of race relations hits 60 percent.
One of the first polls published after the midterm elections gives low marks to President Donald Trump in an area where he has been viewed negatively since the days before he occupied the Oval Office: race relations. Nearly 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling race relations, according a Quinnipiac University poll. The only group that gives him high marks are Republicans, with 76 percent. White men are the next-highest, with half approving.
Former CIA chief Michael Hayden hospitalized after stroke.
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Former CIA Director Michael Hayden has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke this week.
A statement released Friday by Hayden’s family says he is “receiving expert medical care.”
Hayden, who is 73 and a retired Air Force general, led the CIA under President George W. Bush from 2006 to early 2009.
Death toll in mosque blast climbs to 27.
An explosion ripped through a mosque inside an Afghan army base in the country’s volatile eastern Khost province as Friday prayers were drawing to a close, killing 27 soldiers and wounding 57, the military said.
The blast may have been set off by a suicide bomber or a remotely detonated bomb, but nothing was officially confirmed.
Man to go on trial in deadly crash at Charlottesville rally.
Fifteen months after an angry demonstration by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., erupted in deadly mayhem, a self-professed neo-Nazi is set to go on trial Monday, charged with killing a counterprotester and injuring 35 other people by intentionally ramming his car into another vehicle on a crowded street.
The alleged act of automotive rage by James Alex Fields Jr. on Aug. 12, 2017, helped make “Charlottesville” a shorthand term for the emergence of emboldened ethno-fascists. — Denver Post wire services