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NFL Stadiums Nearly Empty Due to Anthem Backlash

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The NFL likely hoped for a return to normalcy for Week 6, especially after Commissioner Goodell’s call to “move past the anthem controversy,” and address the issue in detail at league meetings on Tuesday. Instead, what the NFL got was a return to what has become the “new normal” in the age of anthem protests: empty seats.

Throughout the league, stadiums could be seen with thousands of empty seats at kickoff, and, in some cases in the middle of the game.

Here is a pic with several empty, or near empty stadiums at kickoff on Sunday:

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Poll: Americans Stand With Trump on Iran Nuclear Deal

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The American people stand strongly with President Trump on the controversy of the Iran nuclear deal.

After choosing to forgo recertifying the deal last week, the president has called on Congress to renegotiate the terms of the deal with the nuclear weapons-seeking Iranian regime. An overwhelming majority of voters — 70 percent — say the Obama-era deal should be renegotiated, according to a new Harvard-Harris Poll.

Broken down by party affiliation, 85 percent of Republicans, 71 percent of independents, and 57 percent of Democrats support new terms of the deal.

A 60 percent majority of Americans believes Obama’s deal with Iran was bad for the U.S, and two-thirds of those surveyed believes Iran has not complied with the terms, including half of Democratic voters.

In a rebuke of the Obama administration’s style of unilateral decision-making, a whopping 81 percent said a new deal needs to be received by Congress as a treaty and should require Senate approval.

After President Trump decertified the Iran deal, Congress has 60 days to act and put sanctions against Iran back in place. If Congress fails to act, the president has declared he will officially cancel the deal. (For more from the author of “Poll: Americans Stand With Trump on Iran Nuclear Deal” please click HERE)

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Boy’s $3 Donation to Trump Gets Him Surprise Gift

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A boy in Tennessee received an unexpected surprise after a stranger learned of his donation to President Trump.

Shortly after Inauguration Day, Eli’sha Davies, 9, learned that the president was taking a big salary cut in his new job. So he decided to send him $3 to help him pay his bills, WGRZ reported . . .

But Davies’ mother told reporters that the money was actually meant to go towards a new mandolin the boy had been saving for, WGRZ reported. But he was having trouble because he kept finding people he thought needed the money more than he did, like the president.

The Young Musicians Education Foundation Inc. is a local charity that helps kids get access to instruments who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford them, WGRZ reported.

When John Wildeman, the president of the Foundation, heard about Davies’ story, he decided that he wanted to help out, so he gifted him the mandolin he wanted. (Read more from “Boy’s $3 Donation to Trump Gets Him Surprise Gift” HERE)

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Trump to Allow Release of Classified JFK Assassination Docs

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President Trump announced on Twitter that he will allow the release of thousands of classified documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy after years of delays.

The unexpected move means the trove of never-before-seen documents are set to be released by the National Archives by Oct. 26.

“The President believes that these documents should be made available in the interests of full transparency unless agencies provide a compelling and clear national security or law enforcement justification otherwise,” a White House official said Saturday afternoon.

The National Archives has until Thursday to disclose the remaining files related to Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. The trove is expected to include more than 3,000 documents that have never been released to the public and more than 30,000 that have been previously released but with redactions.

Congress mandated in 1992 that all assassination documents be released within 25 years, but Mr. Trump has the power to block them on the grounds that making them public would harm intelligence or military operations, law enforcement or foreign relations. (Read more from “Trump to Allow Release of Classified JFK Assassination Docs” HERE)

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Gold Star Widow Releases Audio/Video of Condolence Call From President Trump

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An amazingly strong gold star widow, Natasha De Alencar, released audio of a phone conversation she had with President Trump in April of 2017 after the death of her husband, Army Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar, who was killed in Afghanistan.

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The Legal Battle Over BuzzFeed’s Dossier Source Heats Up

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BuzzFeed News provided a few new details about how it obtained the infamous Trump dossier, though the news outlet is still refusing to identify its source for the salacious document, citing confidentiality agreements and First Amendment protections.

The identity of BuzzFeed’s source is being sought by Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian tech executive who is suing the outlet for defamation for publishing the dossier, which was compiled last year by former British spy Christopher Steele.

BuzzFeed reporter Ken Bensinger revealed that he was granted access to the dossier in December after he became aware of “intelligence reports alleging that there were connections between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government,” according to a declaration filed in federal court Monday in Miami.

Bensinger said that he contacted the source in “late 2016” at the suggestion of BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, who is also being sued by Gubarev. (Read more from “The Legal Battle Over BuzzFeed’s Dossier Source Heats Up” HERE)

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The Memo That a Russian Lawyer Took to the Trump Tower Meeting Is Finally Out

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A four-page memo that has been a central focus of the Trump Tower meeting last June between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian attorney has finally been released.

Foreign Policy magazine published the document, which Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya took into the June 9, 2016 meeting, which was arranged by Trump Jr. and attended by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

The document, and the meeting, have become a focus for congressional and federal investigators looking into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The meeting has raised questions about collusion because Trump Jr. accepted it after an acquaintance contacted him promising that a “Russian government attorney” would provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton . . .

Veselnitskaya’s memo, which Foreign Policy obtained from a Russian news station that recently interviewed the lawyer, suggests that little information about Clinton was provided to the Trump campaign. (Read more from “The Memo That a Russian Lawyer Took to the Trump Tower Meeting Is Finally Out” HERE)

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Trump Urges Hillary: ‘Please Run Again!’

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The 2016 election goes on.

On Monday, President Donald Trump gleefully urged former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president again in 2020. He also suggested that her stance on professional athletes protesting racial inequality during the national anthem is an example of why she lost the election in November.

“Is she going to run? I hope. Hillary, please run again! Go ahead,” the president said during a news conference with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

He then said Clinton’s support of NFL players who choose to kneel during the national anthem was “wrong.” During a public appearance in England, Clinton reportedly defended the players’ right to demonstrate against racial injustice, saying it does not go against the national anthem or the American flag. (Read more from “Trump Urges Hillary: ‘Please Run Again!'” HERE)

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Mexico’s Vicente Fox Trolls Trump, Announces ‘2020 Run’ for White House

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As President Trump takes to Twitter to assail foes and tackle trolls, he can add another nemesis to his list: former Mexican President Vicente Fox.

Fox, 75, who served as president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, has launched a mock 2020 presidential campaign against the sitting U.S. president. In a series of anti-Trump tweets and videos, Fox addresses myriad issues affecting the American people.

In a video released Sept. 7, Fox, calling Trump “last year’s rotting Halloween pumpkin,” says: “Donald, every time I make fun of you, which I do a lot, people say, ‘Why can’t you be our president?’ America, I feel your pain. We all do. And that is why today I am proud to announce my candidacy for president of the United States.”

The five-minute video opens with Fox wearing a hat with a vulgar expression, features him holding up his middle finger at times and introduces his campaign mascot: a goat wearing two signs: “Vicente for Presidente!” and “A taco truck on every corner!” The clip also shows a mariachi band crooning about Trump. (Read more from “Mexico’s Vicente Fox Trolls Trump, Announces ‘2020 Run’ for White House” HERE)

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Government Lawyers Ask Judge to Block Release of Comey Memos

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Government lawyers want a federal judge to block the release of memos written by former FBI Director James Comey about his conversations with President Trump, claiming that disclosing the documents would be “detrimental” to an investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign as well as an ongoing obstruction of justice probe.

The attorneys made the argument in a court filing submitted late Friday in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed for the Comey memos by several news organizations, including The Daily Caller News Foundation, CNN, and USA Today.

The lawsuit sought the release of all of the memos that Comey wrote following his encounters with President Trump. Comey, who was fired by Trump on May 9, has testified that he wrote the memos following in-person meetings and phone conversations with Trump.

Just after his ouster, Comey gave a memo he wrote on Feb. 14 — just after the firing of national security adviser Michael Flynn — to a friend with instructions to leak it to The New York Times. Comey says he wrote in that memo that Trump asked him to shut down an investigation into Flynn. (Read more from “Government Lawyers Ask Judge to Block Release of Comey Memos” HERE)

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