During an appearance at a bookstore in Concord, N.H., a female reporter asked the senator from California if she wanted to amend a tweet from Jan. 29, in which she said Smollett was the victim of "an attempted modern day lynching" and called the actor "one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know." Harris has also used the Smollett attack to push legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime. She now said that she will not comment on the case until we learn the outcome of the investigation.
- Kamala Harris distances herself from Bernie Sanders: 'I am not a democratic socialist'
MAN WHO DIED IN DEMOCRATIC MEGADONOR ED BUCK'S HOME CALLED HIM A 'F---ING DEVIL,' REPORT SAYS: A man who died last month at the West Hollywood home of prominent Democratic Party fundraiser Ed Buck warned his friends to steer clear of the well-connected donor and referred to him as a "f---ing devil" and "a horrible, horrible man," according to a report Monday night.
Timothy Dean, 55, was found dead in Buck's apartment early on Jan. 7, 17 months after 26-year-old male escort Gemmel Moore was found dead of a methamphetamine overdose. The Daily Beast reported that Dean and Buck had a relationship years before Moore's death, but Dean's friends claimed the relationship turned into a one-sided affair -- with Buck sending multiple text messages to Dean and Dean declining to respond.
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AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL COUP D’ETAT – “I don’t want to criminalize differences on either side, but there ought to be hearings and we ought to get to the truth as to how serious Rosenstein was. Did he actually think about, plan about, wearing a wire? Did he actually speak to or consider speaking to cabinet members getting their approval for the invoking of the 25th Amendment? That would be a serious movement toward an unconstitutional coup d’etat. – Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on “America’s Newsroom,” on his belief that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were searching for a way to remove President Donald Trump from office. WATCH
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2008: An ailing Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency after nearly a half-century in power; his brother Raul was later named to succeed him.
1986: The U.S. Senate approved, 83-11, the Genocide Convention, an international treaty outlawing "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group," nearly 37 years after the pact was first submitted for ratification.
1968: The children's program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," created by and starring Fred Rogers, made its network debut on National Educational Television, a forerunner of PBS, beginning a 31-season run.
1942: During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the relocation and internment of people of Japanese ancestry, including U.S.-born citizens.
1473: Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
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