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Federal lockups come in minimum, low, medium and high-security flavors. Ghislaine Maxwell is suddenly going from total monitoring during her trial to low security. Convicted madam Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved 1,000 miles to a soft, low-security prison in Florida — one where inmates enjoy movies, a running track and even yoga in the yard. The disgraced…

Long before the George Floyd drug overdose, Marilyn Mosby tried to lynch a bunch of Baltimore cops over a criminal’s accidental death. It didn’t go her way. Nothing did. And now she’s history. Eight years and more than 2,500 homicides later, the city’s Democratic voters ousted Marilyn Mosby as Baltimore state’s attorney, choosing defense attorney Ivan Bates in Tuesday’s…

Say what you will about Jesse Jackson, but even during his shakedown days, he wasn’t trying to shake down puppets. Standards are lower now and every fake viral video racism controversy becomes a shakedown or a race riot. Or both. And so bad times have come to Sesame Street. This particular stupid story began with…

GM CEO Mary Barra’s ties to Obama aren’t news. But even while financial regulators are pressured into punishing companies for not complying with environmentalist agendas, it’s GM’s environmentalist obsession under Barra that is hurting the company’s shareholders. GM, in typical Obama fashion, is implementing a doomed environmentalist agenda that is failing investors, employees and consumers.…

I liked it better when the Iraqi Information Minister wasn’t on our team. “This is not an economy that is in recession,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told moderator Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”  “You don’t see any of the signs. Now, a recession is a broad-based contraction that affects many sectors of the economy. We just don’t have…

A guy who lost a presidential election but made a fortune has some thoughts on the political system. Gore, in an interview with Meet the Press’ Chuck Todd that will air Sunday, said that public sentiment is changing in regards to climate change but that “democracy is broken,” The only people who think “democracy is broken”…

Cheap labor. The cheapest.  Underage workers, in some cases as young as 12, have recently worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC, these people said. SMART, listed by Hyundai in corporate filings as a majority-owned unit, supplies parts for some of the most popular cars and SUVs built by the automaker…