Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Kavanaugh Accuser Julie Swetnick Has History Of Legal Disputes
Julie Swetnick, one of the women who publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, reportedly has been involved in at least six legal disputes over the past 25 years. The cases include a personal injury lawsuit Swetnick filed in 1994 against the Washington, D.C., regional transit authority and a November 2000 suit…
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Fast Forward Conservative Newspaper Apologizes For Publishing Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory
A conservative newspaper issued a retraction and apology to the brother of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered in July 2016 and became the subject of conspiracy theories, Vox reported. A column in The Washington Times in March titled “More cover-up questions: The curious murder of Seth Rich poses questions that…
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Fast Forward Zuckerberg, Sandberg’s Facebook Accounts Affected In Latest Hack
Fifty million Facebook users were affected by the social media giant’s latest security breach — including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. Facebook announced Friday that an attack on its computer network exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million accounts, the New York Times reported. It was the largest breach in the company’s…
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Fast Forward ‘Clean Meat’ Could Be The Answer To Kosher Bacon
Imagine a world with kosher bacon. It may be here sooner than you think. Rabbi Gavriel Price has the difficult task of determining how the Orthodox Union should approve “clean meat,” which is meat grown in laboratories from animal cells, the New York Times reported. The Orthodox Union is one of the leading certifiers of…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Was ‘Paranoid’ About Chris Christie, Orchestrated His Firing
Jared Kushner was allegedly “paranoid” about former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — so he had him fired, The Daily Beast reported from an excerpt of a new tell-all book. In “The Fifth Risk,” bestselling author Michael Lewis dives into President Trump’s messy presidential transition and how it has shaped his time in office. The…
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Fast Forward Minneapolis Holocaust Survivor Reclaims His German Citizenship
At 85 years old, a Holocaust survivor living in Minneapolis became a German citizen. Fred Amram described the re-naturalization ceremony September 25 at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul as “bittersweet.” Born in Nazi Germany in 1933, Amram was stripped of his citizenship at 2 years old, when the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws were enacted, the…
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Fast Forward Dershowitz Cites Rabbi In Call For Fresh Kavanaugh Investigation
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz says Senate Judiciary Committee should postpone voting on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until the FBI can investigate the three allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Dershowitz, an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School and frequent cable news talking head, shared his views in an op-ed for Fox News on Thursday following…
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Fast Forward Meet Christine Blasey Ford’s Pro Bono Lawyer, Michael Bromwich
One of Christine Blasey Ford’s lead attorneys, Michael Bromwich, is representing her pro bono, the Washington Examiner reported. Bromwich, who is Jewish, served as a Justice Department inspector general during the Clinton administration. He joined Ford’s legal team, which includes civil rights lawyer Debra Katz, over the weekend, according to his colleagues and a spokesperson….
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