According to a White House official, Bloomberg is reporting that President Donald Trump is considering Mike Rogers, a former congressman and FBI agent from Michigan, to replace James Comey as FBI director.
Rogers, 53, a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, retired from Congress in 2015 after seven terms to pursue a career in talk radio.
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Bye bye, so long farewell, Aetna fully exits Obamacare exchanges with pull-out in two states
Health insurer Aetna Inc said on Wednesday it will exit the 2018 Obamacare individual insurance market in Delaware and Nebraska – the two remaining states where it offered the plans.
Aetna had already said it would exit the individual commercial market in Virginia and Iowa, after pulling out of several other states last year.
Two days after Trump's termination of James Comey, more details about the circumstances of Comey's departure continue to emerge and the most dramatic highlight from this morning's news wrap comes from the WaPo, which reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - the man who was instrumental in arranging Comey's termination - may not stay at the DOJ much longer.
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
Marine Le Pen’s defeat, if the vote count was honest, indicates that the French are even more insouciant than Americans.
The week before the election the Russian high command announced that Washington had convinced the Russian military that Washington intended a preemptive nuclear first strike against Russia. No European leader saw danger in this annoucement except Le Pen.
President Nicolas Maduro has overseen an unprecedented depreciation in his country’s currency since taking office, with the bolivar now down 99.5 percent to 5,100 per dollar in the black market that everyday Venezuelans use.
As Bloomberg reports, the sharp decline has wiped out savings and made buying imported goods all but impossible, helping fuel the anger directed at the government in street protests that have turned deadly in recent weeks.