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31 January 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE’RE DOWN TO THE LAST DAY - HELP! - We only get into real trouble on donations when HUGE numbers of readers ignore funding. This month they have and we’re in real trouble now. “You” be the one. That’s the only way it has ever worked. In peace and solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Andy Borowitz | Trump Collapses From Exhaustion After Ninety Minutes of Faking Empathy  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker Borowitz writes: "Donald J. Trump collapsed from exhaustion after approximately ninety minutes of pretending to be a human being with empathy, the White House doctor has confirmed." READ MORE Signature Line From Trump's Speech Is Already a White Nationalist Rallying Cry Judd Legum, ThinkProgress Legum writes: "It was a message that was quickly embraced by white nationalists, who paired the phrase with stock photos of white peo...

The US government put a VW Exec in prison for the emission scandal, yet the FORECLOSURE KING,  Steven Mnuchin  who put Americans on the street gets appointed TREASURY SECRETARY?  Hold on to your wallets! Even as the Trump cronies seek to destroy emission standards, the Clean Air Act, allow Dirty Coal......   VW fires 'dieselgate' executive in his US jail cell Photo: DPA AFP news@thelocal.de @thelocalgermany 22 December 2017 Volkswagen has sacked an executive who was jailed for his role in the German automaker's "dieselgate" scandal - by sending a letter of dismissal to his US prison cell. German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said it learned from sources close to the firm that Oliver Schmidt, who was this month sentenced to seven years in jail, was summarily dismissed in a letter sent to his prison in Milan, Michigan. "His employer is leaving him in the lurch," the daily wrote, accusing Volkswagen of turning Schmidt into ...

Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating BILL VLASIC December 6, 2017 Oliver Schmidt, a Volkswagen executive, speaking at an industry  event in Michigan in 2014. He had been with the company for two  decades when he was arrested in a scheme to deceive regulators. DETROIT — A top Volkswagen official in the United States was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in prison for his role in the German automaker’s decade-long scheme to cheat on diesel emissions tests. The sentencing of Oliver Schmidt, a former Volkswagen manager in Michigan, was the latest turn in a vast scandal that has tarnished the company’s reputation and has cost the carmaker more than $20 billion in fines and settlements. The sentence, including a fine of $400,000, was imposed by Judge Sean F. Cox in Federal District Court in Detroit four months after Mr. Schmidt, 48,  pleaded guilty  to conspiracy to defraud the federal government and to violating the Clean...