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Mueller objected to Barr’s description of Russia investigation’s findings

Mueller objected to Barr’s description of Russia investigation’s findings

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The New York Times reports: Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, wrote a letter in late March to Attorney General William P. Barr objecting to his early description of the Russia investigation’s conclusions that appeared to clear President Trump on possible obstruction of justice, according to the Justice Department and three people with direct knowledge of the communication between the two men. The letter adds to the growing evidence of a rift between them and is another sign of…

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Trump pushes to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group

Trump pushes to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group

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There is not a single American expert on the Muslim Brotherhood who supports designating them as a terrorist group, says @shadihamid. pic.twitter.com/blaOvvSNf7 — Brookings (@BrookingsInst) April 30, 2019 The New York Times reports: The White House is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied and influential Islamist political movement with millions of members across the Middle East, according to officials familiar with the…

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At Trump golf course, undocumented employees say they get systematically cheated when told to work extra hours without pay

At Trump golf course, undocumented employees say they get systematically cheated when told to work extra hours without pay

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The Washington Post reports: His bosses at the Trump country club called it “side work.” On some nights, after the club’s Grille Room closed, head waiter Jose Gabriel Juarez — an undocumented immigrant from Mexico — was told to clock out. He pressed his index finger onto a scanner and typed his personal code, 436. But he didn’t go home. Instead — on orders from his bosses, Juarez said — he would stay on, sometimes past midnight. He vacuumed carpets,…

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Why Trump wants to prevent Deutsche Bank from sharing his financial records

Why Trump wants to prevent Deutsche Bank from sharing his financial records

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The New York Times reports: Over two decades, Deutsche Bank lent Donald J. Trump billions of dollars, even as his tarnished financial record put him off limits for most of Wall Street. “You are a great friend,” Mr. Trump wrote to his Deutsche Bank contact in 1998. “We have a great relationship,” he said in 2013. “They are totally happy with me,” he declared three years later. Now, Deutsche Bank is putting the president on the defensive. Lawyers for the…

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Donald Trump committed crimes

Donald Trump committed crimes

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Benjamin Wittes writes: I spent the week after the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report going through it section by section and writing a kind of diary of the endeavor. My goal was less to summarize the report than to force myself to think about each factual, legal, and analytical portion of Mueller’s discussion, which covers a huge amount of ground. Here are five conclusions I drew from the exercise: The president committed crimes. There is no way around…

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Beto O’Rourke is the latest Democrat to make climate change central to his campaign

Beto O’Rourke is the latest Democrat to make climate change central to his campaign

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BuzzFeed reports: Beto O’Rourke on Monday pledged to spend trillions to combat the climate crisis in the first major policy proposal of his presidential campaign, making him the latest Democrat in the 2020 race to embrace climate change as a top issue. “The greatest threat we face — which will test our country, our democracy, every single one of us — is climate change,” O’Rourke told supporters in a campaign email. His plan, starting day one in the White House,…

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As security officials prepare for Russian attack on 2020 presidential race, Trump and aides play down threat

As security officials prepare for Russian attack on 2020 presidential race, Trump and aides play down threat

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The Washington Post reports: In recent months, U.S. national security officials have been preparing for Russian interference in the 2020 presidential race by tracking cyber threats, sharing intelligence about foreign disinformation efforts with social media companies and helping state election officials protect their systems against foreign manipulation. But these actions are strikingly at odds with statements from President Trump, who has rebuffed warnings from his senior aides about Russia and sought to play down that country’s potential to influence American…

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In the Middle East, a new military crescent is in the making

In the Middle East, a new military crescent is in the making

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Marwan Kabalan writes: With the breakout of the Arab Spring more than eight years ago, pro-democracy activists in the Arab world and elsewhere were hopeful that the tide of democratic change might have finally reached its shores. Many who had criticised the likes of American scholar Samuel Huntington, who saw democracy as an alien concept to Middle Eastern culture, felt vindicated. The euphoria of the Arab Spring did not last long, however. In Syria, Libya and Yemen, civil wars erupted,…

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My England is in a mess. Scotland’s case for independence is stronger than ever

My England is in a mess. Scotland’s case for independence is stronger than ever

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John Harris writes: If the three-year saga of Brexit tells us anything, it is that the United Kingdom is irretrievably breaking apart. Beyond the glaring fact that Scottish and English politics now have almost nothing in common, there is a deep sense that Brexit is testing some of the UK’s already-fragile institutions to destruction. Even if a Labour government at Westminster succeeded in calming things down by getting to grips with some key social and economic problems and handing Scotland…

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The rise of the climate vote bloc

The rise of the climate vote bloc

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Anna Taylor writes: April has been quite the month for climate action. The organisation I co-founded, the UK Student Climate Network, held its third Youth Strike 4 Climate demonstrations just two weeks ago which for the third month in succession saw tens of thousands take to the streets across the UK demanding climate justice and a Green New Deal. Extinction Rebellion also kicked off a huge act of extended nonviolent civil disobedience by reclaiming public spaces in London and causing…

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Corbyn launches bid to declare UK climate emergency

Corbyn launches bid to declare UK climate emergency

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The Observer reports: Labour will this week force a vote in parliament to declare a national environmental and climate change emergency as confidential documents show the government has spent only a fraction of a £100m fund allocated in 2015 to support clean air projects. Jeremy Corbyn’s party will demand on Wednesday that the country wakes up to the threat and acts with urgency to avoid more than 1.5°C of warming, which will require global emissions to fall by about 45%…

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Spare me your thoughts and prayers. The U.S. has betrayed its Jews

Spare me your thoughts and prayers. The U.S. has betrayed its Jews

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Jane Eisner writes: The United States Constitution, and the government sworn to uphold it, is not protecting its citizens. It did not protect Lori Gilbert Kaye, the 60-year-old woman with a kind smile and a generous disposition, who was murdered by an anti-Semitic terrorist as she prayed in synagogue yesterday, the final day of Passover. It did not protect the others who were injured in this horrific hate crime, including the rabbi who bravely continued to teach and implored his…

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Ignore the Poway Synagogue shooter’s manifesto: Pay attention to 8chan’s /pol/ board

Ignore the Poway Synagogue shooter’s manifesto: Pay attention to 8chan’s /pol/ board

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Robert Evans writes: On April 27, 2019, at around 11:30 a.m. local time, a young man with a semi-automatic rifle walked into the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in Poway, California. He opened fire, killing one worshipper and wounding three others. In the hours since the shooting, a manifesto, believed to be written by the shooter, began circulating online. Evidence has also surfaced that, like the Christchurch Mosque shooter, this killer began his rampage with a post on 8chan’s /pol/ board….

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If Trump weren’t president, he would already be indicted

If Trump weren’t president, he would already be indicted

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  Mimi Rocah and Renato Mariotti write: Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report is 448 pages long, full of shocking conduct and detail that has prompted non-stop discussion since it was released last week. But one thing seems indisputable from our perspective as former federal prosecutors looking at the evidence laid out by the report: If Donald Trump were not now president he would have been indicted on multiple counts of obstruction of justice. And that case would be as strong,…

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The gray race for the White House

The gray race for the White House

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Edward-Isaac Dovere writes: “Joe Biden. He understands what’s happening today.” The newspaper ad ran a few weeks before the 1972 Senate election in Delaware, when the upstart 29-year-old was challenging a 63-year-old incumbent. The ad, which appeared in The News Journal, Delaware’s major newspaper, happened to run under a column that described Biden’s newly combative strategy in the closing days of the race. Biden’s approach then, according to the columnist, was “in effect, ‘Dear old dad may have been right…

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Donald Trump’s role in the latest synagogue shooting

Donald Trump’s role in the latest synagogue shooting

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While Jews were shot for being Jewish by an armed white man this weekend, @realDonaldTrump — who has emboldened white nationalists and incited white nationalist violence — spoke at the @NRA convention to advocate for more guns for more white men. He is to blame. https://t.co/hUyqLXaKuh — Sophie Ellman-Golan (@EgSophie) April 27, 2019 NBC reports: Multiple law enforcement sources confirm to NBC News that the suspect in the Poway synagogue shooting is 19-year-old John T. Earnest. According to a manifesto,…

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