President Trump sues Elijah Cummings, House Oversight Committee chair, to block subpoenas for tax returns, financial information – CBS News
President Trump sues Elijah Cummings, House Oversight Committee chair, to block subpoenas for tax returns, financial information – CBS News

President Trump and the Trump Organization are suing House Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings to stop subpoenas for financial information from the president’s businesses. Mr. Trump filed the lawsuit Monday morning in D.C. District Court, after Cummings authorized subpoenas for Mazars USA LLP, the president’s longtime accountant, along with a few Trump entities. 

Mr. Trump, in a strongly worded complaint, claims Congress only has oversight power insofar as it relates to producing legislation.

“Chairman Cummings has ignored the constitutional limits on Congress’ power to investigate,” the complaint filed by Mr. Trump reads. “Article I of the Constitution does not contain an ‘Investigations Clause’ or an ‘Oversight Clause.’ It gives Congress the power to enact certain legislation. Accordingly, investigations are legitimate only insofar as they further some legitimate legislative purpose,” the complaint reads. 

Mr. Trump’s attorney in the case, William Consovoy, is also representing him in the fight over the president’s tax returns. Stefan Passantino is the attorney representing Trump entities. The Trump Organization, the Trump Corporation, the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and the Trump Old Post Office LLC are also plaintiffs in the president’s lawsuit. 

“We welcome the opportunity to represent President Trump and the other plaintiffs in this matter,” their joint statement reads. “The committee’s attempt to obtain years’ worth of confidential information from their accountants lacks any legitimate legislative purposes, is an abuse of power, and is just another example of overreach by the president’s political opponents. We look forward to vindicating our clients’ rights in this matter.”

Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s personal attorneys, said in a statement, “We will not allow congressional presidential harassment to go unanswered.” 

Cummings responded to the suit by saying the legal complaint “reads more like political talking points than a reasoned legal brief.” 

“The president has a long history of trying to use baseless lawsuits to attack his adversaries, but there is simply no valid legal basis to interfere with this duly authorized subpoena from Congress,” Cummings said. “This complaint reads more like political talking points than a reasoned legal brief, and it contains a litany of inaccurate information. The White House is engaged in unprecedented stonewalling on all fronts, and they have refused to produce a single document or witness to the Oversight Committee during this entire year.”

A spokesperson for Mazars USA said that as a “matter of corporate policy Mazars does not comment on ongoing legal proceedings.”

— CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett and Rebecca Kaplan contributed to this report. 

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Elizabeth Warren’s plan to cancel student loan debt would be a slap in the face to all those who struggled to pay off their loans – Washington Examiner
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to cancel student loan debt would be a slap in the face to all those who struggled to pay off their loans – Washington Examiner

In the escalating battle of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to see who can offer the most free stuff, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has taken the extraordinary step of calling for having the government forgive student loan debt. This pander will not only be incredibly costly, but it will be a slap in the face to those who have already struggled to pay off their student loans without government assistance.

The political logic is understandable for Warren, who has been struggling to break through in polls. Like most other candidates, Warren has promised to deliver free college. But free college doesn’t do much for millennials, who make up a sizable portion of the Democratic electorate. They are already past college age, and mostly are not old enough to have kids nearing college. But what they do have is a mountain of student loan debt, so promising to cancel all of their debt would have a huge impact on their finances.

Right now, more than a third of millennials have student loan debt, and studies have shown that the debt is leading them to delay major life decisions including purchasing a house, saving for retirement, and even getting married and having kids. Total student loan debt is now at $1.6 trillion in the United States, making the money owed high than auto loans and credit card debt and trailing only mortgages in terms of the value of various forms of consumer credit. Unlike other forms of debt that are spread across the whole population, student loan debt is concentrated mostly among younger Americans.

What Warren is proposing is to offer debt cancellation of up to $50,000 to more than 42 million people, or 95% of those with debt. She says that will completely wipe out debt for 75% of borrowers with student loans.

Aside from the cost, which, like her child care proposal, she claims would be covered by her ultra-millionaires tax, the plan would be tremendously unfair to those who have been struggling for years to pay off their student loans.

It’s true, some people may simply earn too little to make a dent in student loans no matter how hard they work and no matter how much they reduce their expenses. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.

There are those who may have taken higher-paying jobs they didn’t necessarily want to pay off loans. And there are those who have cut expenses to the bare bones to pay off loans while watching their friends with similar salaries eat out and travel and de-prioritize paying off loans. Those who were more responsible will feel justifiably enraged at the idea that those who may have been more profligate will now get a bailout from the government.

This is the worst sort of pander from an increasingly desperate politician.

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The Supreme Court just took up a set of very big cases on LGBTQ rights – Vox.com
The Supreme Court just took up a set of very big cases on LGBTQ rights – Vox.com

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take a trio of cases that will, collectively, help decide the future of gay and transgender rights in America.

The Court agreed to hear three cases that have to do with whether existing federal bans on sex discrimination in the workplace also prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. In the consolidated Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda and Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, a skydiving instructor and a child welfare services coordinator, respectively, said they were fired for being gay. And in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a funeral home employee said she was fired because she came out as transgender.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency, has said that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The law doesn’t explicitly prohibit anti-gay or anti-trans discrimination, instead banning discrimination based on sex. But advocates argue that bans on sex discrimination should cover anti-gay and anti-trans discrimination as well, because discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is fundamentally rooted in expectations about a person’s sex.

Some lower courts have agreed with the stance. In R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, for instance, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals declared, “It is analytically impossible to fire an employee based on that employee’s status as a transgender person without being motivated, at least in part, by the employee’s sex.”

But some courts have also ruled against LGBTQ rights — like the 11th Circuit Court’s ruling that “discharge for homosexuality is not prohibited by Title VII.” President Donald Trump’s administration has also argued that Title VII doesn’t prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The Supreme Court will now settle the question. It’s unclear how they’ll rule: The Court now has a likely conservative majority on these issues, since former Justice Anthony Kennedy — a strong ally of LGBTQ rights, despite his largely conservative record — retired in 2018. That could be bad news for LGBTQ rights.

Most states don’t explicitly ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination

The cases cover a big gap in LGBTQ rights in the US: Under federal and most states’ laws, LGBTQ people aren’t explicitly protected from discrimination in the workplace, housing, or public accommodations (like restaurants, hotels, and other places that serve the public).

So someone can be fired from a job, evicted from a home, or kicked out of a business just because an employer, landlord, or business owner doesn’t approve of the person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Similarly, federal and most states’ laws don’t explicitly ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination in schools.

But federal and state laws do ban discrimination based on race, religion, nationality, and sex in the workplace, schools, and other settings. This is what the Civil Rights Act and other federal and state civil rights laws that followed were about.

What activists want to do is expand the existing civil rights protections to also protect LGBTQ people.

Advocates argue federal civil rights laws should already protect LGBTQ people

Civil rights advocates claim, however, that federal law should already shield LGBTQ people from discrimination, because, they say, bans on sex discrimination also ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

According to advocates, discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity is fundamentally rooted in prohibited sex-based expectations. For example, if someone discriminates against a gay man, that’s largely based on the expectation that a man should only love or have sex with a woman — a belief built on the idea of what a person of a certain sex should be like.

Similarly, if someone discriminates against a trans woman, that’s largely based on the expectation that a person designated male at birth should identify as a man — again, a belief built on the idea of what a person of a certain sex assigned at birth should be like.

On the other side, opponents argue that LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections aren’t included in existing federal civil rights laws, because the authors of federal civil rights laws never believed or intended that bans on sex discrimination also ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

LGBTQ advocates, citing legal precedent, say that what the original laws’ authors believe or intended is irrelevant. Joshua Block, an attorney with the ACLU LGBT and HIV Project, cited a 1998 Supreme Court case, Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services Inc., in which the Court unanimously agreed that bans on sex discrimination prohibit same-sex sexual harassment. Same-sex sexual harassment was not something the authors of federal civil rights laws considered, but it’s something, the Supreme Court said, that a plain reading of the law protects.

“Oncale says that’s irrelevant whether [Congress] contemplated it,” Block previously told me. “This is literal sex discrimination. Whether or not that’s what Congress was focused on doesn’t make it any less a type of discrimination covered by the statute.”

Even if courts conclude that statutory bans on sex discrimination do ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, under federal law that would only create explicit protections in the workplace, housing, and schools — but not public accommodations. That’s because federal civil rights laws don’t ban sex discrimination in public accommodations. That leaves a hole in nondiscrimination laws to be settled even if courts ultimately come down in favor of LGBTQ rights.

Soon, the US Supreme Court will decide just how many protections LGBTQ people have under federal law.

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Iran’s hard-liners can ill afford new US sanctions, they will retaliate – Washington Examiner
Iran’s hard-liners can ill afford new US sanctions, they will retaliate – Washington Examiner

Under escalating pressure from U.S. sanctions, Iran’s leaders face an existential crisis. As a result, they are increasingly likely to strike out against the U.S. in response.

The latest U.S. action against Iran came on Monday when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended waivers that allow foreign nations to purchase Iranian oil without U.S. sanction reprisals. Pompeo, however, also pledged that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will increase their oil production to maintain price stability. It’s the correct course of action.

Yes, the U.S. must ensure this doesn’t harm America’s growing partnership with India, a top importer of Iranian oil, and yes, the U.S. should more tightly define its demands of Iran. Trump should also authorize similar action against Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuelan regime.

Still, ending waivers will reduce the power of Iran’s hard-line faction. Their declining revenue means less ability to spread sectarian brutality. And for the fanatics, America’s pressure comes at an inopportune time. Iran’s economy is already suffering. Economic growth is lethargic, inflation reached 47% in March 2019, food inflation is even higher, and youth unemployment soars. With Iran highly dependent on oil exports for its foreign capital generation, U.S. oil export pressure will cut deep.

The hard-liners need oil sales to prop up the security agencies and militias that sustain its power. Crude oil prices are now at $65 a barrel and have been rising since January, when they went as low as $45 per barrel. Unable to sell oil at today’s higher price, Iran is losing out at the margin on hundreds of millions of otherwise easy dollars.

Yet the U.S. shouldn’t be arrogant here, for it is precisely the coming economic damage and lost opportunity that will motivate the hard-liners to escalate.

While that escalation has been coming for months now, the portent of a near-total end to oil export revenue will catalyze the hard-liners’ fear and anger. They live and die for the Islamic revolution and will protect that interest at high cost. The most likely Iranian action is closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which vast oil supplies flow. Iran might hope that this action would induce international pressure on the U.S. to reduce its pressure on Iran.

Pompeo knows this, which explains why he warned on Monday that any violence by Iranian officers, agents, or militias will meet forceful retaliation. Regardless, choppy waters lie ahead.

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Sri Lanka authorities warned of Easter church bombings weeks before Sunday’s massacre, officials say – Fox News
Sri Lanka authorities warned of Easter church bombings weeks before Sunday’s massacre, officials say – Fox News
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Sri Lanka points to Islamic militants in series of attacks on churches and hotels

After a day of deadly Easter Sunday attacks, counterterrorism expert Bobby Chacon says the massacre shows the radical ideology is spreading.

Weeks before coordinated bombings ripped through churches and luxury hotels — killing nearly 300 people on Easter Sunday — authorities in Sri Lanka received warnings a domestic radical Muslim group would attack the nation on the Christian holy day.

Despite multiple warnings from international intelligence agencies, however, Sri Lanka’s security officials reportedly failed to heed the alerts and apparently took no action to protect against a potential attack. Authorities were first alerted to the threat April 4.

More than two weeks later, near-simultaneous blasts detonated at three churches and three luxury hotels in and around Colombo, the capital city. Two more explosions occurred hours later outside of Colombo – one at a guesthouse and the other near an overpass.

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA – APRIL 21: An inside view of the St. Anthony’s Shrine after an explosion hit St Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade in Colombo, Sri Lanka on April 21, 2019. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

US STATE DEPARTMENT WARNS OF POSSIBILITY OF MORE ATTACKS IN SRI LANKA

At least 290 people – including 39 foreigners – were killed and more than 500 people were injured. The government on Monday said the attacks were likely perpetrated by local militant group National Thowfeek Jaamath, a little-known radical Islamist organization.

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Experts told the New York Times the group promotes an Islamic terrorist ideology.

“These attacks appear to be quite different and look as if they came right out of the ISIS, Al Qaeda, global militant jihadist playbook, as these are attacks fomenting religious hatred by attacking multiple churches on a high religious holiday,” Anne Speckhard, the director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, told the newspaper.

Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said international agencies warned of possible attacks several times beginning in early April. He said the defense ministry wrote to the police chief on April 9 to give law enforcement a heads up about the intelligence, including providing the group’s name.

Sri Lankan authorities blame seven suicide bombers of a domestic militant group for coordinated Easter bombings that ripped through Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels which killed and injured hundreds of people. It was Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Two days later, on April 11, police wrote to the heads of security of the judiciary and diplomatic security division about the warnings. It was not immediately clear what action, if any, was taken in response.

EASTER MASSACRE AT CHURCHES, HOTELS IN SRI LANKA KILLED TV CHEF, MOTHER AND SON, AMERICANS

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Top government officials, including Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his Cabinet, were reportedly kept in the dark about the intelligence until after the attack – which Senaratne blamed on political dysfunction within the government.

“We must look into why adequate precautions were not taken,” Wickremesinghe said Sunday.

An investigation has been launched into the apparent breakdown of communication within the government.

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A forensic analysis of body parts found at six sites determined seven suicide bombers conducted the coordinated assault. Most attacks were carried out by single bombers, but two men targeted the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo.

Officials said all the bombers were Sri Lankan citizens, but authorities said foreign links to the plot were suspected. At least 24 suspects were in custody for questioning.

On Monday, a van that had been parked since Sunday near St. Anthony’s Shrine – one of the churches targeted in the attack – exploded. No injuries were reported after that blast.

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Police said they went to inspect the van after people reported it had not been moved in more than a day. Inside, cops discovered three bombs that they tried to defuse. Instead, the bombs detonated, sending panic-stricken pedestrians fleeing.

Authorities said a large bomb had been found and defused late Sunday on an access road to the international airport.

POPE CELEBRATES EASTER SUNDAY AMID BLOODSHED IN SRI LANKA

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, said the attacks could have been thwarted.

“We placed our hands on our heads when we came to know that these deaths could have been avoided. Why was this not prevented?” he said.

The U.S. State Department confirmed “several” Americans died in the attacks and on Sunday issued a revised travel warning to Sri Lanka, saying terror groups continue to plot and may possibly carry out new attacks in hotels and churches.

The alert said possible targets include tourist locations and transportation hubs, noting the terrorists “may attack with little or no warning.”

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The Sri Lankan government initially lifted a curfew that had been imposed during the night but reinstated it Monday afternoon. Most social media remained blocked Monday after officials said they needed to curtail the spread of false information and ease tension in the country of about 21 million people.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Sri Lanka bombings death toll rises to 290 in ‘brand-new type of terrorism’ – CNN
Sri Lanka bombings death toll rises to 290 in ‘brand-new type of terrorism’ – CNN

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(CNN)At least 290 people are now known to have died in a coordinated attack on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, in what officials have called a “brand-new type of terrorism.”

      CNN’s Tara John and CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen also contributed to this report. Journalist Sandun Arosha F’do reported from Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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    Sri Lankan government blocks social media and imposes curfew following deadly blasts – The Washington Post
    Sri Lankan government blocks social media and imposes curfew following deadly blasts – The Washington Post

    Jennifer Hassan

    Niha Masih

    Tony Romm

    April 22 at 12:02 AM

    The Sri Lankan government blocked access to Facebook and other social-networking sites Sunday after suicide attacks killed more than 290 people, a move meant to stop misinformation from inciting further violence in a country where online mistruths have fomented deadly ethnic unrest.

    But the blackout also had the effect of eliminating a key means of communication during a major terrorist event — a problem Sunday for both Sri Lankans and foreigners desperate to get information about security and check in with loved ones.

    Analysts, meanwhile, question whether shutting down social media is effective at defusing strife. The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists has said there is no “substantive” evidence to show that such bans, which are common in South Asia, can “scale down violence.”

    Roshni Fernando moved to Colombo recently from London. After suicide bombers struck churches and hotels Sunday morning, she was frustrated by her inability to reach people back home.

    “If I don’t reply to your messages it is because WhatsApp and Facebook appears to have been shutdown in Sri Lanka,” she wrote on Twitter.

    “I have had friends in London trying to contact me through both,” she told The Washington Post, “and I can’t see them or message anybody.”

    The rapid proliferation of falsehoods online has become a regular consequence of shootings, terrorist attacks and other major news events — one that Facebook, Google, Twitter and other social media sites have struggled to curtail. Within hours of the first bombings Sunday morning, researchers said they saw a spike in false reports about the perpetrators and the number of victims.

    In response, Sri Lanka’s Defense Ministry said the government had “taken steps to temporarily block all the social media avenues until the investigations are concluded.” A state-run news service said “false news reports were spreading through social media.”

    Facebook said it was “working to support first responders and law enforcement as well as to identify and remove content which violates our standards.” The social media giant said in a statement it was “committed to maintaining our services and helping the community and the country during this tragic time.”

    Twitter declined to comment. Representatives for Snapchat and Google-owned YouTube did not respond to requests for comment.

    Viber, a messaging app popular in Sri Lanka, did not comment on the ban, but the platform tweeted soon after the attacks, offering support and encouraging users to “be responsible and rely on updates from official and trusted sources.”

    NetBlocks, a London-based digital rights organization, said its data show each of those services had been affected. Alp Toker, the group’s executive director, said it appeared that the Sri Lankan government had ordered local Internet providers to implement the blackout. The providers interpreted the order differently, he said, which explained why some social-networking services still seemed to be operable for some users.

    Sanjana Hattotuwa, a senior researcher at Center for Policy Alternatives in Colombo who monitors social media for fake news, said he saw a significant uptick in false reports after the bombings Sunday.

    There was a significant amount of misinformation on the death toll, he said, and unverified information on perpetrators was spreading rapidly on Facebook and Twitter. He cited two instances of widely shared unverified information: An Indian media report attributing the attack to Muslim suicide bombers, and a tweet from a Sri Lankan minister about an intelligence report warning of an attack.

    No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The government made 13 arrests on Sunday, but has not identified the suspects.

    Hattotuwa has asked users to flag such content directly to him.

    “There are new Twitter accounts popping up putting out unverified information,” he said. “There are Facebook posts which violate the guidelines through either intent or are graphic in nature.”

    Hattotuwa was sharing the information with Facebook and Twitter. He said the platforms were on “high alert.”

    South Asia saw the highest number of shutdowns globally in 2018, according to the International Federation of Journalists. The organization said authorities justified most of these shutdowns by citing “law and order” imperatives, saying the measures were intended to preempt violence, or were undertaken in response to it.

    Governments around the world have expressed deep unease with the spread of misinformation and violence on social media, particularly during shootings and terrorist attacks. Facebook and YouTube, for example, struggled to remove graphic video from the deadly attack on two mosques in New Zealand last month. The New Zealand government has proposed rules that would compel companies to take down such content faster or face penalties, an idea that European regulators also have considered in recent weeks.

    Sri Lanka’s government shut down access to social media platforms in March 2018 out of concerns that sites had helped militants foment deadly ethnic unrest in the deeply divided country. Anti-Muslim riots left three dead and prompted officials to declare a state of emergency.

    Officials said Facebook and Facebook-owned WhatsApp had “been used to destroy families, lives and private property.” And they accused the tech giant of failing to act swiftly and aggressively enough to take down content that had been deemed a national security risk.

    But Hattotuwa said Sri Lanka’s action in 2018 was undertaken too late, after the violence had already broken out.

    “While a ban on social media helps to contain the spread of rumors, it also hampers efforts by journalists to push back on them,” he said.

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    Trump administration set to end sanction exemptions for nations importing Iranian oil: report – Fox News
    Trump administration set to end sanction exemptions for nations importing Iranian oil: report – Fox News

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference to announce the Trump administration’s plan to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization.” (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

    The Trump administration is set to inform five nations that they will no longer be exempt from U.S. sanctions if they continue to import oil from Iran, reports said Sunday.

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to announce the policy move on Monday, which would no longer renew sanctions waivers for allies Japan, South Korea, and Turkey. The other countries no longer exempt are China and India.

    The waivers for sanctions will expire on May 2. The Washington Post first reported on the move, and three sources confirmed the report to the Associated Press.

    President Trump finalized the measure on Friday, according to the Post, in an effort to apply “maximum economic pressure” by cutting off its oil exports and reducing its main revenue source to zero.

    In reaction to the administration’s move and expectations of tightening supply, early trading on Monday indicated Benchmark Brent crude oil futures rose by as much as 3.2 percent to $74.31 a barrel, the highest since Nov. 1, Reuters reports.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    Michael Avenatti accused of stealing almost $2M from girlfriend of NBA player – Washington Examiner
    Michael Avenatti accused of stealing almost $2M from girlfriend of NBA player – Washington Examiner

    Embattled celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti has been accused of embezzling almost $2 million after he struck a lucrative settlement for the former girlfriend of NBA player Hassan Whiteside.

    Avenatti, as the attorney for Alexis Gardner, 27, negotiated a $3 million deal for the actress and barista, $2.75 million of which Miami Heat player Whiteside, 29, wired to a trust account set up by Avenatti in January 2017, according to bank records and an Apr. 10 indictment by a California-based grand jury.

    Avenatti was entitled to $1 million in legal fees, but he did not tell Gardner about the payment and misrepresented the terms of her agreement with Whiteside, prosecutors allege in the indictment. Instead, he funneled $2.5 million into the bank account of a law firm owned by an associate so he could buy a share of a small private jet.

    Avenatti told Gardner that Whiteside’s first payment was for legal fees, but that she would be receive monthly installments over the next eight years. He made 11 transfers to Gardner, totaling $194,000, before the money ceased in June 2018.

    Although Whiteside and Gardner confirmed the settlement in a statement, Avenatti pushed back on accusations he acted illegally or inappropriately.

    “No monies were ever embezzled from anyone and I look forward to all of the relevant documents and facts being presented at trial,” he told the Los Angeles Times in an email. “The clients complaining are a very small fraction of the thousands of clients I have serviced over my nearly 20 year career.”

    The 36-count grand jury indictment refers to four other clients from which Avenatti allegedly stole millions of dollars, including mentally ill, paraplegic Geoffrey Ernest Johnson and YouTube makeup artist Michelle Phan. He has also been charged tax, bank, and bankruptcy fraud, as well as perjury. He additionally faces a federal extortion and conspiracy case in New York over his dealings with Nike. Avenatti denies any wrongdoing.

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    Sri Lanka reportedly had warning before Easter church bombings – ABC News
    Sri Lanka reportedly had warning before Easter church bombings – ABC News

    At least 290 people were killed and hundreds more injured on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka when attackers unleashed an apparently coordinated series of suicide bombings that simultaneously targeted Christian churches and luxury hotels, sending a wave a terror across the globe.

    Eight explosions took place miles apart, three at Christian churches holding Easter services and three at hotels, some commonly used by Western tourists. In addition to those who were killed, at least 450 were wounded, according to officials with police, the Colombo Hospital, and St. Sebastian Church.

    Most of the explosions were detonated by suicide bombers, according to the Sri Lankan Defense Ministry.

    (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images) Sri Lankan security personnel survey damage at St. Anthony’s Shrine following an explosion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 21, 2019.

    At least 11 foreigners were confirmed killed in the attacks, including two victims who were dual citizens of the United States and the United Kingdom. One American was also among the missing, officials said.

    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed Sunday that “several U.S. citizens were among those killed.”

    All of the foreigners died in attacks on hotels in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, an island nation off the southern tip of India in the Indian Ocean, according to the officials.

    President Donald Trump sent his condolences to the country in an early morning tweet from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where he is spending the Easter holiday.

    “The United States offers heartfelt condolences to the great people of Sri Lanka,” the president tweeted. “We stand ready to help!”

    White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in the statement that “the United States condemns in the strongest terms the outrageous terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka that have claimed so many precious lives on this Easter Sunday.”

    “Our heartfelt condolences go out to the families of the more than 200 killed and hundreds of others wounded,” Sanders said in the statement. “We stand with the Sri Lankan government and people as they bring to justice the perpetrators of these despicable and senseless acts.”

    There were eight simultaneous explosions around 8:45 a.m. local time. Video from inside the St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, a coastal city about 40 miles north of Colombo, showed the immediate aftermath a bombing there as worshipers who had just been praying for peace found themselves surrounded by devastation, death and chaos.

    There were about 500 people at the Easter Mass at St. Sebastian when the explosion took place, according to officials from the church. Parishioners, many bleeding, scrambled to carry severely injured people from the church, which was littered with overturned chairs, shattered glass and debris that had fallen from the ceiling.

    A statue in the sanctuary of Jesus Christ was left pockmarked and splashed with blood but remained standing.

    St. Anthony’s Shrine, a Catholic church in Colombo, and Zion Church, in Batticaloa, were also attacked. Colombo is located on the western side of Sri Lanka, while Batticaloa is on the eastern shore about 200 miles from the capital.

    (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images) Sri Lankan police stand at the site of an explosion in a restaurant area of the luxury Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 21, 2019.

    I wish to express my heartfelt closeness to the Christian community [of Sri Lanka

    Shangri-La Hotel, Cinnamon Grand Hotel and Kingsbury Hotel, all located in Colombo — and all popular with tourists — were targeted in the bombings. An explosion occurred near an overpass in the area of Dematagoda near Colombo, the Associated Press reported.

    Hours after the initial bombings, a ninth explosion occurred at a guest house in Colombo that killed at least two people, according to police.

    On Sunday night, at 10:15 local time, a 6-foot-long was detected on a road near Colombo International Airport. The country’s air force initiated a controlled explosion, Air Force spokesman Gihan Seneviratne told ABC News.

    Police chief warned of attack

    The wave of bombings came after the Sri Lanka police chief issued a nationwide alert 10 days ago that suicide bombers planned to attack “prominent churches,” according to multiple reports.

    “Some intelligence officers were aware of this incidence. Therefore, there was a delay in action. What my father heard was also from an intelligence officer. Serious action need to be taken as to why this warning was ignored,” Harin Fernando, a member of parliament in Sri Lanka, tweeted Sunday and included a document he says is the security warning.

    Pope Francis prays for the victim

    Following Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Pope Francis condemned the “cruel violence” that “have wrought grief and sorrow.”

    “I wish to express my heartfelt closeness to the Christian community [of Sri Lanka], wounded as it was gathered in prayer, and to all the victims of such cruel violence,” Pope Francis said. “I entrust to the Lord all those who have tragically perished, and I pray for the injured and all those who suffer as a result of this tragic event.”

    Officials who spoke to ABC News were able to confirm at least 24 people were killed at St. Anthony’s Church, 27 died at Batticaloa’s Zion Church and 81 have died at St. Sebastian Church.

    The explosions were followed by the wail of sirens from emergency vehicles headed to the multiple bombing scenes.

    Ruwan Gunasekara, a police spokesman, said that in addition to the 207 killed, approximately 450 people were injured, overwhelming hospitals throughout the island nation.

    The National Hospital in Colombo reported that 66 people had died there from injuries suffered in the attacks and that 260 were being treated, Gunasekara said. At the Negombo Hospital, 104 people were reported dead and 100 of the injured were being treated, he said.

    Another 37 people were pronounced dead at the Kalubowila, Batticaloa and Brown’s hospitals. Eighty-nine people were being treated at those medical centers, Gunaskekara said.

    Authorities confirmed that three British citizens, in addition to the two with dual American citizenship, one Portuguese citizen, three Indian and two Turkish nationals were among the dead.

    “It’s a very, very sad day for all of us. I wish to, therefore, express my deepest sorrow and sympathy to all those innocent families that have lost someone, and also to those who have been injured and rendered destitute,” Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, said at a news conference. “I would like to call upon all to pray that all those who are injured may be healed soon and that all these families who lost someone may be consoled.

    “I condemn to the utmost of my capacity this act that has caused so much death and suffering to the people,” Ranjith said. “I ask all us Sri Lankan people not to take the law into their own hands and to maintain peace and harmony in this country. And I also ask that all those who are able to donate blood in order to help these people who are injured, and then I also appeal to the doctors to please help us.”

    Several suspects arrested

    Secretary of State Pompeo said the U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka is working to provide assistance to American citizens affected by the attacks, including their families.

    “These vile attacks are a stark reminder of why the United States remains resolved in our fight to defeat terrorism,” Pompeo said in his statement. “We stand with the Sri Lankan government and people as they confront violent extremism and have offered our assistance as they work to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

    Buddhism is the most common religion in Sri Lanka. National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri-Lanka documented the growing number of attacks on Christians in 2018, saying there were 67 from January to September.

    (St. Sebastian’s Church) An explosion rocked St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday, April 21, 2019.

    No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks. But Gunasekara, the police spokesman, said at a news conference that several people had been arrested, clarifying an earlier report from the Associated Press that seven suspects were taken into custody. As of early Monday, 24 individuals had been detained.

    Gunasekara also said that multiple raids had been carried out as police worked to identify those responsible for the carnage.

    (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images) Sri Lankan security personnel walk past debris outside Zion Church following an explosion in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, April 21, 2019.

    Gunasekara said it was too early to say who was behind the attack or comment on a possible motive.

    Dangerous history

    Sri Lanka has been at times one of the most dangerous locations in the world for terrorist attacks. A civil war that raged for decades between the ruling government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam — known colloquially as the Tamil Tigers or LTTE — officially ended in 2009, but some conflict has continued. As many as 100,000 people were killed in the civil war from 1982 to 2009, according to the U.N.

    (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) ri Lankan Army soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony’s Shrine after a blast in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019.
    (St. Sebastian’s Church) An explosion rocked St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday, April 21, 2019.

    The U.K. government warns travelers of the risks posed by those visiting the country.

    “Terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka can’t be ruled out,” the government advises on its website. “Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners.”

    (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) People gather outside St. Anthony’s Shrine where a blast happened, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019. A Sri Lanka hospital spokesman says several blasts on Easter Sunday have killed dozens of people.

    The U.S. lists Sri Lanka as a Level 1 country, the lowest risk level, which warns travelers to exercise normal precautions.

    The country was also divided by a constitutional crisis at the end of 2018 when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was removed by the country’s president in October, only to be reinstated in December.

    “I strongly condemn the cowardly attacks on our people today,” Wickremesinghe said in a tweet. “I call upon all Sri Lankans during this tragic time to remain united and strong. Please avoid propagating unverified reports and speculation. The government is taking immediate steps to contain this situation.”

    Security was increased across Sri Lanka, including Colombo’s international airport. Authorities also imposed an indefinite nationwide curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and temporarily blocked major social media and messaging services, including Facebook and WhatsApp, to curb what government officials described as misinformation from being spread.

    U.S. security boosted

    The bombings sent shockwaves all the way to the United States, where security was bolstered at churches coast to coast.

    In California, the Los Angeles Police Department boosted patrols around places of worship. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the State Police to increase security at churches and houses of worship across the state.

    “New York grieves for the victims of the horrific attacks at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday,” Cuomo said in a statement. “On behalf of all New Yorkers, I extend my deepest condolences to the people of Sri Lanka, to the families who lost loved ones and to all those grieving around the world.

    “In the wake of these despicable acts of violence and out of an abundance of caution, I am directing State Police to increase patrols around churches and houses of worship across the state today,” Cuomo said. “During these troubling times, we will not be intimidated by cowardly acts of violence and will continue to do everything in our power to ensure the safety of all New Yorkers.”

    A U.S. intelligence bulletin issued last week and obtained by ABC News raised ongoing serious concerns that U.S. law enforcement generally has in anticipation of high-profile holidays or gatherings, specifically Easter, Passover and Ramadan. But the bulletin said there was no evidence of a confirmed attack planned in the United States or U.S. facilities elsewhere.

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Counterterrorism Center and the Department of Homeland Security “are not aware of any specific, credible threats surrounding the upcoming religious holiday season, but note that previous attacks happened with little to no warning,” read the intelligence bulletin issued on Thursday.

    “Religious holiday gatherings are an attractive target for HVEs [homegrown violent extremists] and domestic extremists because they offer an opportunity to capitalize on large crowds and increased symbolism of the target,” the bulletin reads.

    ABC News’ Kirit Radia, Josh Margolin and Alex Stone contributed to this report.

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    Tulsi Gabbard: Mueller report found ‘no collusion took place,’ Dems shouldn’t push to impeach Trump – Fox News
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    Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a 2020 candidate for president, told Fox News on Sunday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election found “no collusion” between President Trump and Russia — and that it’s time for the country to focus on the issues that matter most to Americans.

    Gabbard, a Democrat, told “America’s News HQ” that while she supported the Mueller investigation, “the conclusion that came from that Mueller report was that no collusion took place. Now is the time for us to come together as a country to put the issues and the interests and the concerns that the American people have at the forefront, to take action to bring about real solutions for them.”

    She continued, “I don’t think that we should defeat Donald Trump through impeachment. I think it’s really important for us, in this country, to come together and have the American people vote to take Donald Trump out of office in 2020.”

    Gabbard’s position came in direct contrast to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who last Friday called on the House of Representatives to start impeachment proceedings. Warren explained Saturday at an event in New Hampshire, “I know people say this is politically charged and we shouldn’t go there, and that there is an election coming up, but there are some things that are bigger than politics.”

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    The Justice Department released a redacted version of Mueller’s report last Thursday. Mueller wrote that he found no proof Trump had conspired with Russia, and did not draw a conclusion over accusations the president may have obstructed justice.

    For his part, President Trump tweeted on Sunday, “Despite No Collusion, No Obstruction, The Radical Left Democrats do not want to go on to Legislate for the good of the people, but only to Investigate and waste time. This is costing our Country greatly, and will cost the Dems big time in 2020!”

    Fox News’ Adam Shaw and Leland Vittert contributed to this report.

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    By Kate Sullivan, CNN

    Updated 9:17 PM ET, Sun April 21, 2019

    Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds.

    Washington (CNN)The State Department is set to announce all countries that continue to import Iranian oil will be subject to US sanctions, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

      CNN’s Mike Callahan contributed to this report.

    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/21/politics/state-department-iran-oil-sanctions/index.html

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    BuzzFeed News editor takes heat for suggesting Trump would be more outraged if Sri Lanka victims were white – Fox News
    BuzzFeed News editor takes heat for suggesting Trump would be more outraged if Sri Lanka victims were white – Fox News

    A BuzzFeed News world editor, Miriam Elder, faced backlash Sunday for her tweet about President Trump and the Sri Lanka attacks. (AP/BuzzFeed, File)

    A BuzzFeed News world editor faced backlash Sunday for taking a swipe at President Trump while tweeting an article about the attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter.

    “Suspect we’d be hearing a lot more outrage from Trump and co. if the Christians killed in Sri Lanka were white,” Miriam Elder tweeted with a link to BuzzFeed News.

    Elder’s tweet, as The Washington Examiner reported, received many more comments than likes or retweets. It had received nearly 3,000 replies, 70 retweets and 170 likes as of Sunday evening.

    Many of the commenters asked why the BuzzFeed News world editor would politicize the terrorist attacks.

    When contacted by Fox News, BuzzFeed News responded: “No comment from us.”

    Trump on Easter morning offered condolences to the people of Sri Lanka. The president tweeted about the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, saying “we stand ready to help!”

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    More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in eight bomb blasts that rocked churches and luxury hotels in or near Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sunday — the deadliest violence the South Asian island country has seen since a bloody civil war ended a decade ago.

    No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks; Sri Lanka’s defense minister described the bombings as a terrorist attack by religious extremists.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    To Defend Against a Mercurial Boss, Trump Aides Wield the Pen as Shield – The New York Times
    To Defend Against a Mercurial Boss, Trump Aides Wield the Pen as Shield – The New York Times

    Mr. Trump was unmoved. “I’ve had a lot of great lawyers, like Roy Cohn,” he said. “He did not take notes.”

    Mr. McGahn’s notes of the conversation about notes, of course, ended up in Mr. Mueller’s hands, as did his notes of times when Mr. Trump tried to order him to fire Mr. Mueller and later lie about it. After Mr. Mueller’s report was released last week, the president lashed out. “Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the notes never existed until needed,” he wrote on Twitter.

    Among those whose notes or memos were obtained by Mr. Mueller were Paul Manafort and Corey Lewandowski, two of Mr. Trump’s campaign managers; George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the campaign; Reince Priebus, Mr. Trump’s first White House chief of staff, and John F. Kelly, his second; and Annie Donaldson, Mr. McGahn’s chief of staff.

    Others included James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director fired by the president; Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the former director of the National Security Agency; Rob Porter, the former White House staff secretary; Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to the president; Jody Hunt, the former chief of staff to the attorney general; Tashina Gauhar, a Justice Department lawyer; and Mark Corallo, a former spokesman for the president’s private legal team.

    Ms. Donaldson was known as a copious note-taker, whose constant documentation made colleagues anxious. Other aides said they were careful never to record anything while in the White House, but went home and wrote down conversations from earlier in the day to help store them in their memories — and then destroyed their notes before bed.

    Mr. Lewandowski kept notes of one key conversation with Mr. Trump in his safe at home, “which he stated was his standard practice with sensitive items,” according to Mr. Mueller’s report. Admiral Rogers’s deputy was so stunned by a phone call that the two had with Mr. Trump about Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election that he memorialized it in a memo signed by both men and stored in a safe.

    The reason Mr. Mueller wanted such documents was not particularly surprising. As his report said, “contemporaneous written notes can provide strong corroborating evidence.” Mr. Comey’s memos of his talks with Mr. Trump helped make the former F.B.I. director’s account more credible than the president’s, according to the report.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/us/politics/trump-mueller-note-taking.html

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    Fight over census citizenship question hits Supreme Court | TheHill – The Hill
    Fight over census citizenship question hits Supreme Court | TheHill – The Hill

    The battle over the Trump administration’s efforts to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census is hitting the Supreme Court.

    The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday over the administration adding the question, a controversial move that has sparked legal battles throughout the U.S. court system.

    The Commerce Department, which administers the census, is expected to argue that it has the authority to collect data on citizenship and that the question is needed to help with the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.

    But opponents of the move, represented by the state of New York, will claim that adding the question will deter undocumented immigrants from filling out the survey, leading to an inaccurate count of the American population.

    Two other parties — House Democrats and a collection of immigrant rights groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union — will also be given a chance to argue to the justices that the addition of the question is unconstitutional.

    The Trump administration has repeatedly seen controversial policies shot down by federal judges but then supported by the Supreme Court. And with three lower court judges blocking the citizenship question from being added to the census, next week’s arguments will present the justices with one of their biggest cases of the term.

    The justices will ultimately have to decide if the Commerce Department’s decision to add the question, announced last year, was done arbitrarily and without proper study of its impact. They will also consider if asking the question violates the Enumeration Clause of the Constitution, which states that Congress must conduct an “actual enumeration,” or count, of the population.

    Court observers say the legal question will likely come down to whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossHouse chairman threatens to find Justice official in contempt of Congress DOJ rejects Oversight subpoena unless agency lawyer is permitted to attend Third judge blocks citizenship question from 2020 census MORE had the actual authority to reinstate the citizenship question to the census roughly 70 years after it last appeared on the survey.

    The administration has argued in briefs to the Supreme Court that Ross acted well within his rights to add the question, citing Congress’s decision to hand over administration of the census to the Commerce Department under the Census Act.

    “The Constitution ‘vests Congress with virtually unlimited discretion in conducting’ the decennial census, and Congress in turn ‘has delegated its constitutional authority over the census’ to the Secretary,” one such filing reads.

    Solicitor General Noel Francisco, who will argue the case on behalf of the administration, is also likely to assert that Ross’s decision was not arbitrary. He’s expected to cite a memo in which the Cabinet secretary asked whether a citizenship question was the best way to help the Department of Justice (DOJ) enforce the Voting Rights Act.

    But critics of including the question disagree. They plan to say in court that the DOJ has been enforcing the Voting Rights Act for decades without data on citizenship and that the move will cause immigrants — particularly undocumented ones — to avoid the survey altogether.

    “The notion that this is going to help enforce the Voting Rights Act is just ludicrous,” Dale Ho, the director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, told The Hill.

    Ho, one of several representatives who will argue before the court against adding the question, said that the high court’s conservative majority is skeptical about giving federal agencies too much authority to carry out their directives.

    “I hope that justices of all ideological stripes will say, ‘That’s not how administrative agencies are supposed to act,’” Ho said.

    The case has high stakes ahead of the 2020 census.

    Census data is used across the federal government for a range of purposes, from allocating federal funding to states to determining how many representatives each state gets in the House.

    The Trump administration’s announcement that it would include the question immediately set off a wave of legal challenges, including the lawsuit from a group of states led by New York that the justices will hear.

    And the case, easily the most high-profile set argument before the Supreme Court this term, has also garnered roughly 50 amicus briefs, arguments submitted by interested parties, mostly against adding the question.

    The question has also faced internal skepticism at the Commerce Department, with scientists there saying that asking about citizenship will cause biases within their data set from the 2020 census.

    The census does not actually count every resident in the United States but rather collects data from a subset of the population that is then used to reach an estimated population count and determine other demographic data.

    Court watchers also say Tuesday’s arguments will be a major test for the court’s conservative majority. Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughCory Booker has a problem in 2020: Kamala Harris McGahn’s lawyer pushes back after Giuliani knocks his credibility Grassroots America shows the people support Donald Trump MORE, who was sworn in last October after a contentious nomination fight in which he denied allegations of sexual misconduct, has shifted the court to the right.

    But there is no guarantee that the conservative justices will side with the administration on the census question.

    Joshua Geltzer, executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law, said both Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts frequently handled cases on federal agency authority when they served on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Geltzer, whose center submitted a brief arguing against the citizenship question, said they could bring more scrutiny to the Commerce Department’s decision.

    Ryan Owens, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the justices will be wary of how the court looks as it takes up a politically charged case.

    The court has already overruled lower courts on other contentious Trump policies, including the travel ban on several majority-Muslim countries and the ban on transgender people in the military.

    “The justices will be very concerned about how far the court is perceived to be intruding into policy making and executive affairs,” Owens said of their decision in the census case.

    The justices will also face a time crunch. The Commerce Department has indicated that it will need to start printing materials by June in order to get the census out in time.

    That’s the same month that the Supreme Court generally delivers the biggest decisions that it hears in the term.

    Owens said the court will likely take that time frame into account in order to make sure it doesn’t hamper the census.

    “I don’t think they’ll rush it, but they’ll definitely be sensitive to the timing,” he said.

    Source Article from https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/439803-fight-over-census-citizenship-question-hits-supreme-court

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    Comedian And TV President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Wins Second Round Of Ukraine Presidential Election With No Real-Life Political Experience – Deadline
    Comedian And TV President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Wins Second Round Of Ukraine Presidential Election With No Real-Life Political Experience – Deadline

    Ukranian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy isn’t a politician — but he plays the president on TV. As luck would have it, life is on its way to imitating art as Zelenskiy recently came out victorious in the second round of exit polls for Ukraine’s presidential election after candidate Petro Poroshenko conceded defeat.

    According to The Guardian, the poll suggested the Zelenskiy had won the presidential runoff with 73.2% of the vote against Poroshenko’s 25.3%. The official results are expected to come Sunday night, but the exit poll showed defeat for Poroshenko which was forecasted in a series of polls that favored Zelenskiy for the win.

    Zelenskiy is known for his role on the Ukrainian TV series Servant of the People. The show follows a teacher who unexpectedly becomes president after an angry rant about corruption is posted online by his students. Apparently, this is paralleling his character on Servant of the People because, like his character on the Ukranian show, he has promised to clean up politics in the country. Even so, his real-life campaign has been vague when it comes to his stance on policy, but he’s been leaning into viral videos, standup comedy and jokes as a source of his campaign.

    After the polls closed, Zelenskiy was addressed a crowd of journalists at his campaign headquarters as the theme to Servant of the People played and thanked the citizens who voted for him and promised: “I won’t mess up.”

    Ukraine is a country that is facing numerous challenges including a struggling economy and an ongoing war against Russia-backed separatist forces in the east that has so far claimed over than 13,000 lives.

     

    Source Article from https://deadline.com/2019/04/comedian-volodymyr-zelenskiy-ukraine-presidential-election-exit-poll-1202599427/

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    Sudan’s military leader vows to hand ‘power to people’ – Al Jazeera English
    Sudan’s military leader vows to hand ‘power to people’ – Al Jazeera English

    Khartoum, Sudan – Sudan’s interim leader said the transitional military council that has run the country since the overthrow of longtime leader Omar al-Bashir is committed to handing power to a civilian authority.

    But opposition leaders said on Sunday they suspended talking with the military rulers because they didn’t believe their pledge to transfer control of the North African country.

    “The transitional military council is complementary to the uprising and the revolution. The council is committed to handing over power to the people,” Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan told state TV on Sunday.

    “We are not greedy at all to want to stay in power more than the time we agreed upon with the opposition parties. We are waiting for the opposition to submit their proposal.”

    But opposition leaders later told supporters at a major rally in the capital Khartoum the military had failed to meet their demands and negotiations would be replaced with further demonstrations.

    “The military council is still not serious about handing power over to civilians. This [military] council is also representing part of the old regime,” said Mohamed al-Amin Abdulaziz, the spokesman for the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA).

    “We will continue our protests and we will escalate our protests. We will boycott talks with the military council,” he said. 

    Al-Burhan also said Khartoum will send a delegation to Washington to seek the removal of Sudan from the US’s “state sponsors of terrorism” list.

    “The United States has asked us to send a delegation for talks regarding the issue of removing Sudan’s name from the list of state sponsors of terrorism,” he said. “This delegation has been formed and will travel to the United States this week or next week.”

    ‘Too much time’


    Meanwhile, thousands of protesters gathered outside the military headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, late on Sunday vowing to stay at the sit-in site until a civil government is installed.

    “I’m happy the military council is saying they will hand over power,” Amru Ahmed al-Dayib, 41, an oil company technician, told Al Jazeera.

    “We want them to hand over to people who are independent. I think Burhan is honest. But I will continue with the protest until that happens.”

    Tafaul Awad, 25, a teaching assistant at Khartoum University, expressed scepticism at the military’s promise.

    “I don’t trust Burhan. We want power to be fully handed to civilians, but Burhan is taking too much time. All indications are he has other intentions. I don’t think the military is interested in handing power over to a civilian authority.”

    Concessions given

    Protests in the northeast African country of more than 40 million people started in December after Khartoum increased the price of bread.

    Demonstrators then started calling for al-Bashir and his government to step aside.

    The military removed al-Bashir – who had been in office for three decades – from power on April 11.

    The military council has made some concessions to protesters, including the removal of the country’s three highest-ranking public prosecutors, and the appointment of a new intelligence chief.

    Protest organisers and political parties have also been invited by the army to decide on a civilian prime minister. But the army said it will hold on to control over the interior and defence ministries.

    Source Article from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/sudan-military-leader-vows-hand-power-people-190421164606187.html

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    Police don’t believe missing five-year-old Illinois boy was abducted or wandered off – Fox News
    Police don’t believe missing five-year-old Illinois boy was abducted or wandered off – Fox News

    Police have revealed they do not believe Andrew “AJ” Freund was abducted or wandered off from his suburban Chicago home

    Following a frantic search for a missing five-year-old boy, police have revealed that they do not believe he was abducted or wandered away from his suburban Chicago home.

    The parents of Andrew “AJ” Freund told police on Thursday that they last saw their son when they put him to bed around 9 p.m. the previous night and had no idea what happened to him. Police are now saying that they’re placing a renewed focus on the home after dogs “only picked up Andrew’s ‘scent’ within the residence indicating that Andrew had not walked away on foot,” ABC 7 reports.

    “(T)here is no indication that would lead police to believe that an abduction had taken place,” Crystal Lake Police Department said in a press release.

    An investigation is still ongoing as AJ has yet to be found after police searched about 373 acres of the surrounding area on foot, and another 500 acres using drones. On Thursday, teams used sonar to check the nearby Crystal Lake and beach area to no avail.

    It was additionally revealed that there have been previous allegations of abuse and neglect against AJ’s mother, JoAnn Cunningham. The Illinois Department of Child and Family services has “been involved with the family” since AJ was born, a spokesperson said.

    Shortly after his birth, he was brought into the department’s custody, and he resided in the care of someone other than his parents from 2015 to 2018. The parents have another child who was reportedly living in the home up until AJ’s disappearance this week and has now been placed with another family.

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    In March and December of 2018, the department was called to AJ’s home on reports of abuse and neglect, which were ultimately unfounded, the spokesperson added.

    Through her lawyer, Ms. Cunningham denied any insinuation that she was involved in her son’s disappearance.

    She “doesn’t know what happened to AJ, and had nothing to do with the disappearance of AJ,” her attorney George Kililis said. “Ms. Cunningham is worried sick. She is devastated.”

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    While speaking on television this week, AJ’s father, Andrew Freund Sr., addressed his son directly.

    “AJ, please come home,” he said. “We love you very much. You’re not in any trouble. We’re just worried to death. Please, please come home.”

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    No more waivers: The United States will try to force Iranian oil exports to zero – The Washington Post
    No more waivers: The United States will try to force Iranian oil exports to zero – The Washington Post

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a briefing on Iran at the State Department in Washington on April 8. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)

    Josh Rogin

    About one year after the United States decided to leave the Iran nuclear deal, the State Department is set to announce that all countries will have to completely end their imports of Iranian oil or be subject to U.S. sanctions. This is an escalation of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign, which seeks to force Tehran to end its illicit behavior around the world.

    On Monday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will announce to the media that, as of May 2, the State Department will no longer grant sanctions waivers to any country that is currently importing Iranian crude or condensate, two State Department officials told me. Last November, the State Department issued 180-day waivers to eight countries to give them more time to find alternative sources of oil. Now, their time is running out.

    The decision to end waivers has implications for world oil markets, which have been eagerly anticipating President Trump’s decision on whether to extend waivers. The officials said market disruption should be minimal for two reasons: supply is now greater than demand and Pompeo is also set to announce offsets through commitments from other suppliers such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Trump spoke about the issue Thursday with the UAE’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.

    The decision to stop the waivers — called significant reduction exceptions, or SREs — has also become political in Washington, with hawkish officials and lawmakers publicly advocating their discontinuation. Pompeo last week accused lawmakers of “grandstanding” on the issue. Officials said Pompeo always intended to end the waivers when market conditions allowed.

    “The policy of zero Iranian imports originated with Secretary Pompeo,” a senior State Department official said. “He has executed this policy in tight coordination with the president every step of the way. Because the conditions to not grant any more SREs have now been met, we can now announce zero imports.”

    Officials also pointed to recent comments by U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook, who said earlier this month that waivers were appropriate last year due to concern over oil prices that was publicly expressed by Trump.

    This year, he said, is different. “Because [in] 2019 we forecast more supply than demand, there are better market conditions for us to accelerate our path to zero,” said Hook. “We are not looking to grant any waivers or exceptions to our sanctions regime.”

    Three of the eight countries that received U.S. waivers last November have already reduced their Iranian oil imports to zero: Greece, Italy and Taiwan. The other countries that will now have to cut off Iranian oil imports or be subject to U.S. sanctions are China, India, Turkey, Japan and South Korea.

    China and India are currently the largest importers of Iranian oil. If they don’t go along with Trump’s demands, that could cause tensions in both bilateral relationships and spill over into other issues, like trade. South Korea and Japan are relatively less dependent on Iranian oil and have already been treading lightly. A Turkish official has said the country is “expecting” another waiver, but it isn’t getting one.

    Trump has said he wants the Iranian regime to come back to the negotiating table and strike a better deal than the one President Barack Obama signed. The Iranian regime has said it has no intention of doing that. Either way, the administration’s ramping up of its “maximum pressure” campaign is meant to starve the regime of the cash it needs to perpetrate its malign activities around the world.

    “The goal of the policy is to drive up the costs of Iran’s malign behavior and more strongly address the broad range of threats to peace and security their regime presents,” the State Department official said.

    Although the U.S. government’s internal data tracking Iranian oil exports is not public, reports from private analysts note that Iranian oil exports rose in early 2019, perhaps as countries stocked up ahead of the cutoff, and then fell in March as countries likely sought to wean themselves off Iranian oil.

    Public estimates put the approximate amount of Iranian oil exports in March at about 1 million barrels per day, down from about 2.5 million barrels per day in April 2018, the month before Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.

    There are some signs the pressure is having an effect. Iran has been unable to deliver oil to Syria since January due to international enforcement of the sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported last month, which has increased pressure on the regime of Bashar al-Assad. In March, Pompeo pointed to Hezbollah’s reported cash shortages as additional evidence that Iran’s coffers were being squeezed, with positive results for regional security.

    The use of sanctions threats to pressure adversaries and allies alike is not without risk. European allies have been working with Tehran to devise methods to circumvent U.S. sanctions as part of their effort to save the Iran deal. But for now, the United States is still big and strong enough economically that companies and governments have little choice but to comply.

    It’s unlikely the Iranian regime will ever sit down with the Trump administration to negotiate a better deal or fundamentally change its behavior. Starting next month, though, it will at least have less oil money to spread terrorism and mischief around the Middle East and the world.

    Read more:

    David S. Cohen: Why Trump’s sanctions aren’t working

    Jason Rezaian: At 40, Iran’s decaying Islamic Republic is showing its age

    Dina Esfandiary: Iranians want change. They just don’t want the Trump administration’s version of it.

    Jason Rezaian: What a ‘diplomatic legend’ thinks of Trump’s Iran policy

    Tony Blair: Don’t make the mistake of dismissing Iran’s ideology

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/21/no-more-waivers-united-states-will-try-force-iranian-oil-exports-zero/

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      ‘Nothing wrong’ with campaign accepting information from Russians, Giuliani says – The Washington Post
      ‘Nothing wrong’ with campaign accepting information from Russians, Giuliani says – The Washington Post

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      April 21 at 3:53 PM

      Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, said Sunday that there is “nothing wrong” with a campaign accepting information from Russians, defending the Trump team’s efforts to obtain damaging material about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 race.

      “There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” Giuliani said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It depends on where it came from.”

      His comments prompted a rebuke from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.).

      “I said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s not ok to seek Russian help in your campaign,” Schiff said in a tweet. “It’s not ok to use materials they stole from your opponent, or to make it part of your campaign strategy. Sadly, my GOP colleagues do think that’s ok. The American people know better.”

      Giuliani was speaking three days after the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. According to the report, Trump sought ways to turn leaks of stolen emails to his advantage during the campaign.

      At a rally in July 2016, Trump expressed hope that Russia would find about 30,000 emails that Clinton had said she deleted because they were of a personal nature. After that, “Trump asked individuals affiliated with his Campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails,” Mueller’s team found.

      The report also states that Trump repeatedly directed aides not to disclose emails about the now-famous June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower attended by a Russian lawyer offering negative information about Clinton.

      In Sunday’s interview, Giuliani told host Jake Tapper that “any candidate in the whole world” would accept negative information on an opponent.

      Pressed by Tapper on whether that includes information “from a hostile foreign source,” Giuliani replied, “Who says it’s even illegal?”

      Campaigns are not allowed to solicit or accept foreign contributions, which is defined as “anything of value” under campaign-finance laws and regulations. Federal campaigns can hire foreigners to conduct opposition research, as long as they pay a fair-market fee.

      There is no explicit ban on opposition research provided free by foreigners to campaigns. But in his report, Mueller wrote that “candidate-related opposition research given to a campaign for the purpose of influencing an election could constitute a contribution” that is prohibited under the ban on foreign contributions.

      Despite finding that the opposition research could have been considered an illegal foreign contribution, Mueller decided not to pursue criminal campaign-finance charges for other reasons. This has led to officials like Giuliani “offering a green light” for campaigns to accept in-kind contributions from foreign governments, which is “troubling,” said Richard Hasen, election law expert at the University of California at Irvine.

      “In terms of good campaign practice, as soon as a campaign hears that a foreign government or a foreign entity wants to give help to the campaign, the appropriate thing to do is to go straight to the FBI and to decline that offer,” Hasen said.

      Giuliani acknowledged during his interview Sunday that he probably would not have accepted information from Russians about an opponent during his own presidential campaign in 2008.

      “I probably wouldn’t. I wasn’t asked,” he said.

      Lanhee Chen, who was the policy director of the 2012 Romney presidential campaign, said the standard for whether campaigns should accept information from foreign sources should not just be about legality — but whether it is appropriate.

      “I can tell you, pretty firmly, that we certainly would have been deeply suspicious, at the very least, of any information coming from a foreign source — let alone, a Russian source,” Chen said.

      “If anyone in our campaign team had come across any foreign actor trying to provide information or influence our thinking, we certainly would have reported it to proper law enforcement right away. That’s how you generally handle these things,” Chen added.

      The details contained in the Mueller report prompted an onslaught of criticism from Democrats. But Republicans largely either stayed quiet or defended Trump — with the exception of Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), who criticized the president and his campaign aides in a sharply worded statement posted Friday on Twitter.

      “I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President,” Romney said.

      The 2012 GOP presidential nominee said he was “appalled” that associates of Trump’s campaign had “welcomed help from Russia,” and he called the report a “sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders.”

      Romney’s reaction was far more critical than statements by some of his Republican colleagues, including Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) and Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio).

      In a statement Friday, Portman said he was “pleased” that the report was made public and that it “confirms several key facts consistent with the summary findings by Attorney General William Barr.” Portman said that although the report “documents a number of actions taken by the president or his associates that were inappropriate, the Special Counsel reached no conclusion on obstruction of justice.”

      Collins expressed concern with Trump’s attempts to fire Mueller, as documented in the report, which she called “a very thorough undertaking.”

      “He was not only very upset by the special counsel’s investigations, but tried several times through intermediaries to end it, and it is an unflattering portrayal of the president,” she said Friday in an interview with Maine Public Radio.

      Asked about Romney’s criticism of Trump on Sunday, Utah’s senior Republican senator, Mike Lee, notably made no mention of the president in his initial reply, pivoting instead to criticize former president Barack Obama’s handling of the U.S. relationship with Russia.

      “Well, first of all, I think Senator Romney has some credibility with regard to Russia,” Lee said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” pointing to Romney’s warnings about Russia during the 2012 presidential campaign. “Sadly, his warnings went unheeded. And under President Obama’s leadership over the next four years, Russia’s activities, its nefarious efforts to undermine our system, continued.”

      Asked whether he agreed with Romney on Trump in light of Mueller’s findings, Lee said there was “nothing in this report that changes my view of this president.”

      Shane Harris and Tom Hamburger contributed to this report.

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