A 5-year-old boy is missing from home, and police don’t think he walked away or was abducted – CNN
A 5-year-old boy is missing from home, and police don’t think he walked away or was abducted – CNN

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    Under federal law, Attorney General William Barr could have taken Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s long-awaited Russiagate report, shoved it in a drawer, and sent the following letter to Capitol Hill:

    “Dear Congress:

    “No collusion. No obstruction.

    “Love,

    “Bill”

    Beyond that, Barr was obligated to do none of what he did on Thursday morning. He held a press conference at Justice Department headquarters, answered journalists’ questions, sent Congress redacted copies of Mueller’s 448-page “Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” (on CD-ROMs), made a nearly unredacted copy (minus only legally verboten grand jury material) available for top congressional leaders to inspect, posted the document on DOJ’s public website, and freed Mueller to discuss his findings before Congress, as Democrats have demanded. Barr previously agreed to let the Senate and House judiciary committees grill him on, respectively, May 1 and 2.

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    Democrats have suggested that Barr has something to hide. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York stated Wednesday, “The American people deserve to hear the truth.” In fact, Barr’s behavior has been clearer than a Brooks Brothers storefront window.

    The White House has been equally see-through. While President Donald J. Trump ground his molars through this 22-month-long legal root canal, he let his lawyers hand Mueller some 1.4 million pages of records and allowed administration and campaign personnel to be interrogated. Trump never asserted executive privilege, nor did he request redactions in the report.

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    Ex-Marine arrested in North Korea embassy attack in Madrid – ABC News
    Ex-Marine arrested in North Korea embassy attack in Madrid – ABC News

    A man suspected of involvement in a mysterious dissident groups February raid on North Koreas Embassy in Madrid was arrested in Los Angeles by U.S. authorities.

    Christopher Ahn, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested and charged Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The specific charges against Ahn were not immediately clear.

    The person could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

    Separately, on Thursday, federal agents raided the apartment of Adrian Hong, a leader of the Free Joseon group, the person said. Hong was not arrested.

    Free Joseon, also known as the Cheollima Civil Defense group, styles itself as a government-in-exile dedicated to toppling the ruling Kim family dynasty in North Korea.

    The group said it consists of North Korean defectors living in countries around the world, but that it has not worked with or contacted defectors living under tight security in South Korea.

    Lee Wolosky, a lawyer for the group, said in a statement that he was dismayed that the U.S. Department of Justice has decided to execute warrants against U.S. persons that derive from criminal complaints filed by the North Korean regime.

    The last U.S. citizen who fell into the custody of the Kim regime returned home maimed from torture and did not survive, Wolosky said, referring to college student Otto Warmbiers 2017 death.

    We have received no assurances from the U.S. government about the safety and security of the U.S. nationals it is now targeting, he added.

    A Spanish police investigator in the case told The Associated Press in Madrid on Saturday that Ahn was identified by the Spanish police at a later stage of its investigation into the Feb. 22 raid and that an international arrest warrant was also issued against him.

    Thats in addition to warrants issued for the other suspects named last month in Spanish court documents.

    The investigator, who spoke under condition of anonymity given the sensitivities of the case, said that because of judicial secrecy, he couldnt confirm how many arrest warrants had been issued by Spanish authorities beyond the two initially confirmed.

    A Spanish judge said an investigation uncovered evidence that a criminal organization shackled and gagged embassy staff before escaping with computers, hard drives and documents.

    Cheollima said on its website that it was responding to an urgent situation at the embassy and was invited onto the property, and that no one was gagged or beaten.

    The group said there were no other governments involved with or aware of our activity until after the event.

    The Spanish court report said the intruders urged North Koreas only accredited diplomat in Spain, So Yun Sok, to defect.

    In March 2017, the group said it had arranged the escape of Kim Han Sol, the son of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who was assassinated at a Malaysian airport earlier that year.

    The Cheollima website said the group shared certain information of enormous potential value from the raid with the FBI, under mutually agreed terms of confidentiality.

    According to the Spanish court report, Hong flew to the United States on Feb. 23, got in touch with the FBI and offered to share material and videos. The report didnt say what type of information the items contained or whether the FBI accepted the offer.

    The FBI said its standard practice is to neither confirm nor deny the existence of investigations.

    Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/marine-arrested-north-korea-embassy-attack-madrid-62527289

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    The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf – The New York Times
    The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf – The New York Times

    The theme of the Mueller report, like the theme of Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge,” is lies and the souls of those who tell them. Through the entirety of the report, Trump is observed to lie, at almost every moment, like Falstaff telling Hal how many thieves he fended off. Others tell untruths for the president, sometimes at his request, sometimes out of loyalty, and get caught in gummy webs of their own devising.

    In Volume One, we’re reminded of the fake Facebook and Twitter accounts that churned out pro-Trump propaganda. The authors reprint a poster, created by the Russians, for Pennsylvania rallies under the title “Miners for Trump.”

    In Volume One, too, the prevarications of figures like Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. and Michael Cohen, among many others, are intensely scrutinized.

    Fetishizers of crime-novel forensics will enjoy details like this one, about Erik Prince, the founder of the security contractor Blackwater: “Cell-site location data for Prince’s mobile phone indicates that Prince remained at Trump Tower for approximately three hours.”

    There is not space to divulge the context, but I hope the phrase “a long caviar story to tell” — written to Manafort by the Russian and Ukrainian political consultant Konstantin Kilimnik — enters the lingo, perhaps via a Gary Shteyngart novel.

    Volume Two of the Mueller report, like the second volume of Bob Dylan’s greatest hits, is the more stereophonic and satisfying. It is more cohesive; the narrative about obstruction flows, and is blunt in its impact.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/books/review-mueller-report.html

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    Paris Police Fire Tear Gas As Yellow Vest Protests Escalate – NPR
    Paris Police Fire Tear Gas As Yellow Vest Protests Escalate – NPR

    Yellow vest protesters marched — and set fires — Saturday in Paris to remind the government that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem the nation needs to solve.

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    Yellow vest protesters marched — and set fires — Saturday in Paris to remind the government that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem the nation needs to solve.

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    Updated at 3:20 p.m. ET

    Yellow vest protests grew violent on Saturday as firefighters battled several fires amid clouds of tear gas in eastern Paris.

    Protesters set ablaze a car, motorbikes and barricades near the Place de la République as they took to the streets of Paris and other French cities for the 23rd Saturday in a row, The Associated Press reported. This time they say they are outraged the government could raise more than a billion dollars to help restore the burned Notre Dame cathedral while their demands to fight wealth inequality remain overlooked.

    By late afternoon, police were firing tear gas and water cannons to disperse a tense crowd of several thousand people around France’s finance ministry. Firefighters acted fast to put out several small fires in the area. NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley reports from the scene that emergency personnel carried out the wounded on stretchers.

    French police detained 189 people and took 110 into custody. The Interior Ministry says there were 6,700 protesters in Paris and more than 10,000 across country.

    Activists have marched in the streets every Saturday since November urging French President Emmanuel Macron to respond to a social crisis that has crippled the working class and elderly in France.

    Protesters were banned from the Île de la Cité, the site of Notre Dame, and other major thoroughfares in the city. Some 60,000 police officers were patrolling the streets.

    Protesters are calling Saturday’s demonstrations their “second ultimatum” against Macron and his government. The night Notre Dame caught fire, Macron canceled a speech to propose solutions to the Yellow Vest movement. He is expected to hold a press conference on Thursday.

    While the number of protesters have dwindled in recent weeks, French officials had warned that the marches could attract more protesters following the shock and sadness of the Notre Dame fire. Many protesters were set off by how quickly French billionaires pledged funds to restore the damaged cathedral, while many working class people in France struggle to pay their bills.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/04/20/715470174/yellow-vest-protesters-fueled-by-anger-over-notre-dame-funds-march-in-paris

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    Zookeeper hospitalized after tiger attack at Topeka zoo – AOL
    Zookeeper hospitalized after tiger attack at Topeka zoo – AOL

    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — City officials say a tiger mauled a zookeeper at the Topeka Zoo in northeastern Kansas.

    The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the incident happened around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, when a Sumatran tiger named Sanjiv attacked the worker in a secured, indoor space.

    Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley says the zookeeper was awake and alert when she was taken by ambulance to a hospital. Wiley said he did not know the extent of her injuries. The zookeeper’s name has not been released.

    RELATED: Zookeeper killed by tiger at Hamerton zoo




    City spokeswoman Molly Hadfield says the zoo was open at the time of the attack and was witnessed by some people.

    The zoo reopened about 45 minutes after the attack.

    Sanjiv came to the Topeka Zoo in August 2017 from a zoo in Akron, Ohio.

    Information from: The Topeka (Kan.) Capital-Journal, http://www.cjonline.com

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    Boeing’s Dreamliner jet is now facing claims of manufacturing issues – CNBC
    Boeing’s Dreamliner jet is now facing claims of manufacturing issues – CNBC

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    At a Boeing manufacturing facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, the aerospace giant reportedly pressured workers to speed up production while ignoring employee complaints about potential safety risks and defective manufacturing, according to a new report from The New York Times.

    After interviewing more than a dozen current and former employees of the Boeing facility, which makes the 787 Dreamliner, and reviewing “hundreds of pages of internal emails, corporate documents and federal records,” The New York Times reported on Saturday that the newspaper’s investigation “reveals a culture that often valued production speed over quality.”

    Boeing workers have filed numerous safety complaints with the federal government over issues ranging from shoddy manufacturing practices to tools and debris being left on planes, and workers say they have been pressured to not report regulatory violations to authorities, The New York Times reports. The investigation found that Boeing workers have installed faulty parts in planes at the facility, and that some aircraft have even taken test flights with debris such as tools and metal shavings inside the engine or tail, creating potential safety hazards.

    Boeing has denied manufacturing problems with the Dreamliner, and the company said “Boeing South Carolina teammates are producing the highest levels of quality in our history,” in a statement to The New York Times. However, the newspaper also reported that at least one major carrier, Qatar Airways, had been frustrated by manufacturing issues at that particular Boeing facility, with the airline opting to only buy its Dreamliners from a different Boeing facility since 2014.

    When reached for additional comment by CNBC, a Boeing spokesperson sent CNBC an internal memo sent today to Boeing employees by Brad Zaback, the vice president and general manager of Boeing’s 787 program.

    “A story that posted in today’s New York Times, however, paints a skewed and inaccurate picture of the program and of our team here at Boeing South Carolina. This article features distorted information, rehashing old stories and rumors that have long ago been put to rest,” Zaback writes in the memo, the full text of which can be found below.

    The report raises questions about the production process of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner at a time when the company is already facing investigations, including a federal criminal probe, into the certification process for the Boeing 737 Max. Those probes followed a pair of deadly crashes involving the aircraft, with an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max that crashed in March coming just months after a similar crash involving a Boeing 737 Max in Indonesia.

    Read the full report in The New York Times

    Here is Zaback’s full memo:

    New York Times story paints an inaccurate picture of Boeing South Carolina

    Team,

    The 787 program has a lot to be proud of these days. Our transition to Rate 14 continues to be the most seamless rate transition in the program’s history, and our Boeing South Carolina 787 manufacturing operations are the healthiest they’ve ever been. More importantly, our quality metrics show that we are performing at all-time high levels as well. That is a testament to each of you, demonstrating your pride and your ongoing commitment to excellence with respect to both safety and quality.

    A story that posted in today’s New York Times, however, paints a skewed and inaccurate picture of the program and of our team here at Boeing South Carolina. This article features distorted information, rehashing old stories and rumors that have long ago been put to rest.

    I want all BSC teammates to know that we invited the New York Times to visit Boeing South Carolina once they contacted us, so that they could see first-hand the great work that is done here. They declined this invitation.

    The allegations of poor quality are especially offensive to me because I know the pride in workmanship that each of you pours into your work every day. I see the highest quality airplanes – airplanes that meet rigorous quality inspections and FAA standards – deliver on time on a regular basis from Boeing South Carolina, where they perform exceptionally well in service for our valued airplane customers around the world. Our customers feel the same way, and shared their own thoughts with the New York Times:

    American Airlines said it conducted rigorous inspections of new planes before putting them into service. “We have confidence in the 787s we have in our fleet,” said Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for the airline.

    In a statement, Qatar Airways said it “continues to be a long-term supporter of Boeing and has full confidence in all its aircraft and manufacturing facilities.” Note that only a portion of their quote was included in the story, and we wanted to ensure you had their full perspective: “Qatar Airways continues to be a long-term supporter of Boeing and has full confidence in all its aircraft and manufacturing facilities as a strong commitment to safety and quality is of the utmost importance to both our companies. We have over 100 Boeing aircraft in our fleet, manufactured in both Everett and Charleston, with many more to join in the coming years as part of our significant, long-term investment in the US economy.”

    In fact, we also heard from Suparna Airlines and Norwegian in response to the story, and here’s what they told us:

    Suparna Airlines: “The entire process of the aircraft delivery was very smooth. We want to thank the Boeing team in South Carolina who worked diligently with the Boeing standard and discipline to make the delivery a pleasant experience for us. The airplane has carried out more than 200 scheduled flights with total flight hours up to 500 at an operational reliability of 99.99%. We are happy with the performance of our first Dreamliner.”

    Norwegian: “We are very satisfied with the quality and reliability of all our 33 Dreamliners, regardless of where they have been assembled.”

    The inaccurate picture the New York Timespaints is also offensive to me because they are counter to our company’s core values. Quality is the bedrock of who we are. That’s why we relentlessly focus on quality improvements and FOD elimination at all Boeing locations. No matter how good we are today, we always believe we can be even better tomorrow. That drive to be the best will never change at Boeing as we continue to strive to be a Global Industrial Champion and the leader in quality.

    It’s unfortunate and disappointing that the New York Times chose to publish this misleading story. This story, however, does not define us. Our company and our customers recognize the talent, skill and dedication of this excellent Boeing South Carolina team that works together to assemble and deliver incredible airplanes. I want to leave you with a word from Kevin McAllister, Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO, which was not included in full from the New York Times:

    “Safety and quality are at the core of Boeing’s values – there is nothing more important than that. The 787 program has delivered 823 airplanes to more than 76 customers since its launch. As Boeing marks 10 years in North Charleston, our more than 7,000 Boeing South Carolina teammates are producing the highest levels of quality in our history. And, we are seeing this translate across our work and the in-service performance with our customers. We test our airplanes and verify components are fully operational, and when we find a component that is not, it is replaced and tested again. This is core to our quality system, as it is for the industry. I am proud of our teams’ best in-process quality of production and stand behind the work they do each and every day.”

    This is a team that I am very proud to be a part of, and I’m thankful for all that you do every day.

    Brad

    Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/20/boeings-dreamliner-jet-now-facing-claims-of-manufacturing-issues-nyt-report.html

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    Authorities refocus search of missing 5-year-old boy on family home – ABC News
    Authorities refocus search of missing 5-year-old boy on family home – ABC News

    The search for a 5-year-old boy from Illinois who went missing on Wednesday continued into the weekend as police re-focused the investigation on the boy’s family home.

    Andrew “AJ” Freund, a blond boy who is approximately 3 feet, 5 inches tall, was last seen wearing a blue Mario sweatshirt and black sweatpants in his home at around 9 p.m. — his bedtime — on Wednesday, according to Crystal Lake Police Department detectives.

    (Crystal Lake Police Department via AP) This undated photo provided by the Crystal Lake, Ill., Police Department shows Andrew “AJ” Freund.

    “In reviewing all investigative information thus far, there is no indication that would lead police to believe that an abduction had taken place,” A Crystal Lake Police Department statement said. “At this point, the police department has no reason to believe there is a threat to the community.”

    We’re just worried to death.

    The FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are also investigating Freund’s disappearance.

    Jassen Strokosch, spokesperson for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, confirmed to ABC News that the agency has been in contact with Freund’s family since AJ was born in 2013. He added that AJ’s younger brother has been placed in a different home.

    (Paul Valade/Daily Herald via AP) Police remove items from the home of missing 5-year-old boy Andrew “AJ” Freu in Crystal Lake, Ill. on Thursday, April 18, 2019.

    In front of media gathered outside the family home on Friday, Andrew Freund, AJ’s father, said, “AJ, please come home. You’re not in any trouble, we’re just worried to death.”

    Separately, Freund’s mother, Joanne Cunningham, sobbed in front of reporters during a press conference outside the family home on Friday afternoon but did not speak. In her hand, she held a plastic Goodwill bag that contained pictures of her children.

    (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune via AP) JoAnn Cunningham, mother of missing 5-year-old child Andrew “AJ” Freund, stands with her attorney George Killis outside the Freund home on Friday, April 19, 2019 in Crystal Lake, Ill.

    George C. Kililis, her defense lawyer, spoke during the press conference, saying, “Ms. Cunningham doesn’t know what happened to AJ and has nothing to do with the disappearance of AJ. Ms. Cunningham is worried sick, she’s devastated.”

    He added that he does not know AJ’s father, Andrew Freund and is only representing Cunningham.

    “Ms. Cunningham cooperated with the police extensively yesterday,” Kililis said. “Until at some point, we got the impression that she may be considered a suspect. I don’t know if she is or not and I don’t know how serious that consideration is. As an attorney, once I realized that, I advised Ms. Cunningham to remain silent from that point on.”

    Kililis did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News early Saturday.

    By Thursday, an exhaustive search, including 15 police departments and four drones, covered hundreds of acres of public areas and yielded nothing. A sonar search of Crystal Lake also turned up nothing.

    Police canine teams “only picked up Andrews ‘scent’ within his home, “indicating that Andrew had not walked away on foot,” the Crystal Lake Police Department statement said.

    Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/US/authorities-refocus-search-missing-year-boy-family-home/story?id=62525061

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    20 years after Columbine, former Principal Frank DeAngelis is still learning how to move on – CNN
    20 years after Columbine, former Principal Frank DeAngelis is still learning how to move on – CNN

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

    Arvada, Colorado (CNN)Frank DeAngelis stood in his home office, his hair graying over his ears, and pointed to each frame on the wall, telling the story behind the mementos he’s collected over the last two decades.

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    This week, after a woman police say was infatuated with the Columbine shooting flew from Florida to Colorado and purchased a firearm, District 6 was among the school districts that closed for a day.

    In news releases, the district said the decision was made out of “an abundance of caution.” For Gates, it was the right decision.

    Superintendents across northern Colorado decided collectively to close their schools, Gates said, and when considering the safety of children he said an abundance of caution is necessary.

    This week, Gates said, the district remained extra vigilant,
    and reports through Safe2Tell — the anonymous reporting system through which
    students, staff and parents can deliver tips about student safety — have risen,
    but he said they’re up this year in general.

    A lot of that is due to increased awareness about the
    system, he said, although the content of the reports this week might in part
    correlate to the 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.

    He’s also staying attuned to the students’ anxiety, and said he recommended advice be sent to parents to help them talk to their kids about school safety.

    The closure of District 6 schools this week, he said, was unprecedented.

    How things changed

    Before the Columbine shooting, Gates said, schools were what he called “soft targets.” Ease of access, lack of security guards and other factors made schools fit that description.

    Greeley Police School Resource Officer Brad Luebke throws up a high-five challenge for students Thursday morning Jan., 24, 2019 at Scott Elementary on West Thirteenth Street in Greeley. SRO’s in elementary and middle schools focus on building relationships and trust with students, in addition to school safety. (Michael Brian/mbrian@greeleytribune.com)
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    “It’s my job to harden the target,” he said.

    People can’t just walk in to schools anymore. At most schools in the district, an Airphone system allows the front office employees to talk to people who are outside the school’s doors, and to view them before allowing them in to the building.

    The high schools, which don’t have the Airphone, have security guards, school resource officers from the Greeley Police Department, and cameras that district security personnel can monitor.

    This school year, the district added the Raptor system, which requires visitors to the school to scan their ID, which will be checked against the sex offender registry. The system then prints a name tag with that person’s photo, name and where they’re headed in the building.

    Funds from the mill levy override district voters approved in 2017 were also used to add cameras at schools, so school security personnel can monitor who is coming and going.

    A camera sits above the main entrance into Northridge High School. Cameras were another of the security improvements that the school installed. In addition to cameras the school is also using a new ID check system. (Joshua Polson/jpolson@greeleytribune.com)
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    Schools also do lockdown drills each year, so the buildings and students know what to do in the event of an active shooter.

    The drills are not state or federally mandated, Gates said, although fire drills are, and he said no child has died in a school fire since 1956.

    Drills do cause some anxiety among kids, Gates said, but he’s found having drills more often makes them less stressful, which is why he asks each school to do more than one a year.

    Principals send home information for parents after drills, he said, so they know one happened, and can talk to their kids about it.

    While the landscape of school safety shifted after Columbine, Gates said keeping students safe is a constant conversation among school safety experts and public safety personnel.

    — Emily Wenger is the public money reporter for the Greeley Tribune, covering education and government in Weld County and keeping an eye on how they’re spending your money. You can reach her at (970) 392-4468 or ewenger@greeleytribune.com or on Twitter at @emilylwenger. 

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    The Mueller Report: A New Tell-All About Trump’s White House – NPR
    The Mueller Report: A New Tell-All About Trump’s White House – NPR

    Robert Mueller testifies before Congress in 2013. A redacted version of Mueller’s report as special counsel was released on Thursday.

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    The latest book-length tell-all on life inside President Trump’s White House has appeared, and it’s just as unsparing about dysfunction and deception as all those earlier versions by journalists, gossip mavens and former staffers. Maybe more so.

    The difference is that the president likes this one.

    Or at least he says he likes it. And it’s probably not because of the catchy title (Report on the Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election), or any previous works by the author, Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

    More likely it’s the ending of the story that the president likes, or what he takes to be the ending.

    “GAME OVER,” declared the president’s review on Twitter. Now that would be a catchy title — for the movie the president might like to make.

    But it actually isn’t the way the Mueller report ends.

    It’s not even the way it ends in the very first review anyone wrote of this 448-page publication. That was, of course, the four-page review penned in March by Attorney General William Barr. That review did say the book ended with the president not being indicted. But we’d already had a spoiler alert on that because it’s the viewpoint of the Justice Department that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Not much of a surprise there.

    As for charges of obstruction of justice, well, we got the word on that one early too. Because Barr had already authored a 19-page explanation for why a president could not be charged with obstruction of justice – suggesting pointedly that Mueller should not even be thinking about it.

    That was way back in 2018, when Barr was a private citizen but felt free, as a former attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, to share his strong views with the current management at Justice.

    Few authors get to pick who will provide the exclusive first review of their work, and Mueller didn’t either. That choice was made by the principal character in the story, the president himself.

    Trump got to choose who would get the first crack at interpreting this soon-to-be-best-seller when he chose William Barr to be his new attorney general.

    That choice might have been made soon after Trump fired his first attorney general, former senator Jeff Sessions. It might have been made even sooner, possibly after hearing about Barr’s 19-page memo. Suffice it to say there have been few cabinet-level appointments in this administration that worked out better for the president.

    Of course, many others are reading Mueller’s work, and their reviews have taken a less legalistic look than Barr did. They tend to dwell on such events as the president telling the White House counsel to have Mueller fired in June 2017, shortly after Mueller began compiling his epic. Or the president telling that counsel to deny the order was ever given. Or the president telling an aide to tell Sessions to get rid of Mueller.

    None of these orders was carried out, as Mueller observes, and that disobedience may now constitute Trump’s best defense against a charge of obstructing justice. That, and the Justice Department view that a sitting president cannot be so charged in the first place.

    Interest in the report, and especially in portions redacted by Barr and underlying documents and other evidence not yet seen, has not decreased – despite the president’s attempts to give away the ending.

    Among those clamoring for a chance to review it are several relevant committees from Congress. The House Judiciary Committee is bound to get special attention, as that is where hearings would be held on a resolution of impeachment.

    The I-word has been in the air on Capitol Hill since the Mueller probe began, largely because obstruction of justice was a crucial part of the charges the last two times Congress got serious about taking down a president.

    The most recent one of these involved President Bill Clinton’s 1998 grand jury testimony about his affair with a White House intern. Before that, it was President Richard Nixon’s efforts to cover up White House involvement in a burglary at the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee.

    The latter case stretched over 1972-1974, and the man who was White House counsel at the critical time was one John Dean. Still alive and on CNN Thursday, Dean said “the endeavor of obstruction” could be a crime even if the obstructive orders to subordinates were disobeyed. That is a theory of the case other reviewers may pursue.

    An irony in all of this is that the president himself has been so astringent in commenting on earlier books about his White House. These have included Bob Woodward’s best-selling Fear, peek-a-boo looks inside by Cliff Sims (Team of Vipers), Omarosa Manigault (Unhinged) and Michael Wolff (Fire and Fury) — as well as sober memoirs by former FBI heads James Comey and Andrew McCabe.

    The chaotic atmosphere described in all these books was based on eyewitness accounts, but Trump denounced them all as “fiction.” Now we see much the same depiction in Mueller’s pages and hear much less objection. In fact, it’s amazing how many journalistic stories derided as “fake news” over the past few years now re-appear in Mueller’s recounting — only this time as documented evidence.

    That is the difference it makes when an author can supplement his research with subpoena power, warrants and the threat of perjury prosecution.

    It may not make the end product an ideal movie script, or a page-turner in the aisles at your bookstore. But Mueller’s contribution to the literature of this period in history will have an expanding readership in the immediate future as well.

    Stay tuned for the sequel.

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/04/20/715258810/the-tell-all-book-that-could-trump-them-all-the-mueller-report

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    Notre Dame fire: Should $1 billion in donations go to France’s poor? – Vox.com
    Notre Dame fire: Should $1 billion in donations go to France’s poor? – Vox.com

    As more than $1 billion has rolled in to repair the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a debate is raging over whether the glut of donations would have been better spent on other causes.

    People on social media asked why similar support was not going to Native American sacred lands destroyed in fracking and development, to historically black Louisiana churches devastated in arson attacks, to the fight against climate change, or to development aid for African countries. (In the case of black churches, the post-Notre Dame publicity led to a surge in donations.)

    Meanwhile, within France, many are saying the heaps of money should be directed toward French people in poverty. Over the past year, homelessness has increased by 21 percent in Paris. And for months, the “Yellow Vest” movement has been protesting rising social inequality in the country. The Yellow Vests and their allies saw President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to rebuild Notre Dame within five years as further proof that he’s prioritizing the wrong causes.

    “If they can give tens of millions to rebuild Notre Dame, then they should stop telling us there is no money to help with the social emergency,” Philippe Martinez, who leads the General Confederation of Labor trade union, said on Wednesday.

    What should we make of the competing priorities people are pushing in this debate? As potential donors, how do we assess where our money would be best allocated? And should we be criticizing other people when they donate to causes we think are less important?

    You don’t have to choose between helping the poor and helping Notre Dame

    It might be tempting to think you have to align yourself with only one camp in this debate, especially when the camps themselves present the situation that way. But that’s not the case.

    Say you side with the Yellow Vests and argue that poverty is the problem much more deserving of — and likely to benefit from — your resources. You’d be in good company: Movements like effective altruism (EA) have argued that people should try harder to identify high-impact charities, and direct more of their money toward them. Effective altruists tend to think the best charities will focus on an issue that meets three criteria: It’s important (it affects many lives in a massive way), it’s tractable (extra resources will do a lot to fix it), and it’s neglected (not that many people are devoted to this issue yet).

    But they’re not so extreme as to say you should only ever donate to the charity where your money will do the most good.


    Debris inside the Notre Dame cathedral a day after the fire
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    Julia Wise, who works in the EA community, recently wrote a blog post explaining that although cost-effectiveness analysis is a useful tool that she wishes more people applied to more problems, it’s not meant to govern every single decision you make. That’s because you have lots of different goals, from improving the world to feeling connected in your friendships. Wise explains:

    If I donate to my friend’s fundraiser for her sick uncle, I’m pursuing a goal. But it’s the goal of “support my friend and our friendship,” not my goal of “make the world as good as possible.” When I make a decision, it’s better if I’m clear about which goal I’m pursuing. I don’t have to beat myself up about this money not being used for optimizing the world — that was never the point of that donation. That money is coming from my “personal satisfaction” budget, along with getting coffee with my friend.

    I have another pot of money set aside for donating as effectively as I can. When I’m deciding what to do with that money, I turn on that bright light of cost-effectiveness and try to make as much progress as I can on the world’s problems. … The best cause I can find usually ends up being one that I didn’t previously have any personal connection to, and that doesn’t nicely connect with my personal life. And that’s fine, because personal meaning-making is not my goal here.

    Wise recommends that we be clear with ourselves about which goal we’re pursuing whenever we devote time and money to a given cause. That way we’ll notice if, over time, we’re devoting ourselves only to dramatic causes (like a tragic fire) and causes that have a personal connection, or whether we’re also making progress on other world issues that we believe are important.

    This seems like a useful way of keeping us accountable to ourselves. And you can hear an echo of it in a French homelessness charity’s response to the outpouring of support for Notre Dame.

    The Abbe Pierre Foundation, which is named after a prominent priest whose funeral was held at Notre Dame in 2007, said: “We are very attached to where Father Pierre’s funeral was held. But we are equally committed to his cause. If you could contribute even one percent of the amount to the homeless, we would be moved.”

    In other words, there’s nothing wrong with donating to the restoration of a burned cathedral if that’s something we’re passionate about. We can take that out of our “personal satisfaction” budget, or maybe our “preserving cultural identity” budget. But it’s worth making sure we’re also remembering the other problems — including urgent ones like homelessness — and dedicating resources to those problems in proportion to their urgency.

    Sign up for the Future Perfect newsletter. Twice a week, you’ll get a roundup of ideas and solutions for tackling our biggest challenges: improving public health, decreasing human and animal suffering, easing catastrophic risks, and — to put it simply — getting better at doing good.

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    Northern Ireland Police Arrest 2 Men In Shooting Death Of Journalist – NPR
    Northern Ireland Police Arrest 2 Men In Shooting Death Of Journalist – NPR

    A woman reacts as she stops to pay her respects at the scene on Saturday in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee was fatally shot. Police in Northern Ireland on Saturday arrested two teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of McKee was shot and killed during rioting Thursday night. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

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    A woman reacts as she stops to pay her respects at the scene on Saturday in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, where 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee was fatally shot. Police in Northern Ireland on Saturday arrested two teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting of McKee was shot and killed during rioting Thursday night. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

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    Police in Northern Ireland have arrested two men in connection with the shooting death of a 29-year-old journalist in Londonderry Thursday night.

    Authorities say they arrested an 18 and 19-year-old under the U.K.’s controversial Terrorism Act and took them to the Musgrave Serious Crime Suite, a police station in Belfast.

    Cell phone video released by police shows journalist Lyra McKee taking photos with her phone shortly before she was shot, probably by a stray bullet, according to police. The shooting occurred during rioting in Derry’s Creegan neighborhood, a stronghold for dissident groups such as the new IRA and Saoradh, which aim to bring about a united Ireland.

    U.K. government-backed forces entered the neighborhood with armed troops and armored vehicles. Police were searching for weapons they suspected would be used in an attack over Easter weekend.

    Saoradh claimed in a statement on Friday that McKee’s death was accidental and the gunmen were defending their community against state-sponsored violence. They also suggested U.K. government-backed forces entered their neighborhood to grab headlines during House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, Joe Zefran reports for our Newscast unit.

    “A republican volunteer attempted to defend people from the PSNI/RUC,” the group said, citing the acronyms of Northern Ireland’s current and former police forces. “Tragically a young journalist, Lyra McKee, was killed accidentally.”

    Authorities say the violence intensified when a gunman aimed at police who were searching the area. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton called the shooting “a terrorist act,” which was “carried out by violent dissident republicans.”

    “The New IRA is a small group who reject the 1998 Good Friday agreement that marked the Irish Republican Army’s embrace of a political solution to the long-running violence known as ‘The Troubles’ that claimed more than 3,700 lives,” according to the Associated Press.

    A leader for one of Northern Ireland’s largest political parties, Sinn Féin called the McKee’s death “a human tragedy for her family.”

    “Those people who carried out this attack have attacked all of us,” deputy leader Michelle O’Neill said. “They’ve attacked the community. They’ve attacked the people of Derry. They’ve attacked the peace process, and they’ve attacked the good Friday agreement.”

    McKee was named Sky News’ young journalist of the year in 2006, and Forbes magazine identified her as one of their 30 under 30 in media in Europe in 2016, the Washington Post reported. She is perhaps most remembered for her blog post, “Letter to My 14-Year-Old Self,” which chronicled her struggle growing up gay in Northern Ireland and the later acceptance she received from her family.

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    Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate are increasingly at odds on everything from trade to Yemen to the border wall – INSIDER
    Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate are increasingly at odds on everything from trade to Yemen to the border wall – INSIDER

    • The first few months of 2019 have resulted in multiple vetoes by President Donald Trump, as Republicans buck leadership over frustrations with administration policy.
    • There have been several instances where the administration has been embarrassed over squabbles in the Senate.
    • With massive trade negotiations on the table, more fighting between Trump and the Senate are likely.
    • Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories.

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration has continued to be volatile and chaotic in 2019, which should come as no surprise taking the past several years into consideration.

    But one development which only began in 2019 is a constant stream of embarrassments for the White House coming out of the Senate.

    There have been a flurry of resolutions rebuking the president on signature policies carried over the finish line by Republicans joining a united minority of Democrats looking to resist the president at all costs. That has made headaches for the White House and could signal more trouble as the 2020 election cycle heats up, in which Senate Republicans have to defend 22 seats to keep their majority.

    Read more:Republicans are furious over Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria

    Right away in January when the new Congress began, lawmakers were in a bind. The longest partial government shutdown in United States history left senators on both sides of the political aisle fatigued. And the shutdown was entirely of Trump’s making, demanding Congress fund construction of his long-promised border wall, otherwise he would not sign anything to reopen the government.

    But Trump’s stubbornness fell through when he signed a continuing resolution to reopen the government without a dime for additional border security. Congress then convened a bicameral conference committee to hash things out. Their conclusion was giving Trump a fraction of what he demanded for the border wall.

    That prompted Trump to take action, declaring a national emergency to divert military funds for several billion dollars more to add physical barriers along the border. The move angered a large number of Republicans who cried out against former President Barack Obama’s use of executive power on immigration issues.

    After Democrats crafted a resolution to terminate the national emergency declaration, Republicans joined in to rebuke the president. Vice President Mike Pence tried to broker a deal to stave off a Republican revolt and thoroughly embarrass Trump. The plan was to get Trump on board with a bill that would limit future use of emergency powers if they went along with this one. But Trump rejected that and the rebellion snowballed.

    Trump ultimately vetoed the resolution, but not after witnessing more than half a dozen Republican senators vote for a resolution that tacitly accused him of abusing his authority.

    The veto was the first of Trump’s presidency and came relatively early in his term. For context, Obama didn’t issue a single veto until the final year of his presidency.

    Senate Republicans rebuked Trump after inaction on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

    Several days after the national emergency declaration fight that enveloped Capitol Hill and the White House, Trump found himself in the same spot having to push back on a bipartisan group of senators angry at his administration’s policies.

    The Senate passed a resolution withdrawing US military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Part of this was due to genuine frustrations with how the Saudis have been handling the grueling war, but another was due to the Trump administration’s lax handling of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

    Read more:US senators furious with Saudi Arabia after classified briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel

    Senators were furious over the Trump administration not properly briefing them on the circumstances of Khashoggi’s murder. Moreover, the administration continued its cozy relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, largely viewed as the architect behind the killing.

    The resolution handily passed the Senate, with several Republicans joining all Democrats. Trump vetoed the resolution later in April, adding another to his record.

    More fights are on the horizon

    A big part of Trump’s agenda has been the crafting of his new North American trade agreement, the USMCA. His trade negotiations have also been a major point of contention among Republicans.

    Republicans are traditionally staunch advocates of free trade policy, which Trump is not.

    The Trump administration’s use of tariffs on various industries does more harm than good, Republicans say. And their deployment as a means of bringing other countries to the table is a serious political risk, as they could put Trump’s high economic approval in jeopardy.

    The USMCA has already hit several roadblocks. Democrats are not on board with the plan, which one Republican senator characterized as essentially dead in the water.

    “Obviously that ship has sailed and now we’re in a position where our Democratic colleagues are — I’m not a aware of a single elected Democrat member of Congress who’s endorsed this,” Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey told reporters in a February meeting. “Maybe you are but I’m not. I’m aware of many who have panned it.”

    “So it’s not clear to me what the path forward is,” he added. “As I’ve warned the administration, there’s a lot of resistance from Democrats.”

    Read more:Republicans and Democrats agree: Trump can’t just do what he wants with NAFTA

    And if Trump tries to take things into his own hands regarding NAFTA, as he often threatens to do, he could be met with swift resistance from lawmakers in both parties.

    Toomey said a unilateral withdrawal from NAFTA by the president would not only be illegal, but would plunge the US economy into chaos.

    And Republicans already are not too fond of the USMCA. While US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has been quietly meeting with lawmakers in the Capitol, little progress has been made.

    “They don’t think they’re going to have enough votes on their side obviously to pass it. They don’t,” Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell told INSIDER. “Even if every Republican voted they still don’t have enough votes.”

    While the rocky start to 2019 could get a whole lot worse, there are still many areas where Republicans enjoy Trump. Probably the largest are the administration’s economic successes, but further infighting and radical proposals could hurt those gains with an election around the corner.

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    Bullies and black trench coats: The Columbine shooting’s most dangerous myths – The Washington Post
    Bullies and black trench coats: The Columbine shooting’s most dangerous myths – The Washington Post

    The front pages of major newspapers on April 21, 1999, the day after the Columbine massacre. (The Washington Post/The Washington Post)

    Gillian Brockell

    April 20 at 7:30 AM

    The headlines in major newspapers the day after the Columbine massacre were shocking — and they were wrong:

    “Up to 25 Die in Colorado School Shooting” (The Washington Post)

    Gunmen Stalk School, Killing Up to 25 and Wounding 20″ (Los Angeles Times)

    “High School Massacre: Columbine bloodbath leaves up to 25 dead” (Denver Post)

    In fact, the death toll was lower — 12 students and one teacher were killed on April 20, 1999 by shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who then took their own lives. Even so, Columbine remained the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history until the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that left 17 dead.

    Saturday marks 20 years since the Columbine massacre. There will be a public memorial service in the Denver suburb where it occurred and tributes to the victims everywhere.

    And while correcting the death toll took only a day, other aspects of early reports that turned out to be unfounded have lingered in the nation’s subconscious.

    “It’s frustrating because we’ve known so much for so long, but initial impressions are hard to change,” said Peter Langman, a psychologist who has studied school shootings so extensively that Sue Klebold contacted him for insight about her son Dylan while she was writing a memoir.

    [The man keeping Columbine safe]

    1. Harris and Klebold were not in the Trench Coat Mafia

    Even as the massacre was unfolding, students told journalists that Harris and Klebold were members of a group known as the Trench Coat Mafia.

    The Washington Post put it this way: “The shooters who turned Columbine High School into an unspeakable landscape of carnage yesterday were members of a small clique of outcasts who always wore black trench coats and spent their entire adolescence deep inside the morose subculture of Gothic fantasy, their fellow students said.”

    The Denver Post reported: “By several accounts, the group [was] also interested in the occult, mutilation, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson and Adolf Hitler.”

    And the New York Times: “[I]nvestigators now believe that among the dozen or so students in the group were the people responsible for yesterday’s mass shooting at the high school.”

    Students and investigators did say this to reporters. But Columbine was a large school with 2,000 students. Many “did not know [Harris and Klebold], or knew them only as kids who sometimes wore trench coats,” Langman wrote in a 2008 report.

    “As a result, people assumed that [Harris and Klebold] were part of the Trench Coat Mafia; this assumption is wrong.”


    The 1998 Columbine High School yearbook photos of Eric Harris, left, and Dylan Klebold (Columbine High School/AP) (Anonymous/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

    The year before the shooting, when Harris and Klebold were juniors, there was a group of mostly senior students who sometimes referred to themselves as the Trench Coat Mafia.

    Harris and Klebold knew a few of these students, but they were not considered core to the friend group, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office later determined, and did not appear in a photo of Trench Coat Mafia members in the 1998 yearbook. Most of those students had graduated the year before the shooting.

    [‘Damaged masculinity’ may help explain Columbine and other mass shootings]

    Police also later determined that some students confused Klebold with another student who was in the group and resembled Klebold.

    2. Harris and Klebold were not isolated outcasts or loners.

    In the conflation of Harris and Klebold with the Trench Coat Mafia, they became synonymous with the word “outcast,” which appeared in every major newspaper report. The Post said people described them as an “isolated pair”; the Denver Post used “loners.”

    But a thorough look at the shooters’ lives, one not based on panicked students’ reports, refutes this, Langman said.

    “They both had a lot of friends. They both engaged in school activities, out-of-school activities, they worked part-time jobs with some of their buddies at a pizza shop,” Langman said.

    Both were in a bowling league. Harris had played on the school soccer team as a freshman and sophomore, and continued to play soccer and volleyball after school, according to the sheriff’s office report. Klebold was in a fantasy baseball league and had gone to prom with a female friend a few days before the massacre.

    3. The attack was not revenge for being bullied.

    The first articles also indicated that Harris and Klebold sought revenge against classmates who had bullied them. The New York Times said Harris and Klebold appeared to target “peers who had poked fun at the group in the past.” The Post said students described them as “a constant target of derision for at least four years.” The Los Angeles Times said students considered the attack “lethal payback for old taunts and prejudices.”

    But a look at police records and Harris’s and Klebold’s own writings paint a much more complex portrait, Langman said. Yes, Harris and Klebold were sometimes teased, but they were nowhere near the most bullied in the school and were much more frequently the bullies than the victims of bullies.


    A diary entry of Columbine shooter Eric Harris at psychologist Peter Langman’s office in Pennsylvania. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

    Most students are picked on at some point, Langman said, “so in the aftermath of a shooting, if reporters ask the students, ‘Was so-and-so ever picked on,’ the answer just on average is going to be yes. The significance of that though is completely unknown.”

    In fact, Langman said, Harris’s personal writings show many “reasons” for his desire to kill: He wanted to see himself as “the law”; for sadistic pleasure; because the human race is “only worth killing”; and as revenge for being teased. Revenge was only one among many reasons. More often than not, Harris expressed a desire to kill complete strangers.

    Harris and Klebold did not kill any of the students who had teased them; school shooters rarely do, Langman said. The two even said they knew that some of their friends might die in their attack.

    “Getting it right was very difficult in those early hours, and first days, and I think all of us who covered the story regret the mistakes that were made,” said Tom Kenworthy, The Post reporter on the scene that day, in an email Friday.

    The mistakenly high death estimate was the result of an early evening press conference by Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone, who said, “I’ve heard numbers as high as 25.” Kenworthy recalled rushing to report that number by the print deadline.

    School shootings were not new in 1999; in the two years before Columbine, there were deadly school shootings in Pearl, Miss., West Paducah, Ky., Jonesboro, Ark., and Springfield, Ore.

    But Columbine was the first of these events to unfold live on television. The Chicago Tribune published a story about the uniqueness of the experience; the Associated Press called it “adrenaline television.” Networks were later criticized for revealing the locations of police and of hiding and fleeing students live on the air.

    Since Columbine, more than 226,000 students have experienced gun violence at U.S. schools, according to Washington Post data. The frequency of school shootings has spurred changes in reporting aimed at limiting inaccuracies such as those that followed the Columbine massacre. The Poynter Institute and Suicide Awareness Voice of Education urge journalists to avoid reporting secondhand witness statements or amplifying small details, and the Radio Television Digital News Association warns against broadcasting the locations of victims and law enforcement while shooters are still active.

    Others recommend avoiding the use of shooters’ names or publishing photos that glorify their crimes. This is because of another aspect of modern school shootings that started with Columbine — glorification of mass shooters on the Internet. As The Post’s Jessica Contrera reported this month, more than 150 strangers show up at the Columbine High School campus every month. Many are obsessed with the attacks, and pore over Harris’s and Klebold’s online writings and photos.

    This week, an 18-year-old woman described by authorities as “infatuated” with the Columbine massacre traveled from her home in Florida to Colorado. Sol Pais immediately purchased the same kind of weapon used by one of the Columbine shooters at a gun shop two miles from the school, setting off a massive manhunt. She ran from the FBI and took her own life — her case becoming another reminder of the Columbine shooting’s enduring and dangerous mythology.

    Read more Retropolis:

    The accused New Zealand shooter and an all-white Europe that never existed

    Virginia Tech was not the worst school massacre in U.S. history. This was.

    A masked shooter. A campus killing. And a manhunt 159 years before Columbine.

    A gunmaker once tried to reform itself. The NRA nearly destroyed it.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/04/19/bullies-black-trench-coats-columbine-shootings-most-dangerous-myths/

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    Storms in South kill girl in Florida, bring tornado threat – NBC News
    Storms in South kill girl in Florida, bring tornado threat – NBC News

    ATLANTA — A strong storm system barreling through the South killed an 8-year-old girl in Florida on Friday and threatened to bring tornadoes to large parts of the Carolinas and southern Virginia on Saturday.

    A tree fell onto a house in Woodville, Florida, south of Tallahassee, killing the girl and injuring a 12-year-old boy, according to the Leon County Sheriff’s Office. The office said in a statement that the girl died at a hospital while the boy suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Their names weren’t immediately released.

    The same storm system was blamed for the deaths a day earlier of two people in Mississippi and a woman in Alabama.

    The threat on Friday shifted farther east, where tornado warnings covered parts of northeast Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia, where four suspected tornado touchdowns were reported Friday night. Twisters touched down in Reston, Fredericks Hall, Barham and Forksville. Homes and small structures were damaged, but no injuries were immediately reported.

    The national Storm Prediction Center said 9.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were at a moderate risk of severe weather. The region includes the Charlotte, North Carolina, metro area.

    Torrential downpours, large hail and a few tornadoes were among the hazards, the National Weather Service in Raleigh, North Carolina, warned.

    Radar readings appeared to show a tornado formed in western Virginia’s Franklin County, south of Roanoke, though damage on the ground still must be assessed, said National Weather Service Meteorologist Phil Hysell. In South Carolina, authorities urged motorists to avoid part of Interstate 26 — the main artery from Upstate through Columbia and all the way to Charleston — because downed trees had left the roadway scattered with debris.

    In Georgia, the storm system knocked down trees, caused flooding and cut off power to tens of thousands of people.

    A tree came down on an apartment complex in an Atlanta suburb, but only one person reported a minor injury and was treated at the scene, Gwinnett County fire spokesman Capt. Tommy Rutledge told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

    In Forsyth County northeast of Atlanta, three firefighters suffered minor injuries when their firetruck overturned during heavy rain and wind, Fire Department Division Chief Jason Shivers told the newspaper.

    Meanwhile, hundreds of people cleaned up part of a central Mississippi town hit hard by a tornado on Thursday.

    Volunteers and family members were swarming the north side of Morton, where the National Weather Service says a twister with winds as high as 132 mph hit a neighborhood. More than 20 homes were heavily damaged or destroyed. The town of 3,500 is about 30 miles east of Jackson.

    “When it stopped, there was nothing left,” Morton resident Sharon Currie told WAPT-TV. “I was going, ‘Oh my God. My house is gone.'”

    Forecasters confirmed that 14 tornadoes had touched down in Mississippi and damage from the storm system was reported in at least 24 of the state’s 82 counties. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency — the second one he has declared in less than a week due to tornadoes.

    Authorities on Friday reported a third storm-related death in the state. Freddie Mobley, 63, died while helping cut a tree that had fallen on a house, Lincoln County Coroner Clay McMorris told the Daily Leader of Brookhaven. Mobley had made a few cuts on the tree and backed away when the trunk shifted before he could move, Deputy Coroner Ricky Alford said.

    Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/storms-south-kill-girl-florida-bring-tornado-threat-n996681

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    20 Years After Columbine, Fed’s Background Checks Haven’t Stopped Mass Shootings – NPR
    20 Years After Columbine, Fed’s Background Checks Haven’t Stopped Mass Shootings – NPR

    On April 25, 1999, a memorial service for the victims of the Columbine High School shooting Littleton, Colo.

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    Twenty years ago, a pair of students killed a teacher and a dozen of their classmates a high school in Littleton, Colo. The shooters at Columbine High School used semiautomatic weapons and sawed-off shotguns in the attack before turning the guns on themselves.

    Just a few months before that shooting, the FBI launched the National Instant Background Check System to try and prevent dangerous individuals from purchasing guns.

    And in the two decades since, the federal government says it has conducted more than hundreds of millions of background checks. With critical shortcomings in the system, though, mass shootings continue happening in the U.S.

    “The weakness of the NICS system is talked about mostly in the wake of a tragic shooting, which happens more often than not,” says Stephen Morris, a former FBI assistant director for the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which oversees NICS.

    NICS functions today much like it did 20 years ago. When someone wants to buy a firearm, a federally licensed gun dealer contacts the system and usually within minutes federal investigators receive the request and begin searching for clues within three main databases to approve or deny the purchase.

    The FBI says the system has denied more than 1.3 million firearm transfers since NICS first began operating.

    If more research needs to be done, the purchase can be delayed for up to three business days. If in that time investigators can’t complete the additional background check, federal law allows the gun dealer to proceed with the transaction.

    In 2015, a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C., was able to obtain a gun after the FBI failed to complete his background check before the three-day deadline.

    The gun purchase was able to go through and that shooter later killed nine black churchgoers.

    As NPR reported later, it was discovered the shooter had admitted to possessing a controlled substance during an arrest. That should have denied the purchase on the grounds of “an unlawful drug user or addict.”

    Since it was created in late 1998, the federal government says NICS has initiated some 311 million background checks, including 26 million in 2018 alone.

    “We’re talking about a system and a process that was created over 20 years ago. It goes without saying the system is stressed out,” says Morris, the former FBI official.

    The NICS system relies on state and local agencies to make the data more robust, but sometimes records can be missing or incomplete.

    “Like any database, the system is only as good as the records put in that system,” says Lawrence Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. “There are some very real world examples of where the background check system was not accurate”

    Like at Virginia Tech in 2017 when 33 people died, including the gunman.

    In that case, Virginia court documents released after the rampage showed a judge had previously declared the man “mentally ill” and ordered him to seek treatment. But at the time, Virginia wasn’t fully sharing information with NICS. Had that information been in the system, there is a better chance the gunman would not have been able to obtain his guns.

    Again in 2017, a gunman killed 27 people including himself in Sutherland Springs, Texas. He was an Air Force veteran and purchased an assault-style rifle and two handguns, but a domestic violence conviction during his time of service should have barred him from possessing the weapons. The Air Force never entered that information into NICS.

    Following those attacks, Congress pass legislation to try to address the lapses, including offering states more financial incentives to share information with NICS.

    After high-profile shootings, gun violence prevention advocates often renew their calls for universal background checks. Those would require background checks on virtually all gun sales, not just ones administered by federally licensed gun dealers.

    Lawrence Keane, with the gun industry trade association, says he doesn’t think that federal universal background checks are the solution.

    “We think we have to work to fix the NICS system before you even have a conversation about expanding it,” Keane says. “That does not make sense to us to expand background checks, through so-called universal background checks, when the system we have now is not working as it should be.”

    But twenty states, including California, Connecticut and Vermont extend background checks to include private sales of at least some firearm transactions. That’s according to Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

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    Just this week, an 18-year woman authorities say had an “infatuation” with the Columbine High School shooting, flew from Miami to Denver and within hours purchased a shotgun along with ammunition.

    More than a dozen school districts in the Denver area, including Columbine High School, were closed Wednesday while a “massive manhunt” was underway for the woman. Her body was recovered later that day, after apparently killing herself.

    The gun shop owner who sold the guns posted on Facebook that she passed both the Colorado Bureau Investigation background check system as well as NICS.

    “She did go through the full background check and was given a clearance by both NICS and CBI. We had no reason to suspect she was a threat to either herself or anyone else.”

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/04/20/714921726/20-years-on-the-background-check-system-continues-to-miss-dangerous-gun-buyers

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    Huckabee lashes out at Trump critic Romney: ‘Makes me sick’ you could have been POTUS – Fox News
    Huckabee lashes out at Trump critic Romney: ‘Makes me sick’ you could have been POTUS – Fox News
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    How could the Mueller report impact the 2020 presidential race?

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee lashed out at Sen. Mitt Romney after the Utah Republican said he was “sickened” by the level of dishonesty from President Trump’s administration in response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

    “Know what makes me sick, Mitt? Not how disingenuous you were to take @realDonaldTrump $$ and then 4 yrs later jealously trash him & then love him again when you begged to be Sec of State, but makes me sick that you got GOP nomination and could have been @POTUS,” Huckabee tweeted Friday.

    Earlier in the day, Romney tweeted that it was good news that there was insufficient evidence to charge Trump with collusion or obstruction of justice. The former GOP 2012 presidential candidate then blasted Trump and his campaign for having contacts with Russians.

    “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 posted.

    “I am appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia — including information that had been illegally obtained; that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement,” he wrote.

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    Mueller’s long-awaited report was released Thursday morning and contains nearly 900 redactions. It showed investigators found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. No conclusion was reached on whether Trump’s actions amounted to obstruction.

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    Huckabee ran against Romney for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination and is the father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

    Romney and Trump’s contentious relationship has been well documented, with both men having exchanged congratulations and insults over the years.

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/huckabee-lashes-out-at-romney-makes-me-sick-how-disingenuous-you-were-to-trump

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    The Russian collusion story is a reminder of why media should ‘wait and see’ – Washington Examiner
    The Russian collusion story is a reminder of why media should ‘wait and see’ – Washington Examiner

    The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has been a uniquely stupid chapter in news media history.

    Newsrooms got some of it right. They also got a lot wrong.

    One of the worst aspects of the press’ two-year-long exercise in speculation and rumormongering was social media, particularly Twitter, which provided reporters and political commentators with public platforms to spout off half-cocked for every new allegation and detail regarding the investigation. It’s almost as if these people have never heard the phrase “wait and see.”

    And now that the investigation has concluded, we can truly appreciate the absurdity of some of these by-the-minute takes from the people who pretended to understand what was happening.

    Washington Post columnist Max Boot, for example, went out on a limb on March 28 when he asked (with a straight face, I presume) how Attorney General William Barr and his team of legal professionals could have possibly read and understood the 400-plus-page Mueller report in less than 48 hours, as the Justice Department claimed.

    Funnily enough, the following tweet also comes from Boot, who apparently was able to do all by his lonesome self what he could not comprehend from the Justice Department.

    “Having read the Mueller report, I can see why Trump was so eager to discredit the investigators – and why Barr felt compelled to spin in advance. And it’s not because the report proves ‘No Collusion – No Obstruction!’ It proves the very opposite,” he claimed less than 12 hours after the report was released to the public.

    Call me a cynic, but my guess here is that Boot’s real position is the opposite of whatever benefits the Trump administration.

    Speaking of “whatever it is, I’m against it,” let us also consider freelance journalist and New York Times contributor Jared Yates Sexton, who once wrote a sort of winding paean to Mueller in 2017.

    “Important to remember: Robert Mueller is an independent special prosecutor tasked with investigating possible collusion. He is not a partisan tasked with destroying Trump. That’s what conservatives want people to believe,” he wrote. “Do not fall into the trap of talking about this in the terms conservatives want you to. This is as much a PR battle as a legal one.”

    “The battle Republicans want here is to define it as a partisan witch hunt. It’s not, at all. But words and tone matter,” Yates concluded. “If Mueller didn’t find evidence, he’d walk away. His job isn’t to invent or distort. This seems obvious, but is massively important.”

    On April 18, just hours after the report’s release, Sexton then tweeted:

    As it turns out, “wait and see” is a good rule to live by precisely because it saves you from publicly repudiating yourself. It saves you from having the general public realize that even you don’t pay attention to what you say. It also saves you from looking like a partisan hack.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-russian-collusion-story-is-a-reminder-of-why-media-should-wait-and-see

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