Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations – Washington Examiner
Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations – Washington Examiner

Georgetown University students overwhelmingly voted to increase their tuition to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves once owned by the school. The move comes as reparations are increasingly being discussed on the campaign trail for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

The Georgetown University Student Association held the referendum this week, with students supporting the measure by a two-to-one margin. The fee would increase tuition at the nation’s oldest Catholic university by nearly $28 per semester for every student. The money would go into a fund for descendants of the 272 slaves the Jesuits sold in 1838 to keep the deeply indebted university open.

The vote is not binding, however. University leadership will make the final decision on whether to implement a mandatory fee for reparations.

“There are many approaches that enable our community to respond to the legacies of slavery,” Todd Olson, vice president for student affairs, said in a statement. “This student referendum provides valuable insight into student perspectives and will help guide our continued engagement with students, faculty and staff, members of the Descendant community, and the Society of Jesus.”

Reparations have become a topic of debate in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. At least four White House hopefuls — Obama-era housing secretary Julián Castro, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke — support payments to descendants of slaves. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has ripped into his opponents for not doing enough to make reparations a reality.

Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders disagrees with the idea, however, saying that he would rather focus on the economic inequality that puts African Americans at a disadvantage.

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‘I know nothing’: Trump changes his tune on WikiLeaks – The Boston Globe
‘I know nothing’: Trump changes his tune on WikiLeaks – The Boston Globe



WASHINGTON — It was a far cry from ‘‘I love WikiLeaks!’’

President Trump declared that ‘‘I know nothing about WikiLeaks’’ after its disheveled founder Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to face charges, a stark contrast to how candidate Trump showered praise on Assange’s hacking organization night after night during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Asked about Thursday’s arrest, Trump said at the White House, ‘‘It’s not my thing. I know there is something having to do with Julian Assange. I’ve been seeing what’s happened with Assange and that will be a determination, I would imagine, mostly by the attorney general, who’s doing an excellent job. So, he’ll be making a determination . I know nothing really about him.’’

‘‘It’s not my deal in life.’’

But WikiLeaks was Trump’s deal in 2016 as he welcomed the political boost his campaign got and cheered on the release of Clinton campaign emails.

On the same October day that the ‘‘Access Hollywood’’ tape emerged, revealing that Trump had bragged in 2005 about groping women, WikiLeaks began releasing damaging emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. Trump and his allies, facing a tough battle in the campaign’s final month, seized on the illegal dumps and weaponized them.

‘‘WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks,’’ Trump said in Pennsylvania.

‘‘This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove,’’ Trump said in Michigan.

‘‘Boy, I love reading WikiLeaks,’’ Trump said in Ohio.

All told, Trump extolled WikiLeaks more than 100 times, and a poster of Assange hung backstage at the Republican’s debate war room. At no point from a rally stage did Trump express any misgivings about how WikiLeaks obtained the emails from the Clinton campaign or about the accusations of stealing sensitive U.S. government information, which led to the charges against Assange on Thursday.

Assange for years has been under U.S. Justice Department scrutiny for WikiLeaks’ role in publishing thousands of government secrets. He was an important figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, as investigators examined how WikiLeaks obtained emails that were stolen from Democratic groups.

When asked about Assange in 2017, Trump said he did not ‘‘support or unsupport’’ WikiLeaks’ move to release hacked emails and that he would not be involved in any decision for the U.S. government to arrest Assange.

‘‘I am not involved in that decision,’’ whether or not to arrest Assange, Trump told The Associated Press then, ‘‘but if they want to do it, it’s OK with me.’’

The Justice Department now has charged Assange with taking part in a computer hacking conspiracy, accusing him of scheming with Chelsea Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, to break a password for a classified government computer.

The single charge of computer intrusion conspiracy carries up to five years in prison, though the Justice Department can add additional charges depending on the evidence it gathers. Manning was ordered jailed last month for refusing to testify before a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, suggesting that prosecutors are still at work.

It was unclear why the Assange charge, which was brought under seal last year, was made public at this time and why he was taken into custody now — weeks after Mueller’s investigation had concluded. None of the allegations in the case relate to Russian election interference or WikiLeaks’ role in publishing emails stolen from Democrats by Russian intelligence operatives.

An indictment against 12 Russians last year described WikiLeaks’ role in publishing hacked emails in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. Though the indictment said WikiLeaks had worked to coordinate the release of information, there was no allegation that the organization solicited the hacking of Democratic email accounts or worked with Russians.

Assange’s arrest provoked passionate responses overseas, and from some who had expressed concern about whistleblower protections, but the initial bipartisan reaction in Washington was relief.

‘‘I’m glad to see the wheels of justice are finally turning when it comes to Julian Assange,’’ tweeted Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a Trump ally. ‘‘In my book, he has NEVER been a hero. His actions – releasing classified information – put our troops at risk and jeopardized the lives of those who helped us in Iraq and Afghanistan.’’

And Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, said he hoped the British courts would quickly transfer Assange to U.S. custody ‘‘so he can finally get the justice he deserves.’’

Assange’s lawyer has previously said he planned to fight any U.S. charges against him. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012 after he was released on bail in Britain while facing extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations that have since been dropped. British police said Assange had been arrested Thursday for breaching his bail conditions and in relation to the U.S. arrest request.



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Hillary Clinton says Assange ‘has to answer for what he has done’ – CNN
Hillary Clinton says Assange ‘has to answer for what he has done’ – CNN

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Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton said Thursday that Julian Assange — whose organization, WikiLeaks, played a damaging role in her 2016 electoral defeat — needs to “answer for what he has done.”

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After Arrest of Julian Assange, the Russian Mysteries Remain – The New York Times
After Arrest of Julian Assange, the Russian Mysteries Remain – The New York Times

Numerous significant questions are left unanswered, including what, if anything, Mr. Assange knew about the identity of Guccifer 2.0, a mysterious hacker who American intelligence and law enforcement officials have identified as a front for Russian military intelligence operatives.

Court documents have revealed that it was Russian intelligence — using the Guccifer persona — that provided Mr. Assange thousands of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee and the personal account of John D. Podesta, the chairman of the Clinton campaign.

Another question is whether Mr. Assange was a conduit between the Russian hackers and the Trump campaign. Mr. Assange exchanged emails with Donald Trump Jr., Mr. Trump’s eldest son, during the campaign, and a Trump campaign official sent Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime adviser to the president, to get information about the hacked Democratic emails, according to a January indictment by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel.

Mr. Mueller concluded his investigation without an indictment that directly connected WikiLeaks, the Russians and the Trump campaign, suggesting that prosecutors did not find sufficient evidence that Mr. Assange knowingly engaged in a conspiracy with Russia to help the Trump campaign.

But the report drafted by Mr. Mueller’s team, and expected to be released next week, could have additional details about the ties between the Trump campaign and Mr. Assange. Those details could be redacted by the Justice Department, however, if officials believe the material includes classified intelligence, said Carrie Cordero, a former official with the Justice Department’s National Security Division and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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Cuccinelli would be the perfect choice for homeland security – Washington Examiner
Cuccinelli would be the perfect choice for homeland security – Washington Examiner

A group of more than 30 top leaders of the conservative movement sent a letter to President Trump pushing a terrific idea: Appoint former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli as the next secretary of homeland security.

Cuccinelli, who lost a close race for Virginia governor in 2013, is an accomplished administrator, well versed in the law, superb at communications, and philosophically in line with Trump. He is a principled conservative, unwavering but with a practical bent. He’s also politically fearless, with enough backbone to handle a tough and controversial job.

Yet he also has a record of compassion. As a student at the University of Virginia, he helped convince the administration to create a position for a full-time coordinator of education against sexual assault. Later, as attorney general, he worked tirelessly to exonerate a 27-year prison inmate after new evidence indicated the man’s innocence. He also worked to pass laws against human trafficking, and for better public access to mental healthcare.

“In this time of national crisis and emergency over national security and immigration, Ken’s background as a non-nonsense law enforcement officer and a major constitutional lawyer, along with his reputation as a fighter, combined with his extensive media experience, including television, make him ideally suited to carry out the duties of the Department of Homeland Security,” wrote the conservative leaders.

Among the signatories were former Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, former U.S. senator and Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint, longtime conservative publisher Al Regnery, pioneering direct-mail impresario Richard Viguerie, Leadership Institute President Morton Blackwell (no relation to Kenneth), Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, and leading conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell.

They closed the letter extolling Cuccinelli’s “tough on crime stance, his solution-oriented approach, his dedication to the rule of law, his love for America, and most importantly, his loyalty to the cause of making America great again.”

In conversations and interviews both on and off the record over the years, I’ve been equally impressed. If Trump wants a smart, take-charge guy to protect the American homeland, Cuccinelli should be his man.

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Conservatives Push Immigration Hawk Cuccinelli for DHS Head – RealClearPolitics
Conservatives Push Immigration Hawk Cuccinelli for DHS Head – RealClearPolitics

The faces on the right often stay the same while titles change in the Trump era. Hence the latest news that President Trump is considering former Virginia attorney general and longtime conservative sojourner Ken Cuccinelli to become his next Homeland Security secretary.

Cuccinelli is in the running to succeed ousted DHS Chief Kirstjen Nielsen, reportedly competing for the job with current Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Major qualifications for the position are simple. Frustrated by a rise in illegal crossings along the southern U.S. border, Trump wants an immigration hardliner. Conservatives are convinced Cuccinelli fits the bill.

In a letter postmarked for Friday and obtained by RealClearPolitics, 19 outside conservative organizations urged the president to pick Cuccinelli. Longtime Trump boosters, including former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center, and Ginni Thomas — the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — lent their signatures.

“In this time of national crisis and emergency over national security and immigration, Ken’s background as a no-nonsense law enforcement officer and a major constitutional lawyer, along with his reputation as a fighter, combined with his extensive media experience, including television, make him ideally suited to carry out the duties of the Department of Homeland Security and your immigration agenda,” the letter reads.

Cuccinelli has all the prerequisites for the Trump Cabinet, whose members regularly double as cable TV guests. He is tough on crime, hawkish on the border, and an articulate, often feisty, interviewee. The longtime lawyer regularly made the cable news circuit to defend the president before signing with CNN in 2017 as a legal commentator.

A combative Cuccinelli notably caught flak there for clashing with Ana Navarro. During a shouting match over Trump’s immigration policies, he told the former Republican strategist and current co-host of “The View” that he was “sick and tired of listening to your shrill voice in my ears.”

That kind of pugilistic punditry likely appeals to the president, and Trump has experienced it firsthand. As a Virginia delegate, Cuccinelli engineered an effort at the 2016 Republican National Convention to force a debate on the nominating rules. It failed.

Party holdouts had hoped a roll-call vote would either embarrass the presumptive nominee or deny him the nomination altogether.  The plan fell apart when Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack called a voice vote instead before hurrying off the podium to escape an outcry from angry delegates. Cuccinelli threw down his credentials in disgust.

He later promised to support the nominee, and in the years since Cuccinelli has become a trusted ally of the president. A senior administration official confirmed to RCP that the 2013 Republican nominee for Virginia governor has earned the admiration of key Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller.

Cuccinelli made several trips to the White House ahead of the Senate vote on criminal justice reform earlier this year and also met with skeptical Republicans in Congress to push the Kushner-backed First Step Act. He would later herald its passage as “historic,” describing it as a move toward “redemption in the federal criminal justice system.”

His record as an immigration hardliner is more extensive, going back to his time as an Old Dominion lawmaker and attorney general. The liberal editorial board of the Washington Post bemoaned his candidacy for governor, pointing to his opposition to birthright citizenship, his authorization of lawsuits against employers who hire illegal immigrants, and his support of efforts to block immigrants from collecting unemployment benefits.

Cuccinelli lost that 2013 race but his record won him devotion from others tough on illegal immigration. Supporters and critics note that there is little ideological daylight between Cuccinelli and Miller, the aide reportedly responsible for the purge of Nielsen at DHS.

Kushner and Miller have not backed any potential nominee. And Kobach, who is also in the running and who knows Trump personally, is as much of an immigration hawk.

Cuccinelli’s admirers include Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who recruited him during his 2016 presidential campaign and who described him to RCP as “a patriot.”

“Our broken immigration system and years of unwillingness to secure our southern border has produced a security and humanitarian crisis. With his loyalty to the Constitution and extensive legal experience, Ken is well equipped to address this crisis and would be an exceptional Secretary of Homeland Security,” Cruz said in a statement.

Among Cuccinelli’s detractors is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who asked Republicans to head off problematic nominees before they are tapped by the president. According to Politico, the Kentucky Republican singled him out by name.

The two have been crossways since at least 2014 when Cuccinelli joined the Senate Conservative Fund, a political action committee that supported a primary challenge to McConnell.

Whoever gets the nod at DHS, Trump confidant and North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows told RCP, must be “someone who will address the inherent barriers that exist, which keep our communities from being safe.”

“There is a crisis at the border,” he continued, “and it needs to be addressed in crisis mode.”

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Ohio’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Becomes Law; Opponents Will Sue – NPR
Ohio’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Becomes Law; Opponents Will Sue – NPR

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the “heartbeat bill” one day after it passed the Republican-led General Assembly.

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The six-week abortion ban known as the “heartbeat bill” is now law in Ohio. That makes Ohio the sixth state in the nation to attempt to outlaw abortions at the point a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill Thursday afternoon, just one day after it passed the Republican-led General Assembly. The law is slated to take effect in 90 days, unless blocked by a federal judge.

Now known as the “Human Rights Protection Act,” SB 23 outlaws abortions as early as five or six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women know they’re pregnant. It is one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.

The bill does include an exception to save the life of the woman, but no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

“The essential function of government is to protect the most vulnerable among us, those who don’t have a voice,” DeWine said as he signed the bill. “Government’s role should be to protect life from the beginning to the end.”

Federal judges in Kentucky and Iowa have blocked the laws or struck them down as unconstitutional. Another bill in Georgia has yet to be signed by the governor.

DeWine’s signature will set off a lengthy legal fight. The ACLU of Ohio announced it will sue to stop the law, which the group says “virtually bans all abortion care.”

“This legislation is blatantly unconstitutional and we will fight to the bitter end to ensure that this bill is permanently blocked,” said ACLU of Ohio legal director Freda Levenson in a statement.

The group plans to sue on behalf of Pre-Term Cleveland, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio and the Women’s Med Center of Dayton.

But DeWine and lawmakers said they aren’t dissuaded by the threat of legal action. Since taking office in January, DeWine had said he planned to sign whichever version of the heartbeat bill ended up on his desk.

“Will there be a lawsuit? Yeah, we are counting on it,” said state Rep. Ron Hood on Wednesday. “We’re counting on it. We’re excited about it.”

Anti-abortion groups such as Ohio Right To Life say they intend the heartbeat bill to trigger a U.S. Supreme Court case striking down the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. That case legalized abortion up until viability, usually at 22-24 weeks.

“If this is what it takes, we will see you at the Supreme Court,” said Planned Parenthood of Ohio President Iris Harvey at a rally Wednesday outside the Statehouse.

The Ohio Senate originally passed the bill last month. The Republican-led House Health Committee then made several changes before sending it to the House floor, where it passed by party-line vote.

Beyond changing the name, the Ohio House version allows for the use of transvaginal ultrasounds to detect a fetal heartbeat even earlier in a pregnancy.

The bill institutes criminal penalties for doctors who violate the law. Doctors who perform abortions after detecting a heartbeat would face a fifth-degree felony and up to a year in prison. The legislation also allows the State Medical Board to take disciplinary actions against doctors found in violation and impose penalties of up to $20,000.

After hearing testimony from lawmakers and advocates, the Ohio House passed the bill Wednesday afternoon, 56-40, and the Ohio Senate quickly followed to affirm the changes, 18-12.

“Pro-life Ohio thanks Governor DeWine for taking a courageous stand on behalf of unborn children with beating hearts,” said Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis in a statement.

Currently, Ohio prohibits abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and lawmakers in 2018 passed a law banning the “dilation and evacuation” method of abortion used most commonly after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The latter was blocked from taking effect by a federal judge in March.

The Ohio Senate in March passed another bill requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains. The bill is now being considered in the Ohio House.

Legislators attempted several times before to pass the heartbeat bill, but the legislation was twice vetoed by former Gov. John Kasich, who warned it would prove costly for the state to defend in court.

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Family members of murder victims slam California Gov. Newsom’s moratorium on death penalty – Fox News
Family members of murder victims slam California Gov. Newsom’s moratorium on death penalty – Fox News
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Brother of alleged ‘Golden State Killer’ victim urges Gov. Newsom to reconsider death penalty moratorium

A group of family members of murder victims in California, along with a number of district attorneys from across the state, gathered in Sacramento on Thursday to denounce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent moratorium on the death penalty.

At a press conference led by Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, the family members and district attorneys slammed Newsom’s move to put a moratorium on the executions of the 737 inmates currently incarcerated in the Western Hemisphere’s largest death row and called on the California governor to rescind his executive order.

“Governor Newsom took a knife and stabbed all the victims and all the victims’ families in the heart,” Spitzer said.

Spitzer also criticized Newsom for travelling to El Salvador this week instead of meeting with murder victims’ families. Newsom is in the Central American nation in an attempt to counter the Trump administration’s harsh immigration stance and recent moves to cut millions of dollars in U.S. aid to the country.

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“The governor decided to spend the week out of state, out of country, to meet with people he thinks are victims, when he could have met with victims in his own state,” he said.

Newsom’s office did not immediately return Fox News’ request for comment.

The press conference comes a day after prosecutors in the state announced they will seek the death penalty if they convict the man suspected of being the notorious “Golden State Killer,” who eluded capture for decades.

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Prosecutors from four counties, including Orange County, announced their decision on Wednesday during a short court hearing for Joseph DeAngelo. He was arrested a year ago based on DNA evidence linking him to at least 13 murders and more than 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and ’80s.

Ron Harrington, whose brother Keith Harrington’s murder is one of those linked to the alleged Golden State Killer, castigated Newsom’s decision. Keith Harrington, along with his wife, Patti, were found bludgeoned to death in August of 1980 inside their home in a gated community just outside Dana Point, Calif.

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“The Golden State Killer is the worst of the worst of the worst ever,” Ron Harrington said Thursday during the press conference. “He is the poster child for the death penalty.”

Harrington added: “Gov. Newsom, please explain to the Golden State Killer’s victims how they should be lenient and compassionate.”

Steve Herr – whose son, Sam Herr, was murdered and then dismembered by Daniel Wozniak in May 2010 inside an apartment in Costa Mesa, Calif. – also criticized Newsom.

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Wozniak, who was sentenced to capital punishment in 2016, killed Herr and his college friend and tutor, Julie Kibuishi, as part of a plan to steal money Herr had saved from his military service in Afghanistan so that he could pay for his upcoming wedding and honeymoon.

Wozniak then staged the crime scene to make it appear as though Kibuishi had been sexually assaulted by Herr and that Herr had gone on the run.

The convicted murderer also dismembered both victims by cutting off the hands of both and removing Herr’s head.

“Gov. Newsom wasn’t there when I walked into my son’s apartment and found the body of Julie Kibuishi absolutely defiled,” Herr’s father said. “He wasn’t there when I walked into the mortuary and saw my son all sewed up.”

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Newsom’s moratorium, which he signed last month, is seen as largely a symbolic move as California has not executed an inmate since 2006 amid legal challenges, but it still marked a major victory for opponents of capital punishment given the state’s size and its national political influence.

“I’ve gotten a sense over many, many years of the disparity in our criminal justice system,” Newsom said during a press conference on Wednesday. “We can make a more enlightened choice.”

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Newsom also ordered in March that the equipment used in executions at San Quentin State Prison – the facility where capital punishment was carried out for men in California – be shut down and removed.

“We cannot advance the death penalty in an effort to soften the blow of what happens to these victims,” Newsom said. “If someone kills, we do not kill. We’re better than that.”

Despite recent polling indicating that support for the death penalty is at its lowest level since the early 1970s, Newsom’s order still bucks the will of most California residents. California voters previously rejected an initiative to abolish capital punishment in the state and instead, in 2016, voted in favor of Proposition 66 to help speed up executions.

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Newsom’s move to halt executions was panned last month by President Trump, who has been a harsh critic of Newsom’s ever since the governor took office earlier this year.

“Defying voters, the Governor of California will halt all death penalty executions of 737 stone cold killers. Friends and families of the always forgotten VICTIMS are not thrilled, and neither am I!” Trump tweeted.

California has executed 13 inmates since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 and the state has the most people on death row in the country. Since the 1970s, 79 death row inmates have died of natural causes in the state and 26 by suicide. The last execution held in California occurred in 2006 when 76-year-old Clarence Ray Allen, who was convicted of killing three people, was executed.

Since then a series of stays of execution issued by the Federal District Court in San Francisco have held up any executions in the state, but there are now 25 inmates on death row who have exhausted all their appeals. Newsom said that none of the inmates currently on death row will have their sentences commuted, but will possibly be transferred back into the state’s general prison population.

“I believe I’m doing the right thing,” he said. “I cannot sign off on executing hundreds and hundreds of human beings knowing that among them there will be innocent people.”

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How The Trump Administration’s Transgender Troop Ban Is Affecting One Military Family – NPR
How The Trump Administration’s Transgender Troop Ban Is Affecting One Military Family – NPR

Clockwise from top right: Lt. Col. “B” Fram, Kathryn Fram, Peg Fram, Alivya Fram,

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Lt. Col. Bree “B” Fram left a doctor’s office on April 2. Presenting that day as Bryan, the name given to them at birth, B should have been relieved.

“Overall, it’s a good thing,” said B. “It just didn’t feel great to have to do it on someone else’s timeline other than my own.”

“It” was an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria. As a transgender member of the military, B had to secure the diagnosis by April 12 in order to continue serving openly.

That’s when the Trump administration’s new policy on transgender military service takes effect. It effectively bans transgender people from joining the military. The more than 14,000 already serving will be allowed to do so openly, so long as they have that formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria filed by the deadline. If not, they must serve under the gender assigned them at birth – or leave the armed forces.

President Trump first announced the ban in July 2017.

B, who is in the Air Force, met that deadline when a civilian doctor in Ithaca, New York secured their diagnosis. But B’s personal journey of identity — shared with their wife Peg — is far from finished.

“I realize that I’m scared,” Peg said. “It’s accelerated everything so quickly…all of a sudden, we’re being forced to make this choice that I don’t think we were quite at yet.”

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines gender dysphoria as “a difference between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, and significant distress or problems functioning.”

B says that language, specifically the term “distressed,” was a major disincentive in deciding whether to get the diagnosis — that the idea of having such a medical designation in their employment file is painful, especially when being transgender has never affected their job performance.

And for Peg, making the diagnosis official at this point was unwelcome. She just wasn’t ready.

“I have my own journey to deal with,” she says. “I met Bryan. I fell in love with Bryan. I married Bryan. We had kids. We moved on. Bree has come into our lives but it’s almost like bringing a new person in. It challenges everything from my sexuality to my femininity. And that is a hard thing for me to deal with on a daily basis, let alone have someone come up to me and say ‘deal with it faster.’ “

Not that Peg isn’t grateful that the diagnosis came through, mere days before the deadline. She remembers what it was like to live what she calls an “edited life” before the Obama administration announced it would allow transgender people in the military in 2016.

They have two kids, six and ten, who see their dad’s gender identity as “business as usual.” But Peg says the family spent years hiding B’s gender dysphoria, afraid it would destroy their military career.

B remembers, too — and doesn’t want transgender troops who missed the deadline, current and future, to go through that. A week after the doctor’s appointment, the Fram family traveled to Washington so B could meet with members of Congress and talk about the Trump administration’s ban. B told lawmakers how much harder it is to serve when forced to stay in the closet…or, in the case of those who don’t get the diagnosis in time, forced back into the closet.

In contrast, when allowed to serve openly, B says:

“You don’t have to have this filter in your brain that has to sit between your thoughts and the words or actions that come out of you…you can reach your full potential.”

So why not take that potential elsewhere? Leave the military for a job where the policy doesn’t affect B and their family?

“I have so much invested in the military,” says B. “The reasons why I joined haven’t changed…I joined right after September 11th. That had a profound impact on me and my ability to give back,” adding that the military is where they found purpose.

That’s what’s at stake for the service members who didn’t manage to get a diagnosis in time. B works with SPART*A, an organization that represents active duty transgender service members. The group was working with several people trying to file their paperwork up until the last minute.

Delays took many forms, particularly for those serving remotely where military doctors are not available. Even if a soldier gets a diagnosis from a civilian doctor, the paperwork needs a signature from a military medical professional.

And that paperwork itself raises other concerns for the Frams. Having lived through several policy changes as a military spouse, Peg is wary of how the documentation of B’s gender dysphoria might be used in the future.

“It opened up another avenue of fear for me,” says Peg. “Now that they’ve been forced to go into this box, it’s easier to call them out later.”

“The fear is always that this is the tip of the iceberg,” says B, believing the current policy is already a social step backward. “What comes next?”

Selena Simmons-Duffin edited this story for broadcast.

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Senate confirms former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt as interior secretary – Washington Post
Senate confirms former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt as interior secretary – Washington Post

David Bernhardt, the new interior secretary, participates in the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council Meeting at the White House in April. (Chris Kleponis/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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April 11 at 3:15 PM

Former oil and gas lobbyist David Bernhardt was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to lead the Interior Department, an agency that controls nearly half a billion acres of public land and the vast amount of oil and gas mineral resources resting beneath it.

The 56-to-41 vote Thursday promoted Bernhardt from Interior’s acting secretary, a job he assumed after his predecessor, Ryan Zinke, resigned amid numerous investigations into his behavior and management of the agency. Bernhardt had served as Zinke’s deputy until his departure in December.

The vote tally made Bernhardt the Interior Department’s least popular nominee for secretary in 40 years, according to the Center for American Progress, a liberal-leaning policy institute. Before Thursday, Zinke had the most votes in opposition, 31. Before President Trump’s two picks, every nominee over that time received fewer than 25 no votes, the group said.

Bernhardt’s extensive experience at Interior, where he served as solicitor during the George W. Bush administration, was cited by his supporters who said he is more than qualified to lead the agency.

But his work as a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry in the West, as well as large water utilities, led to concerns about conflicts of interest. The Interior Department oversees 700 million acres minerals and other resources underground and 1.7 billion acres offshore. The department works closely with some of Bernhardt’s former clients.

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Bernhardt has so many potential conflicts of interest that he carries an index card listing companies and people he should avoid. Concerns over ethics led to a heated confrontation between a Democrat who opposed Bernhardt’s nomination and a Republican who supported it at his confirmation hearing.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Bernhardt came to his office and assured him that he would follow ethics rules. Shortly after the meeting, Wyden said, he was startled to see that Bernhardt was the subject of a newspaper article that said he intervened on behalf of the oil industry and others to stop a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service analysis that said certain toxic pesticides used by such businesses threatened endangered animals.

“Why would you come to my office and lie?” Wyden asked. The actions “make you sound like just another corrupt official,” the lawmaker said.

Wyden’s statement was immediately countered by Bernhardt’s friend and fellow Coloradan, Sen. Cory Gardner (R), who said Democrats exhibited a double standard by supporting former interior secretary and petroleum engineer Sally Jewell but not Bernhardt.

In the end, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Bernhardt’s nomination by a 14-to-6 vote. Several Democrats joined Gardner in supporting the nominee.

A day before the vote by the full Senate, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) explained his support for Bernhardt.

“I need to be able to pick up the phone and talk to the secretary of interior on a regular, regular basis because these things have direct impacts on New Mexico,” Heinrich said Wednesday. “We didn’t win the election in 2016, so I’m not going to get my choice for secretary of interior. In the meantime, I have to be able to work with these folks.”

Heinrich expressed particular concern about potential oil and gas drilling in the Chaco Canyon area near massive stone ruins considered sacred to the descendants of the ancient Pueblo civilization.

“I’m going to put my state, and the protection of public lands in my state, ahead of the sort of political battle that happens in Washington, D.C.”

On the day of the Senate vote, Gardner again denounced Bernhardt’s opponents and said the “Washington, D.C., political smear machine has been working overtime” to bring down a good man.

Democrats and conservation groups in turn say Bernhardt has worked overtime to roll back key regulations protecting public lands and wildlife.

With Bernhardt acting as an influential deputy under Zinke, Interior held oil and gas lease sales that resulted in more than a billion dollars in revenue for the national treasury.

But the agency also weakened enforcement of the 100-year-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act, allowing individuals and companies to kill scores of protected birds so long as investigators determine it was not intentional, reversing a long-standing rule.

The pair also oversaw a rollback of National Park Service rules on federal land in Alaska that will allow hunters to kill mother bears and their cubs sleeping in dens as well as shooting animals from boats as they swim between shores.

Interior is considering an unprecedented plan to offer federal offshore leases that could lead to drilling on nearly the entire U.S. outer continental shelf, including the Arctic and Atlantic, areas where drilling has been largely forbidden.

Five companies are seeking permits from Interior that would allow them to use seismic air guns to map the Atlantic floor in search of oil and gas deposits. Last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration granted the companies permits that allow them to unintentionally harm or even kill marine animals while conducting operations.

Conservationists and several attorneys general representing coastal Atlantic states are fighting the NOAA permits and the applications for Interior permits in court.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said Thursday that she opposed Bernhardt’s nomination for several reasons, including his role in weakening enforcement of the law to protect birds and “stacking the deck in favor of the fossil fuel industry.”

Like other Democrats, Klobuchar decried his actions to limit opportunities for the public to comment on Interior’s policy decisions and his directive to agency employees to not factor climate and environmental effects into guidance.

Under Bernhardt, she said, Interior has not only downplayed climate science, it has engaged in decisions and rulemaking “that will accelerate its effect. The question is not is it happening … the question is what will we do about it,” she said.

National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi praised Bernhardt’s confirmation. “NOIA looks forward to working with the Department of the Interior,” Luthi said, adding that the group encouraged timely decisions on important pending offshore policies, including Atlantic seismic permits, an expanded national offshore oil and gas leasing program, and a reliable and consistent schedule of future offshore wind lease sales.

But Jamie Rappaport Clark, president and chief executive of the Defenders of Wildlife, had the opposite reaction.

“We are deeply disappointed that the Senate decided to confirm the Secretary of Interior with a record full of ethical conflicts and unwavering allegiance to the oil and gas industry,” said Rappaport. Interior “badly needs leadership that restores the public’s trust in its mission to conserve our natural resources, not more of the same failed policies and ethical challenges that have plagued the department under this administration.”

Dino Grandoni contributed to this report.

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Julian Assange’s Seven Strange Years in Self-Imposed Isolation – The New York Times
Julian Assange’s Seven Strange Years in Self-Imposed Isolation – The New York Times

Vaughan Smith, who had been a longtime supporter of Mr. Assange and helped put up his bail money, said that “Julian’s a big bloke, with big bones, and he fills the room physically and intellectually.”

“It’s a tiny embassy with a tiny balcony,” he added, “small, hot and with not great air flow, and it must be jolly difficult for everyone there.”

But from there, Mr. Assange for years held court for admirers and famous curiosity seekers, among them the soccer star Eric Cantona, and Nigel Farage, the pro-Brexit radio host and former head of U.K. Independence Party.

Still, Mr. Assange’s isolation was wearing on him, a friend said on Thursday, especially the long, lonely weekends in an essentially empty embassy he could not leave.

Even his friends have described him as difficult, a narcissist with an outsized view of his importance and a disinterest in mundane matters like personal hygiene.

He was becoming deeply depressed and wondered about simply walking out, the friend said, speaking on condition of anonymity. And relations with his hosts were becoming deeply strained, even adversarial.

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Greg Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, indicted for alleged false statements – Fox News
Greg Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, indicted for alleged false statements – Fox News
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Greg Craig, former White House counsel for then-President Barack Obama, was indicted Thursday on two counts of making false and misleading statements to investigators — including Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team — in connection with his work on behalf of Russia-backed former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

Craig is the first prominent Democrat to be indicted in a case arising from Mueller’s now-completed probe into Russian election interference. Mueller referred the Craig case to prosecutors in New York last year after uncovering possible wrongdoing while he investigated former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s Ukraine lobbying work.

The Washington-based lawyer was indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for allegedly falsifying and concealing “material facts” and making false statements both to Mueller and to the DOJ National Security Division’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit.

The FARA Unit is responsible for enforcing foreign lobbying laws that require the disclosure of certain overseas activity, including public relations work for foreign entities. At issue were Craig’s 2012 lobbying and media contacts on behalf of Yanukovych, while Craig was a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Specifically, Craig and the law firm were commissioned by Yanukovych and Ukraine’s government to write a report to assess whether the government’s prosecution of dissident Yulia Tymoshenko — a criminal case that was criticized widely as an abuse of power — was a “fair trial.”

Critics charged that the apparent aim of the Skadden report was to provide cover for what critics called an obviously politically motivated prosecution, and Manafort and others used the published document to advance Yanukovych’s standing in the international community. But, if Skadden and Craig registered as foreign agents of Ukraine under FARA, the report’s appearance of impartiality likely would have been compromised.

In a videotaped statement uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, Craig asserted that the report was “independent,” and denied helping Ukraine spin the information it contained. He also strongly denied the charges against him, saying he was “always honest” about his activities.

Craig, speaking directly to the camera, also slammed the prosecution as “unprecedented and unjustified.”

In the indictment, prosecutors cited several emails between Craig and the report’s co-author, including one April 2012 email in which Craig wrote that a follow-up Skadden report on Yanukovych’s then-upcoming second trial would “help make it go better and look better vis a vis the West.”

Although Ukraine officials said they paid only $12,000 for the report, prosecutors charged that Manafort illegally used an offshore account to ensure Skadden received approximately $4 million for its services.

“People in Kiev are very happy. You are ‘THE MAN.'”

— Lobbyist email to Greg Craig, cited in indictment

In February 2012, prosecutors said, Craig emailed the co-author of the report, saying, “I don’t want to register as a foreign agent under FARA. I think we don’t have to with this assignment, yes?”

In April that year, Craig emailed, “I don’t really care who you ask [about the FARA requirements] but we need an answer from someone who we can rely on with a straight face.”

On December 15, 2012, after the report’s release, a lobbyist wrote to Craig that media coverage on the report was glowing: “You are back in the headlines internationally. … People in Kiev are very happy. You are ‘THE MAN.'”

Yanukovych was overthrown in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and has lived in exile in Russia since. Tymoshenko, who was also one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution, was convicted on charges including embezzlement in 2011 but was released in 2014 upon Yanukovych’s ouster.

In 2013, the DOJ sent Skadden a letter informing Craig that the firm and Craig’s work with Ukraine meant they had to register as foreign agents under FARA. Craig resisted those requests, providing false information to Skadden’s general counsel, the indictment said.

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Based on Craig’s false assurances — including his claims that his statements to the media on the Ukraine matter were merely to correct misinformation — thte FARA Unit changed its determination and said Craig did not need to register, prosecutors said in the indictment.

On October 19, 2017, according to the indictment, Craig repeated the lies to Mueller’s team — allegedly providing misleading statements on his contacts with journalists concerning the report.

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“The purpose of the scheme was for Craig to avoid registration as an agent of Ukraine,” the indictment read. “Registration would require disclosure of the fact that Private Ukrainian had paid Craig and the Law Firm more than $4 million … [and] undermine the Report and Craig’s perceived independence; and impair the ability of Craig and others at the Law FIrm to later return to government positions.”

It was not clear why Mueller — who prosecuted other Trump officials, including Manafort, Michael Flynn, and George Papadopoulos for making false statements — did not handle the Craig case himself, and opted instead to farm it out to prosecutors in New York.

Alex van der Zwaan, another former Skadden lawyer, pleaded guilty last year to lying to investigators about the report.

Craig faces up to 10 years in prison in all — up to five years and a possible $250,000 fine for allegedly willfully falsifying and concealing material facts from the FARA Unit and another five years and $10,000 fine for making false and misleading statements to the FARA Unit.

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FARA violations had been prosecuted rarely until Mueller took aim at Manafort for his own lobbying work in Ukraine. Manafort, who counted Yanukovych as one of his most lucrative clients, has been convicted on numerous bank and tax fraud charges and separately was accused of FARA violations as well.

Manafort was sentenced earlier this year to approximately seven years in prison. No Americans were indicted for colluding with Russia or obstruction of justice following the completion of Mueller’s nearly two-year-long investigation, despite multiple attempts by Russians to involve the Trump campaign in a conspiracy to hack Democrats’ emails.

Craig left Skadden last year after his work with Manafort became public. Skadden agreed this past January to cooperate with the DOJ’s registration requirements and paid $4.6 million in a settlement to avoid criminal prosecution.

“We have learned much from this incident and are taking steps to prevent anything similar from happening again,” the firm said in a statement at the time.

Craig’s attorneys on Wednesday night told The Associated Press in a statement that the “government’s stubborn insistence on prosecuting Mr. Craig is a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion.”

On Thursday, the attorneys, William Taylor and William Murphy, told reporters: “This indictment accuses Mr. Craig of misleading the FARA Unit of the Department of Justice in order to avoid registration. It is itself unfair and misleading. It ignores uncontroverted evidence to the contrary. Mr. Craig had no interest in misleading the FARA Unit because he had not done anything that required his registration. That is what this trial will be all about.”

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The indictment was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, and Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney, Jr. of the FBI’s New York Field Office.

Separately, another Mueller-referred investigation into Clinton-linked Washington insider Tony Podesta related to his overseas lobbying work also reportedly is heating up.

Fox News’ Mike Emanuel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar was asked about a ‘Fox & Friends’ host who questioned if she’s ‘an American first’ – AOL
Rep. Ilhan Omar was asked about a ‘Fox & Friends’ host who questioned if she’s ‘an American first’ – AOL

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first two Muslim women elected to the US House of Representatives, appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Wednesday night.
  • There she had a simple response to comments made by “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade, who seemed to question the congresswoman’s loyalty to the United States.
  • “I took an oath,” she said. “I took an oath to the Constitution. I am as American as everyone else is,” Omar said.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first two Muslim women elected to the US House of Representatives, appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Wednesday night. There she had a simple response to comments made by “Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade, who seemed to question the congresswoman’s loyalty to the United States.

“I took an oath,” she said. “I took an oath to the Constitution. I am as American as everyone else is,” Omar said.

The congresswoman’s appearance on the show, Colbert pointed out, had been a while in the making — before Omar became the subject of controversy.

“You’ve become a lightning rod certainly for the people on the right and for some Democrats. Would you like me to go through the timeline of the lightning rodding?” he joked. “Or would you like to explain how you perceive becoming a lightning rod for people? Because that’s part of your story right off the bat.”

Colbert was referring to both comments that Rep. Omar made that were condemned by members of both parties as anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic comments made about the congresswoman, a Somali refugee who immigrated to the United States.

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“If you think about, historically, where our nation is right now, there are many members of our community that their identities are a lightning rod,” Omar responded.

FILE – In this Jan. 5, 2017, file photo, new State Rep. Ilhan Omar is interviewed in her office two days after the 2017 Legislature convened in St. Paul, Minn. Omar, already the first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature, is jumping into a crowded race for a Minnesota congressional seat. Omar filed Tuesday, June 5, 2018, for the Minneapolis-area seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)




She continued by saying that the “whole process really has been one of growth,” acknowledging that she is learning the historical context behind the comments.

“And as I’ve said to my constituents, to my colleagues, when you tell me you are pained by something that I say, I will always listen, and I will acknowledge your pain,” she said.

The congresswoman told Colbert that she would like the same consideration with respect to comments made about her, and she referred to Kilmeade who wondered on “Fox & Friends” if she was “an American first.”

In the extended interview posted to Facebook, Colbert asked Omar to respond to those who would tell her, along with her freshman colleagues, the Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, to slow down.

“We are there to follow the lead of Congressman John Lewis and make ‘good trouble,'” she said.

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A Strange Little Section of the Border Wall – The New York Times
A Strange Little Section of the Border Wall – The New York Times

Representative Filemon B. Vela Jr., a Democrat who represents Brownsville in Congress and whose district includes Los Indios, said the little piece of fence illustrated the pointlessness of a border wall, regardless of which administration built it.

“I’ve voted against every single piece of border wall funding that’s ever come up, and I’m going to continue to do so,” Mr. Vela said. “Decisions are being made in Washington in terms of where to put fencing that don’t make any sense.”

As the president suggested, this strange little spot’s days appear to be numbered. A Border Patrol official who oversees the Los Indios area, Henry Leo, the patrol agent in charge of the agency’s station in Harlingen, Tex., said plans are in the works to finally install the necessary gates in the next one to three years.

“We did request additional fencing and gates in that area, so what you see right now is not the complete picture,” Mr. Leo said. “The plan is to connect to that piece of fencing and make it a continuous fence with gates.”

Both Mr. Leo and the mayor of Los Indios, Rick Cavazos, defended the fence in the area, including the stand-alone section, saying that overall the fencing had helped decrease illegal crossings. “I saw a dramatic decline in crossings and apprehensions as a result of the barrier,” said Mr. Cavazos, who is a retired Border Patrol agent. “In 2004, 2005, 2006, this was a high crossing area. People would come up from the river. The numbers went down.”

On a hot April afternoon, it was all quiet at the fence island. The loudest sound was the soil: the dry brush, dirt and grass crunches underfoot. The pillars of the fence are as rough as sandpaper, and leave little red flakes on your fingertips that resemble chili powder.

Adding to the head-scratching quality of this fence is its location.

On one side of the fence is America. But the other side is America, too. The fence runs inland, far from the river, the middle of which is the official boundary between Mexico and the United States. That means this 36-beam fence in one sense divides the country itself. In that sense, the openings in the fence are necessary: They allow property owners and ranchers to access their land that is north of the river but south of the fence, a region locals call a “no man’s land.”

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Spring Storm Closes Schools And Roads Throughout Central US – NPR
Spring Storm Closes Schools And Roads Throughout Central US – NPR

A massive spring storm is bringing blizzard conditions to several central U.S. states, leading officials to close hundreds of schools and hundreds of miles of roads.

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A massive spring storm is bringing blizzard conditions to several central U.S. states, leading officials to close hundreds of schools and hundreds of miles of roads.

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Interstates were closed for hundreds of miles in the Midwest and Plains Thursday, as a “bomb cyclone” brought a major winter storm to states in those regions. Some towns that just days ago were experiencing sunshine and temperate weather are now under 1 or 2 feet of snow.

Most of Nebraska and South Dakota remained under a blizzard warning Thursday afternoon, as snow continued to cause dangerous conditions. Minnesota, Wisconsin and much of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula face a winter storm warning. Eastern North Dakota is under a flood warning.

Parts of South Dakota have seen up to 18 inches of snow, and “thunder snow” — snow that falls along with the crash of thunder and the flash of lightning — was also reported in the central part of the state. “It’s essentially a thunderstorm, but it’s cold enough for snow,” Mike Connelly, a weather service meteorologist, told the Associated Press.

Minnesota has faced snowfall rates of up to 2 inches per hour. Hundreds of schools canceled classes Thursday. More than 200 accidents were reported throughout the state. A video from the Minnesota Department of Transportation shows every power line down along a length of Highway 59 near Fulda, in the southeastern side of the state.

In Minnesota, the bad weather will continue through Friday, with winds gusting to more than 50 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

Some of the snow might be tinted orange, the Twin Cities NWS said. “The color is likely due to dust that was blown by high winds all the way from west Texas.”

Whiteout conditions were reported Wednesday night northeast of Denver to the Nebraska state line, Colorado Public Radio reported. Some major roads were closed for hundreds of miles because of poor visibility and blowing snow. Colorado DOT closed 150 miles of Interstate 76, and Interstate 70 was closed between Kansas and the Denver metro area, CPR said.

In Nebraska, Interstate 80 and Highway 30 were closed on Thursday morning between Lexington and Wyoming — a distance of about 200 miles.

As NPR’s Bill Chappell reported, “the storm came ashore from the Pacific Ocean on Sunday and Monday, bringing heavy rainfall and floods to Oregon” and leading to evacuations there.

Snow in April is “certainly not unheard of” in many of the areas hit by this blizzard, but “this storm is a big one, and not just for April, but any time of year,” said Ian Livingston, a forecaster at the Washington Post.

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Four Republican senators say they’d vote ‘no’ on Cain – CNN
Four Republican senators say they’d vote ‘no’ on Cain – CNN

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Jay Inslee (D-WA), who has made climate change the hallmark of his presidential campaign, discusses his plan to transition the United States to a green economy.”},{“title”:”Sanders says he will release 10 years of tax returns”,”duration”:”03:20″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”http://www.cnn.com”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/04/11/bernie-sanders-taxes-drew-griffin-pkg-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/04/11/bernie-sanders-taxes-drew-griffin-pkg-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”http://www.noticiasdodia.onlinenewsbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/190402111401-bernie-sanders-03-23-2019-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/04/11/bernie-sanders-taxes-drew-griffin-pkg-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”Sen. Bernie Sanders has pledged that he will release his tax returns from the last 10 years by Monday. CNN’s Drew Griffin reports.”,”descriptionText”:”Sen. Bernie Sanders has pledged that he will release his tax returns from the last 10 years by Monday. CNN’s Drew Griffin reports.”},{“title”:”Clapper: We’re focused on a ‘circus’ instead of Russia”,”duration”:”01:54″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”http://www.cnn.com”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/04/11/donald-trump-william-barr-spying-comments-clapper-intv-ac360-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/04/11/donald-trump-william-barr-spying-comments-clapper-intv-ac360-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”http://www.noticiasdodia.onlinenewsbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/190410205029-donald-trump-william-barr-spying-comments-clapper-intv-ac360-vpx-00004830-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/04/11/donald-trump-william-barr-spying-comments-clapper-intv-ac360-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers that \u003ca href=\”http://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/politics/barr-doj-investiation-fbi-russia/index.html\” target=\”_blank\”>\”spying did occur\” on the 2016 Trump campaign\u003c/a> but offered no evidence of it. 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CNN’s \u003ca href=\”http://www.cnn.com/profiles/sara-murray\” target=\”_blank\”>Sara Murray\u003c/a> reports. “,”descriptionText”:”In a hearing with the Appropriations Subcommittee, Attorney General William Barr informs lawmakers that he believes spying did occur on then civilian Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. CNN’s \u003ca href=\”http://www.cnn.com/profiles/sara-murray\” target=\”_blank\”>Sara Murray\u003c/a> reports. “},{“title”:”Report: Trump criticized Washington for name Mt. 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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper shares his thoughts with CNN’s \u003ca href=\”http://www.cnn.com/profiles/anderson-cooper-profile\” target=\”_blank\”>Anderson Cooper\u003c/a>.”},{“title”:”Trump on border: Going to have to call up more military”,”duration”:”01:06″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/04/10/call-up-more-military-southern-border-trump-sot-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/04/10/call-up-more-military-southern-border-trump-sot-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”http://www.noticiasdodia.onlinenewsbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/190410200304-trump-roundtable-san-antonio-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/04/10/call-up-more-military-southern-border-trump-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”President Trump told reporters during a roundtable event that he is \”going to have to call up more military\” to the southern border, adding to the administration’s attempts to address a historic increase in the number of migrant apprehensions.”,”descriptionText”:”President Trump told reporters during a roundtable event that he is \”going to have to call up more military\” to the southern border, adding to the administration’s attempts to address a historic increase in the number of migrant apprehensions.”},{“title”:”Barr: ‘I think spying did occur’ on 2016 Trump campaign”,”duration”:”02:44″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”http:www.cnn.com”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/04/10/william-barr-appropriations-subcommittee-hearing-spying-did-occur-2016-trump-campaign-murray-dnt-lead-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/04/10/william-barr-appropriations-subcommittee-hearing-spying-did-occur-2016-trump-campaign-murray-dnt-lead-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”http://www.noticiasdodia.onlinenewsbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/190410112608-bill-barr-april-10-2019-01-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/04/10/william-barr-appropriations-subcommittee-hearing-spying-did-occur-2016-trump-campaign-murray-dnt-lead-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”In a hearing with the Appropriations Subcommittee, Attorney General William Barr informs lawmakers that he believes spying did occur on then civilian Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. 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    Boeing CEO says it’s completed 96 test flights with 737 Max software fix – CNBC
    Boeing CEO says it’s completed 96 test flights with 737 Max software fix – CNBC

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    Boeing has completed 96 flights testing the performance of the 737 Max with updated software for the plane’s flight control system.

    “Our team has made 96 flights totaling over 159 hours of air time with this updated software,” said Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg while speaking Thursday at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas. Muilenburg, who went on a 737 Max test flight last week, says the company is making progress developing a plan to fix the aircraft’s MCAS flight control software and improve pilot training, two problems that will need to be resolved before regulators certify the plane to fly again.

    “We continue to demonstrate that we’ve identified and met all certification requirements,” he said.



    The test flights are one prong of a broad effort by Boeing to get the Max back in the air. The company is also updating airlines by bringing representatives into flight simulators and showing them how the modified flight control system will feel in the cockpit. Boeing says representatives from two-thirds of the 50 airlines that have the Max in their fleets have tested the new software in a simulator.

    “We want everyone to be confident in it and the additional training and educational resources we’re developing and deploying,” Muilenberg said, adding that the last few weeks have been the most “heartwrenching” of his career.

    The company will likely submit its plan to fix the Max, which has been grounded since mid-March, to the Federal Aviation Administration and other regulators within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. Getting those regulators to approve the plan will likely take several more weeks.

    “I expect that the airplane is still several weeks away from getting the final seal of approval to be flown again, not so much that the software fix is a problem, but just from an optics standpoint,” said Jeff Guzzetti, former director of the FAA’s accident investigation civision. Guzzetti believes the FAA is stinging from criticism its relationship with Boeing was “too cozy” because the FAA designated Boeing engineers to self-certify parts of the 737 Max before the plane was given final approval in 2017.

    Boeing has scrambled to restore faith in its 737 Max after the jet’s anti-stall software was implicated in two crashes in the last five months that killed 346 people and grounded the planes worldwide. The company said it will cut Max production by 20% as it works on a software fix to get the jets running again. They’ve been grounded since mid-March.

    Investigators suspect that faulty data feeding into the aircraft’s MCAS flight system played a major role in the Indonesia and Ethiopia accidents. Investigators and lawmakers have scrutinized Boeing’s software system malfunction, from the original design to the training and safety certifications.

    When designing the newest Max jets, Boeing allegedly increased the power of the automated system that pushes the plane nose down, making it hard for pilots to regain control of the doomed jets. Changes to the anti-stall system were not fully reviewed by the FAA.

    Boeing said Tuesday that deliveries and new orders for all of its 737 jets fell in the first quarter, and earlier in the week, Wall Street analysts downgradedBoeing stock. The company’s shares have have fallen nearly 9 percent in the past month.

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    Sen. Jerry Moran on Julian Assange: ‘I don’t see him as a hero, he broke the law’ – Fox News
    Sen. Jerry Moran on Julian Assange: ‘I don’t see him as a hero, he broke the law’ – Fox News
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    Sen. Jerry Moran on Julian Assange: ‘I don’t see him as a hero, he broke the law’

    After WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police Thursday, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran said: “I don’t see him as a hero, he broke the law.”

    Speaking on “America’s Newsroom” Thursday he added: “People who break the law, if they’re convicted, then they need to pay the price.”

    Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 when British courts ordered the 47-year-old Australian native extradited to face questioning in a sexual assault case. That matter has since been dropped, but Wikileaks, an anti-secrecy site, is facing a federal grand jury investigation over its publication of American diplomatic and military secrets during the Iraq War.

    WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE ARRESTED AFTER ECUADOR WITHDRAWS ASYLUM

    Moments before he was arrested, Ecuador announced it had withdrawn Assange’s asylum for “repeatedly violating international conventions and protocol.”

    “When I learned this news this morning, it was a sense that maybe justice will occur. I don’t know exactly what that justice will be but the idea that we’ll have the opportunity to question and for Julian Assange to have to stand for the charges that he’s been – allegedly, the things he’s done, I think that’s a good thing,” said Moran, R-Kan., Thursday. “One is justice, the other thing is that we’ll get some information particularly about Russian involvement in the election.”

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    Moran later said he would consider Assange a “villain” if he is convicted of a crime.

    On “America’s Newsroom”, Moran also talked about his reaction to Attorney General William Barr stating under oath that “spying did occur” on the Trump campaign ahead of the 2016 election.

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    On Wednesday, Barr told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing, “I think spying did occur, yes. I think spying did occur. The question was whether it was adequately predicated. And I’m not suggesting it wasn’t predicated. I need to explore that.”

    “Those who are critics of the president, those who are perhaps critics of the attorney general are overemphasizing the word ‘spying,’” said Moran. “I think the attorney general made it clear. I was in the room, I was with the attorney general for about two hours. My takeaway is, what he was talking about was the efforts that commenced this investigation, were they based upon legal authority?”

    He added that Barr made clear that he was concerned, “that something may have happened that was inappropriate and the question is, did that occur? That’s a very valid request of an attorney general to find out what the facts are. And this kind of overreaction to the word ‘spying’ seems to me just to be about partisan politics. Let’s find out what the facts are.”

    Moran also said a lot of people have been “demanding answers about the Trump campaign involvement with the Russian interference in our election.”

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    He said: “We want answers. I think the same thing applies here. The people who are wanting those answers ought to want answers in this issue of the investigation and whether unpredicted, as the attorney general might say, spying occurred. In other words, unauthorized, illegal. Something without a warrant.”

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    Michael Avenatti Is Indicted in California on Financial Crimes Charges – The New York Times
    Michael Avenatti Is Indicted in California on Financial Crimes Charges – The New York Times

    He also evaded taxes on the money, prosecutors say.

    “For 20 years, I have represented Davids vs. Goliaths and relied on due process and our system of justice,” Mr. Avenatti said on Twitter. “Along the way, I have made many powerful enemies. I am entitled to a full presumption of innocence and am confident that justice will be done once all of the facts are known.”

    Mr. Avenatti is already facing charges in New York of trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike, threatening to reveal improper payments to basketball recruits.

    Mr. Avenatti, 48, was a fixture on cable news as an antagonist to Mr. Trump as Ms. Daniels’s case played out.

    Two suits by Ms. Daniels, an adult film actress, against Mr. Trump have been dismissed.

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    Rep. Ilhan Omar was asked about a ‘Fox & Friends’ host who questioned if she’s ‘an American first’ – AOL
    Rep. Ilhan Omar was asked about a ‘Fox & Friends’ host who questioned if she’s ‘an American first’ – AOL

    • Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first two Muslim women elected to the US House of Representatives, appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Wednesday night.
    • There she had a simple response to comments made by “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade, who seemed to question the congresswoman’s loyalty to the United States.
    • “I took an oath,” she said. “I took an oath to the Constitution. I am as American as everyone else is,” Omar said.
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    Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first two Muslim women elected to the US House of Representatives, appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Wednesday night. There she had a simple response to comments made by “Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade, who seemed to question the congresswoman’s loyalty to the United States.

    “I took an oath,” she said. “I took an oath to the Constitution. I am as American as everyone else is,” Omar said.

    The congresswoman’s appearance on the show, Colbert pointed out, had been a while in the making — before Omar became the subject of controversy.

    “You’ve become a lightning rod certainly for the people on the right and for some Democrats. Would you like me to go through the timeline of the lightning rodding?” he joked. “Or would you like to explain how you perceive becoming a lightning rod for people? Because that’s part of your story right off the bat.”

    Colbert was referring to both comments that Rep. Omar made that were condemned by members of both parties as anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic comments made about the congresswoman, a Somali refugee who immigrated to the United States.

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    “If you think about, historically, where our nation is right now, there are many members of our community that their identities are a lightning rod,” Omar responded.

    FILE – In this Jan. 5, 2017, file photo, new State Rep. Ilhan Omar is interviewed in her office two days after the 2017 Legislature convened in St. Paul, Minn. Omar, already the first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature, is jumping into a crowded race for a Minnesota congressional seat. Omar filed Tuesday, June 5, 2018, for the Minneapolis-area seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)




    She continued by saying that the “whole process really has been one of growth,” acknowledging that she is learning the historical context behind the comments.

    “And as I’ve said to my constituents, to my colleagues, when you tell me you are pained by something that I say, I will always listen, and I will acknowledge your pain,” she said.

    The congresswoman told Colbert that she would like the same consideration with respect to comments made about her, and she referred to Kilmeade who wondered on “Fox & Friends” if she was “an American first.”

    In the extended interview posted to Facebook, Colbert asked Omar to respond to those who would tell her, along with her freshman colleagues, the Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, to slow down.

    “We are there to follow the lead of Congressman John Lewis and make ‘good trouble,'” she said.

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    Son of parish deputy arrested in connection with fires at 3 Louisiana historically black churches – WPXI Pittsburgh
    Son of parish deputy arrested in connection with fires at 3 Louisiana historically black churches – WPXI Pittsburgh

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    OPELOUSAS, La. –

    An arrest has been made in connection with three fires at historically black churches in a Louisiana parish, according to U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph.

    At a news conference Thursday morning, Louisiana State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning Jr. said 21-year-old Holden Matthews had been arrested. He was booked into the St. Landry Parish Jail and charged with three counts of simple arson on religious buildings. Each charge has a maximum sentence of 15 years. The three fires are related and were intentionally set, Browning said.

    Federal authorities are vetting whether hate was a motive of Holden Matthews, who is white. 

    KATC reported that Holden Matthews is the son of Roy Matthews, a St. Landry Parish deputy. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz told KATC that Roy Matthews father did not turn his son in, despite earlier reports. Guidroz said the father was “shocked and hurt when we told him.”

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    “A suspect has been identified in connection with the three church burnings in Opelousas, Louisiana, and is in state custody,” Joseph said in a statement Wednesday. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office, ATF, and FBI are working with state and local law enforcement and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the victims and those St. Landry Parish residents affected by these despicable acts. A special thanks to St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz, Louisiana State Fire Marshal, H. ‘Butch’ Browning Jr., Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s Cybercrime Unit, the Louisiana State Police, and the Florida State Fire Marshal for working seamlessly with federal law enforcement agents in this investigation.”

    On March 26, a fire was started at St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, Louisiana. On April 2, there was a fire at Greater Union Baptist Church followed by one at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on April 4. Each church is more than 100 years old.

    In this April 4, 2019 file photo, firefighters and fire investigators respond to a fire at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, in Opelousas, La.
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    The Associated Press reported that the churches were empty at the time of the fires and there were no injuries. Authorities are working to determine if the fires were intentionally set and motivated by racism or extremism, NBC News reported. In the 1960s, during the height of the civil rights movement, church fires were routinely used to intimidate the black community.

    A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise funds for the rebuilding of the three churches. It has a goal of $1.8 million.

    Authorities said there was a fourth fire at a predominately white church in another parish, but it doesn’t appear to be connected to the three fires, according to NBC News.

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