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U.S. Charges Judge With Helping Immigrant Escape ICE at Courthouse – The New York Times
U.S. Charges Judge With Helping Immigrant Escape ICE at Courthouse – The New York Times

Federal prosecutors charged a state judge and a former court officer in Massachusetts with obstruction of justice on Thursday for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant escape from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at a courthouse last year.

The indictment of the judge, Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, 51, and the officer, Wesley MacGregor, 56, was a dramatic turn in the long-running clash between the Trump administration and state governments that have resisted its hard-line approach to immigration.

Prosecutors accused Judge Joseph and Mr. MacGregor of letting their beliefs trump federal immigration law when they allegedly helped the man, who was not named in the indictment, sneak out of Newton District Courthouse in Newton, Mass., in March 2018. The judge ordered the man to go to a basement facility, where he was let out a back door, rather than into the lobby, where she knew that an ICE officer was waiting for him, prosecutors say.

“The allegations in today’s indictment involve obstruction by a sitting judge, that is intentional interference with the enforcement of federal law, and that is a crime,” United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling said in a statement. “We cannot pick and choose the federal laws we follow, or use our personal views to justify violating the law.”

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Newt Gingrich: China wants to replace America as THE global superpower — Here’s what we must learn – Fox News
Newt Gingrich: China wants to replace America as THE global superpower — Here’s what we must learn – Fox News
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When can we expect a trade deal between the US and China?

Hoover research fellow Lanhee Chen says the U.S. has to make sure they have a way to enforce a new trade deal with China.

China is seeking global dominance across multiple domains. This is clear as China hosts more than 40 world leaders in Beijing this week for the second international forum on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the guest of honor. As Mike Allen wrote, “When you can get that many powerful people to come to you in Beijing, you’re starting to look a lot like a superpower.”

The BRI infrastructure effort is only one part of “China’s plan to supplant the U.S. as the dominant global superpower within the next three decades.” In addition to the BRI, China’s aggressive tactics used in the race to 5G, the militarization of the South China Sea, the theft of intellectual property, and discriminatory business practices all work collectively to advance China’s economic, military, and political influence across the globe.

In my new book, “Trump vs China: America’s Greatest Challenge,” which will be released in October, I describe China’s challenge to the rules-based world order and how, as a result, American interests and security are being put at risk.

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Sun Tzu, one of the most famous (and possibly most legendary) Chinese military thinkers stressed that you must know both yourself and your opponent in order to be successful in competitions. According to Sun Tzu, the attributed author of “The Art of War,” by having an understanding of both contenders, “you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

China is the most serious and formidable competitor that the United States now faces. It is essential to examine Chinese tactics and strategic thinking to better position the U.S. for this new era of competition. It will affect the future of our country for generations to come.

One of the most revealing comparisons to Chinese strategy is the game wei qi, which is said to have originated in China thousands of years ago. Wei qi — more commonly known by its Japanese name “Go” in the West — is a game played with two players using a checkered board lined with 19 horizontal and 19 vertical lines. One player has 180 white round stones and another has 181 black round stones. The players take turns placing their stones on the board one at a time on the intersections of the checker lines.

The goal of the game is to capture the most territory either by encircling empty spaces or your opponent’s pieces on the board. The player with the most territory after all the pieces have been played, or after both players pass on their turns, wins.

Go is an incredibly complex game due to the number of possible moves and board configurations. As the game progresses, there are multiple invasions, engagements, fights, and confrontations between players that occur in all different areas of the board at the same time. Moreover, it is a lengthy game that requires players to capitalize on short-term victories – but to never lose sight of the long-term strategy.

In a paper analyzing Chinese strategic thinking, Dr. David Lai, now the research professor of Asian Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, argues that the Chinese approach to strategy is reflected in Go. The American approach to strategic thinking, Lai argues, is reflected in chess.

American strategy relies on our technological superiority and capabilities. The U.S. focuses on force-on-force competition that seeks the result of total victory over the opponent. In chess, there are pieces that are more powerful than others that are deployed with the objective of capturing the opponent’s king. Every move is directed toward protecting your own king and seizing your opponent’s. In this way, chess is narrowly focused.

It will be dangerous for the U.S. to continue to approach the challenges we face with China without understanding and seeing the totality and breadth of their strategy.

Chess players must also preserve their stronger pieces to keep the balance of power in their favor and ensure a better chance of victory. The player with the most powerful pieces in play during the game will likely win.

Henry Kissinger notes in his book, “On China,” “If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign.”

In Go, every stone is equal. Players can unleash massive amounts of potential power by creatively and tactically placing their stones. All stones placed on the board work in close connection with one another, as each individual is a part of a larger, bigger strategy.

Moreover, in Go there are multiple campaigns, pursuits, battles, and maneuvers happening at the same time across the board. As the board is constantly changing in complex, subtle, and dynamic ways, players must always have a sharp awareness of the overall situation. Due to the number of possibilities where players can place their stones and the limited number of stones available, players must know when to fight for or defend territory. More importantly, they must know when to let it go.

In an evenly matched game, Go is a competition of simultaneous incremental victories. Total, decisive, and complete defeat of an opponent is not typically an attainable objective. Usually, games are won by just a few points.

Dr. Lai notes that playing Go with a chess approach is dangerous. Similarly, it will be dangerous for the U.S. to continue to approach the challenges we face with China without understanding and seeing the totality and breadth of their strategy.

China has already placed numerous stones on the board – such as artificially low Huawei 5G equipment prices, government loans to Belt and Road countries, building islands in the South China Sea, and forced technology transfers.

These stones work together in pursuit of various territorial acquisitions that will (in partnership with other stones) yield 5G dominance, control of the South China Sea, and economic superiority.

We must examine all of these campaigns — in addition to others — collectively. We must understand this go-based approach, rather than look at each endeavor as an independent challenge. Each of China’s campaigns work in concert with one another and will ultimately result in China’s emergence as a global hegemon. China’s current aggressive tactics will eventually undermine the United States, jeopardize our security, hurt our economy, compromise our values, and alter our way of life.

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Those trying to understand the challenges that the United States now faces with China need to learn how to play Go. The National Go Center has very helpful resources and events for players of all levels.

Moreover, the United States must develop an American-based strategy in this new era of competition that is focused on our strength, capabilities, ingenuity, and American spirit. Only then can we ensure that that the U.S. will emerge prosperous, successful, and stronger than ever.

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Joe Biden launches a big boy campaign – Washington Examiner
Joe Biden launches a big boy campaign – Washington Examiner

He needed more makeup to look less like Emperor Palpatine, and launching by video always feels like a cop out. But Joe Biden nailed the message he needed to cement his front-runner status in the 2020 primary: This isn’t a question of politics, but the battle for America’s soul.

Biden effectively capitalized on the #Resistance’s ire while also providing an implicit but key dichotomy to those on the Right. Do you stand with a president who equivocates around the evils of white supremacy, or do you, conservative policy and all, stand with decency? He doesn’t frame the Trump administration as an inevitability, a natural endpoint for the Republican Party, but rather a mistake, “and abhorrent moment in time.” Biden came out of the gate with the distinction Hillary Clinton failed to make until it was too late: The alt-right is a cancer on, not a feature of, conservatism and the country.

Biden speaks a language nearly extinct in the Democratic Party: that America, even when we’ve failed to live up to them, is a nation of ideas. Just because the party leaders haven’t given a damn about American excellence doesn’t mean that the electorate at large will be any less receptive to it. As the New York Times studied earlier this month, the average Democrat is far more moderate or even conservative than loud people on the internet.

Hillary’s eleventh hour appeal to Republicans that they were separate from the alt-right failed on two fronts. First was the last-minute timing, and second, no one believed her. She could hardly hide her contempt for anyone who so much as considered voting for Trump, that even though her eventual plea to decency may have been true, it never rang as earnest.

Biden is believable. He’s a gaffe machine with two failed presidential bids behind him, and he’s a relic, not just in terms of his literal age — he’ll be days shy of 78 on Election Day — but also in terms of political tenor. With Democratic front-runners marching in lockstep to abolish private health insurance, nationalize one-fifth of the economy with “Medicare for all,” create a federal jobs guarantee with the Green New Deal, legalize abortion up until the point of birth, revive court packing, abandon Israel as a key ally, and ramp up wealth taxes, the Obama era looks positively moderate.

But Biden wisely framed his video around values, not policy. It remains to be seen how far left he will go, but in positioning himself as the one last Democrat who can save the country and his own party from the degradation of the Trump era, he granted himself the gravitas his polling merits. He didn’t break out his personal tragedies (including two dead children and one dead wife) or even his policy successes, such as unilaterally turning the Violence Against Women Act into law. Instead, he positioned himself as an arbiter of America, not just the Twitter Left.

He’s the front-runner, and he’s acting like it. Welcome back, Uncle Joe.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/joe-biden-launches-a-big-boy-campaign

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Biden is Trump’s most anticipated — and feared — rival – CNN
Biden is Trump’s most anticipated — and feared — rival – CNN

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Updated 6:21 PM ET, Thu April 25, 2019

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    A 5-Year-Old Allegedly Killed By His Parents Was Forced To Stay In A Cold Shower And Beaten, Police Say – BuzzFeed News
    A 5-Year-Old Allegedly Killed By His Parents Was Forced To Stay In A Cold Shower And Beaten, Police Say – BuzzFeed News

    New details have emerged in the death of Andrew “AJ” Freund, the 5-year-old allegedly murdered by his parents and buried in a shallow grave last week in a Chicago suburb.

    According to a Thursday criminal complaint obtained by BuzzFeed News, AJ’s parents, JoAnn Cunningham, 35, and Andrew Freund Sr., 60, killed the boy by making him stay “in a cold shower for an extended period of time” and “struck” him.

    They did this on or about April 15 “knowing said acts would cause the death” of their young son, the complaint states.

    Cunningham, who is currently 7 months pregnant, faces charges of murder, aggravated battery, aggravated domestic battery, and failure to report a missing child or child death.

    Freund faces the same charges, as well as additional ones for concealing a homicide.

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    Donald Trump Agreed to Pay North Korea $2 Million for Otto Warmbier Hospital Bills, Report Says – Newsweek
    Donald Trump Agreed to Pay North Korea $2 Million for Otto Warmbier Hospital Bills, Report Says – Newsweek

    President Donald Trump approved a $2 million payment to cover the medical care of Otto Warmbier, a then-comatose University of Virginia student jailed in North Korea, according to a new report.

    Warmbier was participating in a trip to North Korea late December 2015 through early January 2016 when he was detained and later charged for allegedly committing a “hostile act”—attempting to leave the country with a sign bearing a slogan from the ruling Korean Workers’ Party. After sentencing, the 21-year-old at some point fell into a coma. He was eventually returned to the U.S. in June 2017 but died about a week later after he failed to regain consciousness, and the decision was made to have his feeding tube removed.

    On Thursday, new information about discussions surrounding Warmbier’s return was revealed by The Washington Post‘s Anna Fifield. Citing two unnamed sources familiar with the matter, Fifield reported that North Korea billed the U.S. $2 million for Warmbier’s hospital bill and that Trump himself approved the invoice.

    While the bill was sent to the Treasury Department, it could not be confirmed whether or not it was actually paid. White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders said, “We do not comment on hostage negotiations, which is why they have been so successful during this administration.”

    The memorial program for the funeral of Otto Warmbier is shown at Wyoming High School, site of the funeral, in Wyoming, Ohio, on June 22, 2017. Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student, had spent 17 months in captivity in North Korea for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

    Though the U.S. has blamed North Korea for Warmbier’s death, what exactly transpired remains a mystery. Pyongyang officials maintained that Warmbier slipped into a coma after a bout of botulism and taking a sleeping pill. The student had suffered extensive brain damage by the time he reached U.S. soil, but examinations failed to determine what led to this injury and reportedly showed no signs of torture.

    Michael Flueckiger, the Arizona-based Phoenix Air Group medical director who was sent alongside then-U.S. representative for North Korea Joseph Yun to meet Warmbier in North Korea, said the U.S. prisoner had received “really good care” in Pyongyang’s foreigners-only Friendship Hospital, Fifield reported. Flueckiger noted that he felt compelled to sign off on the treatment but had no need to fabricate the results.

    The incident occurred as Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un engaged in a war of words and exchanged threats of potential nuclear warfare. By early last year, however, their tone had begun to change as Kim extended an olive branch to his southern, U.S.-backed neighbor, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and began a new round of diplomacy.

    In December, months after the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore and in the lead-up to a follow-up meeting in Vietnam in February, the District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on a $1.1 billion lawsuit filed by Warmbier’s parents, Cindy and Fred, by ordering North Korea to pay $501 million in damages. The judge held the country “liable for the torture, hostage-taking, and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier and the injuries to his mother and father.”

    President Donald Trump speaks with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27. After the talks, which produced no deal, Trump said he believed Kim was not responsible for jailed student Otto Warmbier’s poor health condition and eventual death. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

    North Korea did not respond to the order, though Warmbier apparently came up during Trump and Kim’s second summit. Trump told reporters after his talks with Kim that he “tells me he didn’t know about it, and I take him at his word.” He added: “I don’t believe he would have allowed that to happen…. It just wasn’t to his advantage to allow that to happen.”

    The comments were received controversially even by political allies such as  Nikki Haley, Trump’s former ambassador to the United Nations. Shortly after Trump’s remarks, Haley tweeted: “Americans know the cruelty that was placed on Otto Warmbier by the North Korean regime. Our hearts are with the Warmbier family for their strength and courage. We will never forget Otto.”

    Democratic lawmakers have considered a bill that would officially blame North Korea for Warmbier’s death. Amid questioning on the matter by Representative Tom Malinowski of New Jersey last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned against turning the matter into “political football,” saying, “It’s inappropriate.”

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    Carter Page says Mueller is worse than Mussolini, Saddam, and Gadhafi – Washington Examiner
    Carter Page says Mueller is worse than Mussolini, Saddam, and Gadhafi – Washington Examiner

    Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser who was suspected by the FBI of being a Russian spy, has written a foreword to an e-book version of the Mueller report, calling it “propaganda” and comparing his time in front of the Mueller grand jury to being at Guantanamo Bay.

    Written in hyperbolic terms, Page compares the 448-page report put together by special counsel Robert Mueller, and lightly redacted by Attorney General William Barr, to the propaganda pushed by some of modern history’s worst dictators. And he blasts what he sees as a politically motivated “witch hunt” targeting himself and President Trump.

    Venting his frustrations, Page wrote: “In Italy, Mussolini had his autobiography. In Libya, Gadhafi widely distributed his Green Book both to the masses, in the national media and even with featured quotes on billboards throughout the country. Iraq’s tyrannical Saddam Hussein wrote a series of novellas.” Benito Mussolini, Moammar Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein — and, according to Page, Robert Mueller.

    Page, 47, claims that, if anything, the Mueller report is even worse: “Most of the prior historical propaganda endeavors are modest when compared to DOJ’s two-volume work which was created by a handful of despots in Washington.”

    Mueller’s report concluded that although the Russians interfered in the 2016 election through cyberattacks and social media disinformation campaigns, there was no criminal collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign — or any other American. Nearly half of Mueller’s report, however, was dedicated to leaving the door open to claims of obstruction of justice.

    Page wrote that investigators were working on behalf of the Democratic Party during the 2016 election, and that the Mueller report is the end result, calling it “a shameful conglomeration of propaganda meant to sow further discord in the minds of Americans against their fellow citizens.”

    In Mueller’s report, grand jury testimony is largely redacted. In a podcast interview with the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, Page was asked about this largely secret aspect of Mueller’s investigation: “I was wondering if you could give us a little preview of what it was like in the grand jury during your time with Mueller?”

    Page said, “Basically it’s like Guantanamo Bay detention camp in a lot of ways, right? But I actually would’ve enjoyed being in Gitmo more than what I went through with these people, you know, in terms of the intense interrogation and strong arm tactics there.”

    Page echoed these comments in his book foreword: “In comparison, a government-funded vacation down at Gitmo in the Caribbean might have seemed almost luxurious and relaxing.”

    In his report, Mueller wrote that “the investigation did not establish that Page coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.” But Mueller draw attention to the fact that “Page advocated pro-Russia foreign policy positions and traveled to Moscow in his personal capacity” while associated with the Trump campaign.

    It stated that “Russian intelligence officials had formed relationships with Page in 2008 and 2013 and Russian officials may have focused on Page in 2016 because of his affiliation with the campaign.”

    Page contends that the investigation into him stems in its entirety from the “dodgy dossier,” in which he figured prominently. He claims that “sore losers tried to disrupt [Trump’s] presidential transition, then his presidency, by concocting an elaborate hoax based on a dossier funded by the DNC and fabricated by former Russian intelligence operatives.”

    The so-called Trump dossier was written by Christopher Steele, a British ex-spy who was paid for his research by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that was funded in part by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm. The dossier was used extensively in applications presented before the FISA court to justify warrants against at least one Trump associate — Page.

    Its explosive and unverified claims have increasingly come under greater scrutiny, as the Mueller report failed to present evidence for the dossier’s central allegations and as reports have emerged that FBI investigators knew that the dossier was problematic — and perhaps even based upon Russian disinformation — for well over a year.

    In March 2018, DOJ’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced the launch of the FISA abuse investigation after requests from both then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Republican members in Congress. The lawmakers claimed the Justice Department and FBI had abused the FISA process and misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC, in their investigation and surveillance of Trump and his associates during the campaign, as well as during the Trump administration.

    The inspector general stated it would “review information that was known to the DOJ and the FBI at the time the applications were filed from or about an alleged FBI confidential source. Additionally, the OIG will review the DOJ’s and FBI’s relationship and communications with the alleged source as they relate to the FISC applications.” This “alleged FBI confidential source” is Christopher Steele.

    And the inspector general’s office also said it would “examine the Justice Department’s and the FBI’s compliance with legal requirements, and with applicable DOJ and FBI policies and procedures, in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court relating to a certain U.S. person.” That “certain U.S. person” is Carter Page.

    Barr has said that the DOJ inspector general report could be finished as early as May.

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    Sri Lanka revises bombings death toll down by 100 – Aljazeera.com
    Sri Lanka revises bombings death toll down by 100 – Aljazeera.com

    Authorities in Sri Lanka have lowered the death toll in a spate of Easter bombings by more than 100, saying the difficulty in identifying body parts at blast scenes led to the earlier inaccurate number.

    The new number of people killed was 253, down from an earlier total of 359, the health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

    “Many of the victims were badly mutilated … There was double counting,” it said, adding the lower toll was reached once all autopsies were completed and cross-referenced with DNA samples.

    The suicide bomb attacks on three churches and four hotels have exposed an intelligence failure, with accusations that warnings had not been acted on and feuds at the top levels of government had undermined security cooperation.

    Hemasiri Fernando, the defence secretary, resigned over the failure to prevent the attacks, saying he was stepping down to take responsibility for institutions he ran. But he said there had been no failure on his part.

    Authorities have blamed two local Muslim groups, National Thowheed Jamaat and Jammiyathul Millathu Ibrahim. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) also claimed responsibility, though officials are still investigating the extent of any involvement. 


    The government said there were nine suicide bombers, eight of whom had been identified. One was a woman. Officials said some of those involved in the coordinated blasts were well-educated and well-off financially.

    More than 70 people, including several foreigners, have been arrested since Sunday, including the father of two of the alleged suicide bombers – one of Sri Lanka’s wealthiest spice traders.

    Earlier on Thursday, police for the first time identified seven people they were looking for and appealed to the public for help in finding them.

    Photographs, apparently casual snapshots, posted with a wanted notice showed young bearded men and three young women wearing headscarves.

    Bomb scares

    Tensions remained high, with the capital on alert because of bomb scares.

    The central bank was briefly locked down and the road to the capital’s airport was shut for part of the day.

    Office workers in Colombo’s business district were asked to go home early, police said, to avoid vulnerable throngs of people at rush hour. City-centre restaurants also shut early.

    Religious leaders, meanwhile, cancelled public prayer gatherings amid warnings of more such attacks, along with retaliatory sectarian violence.

    MHA Haleem, Sri Lanka’s Islamic affairs minister, appealed to Muslims to avoid gathering for Friday prayers and instead urged them to pray at home.

    The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama, an association of Islamic scholars, urged women not to “hinder the security forces in their efforts” by wearing face veils.



    People come to the site of a mass burial to pay their respects to victims of Easter Sunday bombings [Athit Perawongmetha/ Reuters]

    Niroshan Perera, a priest overseeing funerals of some of the dozens of people killed in the blast at St Sebastian’s church in Negombo, just outside Colombo, said Catholic churches in the city all closed and cancelled Mass on the government’s advice.

    Perera said an official had warned him that police were still searching Negombo for two armed suspects.

    “Little bit, we are nervous,” he said.

    In an unusually specific warning, the US embassy in Sri Lanka said places of worship could be hit this weekend. “Sri Lankan authorities are reporting that additional attacks may occur targeting places of worship,” the US embassy warned on Twitter. “Avoid these areas over the weekend, starting tomorrow.”

    The UK advised its citizens against traveling to the island country.


    The bombings shattered the relative calm that has existed in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka since a civil war against mostly Hindu ethnic Tamil separatists ended 10 years ago.

    Sri Lanka’s 22 million people include minority Christians, Muslims and Hindus. Until now, Christians had largely managed to avoid the worst of the island’s conflict and communal tensions.

    Amid fears of a surge of communal tension, some Muslims have fled the Negombo region.

    Hundreds of Pakistani Muslims have left the port city, crammed into buses, after threats of revenge.

    “The local Sri Lankan people have attacked our houses,” one of them, Adnan Ali, told Reuters News Agency on Wednesday, as he prepared to board a bus.

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    Trump Administration Puts Offshore Drilling Plan On Hold After Setback In Court – NPR
    Trump Administration Puts Offshore Drilling Plan On Hold After Setback In Court – NPR

    The offshore oil drilling platform ‘Gail,’ operated by Venoco, Inc., is shown off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. in 2009. A Trump administration plan to greatly expand offshore drilling is on hold after a setback in court.

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    The offshore oil drilling platform ‘Gail,’ operated by Venoco, Inc., is shown off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. in 2009. A Trump administration plan to greatly expand offshore drilling is on hold after a setback in court.

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    The Trump administration is postponing controversial plans to greatly expand oil and gas drilling off of the nation’s coasts, following a recent setback in court and months of pushback from coastal communities.

    Last month, a federal judge in Alaska ruled that President Trump exceeded his authority when he signed an executive order to lift an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

    The decision immediately reinstated those protections, and was a major blow to the administration’s efforts to boost oil and gas development across the country.

    While the Trump administration is expected to appeal the decision, a resolution could be a long ways off. That makes it uncertain where new oil leases may eventually be allowed.

    In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, published Thursday, newly confirmed Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said that his agency may wait for the court process to play out before moving forward with plans to open up more than 90 percent of all federal waters to offshore oil and gas leasing.

    “By the time the court rules, that may be discombobulating to our plan,” Bernhardt told the newspaper.

    Last year, the Trump administration said it would move to allow offshore oil and gas leasing in nearly all of the nation’s coastal waters. The proposal was met with instant criticism from environmental groups and governors’ offices along the East and West coasts.

    Even some Republican lawmakers joined in the backlash.

    All had been waiting months for a new version of the plan, which had been expected anytime. But during his confirmation hearing last month, Bernhardt told lawmakers that the plan was still in its beginning stages.

    His interview with the Wall Street Journal was his first since being confirmed as the nation’s top land steward, and appeared to put the proposal on indefinite hold.

    “Given the recent court decision, the Department is simply evaluating all of its options to determine the best pathway to accomplish the mission entrusted to it by the President,” Interior spokeswoman Molly Block confirmed in an email.

    The plan’s critics are celebrating the delay.

    “This decision is the result of constant pressure from coastal communities, environmental groups, and elected official who made it abundantly clear that offshore oil and gas drilling is dangerous, unwanted, and a threat to our economy and way of life,” said Virginia Democratic Congressman Joe Cunningham in a statement.

    Jacqueline Savitz, chief policy officer at Oceana, says that she is encouraged by the move, “but until the Trump plan is final, the President is positioned to open up our coasts at a moment’s notice.”

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    After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On – NPR
    After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On – NPR

    The Jasons, a group of scientists who advise the U.S. government, have developed technologies such as a laser that can help reduce atmospheric distortion. The Air Force uses it to better photograph passing spy satellites.

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    The Jasons, a group of scientists who advise the U.S. government, have developed technologies such as a laser that can help reduce atmospheric distortion. The Air Force uses it to better photograph passing spy satellites.

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    Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET

    A secretive group of scientists who advise the U.S. government on everything from spy satellites to nuclear weapons is scrambling to find a sponsor after the Defense Department abruptly ended its contract late last month.

    The group, known as the Jasons, will run out of money at the end of April. The Pentagon says that the group’s advice is no longer needed, but independent experts say it has never been more relevant and worry the department is throwing away a valuable resource.

    Russell Hemley, the head of the Jasons, says that other government agencies still want advice and that the Jasons are determined to give it.

    Late Thursday, it appeared that another government agency might be willing to take on the group. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration posted a solicitation saying it intends to take over the contract for the group. That could happen in a matter of months, and it is unclear how the Mitre Corp., which manages the Jasons, would fund the group in the interim.

    The Jasons group comprises about 60 members. By day, they’re normal academics, working at colleges and universities and in private industry. But each summer, they come together to study tough problems for the military, intelligence agencies and other parts of the government.

    The group’s name, like the group itself, is shrouded in mystery, though it’s believed to be a reference to Jason, the Greek mythological prince who leads the Argonauts in looking for the Golden Fleece.

    “The idea that they’re going to cut back on the kind of advice that the Jasons provide is not good for the Department of Defense,” says Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, an independent watchdog group. “It’s not good for the nation.”

    “We’re very independent, we have this diversity of talent and we often come up with very different, very original perspectives and solutions to problems,” says Hemley, a physicist and chemist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Hemley is one of the few members who publicly identify themselves as part of the group. He says the Jasons are unlike anything else out there — academics at the top of their individual fields, with security clearances that let them work on any problem.

    The group’s origins go back to the early days of the Cold War.

    “They just formed themselves, back in 1960,” says Ann Finkbeiner, who wrote The Jasons: The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite. It began when a group of physicists won funding from the Pentagon to spend the summer learning about the problems facing the Defense Department in its fight against the Soviet Union. These stubborn researchers were determined to advise the government. They went on to study everything from anti-submarine warfare to missile defense.

    Russell Hemley is the chair of the Jasons. He says several government agencies remain interested in contracting with the group.

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    “Probably their most famous study was about trying to stop the infiltration from North Vietnam into the South,” Finkbeiner says.

    The problem was that North Vietnamese troops and supplies were hard to find beneath the dense jungle canopy. The Jasons’ solution was to develop a system of remote sensors that could be airdropped into the jungle and provide intelligence on the enemy. The program, like much to do with Vietnam, was controversial and didn’t work perfectly. But it laid the groundwork for modern electronic warfare, in which sensors provide troops with detailed battlefield information, Finkbeiner says.

    In recent years, Hemley says, the Jasons have broadened the areas they study. They’ve tried to help the Department of Agriculture develop better ways to use data to understand crop production, for example. And they advised the Census Bureau on how to streamline its operations.

    So it came as a surprise to Hemley and others when, in late March, the Pentagon abruptly announced it was ending its primary contract with the Jasons. The contract, run through the Mitre Corp., is the vehicle that allows the Jasons to do work with other parts of the government as well. Without it, the group has no way of getting the several million dollars in funding it needs to operate annually.

    “The department remains committed to seeking independent technical advice and review,” Pentagon spokesperson Heather Babb said. But Aftergood sees another reason for the end of the relationship. He says that the Jasons are a blunt bunch. If they think an idea is dumb or won’t work, they aren’t afraid to say so.

    “They were offering the opposite of cheerleading,” he says. “And DOD decided that maybe they didn’t want to pay for that any longer.”

    Aftergood says it’s a real mistake to cut ties with the Jasons now. The Pentagon is embarking on ambitious research into artificial intelligence, quantum computing and advanced hypersonic missiles. The Jasons have expertise on these topics and will likely be useful.

    For now, Hemley says, the group is eager to continue its research and is “working closely with our sponsors to make sure that happens.”

    The National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the nation’s nuclear weapons, would be a natural fit for the group. Over the years, it has solicited numerous studies from the Jasons on the nuclear stockpile.

    At a congressional hearing this month, NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty voiced her support for the Jasons: “I can tell you that they are rich in history,” she said, “and their technical expertise is sound.”

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/04/25/717225118/after-pentagon-ends-contract-top-secret-scientists-group-vows-to-carry-on

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    NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to open his formidable fundraising network to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign – CNBC
    NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to open his formidable fundraising network to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign – CNBC

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    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has raised millions of dollars during his campaigns over the years, has indicated to associates in recent days that he will be opening his vast and powerful fundraising network exclusively to Joe Biden, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

    Biden officially launched his campaign Thursday, after months of speculation.

    “Andrew is all in for Joe. He is pushing his entire network that way – political and funding,” said a person who has spoken to Cuomo recently. This person declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the conversations.

    A top party donor who has spoken to Cuomo advisors told CNBC: “Biden is going to have a formidable fundraising operation through, in part, Cuomo.”

    Cuomo’s support could be a game-changer for Biden. While the former vice president has consistently led Democratic primary polls, he has been aggressively courting donors in a bid to catch up to an already crowded primary field that has a head start in the fundraising game. New York State Board of Elections data show Cuomo has raked in $100 million in campaign contributions since he first ran for governor in 2010. At least 80 percent of his backers have given him $10,000 or more, records show.

    Cuomo’s wealthy donor network spans the country and the business world. Past donors include movie mogul Steven Spielberg, Walmart heiress Alice Walton, and hedge fund titan Steve Cohen. Cuomo also has received support from companies such as Cablevision, real estate giant the Dust Organization and Canadian real estate firm Brookfield Asset Management.

    A Cuomo representative and Biden’s campaign both declined to comment.

    “I think he [Biden] has the best chance of defeating President Trump, which I think is the main goal here,” Cuomo said earlier this week.

    Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell is also helping Biden and was slated to host a fundraising event for the former vice president Thursday in Philadelphia.

    Biden’s rivals in the Democratic primary already have a quarter of fundraising in the books. Sen. Bernie Sanders led the way with $18 million.

    Some are amassing the support of party bundlers. Mayor Pete Buttigieg has amassed at least two dozen Democratic fundraisers for his 2020 campaign, with many of his bundlers formerly being supporters of former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, CNBC first reported. Sen. Kamala Harris reportedly has over 100 bundlers backing her campaign for president.

    The Democratic field have a lot of ground to make up compared to Trump, however. The president’s campaign hauled in $30 million during the first quarter.

    Trump welcomed Biden to the race Thursday with a snarky tweet that insulted the former vice president’s intelligence and mocked him as “Sleepy Joe.”

    Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/25/andrew-cuomo-plans-to-open-formidable-fundraising-network-to-joe-biden.html

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    North Korea presented US with $2 million bill for care of Otto Warmbier – CNN
    North Korea presented US with $2 million bill for care of Otto Warmbier – CNN

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Steve King (R-IA), who was stripped of his House committee assignments following racist remarks he made in an interview with The New York Times, told constituents he can relate to the suffering of Jesus Christ.”},{“title”:”Iowa Republican leaving party because of Trump”,”duration”:”01:42″,”sourceName”:”WHO”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/?refresh=1″,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/04/24/andy-mckean-iowa-gop-lawmaker-party-change-sot-vpx.who/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/04/24/andy-mckean-iowa-gop-lawmaker-party-change-sot-vpx.who”,”videoImage”:”http://www.noticiasdodia.onlinenewsbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/190423230534-andy-mckean-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/04/24/andy-mckean-iowa-gop-lawmaker-party-change-sot-vpx.who/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”The Iowa Legislature’s longest-serving Republican announced that because of President Donald Trump, he will be joining the Democratic Party, calling Trump \”a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children.\””,”descriptionText”:”The Iowa Legislature’s longest-serving Republican announced that because of President Donald Trump, he will be joining the Democratic Party, calling Trump \”a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children.\””},{“title”:”2020 candidates split on whether or not to impeach Trump”,”duration”:”02:01″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/04/23/democratic-presidential-candidates-trump-impeachment-cnn-town-hall-manu-raju-lead-pkg-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/04/23/democratic-presidential-candidates-trump-impeachment-cnn-town-hall-manu-raju-lead-pkg-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”http://www.noticiasdodia.onlinenewsbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/190423153130-2020-dems-town-hall-split-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/04/23/democratic-presidential-candidates-trump-impeachment-cnn-town-hall-manu-raju-lead-pkg-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has seemed to tamp down plans for impeachment, some Democratic presidential candidates sharpened their arguments for moving forward with impeachment proceedings at CNN’s town halls. 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        CNN’s Devin Cole, Abby Phillip and Jennifer Hansler contributed to this report.

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      5-year-old boy allegedly killed by parents was hit, forced to stay in cold shower – ABC News
      5-year-old boy allegedly killed by parents was hit, forced to stay in cold shower – ABC News

      The parents charged in the murder of their 5-year-old son, Andrew “AJ” Freund, allegedly forced the little boy to stay in a cold shower “for an extended period of time” and may have “struck” him, according to court documents.

      AJ’s parents, Andrew “Drew” Freund Sr. and JoAnn Cunningham, have been charged with his murder, police said.

      Crystal Lake Police
      Andrew Freund Sr. in a police booking photo.
      Crystal Lake Police
      JoAnn Cunningham in a police booking photo.

      AJ, of Crystal Lake, Illinois, was reported missing on April 18, prompting a massive, week-long search. The deadly assault occurred on or about April 15, according to court documents.

      AJ’s parents ultimately provided information that led investigators to a body believed to be that of the little boy, Crystal Lake Police Chief Jim Black said at a news conference on Wednesday.

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

      AJ’s body was found on Wednesday in a shallow grave, wrapped in plastic, in a rural area near Woodstock, Illinois, Black said.

      His cause of death is unclear.

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      Mourners gather for a vigil outside the home of five-year-old Andrew “A.J.” Freund on April 24, 2019 in Crystal Lake, Ill.

      Cunningham, 35, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder; four counts of aggravated battery; two counts of aggravated domestic battery; and one count of failure to report a missing or child death.

      Freund, 60, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder; two counts of aggravated battery; one count of aggravated domestic battery; two counts of concealment of homicidal death; and one count of failure to report a missing or child death.

      Both are due to be arraigned on Monday.

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      In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019 photo, community members in Crystal lake, Ill. hold a vigil in memory of 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freund.
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      In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019 photo, community members in Crystal lake, Ill., hold a vigil in memory of 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freund.

      During the search for AJ, his younger brother was placed in a different home under a Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) safety plan, a DCFS spokesman told ABC News earlier this week.

      DCFS has been in contact with AJ’s family since AJ was born with opiates in his system in October 2013, DCFS officials said.

      In November 2013, AJ was taken into protective custody and placed in foster care, DCFS officials said. AJ was returned to his home in June 2015, according to the agency.

      In March 2018, DCFS officials investigated allegations of neglect by AJ’s parents; the allegations were unfounded, according to DCFS.

      The last contact between DCFS and the family was in December 2018, after Cunningham called the cops to report that AJ’s father stole her cellphone and medication. Responding officers found a bruise on one of the children, but were “unable to make a determination of abuse,” and released the kids back to the parents, according to police reports. Child protection staffers investigated the allegations of abuse and neglect, but the allegations were unfounded, a DCFS spokesman said.

      The news of AJ’s death is “heartbreaking,” Marc Smith, acting director of Illinois DCFS, said in a statement Wednesday.

      “Our priority is the care and safety of Andrew’s younger sibling,” Smith said. “The Department is committed to conducting a comprehensive review of the entirety of our work with Andrew’s family to understand our shortcomings and to be fully transparent with the public on any steps we are taking to address the issues.”

      ABC News’ Whitney Lloyd contributed to this report.

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      Sri Lanka suicide bombers became distant, ‘totally crazy’ in years leading up to Easter massacre, siblings say – Fox News
      Sri Lanka suicide bombers became distant, ‘totally crazy’ in years leading up to Easter massacre, siblings say – Fox News
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      Sisters of two of the alleged Sri Lanka suicide bombers revealed Thursday that their siblings – who have been described by officials as “well-educated people” — became increasingly distant and “totally crazy” in the years leading up to the coordinated Easter Sunday massacre.

      Their comments come as reports emerged that one of the bombers was let go by police after being arrested earlier at some point.

      “He told male relatives off for trimming their beards and became angry and totally crazy,” Samsul Hidaya, who identified herself as the sister of suspected bomber Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, told the Daily Mail. “So I just stopped speaking to him because it got to the point where it was getting out of hand.”

      In an interview published Thursday, Hidaya confirmed reports that her brother – who was in his late 20s — studied abroad in the U.K. and Australia before returning to Sri Lanka. But she says after coming home from Down Under, he was “a different man”.

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      This undated image posted by the Islamic State group’s Aamaq news agency on Tuesday purports to show Mohammed Zahran, a.k.a. Zahran Hashmi, center, the man Sri Lanka says led the Easter attack that killed more than 350 people, as well as other attackers.
      (AP)

      “I had many arguments with him,” she said. “At first he started quoting scripture and I would say ‘OK, you’re right.’”

      “But then the conversation got deeper and deeper into religion and I couldn’t follow what he was saying any longer,” she added.

      Mohammad Hashim Madaniya, who identified herself as the sister of radical Islamic cleric Zahran Hashim (alternately known as Mohammed Zahran) – told the BBC a similar story.

      Her brother has been mentioned in media reports as being one of the suicide bombers and possibly the mastermind of the attacks. Hashim also purportedly has appeared in ISIS-affiliated propaganda claiming responsibility for the bombings, which have left 253 dead and hundreds wounded. Sri Lanka lowered the death toll from 359 to 253 on Thursday, citing confusion at chaotic bombing scenes, according to the Associated Press.

      But before Hashim’s descent into radicalism — as evident by the hate-filled online sermons he posted on YouTube – he broke off contact with his sister

      “We had a very good relationship during our childhood. He was very friendly with everyone in the neighborhood,” Madaniya told the BBC. “But for the last two years, he has not been in contact with us.”

      A view of St. Sebastian’s Church damaged in suicide blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
      (AP)

      Madaniya says she learned about her brother’s alleged involvement in the bombings through the media.

      “I never thought, even for a moment, that he would do such a thing,” she said. “I strongly deplore what he has done. Even if he is my brother, I cannot accept this. I don’t care about him anymore.”

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      Madaniya says Hashim went off the grid after Sri Lankan police tried to arrest him years ago for allegedly stoking violence between Muslim groups. She also claimed her elderly parents left their home in Sri Lanka days before the bombings and have not been heard from since.

      “It makes me think that my brother could have kept in touch with them,” she said.

      Over the past three years, radical Islamic cleric Zahran Hashim, alternately known as Mohammed Zahran, amassed an online following of thousands for hate-filled online sermons – sometimes delivered before a banner depicting the enkindled Twin Towers – and composed of impassioned calls for “all non-Muslims be eliminated.”
      (YouTube)

      Police reportedly though have tracked down the father of two sons suspected of blowing themselves up in the attacks.

      Mohamed Yusuf Ibrahim, a wealthy spice trader in Colombo – the city where many of the bombings happened – is in custody over suspicions that he helped his sons, according to CNN.

      A government spokesperson also told the network that one of the sons, Ilham Ahmed Ibrahim, had been arrested before and then released. He is suspected of targeting a hotel.

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      “It was the suicide bomber of the Cinnamon Grand bomb attack who was released earlier,” Sudarshana Gunawardana said, without elaborating.

      As of Thursday, 58 people have been arrested and police are still setting off controlled detonations of suspicious items as they continue to investigate the attacks.

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      Massachusetts judge who helped illegal immigrant escape ICE arrest indicted, federal authorities say – Fox News
      Massachusetts judge who helped illegal immigrant escape ICE arrest indicted, federal authorities say – Fox News
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      A Massachusetts judge and court officer accused of helping an illegal immigrant flee an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent waiting to take him into custody were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for obstruction of justice and three other counts, officials said.

      Newton District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and the court officer, identified in court documents as Wesley MacGregor, face several charges stemming from an April 2, 2018 incident in which the pair allegedly helped Jose Medina-Perez get out of the courthouse via a back door in order to elude the ICE agent who sought Medina-Perez.

      “This case is about the rule of law. The allegations in today’s indictment involve obstruction by a sitting judge, that is intentional interference with the enforcement of federal law, and that is a crime,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said Thursday.

      Andrew Lelling, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced charges against Newton, Mass., District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and a former court officer on obstruction of justice for allegedly helping a man in the country illegally evade immigration officials as he left the courthouse after a hearing.
      (AP)

      Joseph and MacGregor were both charged with obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting; obstruction of a federal proceeding, aiding and abetting and conspiracy to obstruct justice, Lelling said. MacGregor was also charged with perjury before a federal grand jury.

      “As public servants, all of the officers in the court make a promise — a promise to serve the people’s interest above all else. Today we know this promise has been broken,” said Peter Fitzhugh, special agent in charge of the Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, who led the investigation.

      Medina-Perez, a twice-deported illegal immigrant with a fugitive warrant for drunken driving in Pennsylvania, had been in Joseph’s courtroom in order to be arraigned on drug charges, the Boston Globe previously reported.

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      Medina-Perez was the subject of an ICE detainer — a written request to hold an individual wanted for deportation for up to 48 hours — and an ICE agent was waiting in the lobby of the courthouse to detain Medina-Perez after the arraignment, officials said. But during the hearing, Joseph asked Medina-Perez’s attorney “ICE is going to get him?,” according to courtroom recordings obtained by the Boston Globe in December and released in court documents Thursday.

      Medina-Perez’s lawyer was also heard telling Joseph “ICE will pick him up if he walks out the front door. But I think the best thing for us to do is clear the fugitive issue and release him on a personal, and hope that he can avoid ICE…That’s the best I can do.”

      “What if we detain him?” the judge asked before requesting the clerk to turn off the courtroom’s audio recorder, leaving nearly a minute unrecorded.

      Minutes later, Medina-Perez’s attorney said his client “has some property downstairs” and needed to speak to an interpreter, which Joseph allowed.

      MacGregor then used his security access card to escort Medina-Perez out of the courthouse without being seen by the ICE agent, officials said.

      “With the recorder off, defendant Joseph and the Defense Attorney discussed devising a way to have A.S. [Medina-Perez] avoid being arrested by the ICE officer,” court documents stated.

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      The ICE agent continued to wait in the lobby not knowing the illegal immigrant already left the building, Lelling said, adding Joseph lied about the incident to her superiors when asked about it.

      Peter Fitzhugh, special agent in charge of the Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, who led the investigation.
      (Fox News)

      “The people of this country deserve nothing less than to know that their appointed and elected representatives are working on their behalf, while adhering to and enforcing the rule of law, not a personal agenda,” Fitzhugh said. “The special agents of Homeland Security Investigations remain committed to upholding our promise to the public, without compromise.”

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      Joseph was appointed Newton District judge by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker in 2017 after several years serving as a criminal defense attorney and a prosecutor, the Boston Globe reported.

      After reports of Joseph’s alleged intervention emerged in December, Baker told reporters he believed Joseph should be benched while the incident was investigated.

      “I don’t believe she should be hearing criminal cases until that federal case is resolved,” Baker said about Joseph. “Look, judges are not supposed to be in the business of obstructing justice. And as far as I can tell, based on the facts as they were presented, she clearly violated the court’s own policies with respect to the way they’re supposed to handle continuance and involve federal immigration enforcement.”

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      Medina-Perez’s freedom was short-lived. He was arrested a month later after the court hearing and again let go, this time by an immigration judge who freed him on bond, the Boston Globe reported. That case is currently pending, officials said. The 38-year-old native of the Dominican Republic had been previously deported in January 2003 and June 2007, ICE said. His real name is Oscar Manuel Peguero, although he goes by several aliases.

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      Trump’s tweets about Don McGahn and the Mueller report, explained – Vox.com
      Trump’s tweets about Don McGahn and the Mueller report, explained – Vox.com

      While special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report about his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election stops short of accusing President Donald Trump of crimes, the president is obviously not happy with the picture it paints of him as someone who repeatedly tried to obstruct an investigation of his campaign, only to be thwarted by his own aides refusing to carry out legally dubious orders.

      So on Thursday morning, Trump tried to refute on Twitter one of the report’s most damaging revelations — that he tried to get then-White House counsel Don McGahn to order Mueller’s firing via Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein just a month after Mueller was appointed. (McGahn refused.) But in the process, Trump gave House Democrats yet another reason to bring McGahn in for a congressional hearing.

      Over the course of two tweets, Trump pushed back on McGahn’s testimony to Mueller that Trump asked him to get the Department of Justice to fire Mueller, and worked in a gratuitous shot at the media in the process.

      “As has been incorrectly reported by the Fake News Media, I never told then White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller, even though I had the legal right to do so,” Trump wrote. “If I wanted to fire Mueller, I didn’t need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself. Nevertheless, […] Mueller was NOT fired and was respectfully allowed to finish his work on what I, and many others, say was an illegal investigation (there was no crime), headed by a Trump hater who was highly conflicted, and a group of 18 VERY ANGRY Democrats. DRAIN THE SWAMP!”

      Trump’s claim that “the Fake News Media” has “incorrectly reported” what the Mueller report says about his dealings with McGahn is false — Mueller’s report actually confirms a report from the New York Times about this. Trump is in fact disputing the conclusions of a government document based on an interview with a lawyer who worked for him.

      What the Mueller report says about McGahn

      McGahn is one of the Mueller report’s central figures. He’s cited more than any other witness in the document, and his testimony provides some of the starkest examples of how Trump repeatedly tried to impede investigations of his campaign.

      McGahn told Mueller that in June 2017 — one month after Mueller’s appointment — the president reacted to reports that Mueller was investigating him for obstruction of justice by calling him at home and “direct[ing] him to call the Acting Attorney General and say that the Special Counsel had conflict of interest and must be removed. McGahn did not carry out the direction, however, deciding that he would resign rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre.”

      In January 2018, the New York Times reported that Trump ordered McGahn to have the Justice Department fire Mueller the previous June. According to what McGahn told Mueller, Trump reacted to the report by asking McGahn to fabricate evidence that could be used to refute it.

      “The President then directed [then-White House official Rob] Porter to tell McGahn to create a record to make clear that the President never directed McGahn to fire the Special Counsel,” the report says. “McGahn shrugged off the request, explaining that the media reports were true.”

      During a subsequent White House meeting with McGahn, Trump disputed the Times’ reporting on semantic grounds. From the Mueller report:

      The President asked McGahn, “Did I say the word ‘fire’?” McGahn responded, “What you said is, ‘Call Rod [Rosenstein], tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can’t be the Special Counsel.’ The President responded, “I never said that.” The President said he merely wanted to McGahn to raise the conflicts issue with Rosenstein and leave it to him to decide what to do. McGahn told the President he did not understand the conversation that way and instead had heard, “Call Rod. There are conflicts. Mueller has to go.” The President asked McGahn whether he would “do a correction,” and McGahn said no. McGahn thought the President was testing his mettle to see how committed McGahn was to what happened. [Then-White House chief of staff John] Kelly described the meeting as “a little tense.”

      So it’s basically Trump’s word versus McGahn’s. But another part of McGahn’s testimony about his meeting with Trump speaks to why McGahn has more credibility, Trump’s propensity for lying aside:

      The President also asked McGahn in the meeting why he had told Special Counsel’s Office investigators that the President had told him to have the Special Counsel removed. McGahn responded that he had to and that his conversations with the President were not protected by attorney-client privilege. The President then asked, “What about these notes? Why do you take notes? Lawyers don’t take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes.” McGahn responded that he keeps notes because he is a “real lawyer” and explained that notes create a record and are not a bad thing. The President said, “I’ve had a lot of great lawyers, like Roy Cohn. He did not take notes.”

      Much as he did during his January 2018 meeting with McGahn, Trump could defend the tweets he posted on Thursday on semantic grounds. After all, McGahn testified that Trump asked him to order the Justice Department to fire Mueller, not that Trump asked him directly “to fire Robert Mueller,” as Trump wrote. In short, read carefully, Trump’s tweets aren’t necessarily inconsistent with the Mueller report, even if the impression they create is at odds with what McGahn told Mueller.

      Democrats are trying to get to the bottom of it. The White House is trying to prevent them from doing so.

      Trump’s tweets about McGahn give House Democrats yet another reason to bring the former White House counsel in for a hearing in hopes of getting to the bottom of the president’s attempts to obstruct the Mueller investigation. The House Judiciary Committee has already subpoenaed McGahn to testify next month and turn over documents.

      There’s just one problem — as my colleague Dylan Scott detailed on Wednesday, the White House has signaled it will fight subpoenas issued by House Democrats that try to compel former aides like McGahn to testify. Trump himself told reporters on Thursday that “we’re fighting all the subpoenas.”

      The extent of the Trump administration’s uncooperativeness with subpoenas is unprecedented, and it’s unclear how the battle will play out in court. But what is clear is that Trump is concerned with how McGahn portrayed him, and is trying to push back.

      On Monday, the New York Times’s Michael Schmidt reported that Trump believes his political future actually depends on discrediting the account of his conduct McGahn gave to Mueller.

      “Trump has privately complained about the accounts, particularly the ones given by Mr. McGahn, and has said the only way to protect himself from impeachment is to attack Mr. Mueller and Mr. McGahn,” according to the Times.

      The news moves fast. To stay updated, follow Aaron Rupar on Twitter, and read more of Vox’s policy and politics coverage.

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      Buttigieg says he doubts Sanders can win general election | TheHill – The Hill
      Buttigieg says he doubts Sanders can win general election | TheHill – The Hill

      Democratic presidential candidate Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegColbert links large 2020 Dem field to Avengers: ‘A group of every available person in the universe’ The Hill’s Morning Report – Trump tells House investigators ‘no’ Buttigieg draws new scrutiny, criticism MORE said he doubts fellow hopeful Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersElection analyst says Biden could face uphill battle attracting small-dollar donors Gillibrand ‘not worried’ about being ‘discounted’ in 2020 race Biden’s sloppy launch may cost him MORE (I-Vt.) can beat President TrumpDonald John TrumpForget the spin: Five unrefuted Mueller Report revelations Lara Trump: Merkel admitting migrants ‘one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany’ Financial satisfaction hits record high: survey MORE in a general election. 

      “I have a hard time seeing the coalition ultimately coming together there,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor told The New York Times. 

      Buttigieg added that at the time “people were refreshed by the novelty of that boldness” of Sanders’s ideas, but that they are now less exciting. 

      Buttigieg has been criticized this week for saying that in 2016 voters wanted to “blow up the system,” adding that this mentality “could lead you to somebody like Bernie and it could lead you to somebody like Trump. That’s how we got where we are.”

      Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, pushed back on Buttigieg’s assertion, touting Sanders’s record of fighting for the working class as the reason he will be able to win in 2020. 

      “At a time when Trump has lied to millions of Americans and sold out workers, voters are looking for a leader who they can trust will fight for them,” he said in a statement to The Hill.

      “He is committed to standing up to powerful corporate interests, taking on the billionaire class, defeating Trump and creating a government that works for all people,” he added.

      Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, and Buttigieg are seen as front-runners among the 20 candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic nomination.

      In recent polls, the pair and former Vice President Joe BidenJoseph (Joe) Robinette BidenElection analyst says Biden could face uphill battle attracting small-dollar donors Biden’s announcement was a general election message, says political analyst Gillibrand ‘not worried’ about being ‘discounted’ in 2020 race MORE, who is expected to enter the race Thursday, sit in the top three spots of Democratic presidential contenders.

      Updated at 3:34 p.m.

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      Joe Biden 2020: Former vice president Joe Biden says he’s running for president in video announcing bid released today – live updates – CBS News
      Joe Biden 2020: Former vice president Joe Biden says he’s running for president in video announcing bid released today – live updates – CBS News

      Ending months of speculation, former Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is launching his third presidential campaign.  Instantly joining the race as an early frontrunner, the former vice president and more than a dozen major Democratic candidates seek to deny President Trump a second term.

      “We are in the battle for the soul of this nation,” he said in the nearly four-minute long video. “If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”

      Unlike most of his competitors who only mentioned President Trump in passing when they announced their candidacies, Biden used his video to cast the race as a battle with Mr. Trump for the very soul and character of the country, calling him out by name.

      The video opens in Charlottesville, Virginia, the scene of violent clashes between white nationalists and protesters which opens in Charlottesville, Virginia, where in 2017 there were violent clashes between white nationalists and protesters that resulted in the death of one woman. Mr. Trump, at the time, faced a backlash for saying that blame for the violence fell “on many sides.”

      Biden announced his bid in a video released on social media. He is expected to hold a fundraiser Thursday evening in Philadelphia and hold his first formal campaign event in Pittsburgh on Monday. In his appeal to voters, Biden recounted the president’s response to the violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia two years ago. 


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      Biden said he’s running for president because everything about American democracy is “at stake” under a Trump presidency. “We have to remember who we are, this is America,” he added in a final appeal to supporters. 

      Already differentiating himself from the other 17 candidates running, Biden also immediately released Spanish-language advertising to target Latino supporters. None of the other candidates have done this from the start. 

      For about a year, many Democratic operatives, donors and voters have been encouraging Biden, who served as vice president for eight years under President Obama, to enter the crowded race, capture the nomination and thwart Mr. Trump’s reelection bid in 2020. Despite not having formally announced his bid until Thursday, Biden has been leading several polls among primary voters, with only Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders coming close to matching the former vice president’s support.

      People familiar with the campaign’s plans said Biden plans to place a particular emphasis on South Carolina, an early primary state where he enjoys strong support from longtime Democratic leaders and the state’s large African American community.  


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      The 76-year-old former Delaware lawmaker, a totem of the Democratic Party’s establishment, is likely to quickly attract substantial financial support from the party’s more moderate wing, as well as the backing of many top Democrats across the country and in Washington, where he worked for decades.

      Unlike many of the other Democratic candidates in the race, Biden is already a household name across the country, and his allies argue he has the best chance to woo working-class voters in states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania who propelled Mr. Trump to victory during the 2016 presidential election.  

      The former vice president, however, will also face scrutiny from progressives for some of the positions he held during his long tenure in Congress, where he represented Delaware in the Senate for more than 35 years. He has also come under scrutiny in recent weeks by several women who said that he touched them inappropriately at events over the years. 

      In the 1970s, Biden opposed busing to desegregate public schools. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the contentious Anita Hill hearings during the confirmation process for then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991. He also helped spearhead efforts to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which many believe fueled a period of mass incarceration that disproportionately affected African Americans and other minority groups. 

      Biden has since embraced more progressive policy stances. He staged two campaigns for the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008, dropping out during the primary contests in both. 

      The former vice president joins the largest — and the most diverse — Democratic primary field in U.S. history. To date, 20 other Democrats have declared their candidacy for president, including Sens. Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren; Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke; and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

      Ed O’Keefe, Emily Tillett and Caitlin Huey-Burns contributed to this report.

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      FBI, IRS agents search Baltimore Mayor’s homes, City Hall – AOL
      FBI, IRS agents search Baltimore Mayor’s homes, City Hall – AOL

      BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal agents executed search warrants Thursday morning at two homes belonging to Baltimore’s embattled mayor and at City Hall.

      Dave Fitz, an FBI spokesman out of the agency’s Baltimore office, says agents with the FBI and the IRS criminal division in Washington were “executing court-authorized search warrants” at “both residences and City Hall.” He said he couldn’t immediately release more information because the search warrants are sealed.

      Mayor Catherine Pugh’s spokesman, James Bentley, said he has no immediate comment. Pugh’s defense attorney, Steve Silverman, did not immediately return calls.

      (Original Caption) When John Kerr, of 147 W. 84th Street, and Peter Macon, 490 Columbus Avenue, were being booked on a mugging charge at the West 68th St. Precinct today, photographer Phil Grietzer, New York Daily News photographer, drew a bead on the proceedings with his camera. He didn’t know the boys had a camera allergy. But he found out when the two, although handcuffed together, came charging at him. Another photographer who doesn’t suffer from buck fever, got this picture.




      Pugh has been facing mounting calls for her to resign over a scandal that involves the sale of her children’s books to entities that do business with the city. She was already facing a criminal investigation by the state prosecutor’s office, which began at the request of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, as well as probes by the Baltimore Inspector General, an ethics board at City Hall and a state insurance commission.

      It’s been more than three weeks since Pugh slipped out of sight, citing deteriorating health from a pneumonia bout. Five of her staffers have since joined her on paid leave.

      Pugh said she was going on leave on the same day Hogan asked for the investigation of lucrative sales of her “Healthy Holly” books to customers, including a major hospital network she once helped oversee as a state lawmaker and a health plan that does business with the city.

      The sales earned about $800,000 for her limited liability company.

      Since then, the first-term mayor has been asked to resign by the entire lineup of the current City Council, all Baltimore lawmakers in Maryland’s House of Delegates, the influential Greater Baltimore Committee business group and others. Maryland’s chief accountant called Pugh’s “self-dealing” arrangements to sell her books as “brazen, cartoonish corruption.”

      But only a conviction can trigger a Baltimore mayor’s removal from office, according to City Solicitor Andre Davis and the state constitution. Baltimore’s mayor-friendly City Charter currently provides no options for ousting its executive.

      “The charter is utterly silent on how long the leave can last, exactly what the reasons are for a leave,” Davis told reporters.

      Members of Pugh’s communications staff have said repeatedly that she intends to return to City Hall when she is feeling better, but have declined to provide any timetable.

      As multiple investigations into the mayor’s books ramp up, political analysts say Pugh’s biggest bargaining chip at the negotiating table is her refusal to resign in a city accustomed to a high-drama, insular political culture.

      Pugh came to office in late 2016 after edging out ex-Mayor Sheila Dixon, who spent much of her tenure fighting corruption charges before being forced to depart office in 2010 as part of a plea deal connected to the misappropriation of about $500 in gift cards meant for needy families.

      While the accusations have certainly cast a shadow over Pugh, she has not been indicted for any crime, and it is unclear how long a criminal investigation will take. Earlier this month, Silverman said the mayor looks forward to cooperating with the state prosecutor’s probe and will provide “as much information as possible to put this matter to rest.”

      Pugh would certainly face a bruising 2020 Democratic primary if she were to return and run for reelection. Many political observers believe she’ll never again be able to wield power effectively due to the scandal.

      A veteran City Council leader, Bernard “Jack” Young, is serving as acting mayor. Young said he would merely be a placeholder when she went on leave, and at a Wednesday news conference, he stressed that the decision is up to her. But given the groundswell of opinion against her, he said “it could be devastating for her” if she tried to return.

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      Trump disputes finding that he directed McGahn to seek Mueller’s ouster – The Washington Post
      Trump disputes finding that he directed McGahn to seek Mueller’s ouster – The Washington Post

      John Wagner

      April 25 at 10:59 AM

      President Trump disputed Thursday that he had told then-White House counsel Donald McGahn to seek the firing of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the midst of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

      The episode, detailed in the report by Mueller that was publicly released last week, is among those being scrutinized by Democrats as they continue to investigate whether Trump sought to obstruct Mueller’s probe. In a morning tweet, Trump sought to blame the media for misreporting what happened.

      “I never told then White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller, even though I had the legal right to do so,” Trump wrote. “If I wanted to fire Mueller, I didn’t need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself. Nevertheless, Mueller was NOT fired and was respectfully allowed to finish his work on what I, and many others, say was an illegal investigation.”

      McGahn emerged as a key witness in Mueller’s 448-page report, detailing several occasions when Trump ordered him to “do crazy shit,” according to the special counsel’s findings. That included trying to persuade the Justice Department to get rid of Mueller, according to the report.

      McGahn didn’t, and almost resigned over the episode. He also refused to issue a public statement denying that the reports Trump wanted to fire Mueller were true when the president asked him to, the report says.

      Though Trump has claimed “total exoneration” by the Mueller report, he and his aides have continued to attack Mueller and his team and aggressively dispute some of the more damaging details it contains. Trump declined to sit for an interview with Mueller in which he would have had an opportunity to rebut other testimony.

      The Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena this week ordering McGahn to testify before the panel next month and hand over documents and records pertaining to federal investigations of Trump, his finances, his campaign and charges that he sought to obstruct justice.

      [White House plans to fight House subpoena of former counsel Donald McGahn for testimony on Mueller report]

      The White House is resisting the move, along with other efforts by Democrats to call key figures in the Mueller probe to testify before Congress.

      In television interviews Sunday and Monday, Trump legal spokesman Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Trump lawyer John Dowd also sought to cast doubt on McGahn’s recollection of Trump’s order to seek Mueller’s firing.

      Both argued that Trump wasn’t as direct as McGahn seemingly believed. Trump was only seeking to have Mueller “vetted,” Dowd said during an appearance on Fox News.

      Mueller’s report did not find sufficient evidence to bring charges of criminal conspiracy with Russia against Trump or anyone associated with his campaign. It did not offer a conclusion about whether Trump obstructed justice.

      Attorney General William P. Barr later concluded that there was not sufficient evidence for obstruction of justice charges, but House Democrats are continuing to aggressively pursue that issue.

      Karoun Demirjian contributed to this report.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-disputes-finding-that-he-directed-mcgahn-to-seek-muellers-ouster/2019/04/25/43b08390-6750-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html

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      Sanders gets tough reception at minority women’s event, signaling challenges ahead – The Washington Post
      Sanders gets tough reception at minority women’s event, signaling challenges ahead – The Washington Post

      Holly Bailey

      David Weigel

      April 24 at 10:31 PM

      HOUSTON — The groans erupted halfway through Bernie Sanders’s appearance Wednesday at a presidential candidates’ forum sponsored by She the People, a group that aims to drive up voter participation among women of color.

      Before an audience of about 1,700, many of them African American and Hispanic women, the moderator asked Sanders (I-Vt.) how he would handle the rise in white supremacy. Sanders spoke of fighting discrimination and running a campaign “to bring our people together around an agenda that speaks to all people” — then returned to a familiar message on universal health care.

      For many in the audience, that was insufficient. “Come on!” a woman shouted from the back, as others began to jeer and boo.

      The reception reflected Sanders’s struggle to win support from minority voters, a problem that dogged his 2016 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. Sanders has taken steps since to improve his outreach, including meeting with black leaders and talking more frequently about the difficulties facing minorities, but Wednesday’s event suggested the senator still faces challenges.

      Sanders at one point mentioned his long record on civil rights, but it did little to mollify the crowd.

      “I was actually at the March on Washington with Dr. King back in 1963, and — as somebody who actively supported Jesse Jackson’s campaign, as one of the few white elected officials to do so in ’88 — I have dedicated my life to the fight against racism and sexism and discrimination of all forms,” Sanders said. That prompted audible groans.

      Sanders may have come into the event at a disadvantage, since many black women supported Clinton in 2016. Some Clinton backers believe Sanders did too little to help her after she won the nomination.

      Sanders did eventually coax a warmer reception when he vowed to use the presidential “bully pulpit” to counter hate.

      Wednesday’s event, billed by organizers as the first-ever presidential forum for women of color, took place at Texas Southern University, a historically black institution in Houston, one of the most rapidly diversifying cities in the country.

      Democrats hope minority voters, especially black women, will turn out in bigger numbers in 2020. Clinton won the black vote in 2016 with 89 percent to then-candidate Donald Trump’s 8 percent — but just 59 percent of registered black voters turned out. The group is a central part of the Democratic coalition.

      Sanders was one of eight Democratic presidential hopefuls who appeared at the She the People forum, and the candidates sought to appeal to the attendees in various ways.

      Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) repeated an earlier pledge to choose a woman as his running mate. Former congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment.

      Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-
      Calif.), who has faced criticism from some liberals who think she was too tough as San Francisco’s district attorney, promised to pardon low-level drug offenders if she wins the White House.

      “We have to have the courage to recognize that there are a lot of folks who have been incarcerated who should not have been incarcerated and are still in prison because they were convicted under draconian laws,” Harris said.

      Looming over the event was former vice president Joe Biden’s anticipated entry into the race on Thursday. Biden has close relations with many in the African American community, but some are unhappy with his treatment of Anita Hill in 1991, when she accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Biden chaired the Judiciary Committee at the time and oversaw Thomas’s confirmation hearing.

      Jamila Taylor, a 41-year-old policy analyst from Virginia, arrived at Wednesday’s event wearing a shirt that read, “I still believe Anita Hill.” She said that Biden had the right to seek the presidency but that his record should be a factor.

      “He should be under scrutiny just like everyone else in the race,” Taylor said. “Speaking for myself, I think it was mishandled.”

      Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took the stage after Sanders and presented herself as a candidate of ideas. She was asked whether Democratic women might choose a male in the primary season out of concern that the broader electorate would not support a woman for president.

      Warren warned against making such choices based on fear. “Are we going to show up for people that we didn’t actually believe in because we’re too afraid to do anything else?” she said. “That’s not who we are.”

      The forum highlighted Democrats’ need to appeal to a diverse array of voters in 2020. Energizing liberal minority women is one key task for the party, but some Democrats say it’s equally important to appeal to centrist and even conservative voters, including those who supported Trump.

      One major topic was the criminal justice system and how it treats minorities. Sanders had created a stir earlier in the week by saying that convicted criminals should be able to vote while serving prison terms.

      Two other candidates, interviewed Wednesday outside the forum, took a different view.

      “I would think, especially for nonviolent offenders, that we rethink removing the right to vote and allow everyone, or as many as possible, to participate in our democracy,” O’Rourke said. But he added, “For violent criminals, it’s much harder for me to reach that conclusion.”

      And former San Antonio mayor Julián Castro said it makes sense to discuss the issue, but “where I would draw that line is . . . with the people who were incarcerated having the opportunity to still vote.”

      Michelle Ye Hee Lee contributed to this report.

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