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(CNN)Bomb blasts hit several high-end hotels and churches across Sri Lanka on Sunday morning, killing at least 138 people and injuring 560.

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    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to hold a private conference call Monday with fellow Democrats in which the topic of the potential impeachment of President Trump will be raised.

    The planned call comes as the issue continues to divide progressive Democrats — who want Trump to face impeachment proceedings — and party leaders who warn of its political risks and backlash going into the 2020 presidential election, Bloomberg reported. The renewed push comes on the heels of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

    Pelosi last month said she opposed impeachment, calling the process divisive and saying of Trump, “He’s just not worth it.”

    SCARAMUCCI SAYS PELOSI IS ‘THE SMARTEST PERSON’ AMID DEMOCRATIC CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT

    But in tweets this week, following the release of the Mueller report, Pelosi seemed to show a change in tone.

    “As we continue to review the report, one thing is clear,” Pelosi wrote Thursday, “AG Barr presented a conclusion that @realDonaldTrump did not obstruct justice while the #MuellerReport appears to undercut that finding.”

    Also Thursday: “The #MuellerReport paints a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving a web of deceit, lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn’t apply to him,” Pelosi wrote.

    WARREN URGES HOUSE TO BEGIN IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS ON HEELS OF MUELLER REPORT

    Mueller’s report cleared Trump and his associates of collusion with Russia but did not determine whether the president committed obstruction of justice during the investigation.

    The report outlined 10 instances of potential obstruction, reviving impeachment calls by some Democrats. Among them, the report said Trump directed then-White House Counsel Don McGahn in June 2017 to tell the acting attorney general that Mueller “must be removed.” McGahn refused.

    “The Special Counsel made clear that he did not exonerate the President. The responsibility now falls to Congress to hold the President accountable for his actions,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. said in an April 18 written statement just after the report was released.

    President Trump, however, maintains that the Mueller report has cleared him of wrongdoing, and has underscored that view in Twitter messages.

    “The end result of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. political history is No Collusion with Russia (and No Obstruction). Pretty Amazing!” the president wrote Saturday.

    Another tweet was titled, “Mueller Investigation By the Numbers”:

    GINGRICH SUGGESTS NADLER’S PUSH TO FURTHER PROBE MUELLER REPORT IS AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE HIS JOB IN THE HOUSE

    Those calling for impeachment proceedings include 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who said she would endorse an impeachment resolution introduced by fellow freshman lawmaker, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.

    “Many know I take no pleasure in discussions of impeachment. I didn’t campaign on it, & rarely discuss it unprompted. We all prefer working on our priorities: pushing Medicare for All, tackling student loans, & a Green New Deal. But the report squarely puts this on our doorstep,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Thursday.

    On Saturday, Warren — who has been struggling to gain traction with voters — doubled down on her call for the House to begin impeachment proceedings.

    “I know people say this is politically charged and we shouldn’t go there, and that there is an election coming up, but there are some things that are bigger than politics,” she told an audience at Keene College in New Hampshire.

    MUELLER REPORT SHOWS PROBE DID NOT FIND COLLUSION EVIDENCE, REVEALS TRUMP EFFORTS TO SIDELINE KEY PLAYERS

    Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have tried tamping down talks of impeachment, arguing that Senate Republicans would not vote to remove Trump from office.

    Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., told Bloomberg he agrees with Pelosi that a case for impeachment should be built carefully and out of a complete record.

    “Maybe we get one shot at it. Why not wait to get all of the information we can?” he said. “It doesn’t help to just keep talking about impeachment. It makes it look like you are obsessed with it.”

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    Eight-term Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, began calling for impeachment even before Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib, according to Bloomberg. He twice forced procedural votes on articles of impeachment when Republicans controlled the House. He said would press the issue again regardless of what party leaders think.

    “I will bring it to the floor for a vote if the committees do not act,” said Green. “”If we don’t step up and do our job, if we engage in some sort of analysis and debate and refuse to say the word, ‘impeachment,’ we will engage in what Dr. King called the paralysis of analysis.

    “We will do this until such time someone will say it’s too late to get into impeachment, it will appear to be political, and as a result we will then decide that this must be taken to the polls on Election Day.”

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    The leader of a militia operating along the southern border has been arrested by the FBI days after the armed group detained over 200 migrants who had just illegally crossed into New Mexico.

    Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, of Flora Vista, New Mexico, was arrested Saturday on charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, the FBI Albuquerque office said.

    Hopkins was arrested in Sunland Park, New Mexico, which lies right on the border with Mexico and is just 8 miles northwest of El Paso, Texas.

    (KVIA) Jim Benvie, spokesperson for The United Constitutional Patriots, speaks to El Paso, Texas, ABC affiliate KVIA about the arrest of the group’s leader, Larry Hopkins, on Saturday, April 20, 2019.

    “This is a dangerous felon who should not have weapons around children and families,” New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said in a statement. “Today’s arrest by the FBI indicates clearly that the rule of law should be in the hands of trained law enforcement officials, and not armed vigilantes.”

    The spokesperson for the group attacked Balderas and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for the arrest.

    “I am confident that Mr. Hopkins will get though this, will fare well,” the militia’s spokesperson, Jim Benvie, told El Paso ABC affiliate KVIA, while wearing a red “Trump 2020” hat. “The [New Mexico] AG has declared war on American citizens at the order of the ACLU, instructing the governor, in a sense, to effectively find a reason to remove private citizens from assisting and documenting a crisis on the border. It’s really sad that she can’t use the resources of the National Guard or even the FBI, if they had to, to help protect the border. Instead, they had to infiltrate and set up our camp, and we’re confident about our position with this.

    “We’re not worried about it. It doesn’t change anything,” he added.

    Hopkins was convicted of impersonating an officer and felony gun possession in 2006, according to The Daily Beast.

    He leads a group called The United Constitutional Patriots, which states on its Facebook page that its mission is “to uphold the Constitution of The United States of America.”

    “We uphold this cause against all enemies both foreign and domestic which shall infringe upon the rights of the citizens given by the Constitution,” it says. “We are here to serve in time of need at the local and state level and if necessary for our country.”

    Benvie regularly uploads videos to his Facebook page showing the group’s actions detaining migrants.

    The group gained attention on Tuesday when it detained over 200 migrants at gunpoint after they crossed into the U.S. near Sunland Park. The group was held by the militia until U.S. Border Patrol agents responded and took them into custody.

    (AP Photo/Eric Gay) In this Nov. 3, 2018, file photo, members of the U.S. Army build a razor wire fence around area for tents near the U.S.-Mexico International bridge, in Donna, Texas.

    A spokesperson for the group told KVIA that the group never points a gun at migrants and they weren’t forced to stay.

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) immediately came out against the action, and blamed it on the rhetoric of the president.

    “The Trump administration’s vile racism has emboldened white nationalists and fascists to flagrantly violate the law,” the ACLU said in a statement Friday. “This has no place in our state: we cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum.”

    Mexico’s Foreign Ministry released a statement on behalf of the government expressing “profound concern about the activities of intimidation and extortion of migrants by groups of militias on the New Mexico border.”

    The group wrote Friday on its Facebook page that Paypal had permanently suspended its fundraising account.

    ABC News’ Matthew Fuhrman, Ben Jimenez and Josh Hoyos contributed to this report.

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    Paris, France – Holding signs that read “What about the poor?” and chanting “Justice for all,” France’s yellow vest protesters, ignoring the displays of unity by the French political class in the wake of the Notre Dame fire, marched through the streets of Paris and other cities on Saturday, vowing to persevere in what they called “Ultimatum 2”.

    “These [protests] are very important for social justice,” said Jean-Baptiste Redde at the Saturday protest on Republique Square in central Paris. “We have to help the poor, the disabled people, those who don’t have roofs to live under. It’s important to hold on.”

    Hundreds were arrested and dozens injured as violence broke out between demonstrators and police.

    The French capital quickly became the epicentre of Saturday’s violence, with 9,000 protesters reported in Paris alone, according to the French Ministry of the Interior, and police sealed off entire sections of the city.

    While the protests started out peacefully, almost with a carnival-like atmosphere, violence erupted as thousands of demonstrators approached the Place de la Republique.

    People threw rocks at police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.



    With 9,000 protesters, Paris quickly became the epicentre of Saturday’s violence [Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu]

    It was the twenty-third demonstration by the loosely organised, disparate movement that is mainly united in its resentment over the lack of economic equality in France and displeasure with President Emmanuel Macron, whom many see as a “president of the rich”.

    The grassroots movement that started on social media has proven to be one of the biggest tests of Macron’s presidency, with protesters refusing to let this week’s fire at Notre Dame pause their demonstrations, even as the president and French political parties put aside politics and halted campaigning for the upcoming European Parliament elections.

    In fact, in some ways, the fire on Monday inflamed some protesters because of the hundreds of millions of euros raised immediately afterwards to restore the 850-year-old Notre Dame.


    Some of that money was pledged by French billionaires such as French luxury group Kering’s CEO Francois-Henri Pinault and LVMH head Bernard Arnault as well as companies such as French oil giant Total.

    “I would like us to get back to reality,” said Ingrid Levavasseur, one of the informal leaders of the movement, speaking on French BFM TV last week.

    Levavasseur said it was important to criticise “the inertia of large companies and [billionaires] in the face of social misery as they display their ability to raise a crazy amount of money in a single night for Notre Dame”.

    Her comments and others were widely shared on social media. Many agreed.

    “If they are able to give tens of millions to rebuild Notre Dame, then they should stop telling us that there is no money to counter social inequality,” Philippe Martinez, head of France’s CGT workers union, told French radio last week.

    The sentiment was reflected on the streets of Paris on Saturday.

    “Billions should also be given to the poor, to help the environment, to promote biodiversity,” said Redde holding a sign that read, “Millions for Notre Dame – and what about the poor?”

    “But Macron and this government only want to help the rich, so we can’t stop.”



    Jean-Baptiste Redde at the Yellow Vest protests in Republique square holds a sign reading ‘Millions for Notre Dame – and what about the poor?’ [Jabeen Bhatti/Al Jazeera]

    ‘A pointless debate’

    The fire at Notre Dame, which is revered by all French people – Catholics, Muslims and Jews – as part of France’s cultural and historical legacy, set off a national outpouring of grief.

    As a result, the anger at the donations set off a backlash within the government and among the public.

    “It is a pointless debate,” said Culture Minister Franck Riester, interviewed on RMC radio. “To say, ‘there’s too much money for Notre Dame and there is need elsewhere’ – of course, there is need elsewhere for healthcare, the fight against climate change. But Notre Dame is not only a collection of old stones. It’s a part of our identity.”

    France’s Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner was more pointed.

    “The rioters have not been visibly moved by what happened at Notre Dame,” he said angrily, shortly before the ministry announced that France would deploy 60,000 police officers on Saturday and prevent any protesters from getting near Notre Dame and the Champs-Elysees where, in March, they set fire to a bank, smashed the front of a renowned restaurant, and looted stores.

    It’s difficult to say the protests are no longer legitimate because of the Notre Dame fire. Life goes on. And so do the yellow vests.

    Jean-Michel Aphatie, political commentator

    Meanwhile, the public is already growing weary of the protesters – recent polls show support for the yellow vests has dropped by half from 80 percent. An Odoxa poll released on Friday indicated that a slim majority of French wanted the demonstrations suspended.

    “I’m tired of this,” a clothing shop owner in the Marais, a major tourist district next to Republique Square, told Al Jazeera privately. “For five months, we have had almost no business – the tourists are not coming here because of the protests.”

    Notre Dame even gave pause to some within the movement. Many in the movement on Tuesday called for protests to be delayed in deference to the “national tragedy” at Notre Dame.

    ‘Too little, too late’

    Monday’s fire broke out just an hour before Macron was scheduled to give a televised address detailing a series of policy reforms in response to the yellow vest protesters and their grievances. The speech was cancelled at the last minute and rescheduled for next Thursday.

    Even so, copies of the taped speech sent to reporters were leaked. In it, Macron promised to lower taxes for the middle class, reconsider his decision to cut a “fortune solidarity tax” on top earners, and make adjustments to the lowest pensions for inflation.

    Macron was also set to announce the closure of the highly prestigious Ecole nationale d’administration, a college that trains public servants. Many have criticised the school as a place reserved for the elite. 



    A closed shoe store on Saturday near the busy retail district of the Marais [Jabeen Bhatti/Al Jazeera]

    The Odoxa poll showed the majority of French citizens supported these changes. But many yellow vest demonstrators and others continued their chant of “too little, too late” and vowed to continue protesting for weeks to come.

    “Pfff – blah, blah, blah,” was the reaction of Catherine Lopis when asked about Macron’s plans.

    “I voted for him (Macron) – had no choice but him or [far-right leader Marine] Le Pen. But he isn’t interested in helping anyone other than bankers. Our problems are not his problems so it is easy for him to turn away.”

    Jerome Rodrigues, a leader in the movement, said on Saturday the postponement of Macron’s speech was calculated.

    “The world stops turning when there is a fire in France?” he wondered during an interview on French television.

    “I think it was a government strategy to get some information leaked to buy time to then better sell us his new programme, changes he wants to make that we are denouncing here at the demonstration.”

    ‘Protesters have a point’

    “These protests aren’t going to end any time soon,” said French radio personality and political commentator Jean-Michel Aphatie.

    But without concrete goals and a clear leader, Aphatie said the movement is struggling to be effective and bring concrete change.

    “The only thing they know for sure is that they want to go out every Saturday to protest,” he said, referring to the fact the protests have run continuously every Saturday since November 17, even though they have grown smaller.

    Even so, he added the protest did have legitimacy. The French have seen their purchasing power decline over the years and many are struggling to make ends meet.

    “It’s difficult to say the protests are no longer legitimate because of the Notre Dame fire,” Aphatie said. “Life goes on. And so do the Yellow Vests.”

    Source Article from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/notre-dame-fire-pledges-inflame-yellow-vest-protesters-190420171251402.html

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    (CNN)The FBI has arrested a member of an armed militia that had detained hundreds of migrants at the border this week, the New Mexico attorney general’s office said Saturday.

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    The report summarized and elaborated on false statements, exploring why so many people lied, changed their stories and issued misleading statements to both the public and federal authorities — all of which helped fuel the investigation.

    One of those instances came when it was reported that Mr. Trump asked Mr. McGahn to fire Mr. Mueller. Mr. Trump denied the reports to reporters but Mr. McGahn confirmed them to investigators.

    After the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, was fired, Mr. Trump wanted the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, to tell the news media that the firing was Mr. Rosenstein’s idea. Mr. Rosenstein refused, saying that if “the press asked him he would tell the truth,” the report said.

    While Mr. Trump has called unflattering reports about his behavior as president “fake news,” some of the most unflattering stories about Mr. Trump were accurate, and White House officials often knew that was the case even as they heaped criticism on journalists.

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    Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, lashed out at Senator Mitt Romney over his critical statement about President Trump.

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

    The tweet was posted shortly after Romney issued his statement on the release of the redacted Mueller report.

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

    “I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia-including information that had been illegally obtained; that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement; and that the campaign chairman was actively promoting Russian interests in Ukraine,” Romney continued.

    “Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders,” he further noted. 




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    Yellow Vest protestors in Paris battled police during violent clashes Saturday — newly enraged at the more than billion dollars that have been pledged to rebuild fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral, overshadowing their anti-wealth cause.

    Black-hooded demonstrators set fire to trash cans, scooters and a car and pelted police with rocks to draw attention anew to their 23rd weekend of protest.

    Many protesters are frustrated that the international effort to help Notre Dame has drawn more attention than their five-month-old Yellow Vest movement against wealth inequality, The Associated Press reported.

    A man runs by a burning motorbike during a demonstration in Paris, Saturday. 
    (AP)

    Many protesters were deeply saddened by the fire at a national monument. But many are angry at the $1 billion in Notre Dame donations that poured in from tycoons while their own demands remain largely unmet and they struggle to make ends meet.

    FRANCE’S YELLOW VESTS: WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY WANT, AND WHY

    Police walk among burning vehicles during a Yellow Vest demonstration in Paris, Saturday, April 20, 2019. French Yellow Vest protesters are marching anew to remind the government that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem the nation needs to solve.
    (AP)

    Authorities deployed 5,000 police around Paris and warned protesters to keep away from Notre Dame and the banks of the Seine.

    The Paris police headquarters said authorities detained 126 people by early afternoon and carried out spot checks of more than 11,000 people trying to enter the capital for Saturday’s protests.

    Police fired tear gas amid tensions at a march of several thousand people from France’s Finance Ministry toward the Place de la Republique plaza in eastern Paris. Barricades were set ablaze at one spot, and branches set on fire elsewhere. Firefighters quickly responded to extinguish the flames.

    Police in other parts of France reported more Yellow Vest protests Saturday.

    A demonstrator throws back a tear gas canister during a Yellow Vest demonstration in Paris, Saturday, April 20, 2019. 
    (AP)

    FRANCE’S MACRON TO RESPOND TO YELLOW VEST ECONOMIC CRISIS

    French President Emmanuel Macron plans to announce a new policy push in response to the “Yellow Vest” protest on next week, Reuters reported.

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    Macron had intended to announce the new policies Monday but canceled the announcement because of the cathedral fire.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    A former Marine has been arrested in Los Angeles in connection with an underground group’s raid last month on North Korea’s embassy in Madrid.

    Christopher Ahn is a member of the mysterious anti-North Korea group that claimed credit for the Feb. 22 raid. Cheollima Civil Defense Group says it consists of North Korean defectors and seeks the overthrow of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un.

    Ahn appeared in Los Angeles Federal Court Friday, but the proceeding was not open to the public, The Washington Post reported. Ahn’s attorney requested that the courtroom be sealed over the government’s objection.

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

    ANTI-NORTH KOREAN GROUP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SPANISH EMBASSY ATTACK, SAYS FBI CONTACTED THEM FOR STOLEN DATA

    In a related development, U.S. federal agents raided the unoccupied apartment of the group’s leader, Adrian Hong, on Thursday.

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

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

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

    N. KOREA CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO MADRID EMBASSY ATTACK

    Spanish authorities said 10 Cheollima members entered the embassy and shackled and interrogated staffers, while urging the embassy’s commercial attaché to defect without success.

    Intelligence officials in Spain alleged that two of the intruders had ties to the CIA.

    Reuters reported that the participants fled the embassy with computers and hard drives that they presented to the FBI in the U.S.

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    The incident came just five days before President Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    DENVER (AP) — A Colorado undersheriff who led the search for a Florida teenager whose actions prompted tightened security at Columbine High School ahead of the 20th anniversary of an attack there that killed 13 people said she likely killed herself before police launched a massive manhunt.

    Clear Creek County Undersheriff Bruce Snelling told

    The Denver Post

    that Sol Pais, 18, likely killed herself Monday evening. Her body was found in the snowy foothills west of Denver on Wednesday, and it appeared that she had been dead for more than 24 hours.

    “She had no idea what occurred from late Monday afternoon to Tuesday when a search for her began and to Wednesday when her body was found,” Snelling said. “The logical likelihood was she was here to end her journey.”

    A manhunt was launched Tuesday, the day after Pais traveled from Miami to Denver and bought a pump-action shotgun and two boxes of ammunition. FBI officials said they were concerned that she was planning an attack of her own because she was “infatuated” with the 1999 Columbine shooting.

    Columbine, which is marking the 20th anniversary of the attack Saturday, locked its doors for several hours Tuesday as authorities combed the area for Pais, and hundreds of schools in the Denver area canceled classes Wednesday as the manhunt intensified.

    Dean Phillips, agent in charge of the FBI office in Denver, said social media posts and comments she made to others led investigators to see her as a credible threat. Pais did not make threats against a specific school, but her history and purchase of a weapon immediately after arriving in Colorado merited a broad response, officials said.

    But Snelling said Pais “didn’t have a master plan” to carry out a school shooting.

    “She went dark,” he said. “There was no digital footprint anywhere. No phone. No credit card use. To me, that pointed to a near impossibility that this ill-equipped, 18-year-old teenage woman would fly from sea level in Florida to Colorado and then go up into the mountains with plans to go on a killing spree.”

    Many questions remain unanswered about Pais, but a friend disputed the contention by authorities that she posed a threat.

    Adrianna Pete, 19, painted a complex picture of the teen, saying she was deeply troubled, lonely and often talked about suicide but was also brilliant, kind and a talented artist who loved to draw.

    Pete, a college student in Carleton, Michigan, said she met Pais online two years ago through a mutual friend and quickly developed a friendship involving near-daily communication. They met in person twice, once when Pete traveled to Florida and once when Pais went to Michigan.

    Pete faulted authorities for overreacting in portraying Pais as a threat based on her activities before her death.

    “She never threatened anyone,” Pete said. “There are no credible threats and only assumptions that she was just because the word Columbine was included.”

    Pete said Pais had a weird obsession with the Columbine killers but that didn’t mean she was planning an attack. The killers were “someone she could relate to” because they were lonely, not because of their violence, Pete added.

    An FBI spokeswoman has not responded to a request for more information on Pais’ background or her Columbine-related comments that sparked the rapid law enforcement response.

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    NEW HAVEN (AP) — Connecticut religious leaders met with government officials Friday to try to ease concerns after a shooting that involved police, wounded a woman and led to protests.

    Local clerics met with Hamden Mayor Curt Leng and police officials, three days after a Hamden officer and a Yale University officer opened fire on a car in New Haven early Tuesday while investigating an attempted armed robbery reported in Hamden. A 22-year-old woman in the car, Stephanie Washington, was treated for injuries not considered life threatening, police said.

    Several protests were held this week in New Haven and Hamden, including one Thursday night that drew several hundred people and prompted police to close several streets in New Haven. No violence or arrests were reported.

    Demonstrators included Black Lives Matter activists and Yale University students upset at the actions of the officers. Both officers are black, as are the woman who was wounded and the car’s driver.

    The Rev. Boise Kimber, senior pastor of First Calvary Baptist Church, said Friday that Hamden police agreed to implement urban trauma and de-escalation training for officers, as well as notify New Haven police when Hamden officers cross the city line.

    “It was devastating to this community to see this kind of action and gunshots,” Kimber said. “I know this community is traumatized and the two individuals in the car are traumatized.”

    Authorities said Hamden officer Devin Eaton was investigating the attempted armed robbery of a newspaper delivery carrier at a Hamden gas station shortly before 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, and Yale officer Terrance Pollack responded to a call to assist Eaton.

    Police officials said the two officers stopped a car that matched the description of the vehicle reported to have been involved in the attempted robbery. Authorities said both officers opened fire when the car’s driver, Paul Witherspoon III, 21, abruptly got out of the vehicle.

    Witherspoon’s girlfriend, Stephanie Washington, a passenger in the car, was shot and taken to Yale New Haven Hospital, where police said she remained in stable condition Friday.

    Witherspoon was taken to the Hamden police department and later released. No charges have been filed.

    A state police spokesman said this week that no weapons were found in the car. State police said Friday that they applied for a search warrant for the car but had no additional information on the warrant.

    Surveillance video shows one of the officers shooting several times at the car.

    Witherspoon, who was not injured, told WTNH-TV he has seen a lot of videos of police-involved shootings and thought he was going to be killed.

    “He was just ready to shoot,” he said of one of the officers. “My girlfriend was yelling like, ‘They shot me. They shot me. They shot me.’ I just never thought it would happen to me, especially here.”

     


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    April 20 at 6:08 PM

    Democrats in the House — and on the 2020 campaign trail — are divided about whether to start impeachment proceedings against President Trump, following a report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that detailed Trump’s efforts to hinder Mueller’s investigation.

    The most compelling practical argument against such an effort is that it is unlikely to succeed. That’s because the decision on whether to remove him from office would be made by the Senate, which is controlled by Trump’s GOP.

    If Democrats choose to pursue impeachment, they will be using an unwieldy measure built into the Constitution as an emergency tool. Only two U.S. presidents have ever been impeached. Here are five things to know about how the impeachment process works.

    1. What sorts of offenses trigger impeachment proceedings?

    There is no hard-and-fast list. The House decides. The Constitution says that presidents, vice presidents and other federal officials can be impeached for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

    But what are “high Crime and Misdemeanors?” The document doesn’t say. In the past, the House — where impeachment proceedings must begin — has defined those terms to mean something broader than just “federal crimes.”

    The House has also impeached presidents for behavior that undermines the constitutional system or that brings shame to the office of president, regardless of whether that behavior was criminal.

    For instance: President Andrew Johnson, who was the first president to be impeached, was charged with firing one of his Cabinet members — in defiance of a law that said he needed the Senate’s permission. He was also charged with, in essence, insulting Congress. One article of impeachment accused Johnson of “scandalous harangues” about legislators, made “with a loud voice.”

    2. How does impeachment work?

    The House would vote on articles of impeachment, which are individual statements of offense. All it takes is a simple majority. If any of them pass, the president has been “impeached” — something like being indicted in a legal procedure.

    Next, the president’s case would move to the Senate, which acts as a 100-member jury. The House appoints “managers,” who act like prosecutors, laying out the case for the president’s removal. The chief justice of the United States presides over the proceedings if the president is on trial.

    Convicting the president requires two-thirds of all senators to agree. If that happens, the president is automatically removed from office.

    3. Has that ever happened?

    Not to a president. Johnson, who was the first president to be impeached, escaped conviction by one vote in 1868. Bill Clinton was the second: The House brought impeachment proceedings against him in 1998, alleging perjury and obstruction of an investigation. The Senate acquitted him by a wider margin.

    President Richard M. Nixon resigned in 1974 before the full House could vote on impeachment charges against him.

    Beyond the cases that involve presidents, impeachment has been a tool rarely used in U.S. history. Since 1789, only eight federal officials have been convicted by the Senate and removed from office. All eight were federal judges.

    That list includes one current member of Congress: Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.), a former federal judge who was convicted by the Senate of extorting a bribe in a case before him. Four years after Hastings was removed from office as a judge, he was elected to Congress.

    4. How long does impeachment take?

    In Nixon’s case, nine months elapsed between the start of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation in October 1973 and the committee’s approval of its first impeachment resolution. Nixon resigned in early August 1974.

    In Clinton’s case, the House moved much faster. In September 1998, the House received a report from independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr that recommended impeachment against Clinton. The House voted to impeach Clinton in December 1998, and the Senate acquitted him in February 1999.

    5. What lessons could Democrats draw from the impeachment investigations of Nixon and Clinton?

    The Nixon investigation seems to bolster an argument made by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that if Democrats think Trump deserves to be impeached, they ought to try.

    Public support for Nixon’s removal was low at the start of the investigation but rose steadily as the probe uncovered new evidence of his abuses of power. His resignation brought a wave of public revulsion with Washington corruption — and a huge political boost to Democrats. The 1974 elections swept in a wave of “Watergate Baby” legislators who gave Democrats huge advantages in the House and Senate.

    Clinton’s impeachment, however, did not turn out as well for the opposition party.

    In the election held in the middle of their impeachment investigation, Republicans were accused of overreach and lost seats in the House. Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who had led the charge, resigned after unrest in his caucus.

    Neither of these cases, however, is a very useful case study for today’s Democrats — since Clinton and Nixon were both in their second terms.

    Trump is in his first. That has led some Democrats to conclude that they should focus more on defeating Trump in 2020 than impeaching him before then.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/five-things-to-know-about-impeachment/2019/04/20/627674d4-6394-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants members of a volunteer militia group arrested for detaining immigrants at gunpoint and impersonating U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    Members of the United Constitutional Patriots, a conservative group in New Mexico, unofficially patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in their home state and detain immigrants crossing the border.

    This week, the group detained nearly 300 people, including families with young children, near Sunland Park, as recorded in a video posted to Facebook by member Jim Benvie. “Oh, and look what we got here, guys,” Benvie, 43, said during the live video while stopping a family. “Border control,” he told the group, despite the fact he is not employed by U.S. government.

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    In the video, Benvie is joined by his camouflage-clad partner who calls border security agents to retrieve the immigrants. “…You never know what’s coming through that wall,” said Benvie. “You gotta have the kids. That’s the passport.”

    In more videos, Benvie calls for people to stand behind President Trump, describing immigration as “a very organized invasion.” According to BuzzFeed, a Border Patrol agent temporarily left five women and their children in the care of the United Constitutional Patriots.

    Videos of hot and thirsty families cowering in the sand caused the ACLU of New Mexico to demand state officials intervene. On Thursday, the organization sent a letter to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Attorney General Hector Balderas.

    “The Trump administration’s vile racism has emboldened white nationalists and fascists to flagrantly violate the law,” read the ACLU letter. “This has no place in our state: we cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum.”

    Peter Simonson, executive director for the ACLU of New Mexico, tells Yahoo Lifestyle the group’s actions are illegal. “They say they’re making citizen’s arrests however those can only be executed in the context of a felony — crossing the border is a misdemeanor, at least as a first-time offense.”

    The United Constitutional Patriots, however, may be committing state and federal crimes such as kidnapping, false imprisonment and impersonating law enforcement officers, says Simonson. “They wear camo and self-made badges, but they are not deputized by U.S. Border Control.”

    A representative of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection tells Yahoo Lifestyle that it “does not endorse private groups or organizations taking enforcement matters into their own hands.”

    “Interference by civilians in law enforcement matters could have public safety and legal consequences for all parties involved. Border Security operations are complex and require highly trained professionals with adequate resources to protect the country. Border Patrol welcomes assistance from the community and encourages anyone who witnesses or suspects illegal activity to call 911, or the U.S. Border Patrol tip line 1-877-872-7435,” the representative says.

    But the government is ignoring or condoning illegal activity, says the ACLU. “To our knowledge, border control agents have made at least two trips to pick up immigrants the vigilante group has held at gunpoint,” Simonson says. “Law enforcement has an obligation to hold this group accountable. It’s an explosive situation.”

    ​In a statement to Yahoo Lifestyle, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham states “that migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border — often times after an unimaginably arduous journey — is completely unacceptable. It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone. My office and our state police are coordinating with the Attorney General’s Office and local police to determine what has gone on and what can be done.”

    Attorney General Hector Balderas sent a statement to Yahoo Lifestyle on the situation as well.

    “My office has been informed that this week, an armed group has detained nearly 300 people near Sunland Park, New Mexico,” he says. “These individuals should not attempt to exercise authority reserved for law enforcement.”

    Benvie and a rep from the United Constitutional Patriots did not respond to interview requests from Yahoo Lifestyle. Benvie told the New York Times that he simply issues “a verbal citizen’s arrest.”

    “If these people follow our verbal commands, we hold them until Border Patrol comes,” Benvie told the New York Times. “Border Patrol has never asked us to stand down.”

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    (CNN)Police looking for a 5-year-old Illinois boy reported missing from his home say they’re putting special focus on the residence after determining it’s likely he neither was abducted nor walked away.

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      Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, lashed out at Senator Mitt Romney over his critical statement about President Trump.

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

      The tweet was posted shortly after Romney issued his statement on the release of the redacted Mueller report.

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

      “I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia-including information that had been illegally obtained; that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement; and that the campaign chairman was actively promoting Russian interests in Ukraine,” Romney continued.

      “Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders,” he further noted. 




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

      “Dear Congress:

      “No collusion. No obstruction.

      “Love,

      “Bill”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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      Updated at 3:20 p.m. ET

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      The zoo reopened about 45 minutes after the attack.

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

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

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