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CNN Poll: Majority says Trump not exonerated of collusion after Barr’s summary – CNN
CNN Poll: Majority says Trump not exonerated of collusion after Barr’s summary – CNN

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    Neo-Nazi sympathizer pleads guilty to federal hate crimes for plowing car into crowd of protesters at ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville – The Washington Post
    Neo-Nazi sympathizer pleads guilty to federal hate crimes for plowing car into crowd of protesters at ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville – The Washington Post

    Paul Duggan

    Justin Jouvenal

    March 27 at 4:35 PM

    CHARLOTTESVILLE — An avowed neo-Nazi who killed one woman and injured 35 others when he plowed his car into a group of counterprotesters at an infamous white supremacist rally here pleaded guilty to hate crimes in federal court Wednesday.

    James Alex Fields Jr., 25, of Ohio, was convicted on 29 of 30 counts as part of a deal with prosecutors, who agreed they would not seek the death penalty in a case that has come to symbolize the violent resurgence of white supremacy across the country.

    Late last year, Fields convicted in state court and sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder and other counts for killing Heather D. Heyer, 32, and injuring dozens at the chaotic Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12, 2017.

    Pleading guilty to hate crimes marks a dramatic shift for Fields, whose attorneys argued during his trial in state court that he sped toward the crowd out of fear for his safety and confusion. They said he immediately regretted his actions.

    Fields entered the courtroom at the U.S. District courthouse in a gray and white striped jumpsuit and handcuffs, but spoke little during the hearing. He stood for most of the time.

    Attorney General William Barr, who approved the plea deal, issued a statement after the hearing. The charges included one count of a hate crime act that resulted in the death of Heyer and 28 counts of hate crime acts that caused injury and involved an attempt to kill other people in the crowd. Each of the 29 counts carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

    “In the aftermath of the mass murder in New Zealand earlier this month, we are reminded that a diverse and pluralistic community such as ours can have zero tolerance for violence on the basis of race, religion, or association with people of other races and religions, Barr said in the statement. “Prosecuting hate crimes is a priority for me as Attorney General.”

    [Fields sentenced to life in prison in fatal Charlottesville car attack]

    The violence in 2017 and President Trump’s comments afterward that there were “very fine people” on both sides of the Charlottesville rally sparked intense criticism and a fresh focus on the renewed forces of ethno-nationalism.

    The events began on Aug. 11 when far-right groups mounted a torchlight march through the University of Virginia campus shouting “Jews will not replace us!” Fields was already on his way to Charlottesville, arriving the next day to protest the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue with hundreds of others from the far right.

    The event generated national media attention after rallygoers carrying Nazi flags and shouting racial epithets clashed violently with counterprotesters. Police eventually dispersed the groups.

    A short-time later, Fields was seen driving his gray Dodge Charger up to a group of counterprotesters on a narrow street. He slowly backed up and then accelerated down a hill directly into the group.

    Harrowing video, which was played at Fields’ trial, shows protesters tumbling and screaming as the muscle car slams into the group. Fields then reverses at a high rate of speed, hitting and dragging others. Someone repeatedly says: “Oh god, Oh god.”

    Heyer was killed, while others were seriously wounded. One woman who limped to the stand at Fields’ state trial testified she had five surgeries and was expecting a sixth. Another described a broken pelvis and a third how he pushed his fiance out of the way before he was hit by Fields’ car.

    Fields, who a mental health expert testified suffered psychiatric issues from childhood and worked as a security guard, did not deny running into the crowd, but his attorneys argued that he acted to protect himself.

    But prosecutors forcefully countered that argument and the jury at the six-day trial ultimately rejected it.

    Jurors were shown a deleted Instagram post by Fields shared three months before that crash that featured a car running into a group of people. A caption read: “You Have the Right to Protest, But I’m Late for Work.”

    A state prosecutor also showed a blown-up image of Fields in his car to counter the idea that he was scared when he acted.

    “This is not the face of someone who is scared,” said Senior-Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Nina-Alice Antony. “This is the face of anger, of hatred. It’s the face of malice.”

    After Fields was convicted on 10 counts, Susan Bro, Heyer’s mother said she was still having trouble grappling with the loss of her daughter.

    “So many emotions, so many reactions, it’s really still hard to process,” she said, adding: “So we move forward. We still have social justice work to do. . . . The things Heather died for, I’m not seeing a lot of progress in the last year and a half.”

    This is a developing story.

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    Border Patrol apprehended more people Monday than any day in the last 10 years – Washington Examiner
    Border Patrol apprehended more people Monday than any day in the last 10 years – Washington Examiner

    SAN ANTONIO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents on the Southwest border took more people into custody Monday than in any day in the past 10 years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    Federal law enforcement agents made more than 3,700 apprehensions across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas on Monday.

    A senior Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday 1,100 of those apprehensions took place in Eagle Pass, Texas, which is part of the Del Rio Sector.

    CBP Chief Operating Officer John Sanders told attendees of the Border Security Expo this week a major reason for the recent surge in border apprehensions is due to large numbers of people illegally crossing together, rather than a handful at a time.

    In fiscal 2017, CBP documented two groups of 100 people or more. The number of group apprehensions jumped to 13 in 2018 and have spiked to 93 just in the first six months of fiscal 2019.

    Sanders said CBP is on track to have taken 100,000 people into custody at the U.S.-Mexico border the month of March. More than one-third of that number is expected to be children.

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    U.S. soldier Travis Atkins, who died shielding comrades from Iraq bomber, receives Medal of Honor – USA TODAY
    U.S. soldier Travis Atkins, who died shielding comrades from Iraq bomber, receives Medal of Honor – USA TODAY

    WASHINGTON – Saluting a “fallen hero,” President Donald Trump bestowed the Medal of Honor Wednesday on an American soldier who gave his life to protect three comrades from a suicide bomber in Iraq.

    Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins, at age 31, died on June 1, 2007, after he tackled an Iraqi insurgent who was trying to detonate his bomb vest; Atkins wrapped himself around the man as the bomb exploded, protecting three colleagues from the blast.

    “He put himself on top of the enemy and he shielded his men from certain death,” Trump said during a White House ceremony.

    “In his final moments on earth,” Trump said, “Travis did not run.”

    In an account of the incident, the Defense Department said, “Without pausing, Atkins bear-hugged the man from behind, threw him to the ground and pinned him there, shielding his fellow soldiers who were only a few feet away.”

    Trump presented the Medal of Honor to members of Atkins’ family during the somber ceremony.

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    It was Trump’s eighth Medal of Honor ceremony, the first honoring a veteran of the Iraq war.

    The nation’s highest military commendation, the Medal of Honor is awarded to members of the armed forces who “distinguish themselves conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of their own lives above and beyond the call of duty,” the White House said.

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    Born on Dec. 9, 1975, Atkins grew up in Bozeman, Montana, and first joined the Army in 2000, according to the Pentagon. He became an infantry team leader shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in spring 2003.

    While he left the service later in 2003, Atkins decided to re-enlist two years later, the Defense Department said. He was promoted to staff sergeant while serving in Iraq in 2007, the year of his death.

    Gallatin County, Montana, has declared this to be Staff Sergeant Travis W. Atkins Week.

    In a Twitter post, the government said: “The citizens of our county are eternally grateful for his service and sacrifice.”

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    President Donald J. Trump stands with Valerie Nessel, widow of Sergeant John A. Chapman as he awards Chapman the posthumous Medal of Honor on Aug. 22, 2018 in the East Room at the White House for his actions on March 4, 2002, on Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan. Chapman’s aircraft was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, ejecting one teammate rom the aircraft, and crippling the helicopter after it crashed in the valley below. Chapman and the remaining joint special operations team members voluntarily returned to the snow-capped mountain, into known enemy stronghold, in an attempt to rescue their stranded teammate. Sergeant Chapman’s spouse, Valerie Nessel, and family joined the President at the White House to commemorate his example of selfless service and sacrifice. Camille Fine, USA TODAY
    President Donald Trump, right, salutes retired Army Capt. Gary M. Rose, left, before bestowing him with the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. Susan Walsh, AP

     

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    Charles Payne calls Ocasio-Cortez’s defense of Green New Deal ‘disingenuous’ – Fox News
    Charles Payne calls Ocasio-Cortez’s defense of Green New Deal ‘disingenuous’ – Fox News
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    Charles Payne calls Ocasio-Cortez’s defense of Green New Deal ‘disingenuous’

    Fox Business host Charles Payne argued Wednesday the childhood asthma crisis in some New York City neighborhoods has nothing to do with climate change, as like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. claimed.

    “Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is very disingenuous,” Payne said on America’s Newsroom.

    “You want to tell people that their concern and their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist? Tell that to the kids in the South Bronx, which are suffering from the highest rates of childhood asthma in the country,” Ocasio-Cortez, the Green New Deal‘s main sponsor in the House, said during a committee hearing on Tuesday.

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    The Green New Deal calls for the U.S. to shift away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal and replace them with renewable sources such as solar power and wind. The proposed stimulus program calls for virtual elimination by 2030 of greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.

    Republicans have railed against the proposal, saying it would devastate the economy and trigger massive tax increases.

    Payne said he has lived in Harlem and talked personally and statistically about the reasons why there are a number of asthma cases in the neighborhoods of Harlem and the South Bronx. He cited several studies including a Columbia University study from 2013 that stated cockroach and mouse allergens are more common in lower income housing and neighborhoods. Payne also brought up a New York Times study from 2003 in which social workers said they encountered furniture and carpets covered in dust in these areas.

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    “Those are the things that have contributed to the crisis of asthma in these neighborhoods. It has zero to do with C02 emissions per se or this climate change debate. She’s (Ocasio-Cortez’s) conflating the two,” said Payne. “It’s a way of also bringing race into the conversation. I think it’s disingenuous because I would love to see these issues addressed as well in a more concrete manner.”

    The Green New Deal fell at the first hurdle Tuesday as the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to begin debate on the non-binding resolution, with 42 Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voting “present.” No senator voted to begin debate on the legislation.

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    Payne also talked about the International Energy Agency’s most recent data on C02 emissions, which he said was released this week. Payne said “they went up” and said the reason is because of China and India’s use of coal.

    “America, by the way, our C02 emissions, as a percentage of our GDP, down almost 50 percent in the last 20 years. We’re doing what we are supposed to do,” Payne said on America’s Newsroom. “It’s crazy to disrupt our economy by trillions of dollars when America is actually probably doing better on this than any other large growing economy in the world.”

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    Trump says "I understand health care now" as administration renews efforts to repeal Obamacara (Affordable Care Act) – CBS News
    Trump says "I understand health care now" as administration renews efforts to repeal Obamacara (Affordable Care Act) – CBS News

    President Trump said Wednesday he now understands the complexity of health care after failed attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and he reiterated his claim that the Republican Party will now be the “party of great health care.”

    “I mean it 100 percent, I understand health care now, especially very well. A lot of people don’t understand it, we are going to be, the Republicans, the party of great health care,” said Mr. Trump in an Oval Office meeting with the interim first lady of Venezuela, Fabiana Rosales De Guaidó. “The Democrats have, they’ve let you down, they came up with Obamacare, it’s terrible.”

    The president cited rising costs of premiums, saying “people are going broke trying to pay” for their health care costs. He maintained, however, that his administration had “made it better” by “administering Obamacare very well” but still slammed the policy as “horrible no good, it’s something that we can’t live with in this country.”

    His comments come a day after the Justice Department took the position in court that the entire ACA should be overturned. In legal papers filed Monday, the Justice Department is now arguing for the first time that the ACA is unconstitutional. 

    The shift in the administration’s policy, should it prevail in court, could put millions of American’s health care coverage at risk and deliver on a signature campaign promise made by Mr. Trump. The Justice Department says that it now agrees with a lower court ruling out of Texas that declared the entire health care law invalid. That ruling came a year after the GOP’s tax bill repealed the ACA’s tax penalties for people are are uninsured. The judge in the Texas case ruled the provision was so central to the law, it couldn’t stand without it.
     
    Mr. Trump said on Wednesday that the lawsuit is just “phase one” of terminating the ACA, often referred to as “Obamacare.” He said he expects the case could reach the steps of the Supreme Court, which has already upheld the ACA twice before.
     
    “If the supreme court rules that Obamacare is out, we will have a plan that is far better than Obamacare,” Mr. Trump vowed. 
     
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has since slammed the administration’s attempts to repeal the ACA as declaring an “all-out war on the health care of the American people.”

    This is a developing story. 

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    Boeing and F.A.A. Hearings: Live Updates – The New York Times
    Boeing and F.A.A. Hearings: Live Updates – The New York Times

    But she added that the government has delegated certification duties to the aviation industry since the 1920s.

    “This is not a new procedure,” she said. “It has been expanded over the years.”

    Ms. Chao stressed that the F.A.A. sets safety standards that airlines must meet while developing aviation technology. The certification process, she said, “is, of course, subject to oversight and supervision by the F.A.A.”

    “This method of having the manufacturer also be involved in looking at these standards is really necessary, because once again, the F.A.A. cannot do it on their own,” she said. “They need to have the input from the manufacturer.”

    In testimony prepared for the afternoon hearing, Mr. Elwell, the F.A.A.’s acting administrator, defended his agency’s procedures for certifying new aircraft. He said they are “extensive, well-established and have consistently produced safe aircraft designs for decades.”

    As the crashes are investigated, however, Mr. Elwell also pledged that his agency “will go wherever the facts lead us in the interest of safety.”

    “The 737 Max will return to service for U.S. carriers and in U.S. airspace only when the F.A.A.’s analysis of the facts and technical data indicate that it is appropriate,” he said in the prepared remarks. “In our quest for continuous safety improvement, the F.A.A. welcomes external review of our systems, processes and recommendations.”

    Mr. Elwell’s prepared testimony did not include any significant revelations about what may have led to the crash in Ethiopia. But he did shed some light on the timeline for the development of a software fix for the Max, which Boeing began working on after the Lion Air crash. Boeing provided a proposed software fix to the F.A.A. for certification on Jan. 21, more than a month before the crash in Ethiopia, according to the testimony.

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    Green New Deal fails Senate test vote as dozens of Democrats vote ‘present’ – Fox News
    Green New Deal fails Senate test vote as dozens of Democrats vote ‘present’ – Fox News
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    Senate majority forces vote on ‘Green New Deal’ climate change proposal

    Mitch McConnell says he was giving presidential candidates in the chamber a chance to support a campaign trail staple; Peter Doocy reports from Capitol Hill.

    The Green New Deal, a sweeping Democratic proposal for dealing with climate change, fell at the first hurdle Tuesday as the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to begin debate on the non-binding resolution, with 42 Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voting “present.”

    No senator voted to begin debate on the legislation, while 57 lawmakers voted against breaking the filibuster. Democratic Sens. Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona joined 53 Republicans in voting “no.” Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, also voted “no.”

    The vote had been teed up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a bid to make Democratic senators — including several 2020 presidential candidates — go on the record about the measure. McConnell had called the proposal “a radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy.”

    The Green New Deal calls for the U.S. to shift away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal and replace them with renewable sources such as wind and solar power. It calls for virtual elimination by 2030 of greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming. Republicans have railed against the proposal, saying it would devastate the economy and trigger massive tax increases.

    Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, called the Green New Deal “ridiculous” and displayed pictures of dinosaurs, cartoon characters and babies on the Senate floor. He said he was treating the plan “with the seriousness it deserves.”

    Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, called McConnell’s move a “sham vote” that aimed to draw attention away from a real debate on the consequences of climate change. In addition to Sanders, Sens. Kamala Harris of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York — all candidates for the Democratic nomination who have endorsed the Green New Deal — voted “present” Tuesday.

    “Today’s #GreenNewDeal vote is a partisan stunt to side-step needed debate on climate action, and give Republicans cover to put oil lobby checks over our kids,” Gillibrand tweeted earlier Tuesday, adding ” … I don’t play ball with bad-faith farces.”

    “Climate change is an existential threat, and confronting it requires bold action,” Harris said in a statement following the vote. ” … Political stunts won’t get us anywhere. Combatting this crisis first requires the Republican majority to stop denying science and finally admit that climate change is real and humans are the dominant cause. Then we can get serious about taking action to tackle the climate crisis at the scale of the problem.”

    “[McConnell’s] stunt is backfiring and it’s becoming clearer and clearer to the American people that the Republican Party is way behind the times on clean energy and that Democrats are the party willing to take action,” said Schumer, D-N.Y., who asked, “… What’s the Republican Party proposal? Is it more coal?”

    However, Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper said Tuesday that he opposes the Green New Deal. The former Colorado governor said the proposal sets “unachievable goals” and shuns the private sector.

    In explaining his “no” vote, Manchin said in a statement: “This climate problem is a massive one and we must act, but aspirational documents will not solve this crisis –real solutions focused on innovation will … The truth is even if we zero out our country’s use of fossil fuels tomorrow, we must face the facts that other nations have invested in and will continue to use fossil fuels to develop their economies for decades to come. We cannot successfully address our climate challenge by eliminating sources of energy that countries are committed to using.”

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    Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said Democrats were being hypocritical by refusing to vote for their own plan. “I’ve never seen a bill sponsored by a dozen people who don’t want to vote on it,” he said.

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the Green New Deal’s main sponsor in the House, tweeted following the vote that she had encouraged Senate Democrats to vote “present” on the resolution.

    “McConnell tried to rush the #GreenNewDeal straight to the floor without a hearing,” she wrote. “The real question we should be asking: Why does the Senate GOP refuse to hold any major hearings on climate change?”

    At a news conference earlier Tuesday, McConnell said he believed climate change was real and at least partially caused by humans, but said the real question facing lawmakers was, “How do you address it?”

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    “The way to do this, consistent with American values and American capitalism, is through technology and innovation,” McConnell said. ” … Not to shut down your economy, throw people out of work, make people reconstruct their homes, get out of their cars, you get the whole drift here. This is nonsense, and if you’re going to sign on to nonsense, you ought to have to vote for nonsense.”

    By “basically outlawing the only sources of energy that working-class and middle-class families can actually afford,” the Green New Deal would “kill off entire domestic industries” and eliminate millions of jobs, McConnell said. The plan could lead to a spike in household electric bills of over $300 a month, he said.

    Fox News’ Chad Pergram and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    Facebook says it will now block white-nationalist, white-separatist posts – Washington Post
    Facebook says it will now block white-nationalist, white-separatist posts – Washington Post

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    Facebook will begin banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism, revising its rules in response to criticism that a loophole had allowed racism to thrive on its platform.

    Previously, Facebook had prohibited users from sharing messages that glorified white supremacy — a rhetorical discrepancy in the eyes of civil rights advocates who argued that white nationalism, supremacy and separatism are indistinguishable and that the policy undermined the tech giant’s stepped-up efforts to combat hate speech online.

    Facebook now agrees with that analysis, according to people who’ve been briefed on the decision. The new policy also applies to Instagram.

    The rise and spread of white nationalism on Facebook were thrown into sharp relief in the wake of the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville in 2017, when self-avowed white nationalists used the social networking site as an organizing tool.

    The following year, Motherboard, a tech publication owned by Vice, obtained internal documents meant for training and guiding content reviewers that revealed Facebook treated the terms differently: The materials showed that Facebook permitted “praise, support and representation” of white nationalism and white separatism “as an ideology.” The policy drew sharp rebukes from civil rights advocates, who have argued for years that the terms are interchangeable.

    Facebook’s decision comes one week after the company made another announcement to appeal to long-standing complaints from civil rights advocates: The company prohibited advertisers from excluding minorities and other protected groups from ads for housing, employment and credit.

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    Civil rights groups applauded the move. “There is no defensible distinction that can be drawn between white supremacy, white nationalism or white separatism in society today,” Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said Wednesday.

    The organization had pushed Facebook for months to change its policies, pointing to pages such as “It’s okay to be white,” which has more than 18,000 followers and has regularly defended white nationalism. Another, called “American White History Month 2,” often posted white-supremacist memes, according to the Lawyers’ Committee. A cached version of the page from late February showed it had more than 258,000 followers before it went offline.

    Facebook’s new policy comes as the company continues to struggle to take down other content that attacks people on the basis of their race, ethnicity, national origin and a host of other “protected characteristics.” Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, 2018, Facebook took action against 8 million pieces of content that violated its rules on hate speech, according to its latest transparency report. Facebook is not legally required to remove this content, but its rules prohibit it.

    To help enforce its policies, Facebook has developed and deployed artificial-intelligence tools that can spot and remove content even before users see it. But the technology isn’t perfect, particularly when it comes to hate speech. The company removes only about 50 percent of such posts at the moment users upload them, it said last year. As a result, such content still can go viral on Facebook — a reality the company confronted this month when users continued to upload videos of the mass shooting in New Zealand that left 50 people dead. The shooter specifically sought to target Muslims, authorities said.

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    To that end, civil rights groups said Facebook still had considerable work to do to address the spread of hate speech on its platform.

    “As we have seen with tragic attacks on houses of worship in Charleston, Pittsburgh, New Zealand, and elsewhere, there are real-world consequences when social media networks provide platforms for violent white supremacists, allowing them to incubate, organize, and recruit new followers to their hateful movements,” Clarke said.

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    U.K. Parliament Faces a Key Brexit Question: What Does It Want? – The New York Times
    U.K. Parliament Faces a Key Brexit Question: What Does It Want? – The New York Times

    On Wednesday, the focus will be on the extraordinary parliamentary proceedings, orchestrated by a multiparty group led by a veteran Conservative lawmaker, Oliver Letwin. About 16 options for Brexit have been proposed, perhaps half of which will be selected for voting by the speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.

    Those are likely to include leaving the European Union but keeping very close ties to it, revoking Brexit, putting any plan to a referendum, and quitting without any agreement.

    Lawmakers will be allowed to vote for as many of the options as they want. In the first instance, that is very unlikely to produce clarity, and another day of debate and votes will probably be required on Monday.

    The government has said that it will not be bound by any result of these “indicative votes.” But some lawmakers are threatening that, if necessary, they will try to legislate to force the government to accept any consensus that ultimately emerges.

    Mrs. May will be hoping that the prospect of Parliament’s agreeing to closer ties with the bloc than those envisaged in her plan will spook hard-line Brexit supporters into backing her proposals.

    But some Conservative lawmakers also want her to resign soon so they can install a successor in whom they have more trust to take charge of detailed trade negotiations that would take place after Brexit.

    Whether Mrs. May offers a detailed timetable for her resignation remains a pressing question. On Wednesday, asked whether she wanted Mrs. May to stay on, Ms. Leadsom said it was “a matter for her,” adding “I am not going to express a view.”

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    Michael Avenatti ‘nervous,’ ‘scared’ about prospect of prison time, labels Nike extortion allegations ‘absurd’ – Fox News
    Michael Avenatti ‘nervous,’ ‘scared’ about prospect of prison time, labels Nike extortion allegations ‘absurd’ – Fox News
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    Michael Avenatti reveals he’s concerned about the charges against him concerning his business practices

    Attorney Michael Avenatti tells CBS that he’s concerned about the charges against him concerning his business practices.

    Michael Avenatti labeled the latest allegations against him as “absolutely absurd,” before admitting he is “nervous” and “scared” about potentially being put behind bars.

    Avenatti, the celebrity lawyer who rose to prominence last year while representing porn star Stormy Daniels and was briefly considered a potential 2020 Democratic candidate, was accused by federal prosecutors in New York of operating “an old-fashioned shakedown” by trying to extort between $15 million and $25 million from sports apparel giant Nike.

    He is also simultaneously facing separate federal wire and bank fraud charges in Los Angeles, which may pose his greatest legal threat.

    Avenatti was grilled about the Nike allegations by CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan, who asked directly if he tried to extort the sports giant for “millions of dollars”.

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    Federal defender Sylvie Levine, Michael Avenatti, Federal Defender Amy Gallicchio, Assistant US Attorney Robert Boone, at Avenatti’s brief appearance Monday, March 25, 2019, at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City. 
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    “No, and any suggestion is absolutely absurd. Nike knew, from the very first moment that I had any contact with Nike, that I was insisting that the truth about what Nike had done be disclosed to federal prosecutors and investigators,” he said on the network.

    “The truth is, for years Nike and its executives have been funneling payments to amateur players, high school players and to their handlers and family members in an effort to get them to go to colleges that were Nike colleges and ultimately hopefully to the NBA so they can sign a shoe deal with Nike.”

    Prosecutors said Avenatti tried to extort Nike “by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met.”

    “As alleged, Michael Avenatti approached Nike last week with a list of financial demands in exchange for covering up allegations of misconduct on behalf of the company,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge William Sweeney Jr. said in a statement. “The lofty price tag included a $1.5 million payoff for Avenatti’s client and upwards of tens of millions of dollars for the legal services of his firm – services Nike never requested. This is nothing more than a straightforward case of extortion”

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    The counts against Avenatti in the New York case are extortion, transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort, conspiracy to transmit interstate communications with intent to extort, and conspiracy to commit extortion.

    Avenatti is looking at up to 47 years in prison on the New York charges if convicted, and 50 years in the California case, which resulted from a much longer-running investigation involving a lengthier paper trail. Avenatti has strenuously denied wrongdoing, and in a tweet early Tuesday morning, thanked his supporters for their “kind words,” adding, “It means a lot to me.”

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    Fox News has exclusively obtained text messages and email conversations between Avenatti, 48, and the former client, Gregory Barela, which documented Barela’s efforts for several months in 2018 to locate and obtain funds he was owed pursuant to a settlement agreement that resulted from his intellectual property dispute with an out-of-state company.

    Financial documents also reviewed by Fox News show that the money had been wired to an account designated by Avenatti on Jan. 5, 2018, but that Avenatti apparently continued to dodge increasingly frantic questions from the client as to where the funds were.

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    In Divided White House, Trump Sided With Mulvaney in Push for Nullifying Health Act – The New York Times
    In Divided White House, Trump Sided With Mulvaney in Push for Nullifying Health Act – The New York Times

    Mr. Trump has touted that he has kept his promises, Mr. Mulvaney and Mr. Grogan argued, and as a candidate, they said, he campaigned on repealing the health law. His base of voters would love it. Besides, they argued, Democrats have been campaigning successfully on health care, and Republicans should try to take it over themselves. This could force the issue.

    Among those with concerns was Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, who shared that it was opposed by the new attorney general, William P. Barr. Vice President Mike Pence was concerned about the political ramifications of moving ahead without a strategy or a plan to handle the suddenly uninsured if the suit succeeds.

    That meeting was followed by a smaller one, where tensions between Mr. Mulvaney and Mr. Cipollone were among those voicing different opinions. But Mr. Trump had been sold, and on Monday night, the Justice Department issued a statement saying it supports the Texas judge’s decision.

    On Wednesday, Mr. Trump doubled down on his support for the Texas suit while talking to reporters in the Oval Office.

    “If the Supreme Court rules that Obamacare is out, we’ll have a plan that is far better than Obamacare,” he said.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/us/politics/trump-affordable-care-act-republicans.html

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    7 mysteries in Attorney General William Barr’s letter – The Boston Globe
    7 mysteries in Attorney General William Barr’s letter – The Boston Globe



    Attorney General William Barr’s letter is out. The Mueller report that it summarizes isn’t. So that has put the Barr letter under a lot of scrutiny.

    If the Mueller report is released, all may become clear. Until then, here are some mysteries, large and small, raised by Barr’s letter:

    Why did Special Counsel Robert Mueller not reach a conclusion on obstruction?

    The decision puzzled some former Justice Department officials. They said prosecutors at special counsel Robert Mueller’s level typically make their own charging conclusions rather than leave them to higher-ups like William Barr.

    ‘‘I find this to be very unusual that there was this question left open and presented by the special counsel,’’ Tim Purdon, the former United States attorney for North Dakota during the Obama administration, told The Associated Press. ‘‘As US attorney, usually you have the last say. You’re the decider, you decide what to do.’’

    ‘‘But of course,’’ Purdon added, ‘‘these are unusual circumstances.’’


    Some observers have suggested that Mueller was laying out the evidence for Congress.

    “He appears to have created a substantial record of the president’s troubling interactions with law enforcement for adjudication in noncriminal proceedings — which is to say in congressional hearings that are surely the next step,” the experts at the legal blog Lawfare wrote.

    Did Mueller actually pass the buck to Barr or did Barr take it upon himself to decide?

    After Mueller decided he wouldn’t make a judgment on whether to charge President Trump, Barr stepped in and said he had made the decision — and there would be no charges.

    Mueller’s team told Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about three weeks ago that it did not plan to reach a conclusion on obstruction, according to a Justice Department official who said the move was unexpected.

    The official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday to discuss private conversations, would not say whether Mueller had asked or invited Barr to substitute his own judgment.

    Why did Barr include the ‘did not exonerate’ quote from Mueller’s report?

    Barr says in the letter that Mueller made a thorough factual investigation and “ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment,” which left Barr to make the decision.

    Barr also noted that Mueller’s report “sets out evidence on both sides of the question.”

    Also, Barr cited a quote from Mueller’s report saying that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

    If Barr felt that no charge should ultimately be brought, why include that quote from Mueller?

    Is it because of the volume of evidence Mueller amassed? Is it because not exonerating Trump was a major finding of Mueller’s report?

    Is the actual Mueller report as tightly focused as the Barr letter?

    The Barr letter gives the appearance that Mueller kept an intense, laser focus on exactly one thing: whether Trump and his associates conspired or coordinated with the Russian government’s two election interference schemes, the hacking and social media operations.

    But Trump has been entangled in a dizzying variety of scandals, including ones that raise different questions about his — and his associates’ — contacts and financial dealings with Russians. That includes his attempt to strike a deal for a Trump Tower Moscow well into the 2016 campaign and his other reported financial dealings with Russians.

    It’s not clear whether any other issues will be mentioned in the Mueller report or in what depth.

    What did Barr cut out from the key sentence about collusion?

    In the absence of the Mueller report and with only a handful of quotes from the report in the Barr letter, the smallest details are under the microscope.

    Some observers have noted that Barr scrupulously bracketed the “T” in the following quote from Mueller’s report:

    “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”

    The bracket suggests that it’s not a full sentence and it may have been preceded by something.

    It’s anyone’s guess what those words might be.

    Why is there a slight difference in the wording about the two Russian election schemes?

    Lawfare points out that there is a slight difference in the way Barr describes Mueller’s findings about the two Russian election interference schemes.

    Barr says Mueller “did not find that any US person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated” with the Russian social media disinformation scheme. But as for the Russian hacking scheme, Barr said Mueller “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it” worked with the Russians.

    That discrepancy in the words opens the possibility that a US person not affiliated with the campaign had worked with the Russians on the hacking scheme, Lawfare points out, saying the wording might or might not be significant.

    The legal experts also point out that Barr said the hacked materials were distributed through “various intermediaries, including Wikileaks,” but Barr never mentioned whether Mueller had reached any findings on potential Trump team dealings with those intermediaries.

    What investigations did Mueller refer to ‘other offices’?

    “During the course of his investigation, the Special Counsel also referred several matters to other offices for further action,” Barr wrote.

    The attorney general does not detail those investigations in his summary. One known referral from Mueller’s office has been a major thorn in Trump’s side: The case of Michael Cohen, which was handed off to the US attorney for the Southern District of New York. Cohen has cooperated and has alleged that he was directed by Trump to violate campaign finance laws.

    Material from Globe wire services was used in this report.

    Source Article from https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/26/mysteries-attorney-general-william-barr-letter/XkOyMoyvHGIFtUPs7rjB8I/story.html

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    Boeing to release a fix for 737 Max jets Wednesday. Here’s everything we know – CNBC
    Boeing to release a fix for 737 Max jets Wednesday. Here’s everything we know – CNBC

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    After months of development and discussion with federal aviation regulators, Boeing plans to brief about 200 pilots at its Renton, Washington facilities Wednesday on its fixes for the 737 Max jets involved in two fatal crashes since October.

    The plane has been grounded since mid-March following the deadly accidents where a part of the plane’s flight control system is suspected of causing, at least in part, the crashes that killed all 346 people aboard the jets.

    Boeing believes it has solved issues with the 737 Max automated flight control system known as MCAS by updating the plane’s software, cockpit alerts and pilot training. Last weekend, pilots from five airlines, including American, Southwest and United were briefed on the software updates and tested them in a flight simulator.

    “I think they’ve made the changes that will get these planes back in the air,” said one pilot familiar with the changes.

    Pilots and other people familiar with the work say there are four notable changes.

    Limit MCAS corrections

    As Boeing and investigators studied the brief flights of the Lion Air plane that plunged into the Java Sea in Indonesia Oct. 29 and the Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10, the scariest similarity was the way both flights pitched up and down before crashing.

    Many believe the automated flight control system — the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS — continually pushed the nose of the plane down despite the pilots repeatedly trying to correct the move. The new software will allow MCAS to push the nose of the plane lower just once and only for 10 seconds at most.

    Two sensors, not one

    Another factor believed to have played a role in the 737 Max crashes is the possibility that erroneous data was fed to the MCAS software from the plane’s two angle-of-attack (AOA) sensors.

    Those sensors on the outside of the nose of a plane measure how a plane is positioned. If the nose of the 737 Max is pointed too high relative to its airspeed, it could go into a stall. Boeing originally designed MCAS to receive data from just one AOA sensor on the 737 Max.

    That will change in the future with both sensors feeding data into the automated flight control system. And if the readings between the two sensors are substantially different, they will not trigger MCAS.

    Cockpit alerts

    Since the crashes of the two 737 Max planes, Boeing has faced fierce criticism for not doing more to tell flight crews about the MCAS system or alert them when the automated flight control technology kicks in.

    In particular there are two indicators Boeing has offered, but only if airlines paid extra to have them installed on the cockpit. That will be changing in the future. Boeing will now offer to angle of attack indicators in the cockpit free of charge.

    It will additionally include another indicator showing if the angle of attack sensors disagree that will now be standard equipment in all 737 Max airplanes.

    Updated training

    While flight crews around the world are now aware of MCAS and how it can impact the lift off and flight of the 737 Max, that was not the case initially.

    Even after Boeing issued an airworthiness directive late last year clarifying procedures pilots should follow to shut off MCAS, there has been steady criticism that Boeing was not going far enough.

    As a result, Boeing will be increasing how airlines train flight crews how to handle 737 Max planes when MCAS is enabled and how they can disable the system if it is creating a dangerous situation.

    Most, if not all of the pilots attending the briefing at Boeing’s Renton facilities Wednesday are aware of the plan to fix the Max. The Federal Aviation Administration will soon be reviewing the software and pilot training changes and is expected to certify them within a week or two, a major hurdle to ultimately having the FAA lift the grounding of the 737 Max.

    Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/boeing-to-release-a-fix-for-737-max-jets-heres-everything-we-know.html

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    Getting rid of Obamacare would be a headache for Trump – CNN
    Getting rid of Obamacare would be a headache for Trump – CNN

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    Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

    Updated 9:04 AM ET, Wed March 27, 2019

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

    (CNN)This country is stuck with Obamacare. Republicans can’t find the votes to repeal or replace it. Democrats can’t agree on how to make it better. President Donald Trump just wants to move on from it. But it’s so ingrained at this point that if the courts suddenly end it, it could completely disrupt the US health insurance system — and not just for people who buy insurance on the exchanges created by the law.

      Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/27/politics/obamacare-affordable-care-act-trump/index.html

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      Barbara Bush said ‘angst’ over Trump caused heart problems, new book reveals – NBC News
      Barbara Bush said ‘angst’ over Trump caused heart problems, new book reveals – NBC News

      Barbara Bush so fiercely disliked President Donald Trump that she blamed him for what she called a heart attack and, by the end of her life, she no longer considered herself a Republican.

      “I’d probably say no today,” she told USA Today’s Susan Page in an October 2017 interview on whether she was still a Republican.

      Those were excerpts, released Wednesday, of an upcoming Bush biography by Page, who spoke with the former first lady extensively in the final months of her life. Bush died last April and her husband, 41st President George H.W. Bush, died in November.

      The book, “The Matriarch,” detailed Barbara Bush’s long-standing dislike for Trump, which went back decades. In diary entries from the 1990s, which the former first lady made available to Page, she described Trump as “greedy, selfish, and ugly.” By 2016, she was “dismayed by the nation’s divisions and by the direction of the party she had worked for, and for so long.”

      In one interview, she told Page: “I don’t understand why people are for” Trump. In another, she expressed “astonishment” that women could vote for Trump.

      The former first lady suffered what she described as a heart attack in 2016, stemming from a long battle with congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease. She blamed the episode on the nasty 2016 election cycle and Trump’s relentless bashing of her son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ran for president in 2016 too. She told Page that “angst” contributed to the heart episode.

      Bush was at first hesitant to have her son enter the race. If he had won, he would have been the third Bush president following her husband and her eldest son, 43rd President George W. Bush. But, as Page wrote, the former first lady was so alarmed by Trump, she eventually agreed that her son should seek office.

      In 2016, the former first lady would vote for her son Jeb Bush for president in the general election, while her husband voted for 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. After Trump won, her husband called the president-elect to offer congratulations and Barbara Bush wrote in her diary that Trump “was very nice” in that conversation.

      After originally drafting a funny letter to former President Bill Clinton having assumed he would join the “First Ladies Club,” as she wrote, Barbara Bush wrote first lady Melania Trump welcoming her into the cohort.

      “Dear Mrs. Trump, The world thought I was writing this note to Bill Clinton. I am glad that I am not. I wanted to welcome you to the First Ladies very exclusive club,” she wrote. “My children were older and therefore I did not have the problems you do. Whatever you decide to do is your business and yours alone. Living in the White House is a joy and their only job is to make you happy. If you decide to stay in NYC that will be fine also. When you come to the White House let your son bring a friend. That is my unasked for advice. God Bless you.”

      After Trump’s election a friend in Maine gave Barbara Bush a Trump countdown clock as a joke, the new biography details. The clock displayed how many days, hours, minutes and seconds remained in Trump’s term. The former first lady put it on a bedroom table, later bringing it to Houston. The clock was by her bedside until she died, Page wrote.

      “I’m trying not to think about it,” Barbara Bush told Page in a 2017 interview just before the first anniversary of Trump’s election. “We’re a strong country, and I think it will all work out.”

      Allan Smith

      Allan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.

      Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/new-barbara-bush-biography-details-dislike-trump-n987816

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      Facing extortion and fraud charges, Michael Avenatti says: "The facts are on my side" – CBS News
      Facing extortion and fraud charges, Michael Avenatti says: "The facts are on my side" – CBS News

      Attorney Michael Avenatti tells CBS News he is “nervous” and “scared” about the possibility of going to prison, but denies he did anything wrong. On Monday he was charged in New York with attempting to extort tens of millions of dollars from Nike. On the same day, he was also charged with bank and wire fraud in California.

      If convicted in both cases, Avenatti could face up to nearly 100 years in prison. He maintains his innocence and told us he believes he will be exonerated.

      “Did you try to extort Nike for millions of dollars?” CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan asked Avenatti, less than a day after he was released on $300,000 bond.

      “No, and any suggestion is absolutely absurd. Nike knew, from the very first moment that I had any contact with Nike, that I was insisting that the truth about what Nike had done be disclosed to federal prosecutors and investigators,” he responded.

      “What is the truth?”

      “The truth is, for years Nike and its executives have been funneling payments to amateur players, high school players and to their handlers and family members in an effort to get them to go to colleges that were Nike colleges and ultimately hopefully to the NBA so they can sign a shoe deal with Nike,” Avenatti said.

      But federal prosecutors maintain a different version of the truth.

      “Avenatti was not acting as an attorney. A suit and tie doesn’t mask the fact that at its core, this was an old-fashioned shakedown,” said Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

      They allege Avenatti attempted to use his platform to blackmail the apparel giant.

      “The complaint does suggest that you asked for up to $20 million – 1.5 for your client – and at least $20 million. And that you requested you be retained to do an internal investigation. And that if not you and they hired someone else you stand to make more money,” Duncan said.

      “Yeah, I — I — I — not gonna get into the specifics of this,” Avenatti said. “But what I will say is the way this has been framed is not accurate. It’s just not accurate. And in fact, from the very first moment that we had any meeting with Nike, we made it clear that under no circumstances would we participate in anything that did not require full disclosure to investigators and the federal government.”

      As for the wire and bank fraud charges in California, the complaint said he tried to embezzle $1.6 million from his client.

      “The client who is accusing me of embezzlement is currently on felony probation in California,” Avenatti said. “You know what he was convicted of? Multiple accounts of obtaining money under false pretenses. It turns out — and I didn’t know this at the time — that he has an extensive criminal background and rap sheet associated with his conduct. So again, nowhere does that appear in the complaint. So there’s gonna be a lot of evidence. There’s gonna be a lot of facts that have come — going to come to light.”

      “You’re facing — if convicted on all of these charges — up to the rest of your life in prison. Are you nervous?” Duncan asked.

      “Well, of course I’m nervous,” Avenatti responded.

      “Are you scared? Are you concerned? I mean, tell us I guess as someone who, again, has a history of representing people and now you’re on the other side facing some serious charges,” Duncan said.

      “I am nervous. I’m concerned. I’m scared,” Avenatti said.

      “But you also seem confident.”

      “I am confident because I believe the facts are on my side,” Avenatti said.

      In a statement, Nike told CBS News when it became aware of Avenatti’s “plans to extort the company,” it “immediately reported” it “along with the information he shared, to federal prosecutors.” Nike said it has been “cooperating with the government’s investigation into NCAA basketball for over a year” and encouraged Avenatti “to share any information he believes he has with the government.”

      In a statement, the NCAA said it will “always welcome any firsthand, credible, lawfully obtained and disclosed information of NCAA rules violations.”

      Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-avenatti-charged-with-extortion-bank-wire-fraud-the-facts-are-on-my-side/

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      South Carolina and the unbearable whiteness of being Beto O’Rourke – Washington Examiner
      South Carolina and the unbearable whiteness of being Beto O’Rourke – Washington Examiner

      Beto O’Rourke traveled Friday and Saturday to South Carolina, where the job of any primary contender is to secure the support of the nearly two thirds of Democratic primary voters there who are black.

      But with the exception of a stop at a historically black college, the former Texas congressman was for the most part turning out white people.

      The few hundred people who attended O’Rourke campaign stops Friday at the University of South Carolina and a Charleston brewery were predominantly white. Attendees at those events, including a few “Beto-curious” Republicans, liked his youthful energy but were not committed to supporting him in the critical primary, the third in the nation.

      At South Carolina State University, the historically black university, Beto played the white-guy-who-gets-it role, imploring his audience to understand that while he does not have firsthand experience with racial inequality in wealth distribution, healthcare, and incarceration, he absolutely understands it.

      “I’ve not led your life – a white man who’s had a privilege in my life of not enduring any one of those things that I just described,” O’Rourke told the crowd. “But I’ve listened to those who have, and I’m listening to you today.”

      O’Rourke mentioned legalizing marijuana, changing voter ID laws, expanding Medicaid, and tying federal funds for local law enforcement to “full accountability, transparency, and reporting for use of force.”

      SCSU students generally reacted kindly to O’Rourke’s determined effort to please.

      “I do feel O’Rourke has a mentality, has a campaign not only garnered around all people, but also restoring the African-American community,” Israel Robinson, a student at SCSU and president of the NAACP campus chapter, told the Washington Examiner. He also likes Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

      Crowds at USC and SCSU consisted mostly of students who stopped at O’Rourke’s events between classes, interested in his message and attracted to the spectacle of a presidential candidate speaking on campus.

      The outdoor, standing-room-only venues with no formal check-in process gave the O’Rourke events an informal feel. His voice was hoarse from eight days of campaigning. At the Charleston event, some attendees left early because it was hard to hear O’Rourke from a small amplifier next to him on a table that he used as a stage.

      Booker, by contrast, stormed the state Saturday and attracted a significant number of black attendees, as well as a good share of whites, at well-organized campaign stops in Rock Hill and Columbia with ample seating. He is the first Democratic presidential candidate to earn an endorsement from a sitting South Carolina lawmaker – state Rep. John King, former chairman of the state’s Legislative Black Caucus.

      Booker, an African-American former mayor or Newark, N.J., who chooses to live in a low-income community there, sounded much less awkward demonstrating he understands racial inequality.

      “I come from a history of people being disrespected, disregarded,” Booker told a crowd of a few hundred at Freedom Temple Ministries in Rock Hill. He shared a story about discrimination his parents decades ago endured when trying to buy a home: They were told that a house was sold when they tried to tour it, but it was available when a white family later looked at it.

      Booker had stopped at other South Carolina churches since launching his campaign. Many congregations are politically involved, and some churches shuttle members to the polls on Election Day.

      On a stage decorated with a hand-painted “Cory For 2020” banner in front of attendees holding campaign signs, Booker touted his accomplishments as mayor of Newark and as a senator. He focused his message on unity as an antidote for inequality.

      “We weren’t called to be a nation of tolerance,” Booker said. “Go home tonight and tell somebody you tolerate them, see how they treat you. We are called to be a nation of love.”

      Booker talked about his “baby bonds” bill to address poverty, called for universal background checks for gun sales, and proposed student loan forgiveness for teachers. He said that a 70 percent marginal tax rate was too high but that he wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 25 percent.

      Several attendees at Booker’s events thought that he came off as better-versed in policy details than O’Rourke.

      Ashley V. Wilkerson, a children’s book author and mother of two young children who saw Booker at the Cecil Tillis Center in Columbia, told the Washington Examiner that he was “far more comprehensive, far more detailed” than several other candidates she’s seen come through South Carolina. “He gave a lot of background knowledge and personal connections to a lot of the topics.” She also likes Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Sen. Kamala Harris of California.

      The South Carolina primary is scheduled for Feb. 29, 2020.

      Blacks made up 61 percent of the state’s Democratic primary voters in 2016, up from 55 percent in 2008. An Emerson College poll released March 2, before O’Rourke announced his candidacy, found that Booker had six percent Democratic primary support in South Carolina and O’Rourke had five percent. Former Vice President Joe Biden led the field with 37 percent.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/south-carolina-and-the-unbearable-whiteness-of-being-beto-orourke

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      Brexit in play: May’s job on the line as parliament tries multiple choice – Reuters
      Brexit in play: May’s job on the line as parliament tries multiple choice – Reuters

      LONDON (Reuters) – The British parliament will try to find an alternative to Theresa May’s twice-defeated Brexit deal on Wednesday as the prime minister readied a last ditch effort to win over rebels in her party, possibly by giving a timetable for quitting.

      As the United Kingdom’s three-year Brexit crisis spins towards its finale, it is still uncertain how, when or even if it will leave the European Union, though May hopes to bring her deal back to parliament later this week.

      With British politics at fever pitch, lawmakers on Wednesday grab control to have so-called indicative votes on Brexit, with 16 options ranging from a much closer alignment with the EU to leaving without a deal or revoking the divorce papers.

      Just two days before the United Kingdom had been originally due to leave the EU on March 29, some of the most influential Brexit-supporting rebels, such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, have reluctantly fallen in behind May’s deal.

      The price for May could be her job, though it was unclear if even that would be enough to get her deal approved.

      “We can guarantee delivering on Brexit if this week he and others in this House support the deal,” May told Andrew Bridgen, a Brexit-supporting lawmaker in her party who has called on her to resign.

      It had been uncertain whether May would bring her deal back to parliament this week, having said she would only do so if it had sufficient support.

      She is expected to indicate a date for her departure at a showdown with Conservative Party lawmakers at a meeting of the 1922 Committee in Westminster at around 1700 GMT.

      Before that, lawmakers start a debate on what sort of EU divorce the world’s fifth largest economy should go for. They will vote at 1900 GMT on a ballot paper for as many proposals as they wish. Results will be announced after 2100 GMT.

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      “The prime minister might get a deal over the line on Thursday or Friday,” said Oliver Letwin, a Conservative former cabinet minister who has led parliament’s unusual power grab.

      If not, lawmakers will try again on Monday to find a majority for an alternative, Letwin said.

      The uncertainty around Brexit, the United Kingdom’s most significant political and economic move since World War Two, has left allies and investors aghast.

      European Council chief Donald Tusk urged the European Parliament to be open to a long Brexit extension and not to ignore the British people who wanted to remain in the EU.

      The campaign chief of the 2016 “Vote Leave” group, Dominic Cummings, said opponents of EU membership should start rebuilding the network and would win by a bigger margin if there was another referendum.

      BREXIT FINALE?

      Opponents fear Brexit will divide the West as it grapples with both the unconventional U.S. presidency of Donald Trump and growing assertiveness from Russia and China.

      Supporters say while the divorce might bring some short-term instability, in the longer term it will allow the United Kingdom to thrive if cut free from what they cast as a doomed experiment in European unity.

      May’s deal, an attempt to soothe the divide of the 2016 referendum by leaving the formal structures of the EU while preserving close economic and security ties, was defeated in parliament by 149 votes on March 12 and by 230 votes on Jan. 15.

      Dozens of pro-Brexit Conservative lawmakers are still opposed to May’s deal, one of the party’s lawmakers, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters, adding the “hardcore” was holding firm.

      “There is no way we are going to vote for it, it’s just not going to happen,” Conservative lawmaker Mark Francois said.

      It is unclear if parliament’s attempt to find an alternative will produce a majority. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow will select which of the proposals will be put to a vote.

      Among the 16 options that could be voted on are a public vote on a deal, an enhanced Norway-style deal and Labour’s plan for a customs union and close alignment with the Single Market.

      Brexit supporters fear the entire divorce is at risk. The government could try to ignore the votes, though if May’s deal fails then an election could be the only way to avoid parliament’s alternative proposal.

      She still hopes to get her deal, struck with the EU in November after more than two years of negotiation, approved.

      BREXIT DEAL?

      To succeed, May needs at least 75 lawmakers to come over – dozens of rebels in her Conservative Party, some opposition Labour Party lawmakers and the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which props up her minority government.

      The Sun newspaper said Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, told May the party’s lawmakers want her to set out a timetable to quit before the summer.

      As Brexit supporters came behind her deal, the DUP said it was not willing to risk the integrity of the United Kingdom.

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      “I am now willing to support it if the Democratic Unionist Party does,” Rees-Mogg said. Boris Johnson indicated he could come behind the deal if May gave an exit date.

      If May does not get the deal approved this week, London will have until April 12 to offer a new plan or decide to leave without a treaty. If she can get it approved this week, a departure date of May 22 will apply.

      European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it was unclear how Brexit would unfold.

      “If you compare Great Britain to a sphinx then the sphinx would seem to me an open book. We will see in the course of this week how this book will speak,” he said.

      Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; additional reporting by Kylie MacLellan, Andrew MacAskill, William Schomberg, Elisabeth O’Leary, and James Davey; Editing by Janet Lawrence

      Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu/brexit-in-play-mays-job-on-the-line-as-parliament-tries-multiple-choice-idUSKCN1R80RM

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      Opinion | Scot Lehigh: The apology owed on the Mueller probe – The Boston Globe
      Opinion | Scot Lehigh: The apology owed on the Mueller probe – The Boston Globe



      For sheer chutzpah, there’s no beating Donald Trump. First he declares himself totally exonerated when special counsel Robert Mueller’s report apparently stopped well short of that, and now he’s demanding a counter-investigation of those involved with the probe.

      Thus he’s using his attorney general’s summary of an as-yet-unreleased report to attack his shadowy supposed persecutors, who “have done some very, very evil things . . . some treasonous things,” including having “lied to Congress.”

      The exoneration claim comes after a probe that revealed just what a group of scoundrels and scapegraces Candidate Trump had gathered around him. Just to review, Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman, is in prison on financial fraud charges. Rick Gates, another top campaign operative, has pleaded out to charges related to money laundering and fraud, as well as lying to the FBI. Michael Flynn, a top foreign policy campaign aide and his brief-lived national security adviser, has admitted to lying to the FBI about contact with Russia. So too has George Papadopoulos, a lesser campaign aide. Trump associate Roger Stone is charged with lying, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering.

      Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and fixer, has copped to a range of charges, including lying to Congress and paying hush money to two women Trump had affairs with, in order to keep them quiet during the campaign. Prison impends in May.

      That’s exoneration, Trump style.


      You stagger out of a sea of sleaze and declare yourself Mr. Clean.

      What is accurate to say at this juncture is that Robert Mueller has apparently cleared Trump and his campaign of engaging in a criminal conspiracy with Russian operatives. And that Attorney General William Barr, taking advantage of Mueller’s decision not to offer a judgment about whether the president obstructed justice, has declared there was no such obstruction. Little surprise that Barr would come down that way; Trump picked him after Barr submitted a memo maintaining that a president couldn’t be prosecuted on obstruction charges for acts within his discretionary power, regardless of the intent behind those actions.

      So how should Democrats treat the Mueller report, if it indeed says what Barr maintains? As a firm no when it comes to impeachment, but not as foreclosing further inquiry about Trump and his possible business interests in, and financial ties with, Russia.

      Which is to say, far differently from the cynical and shameless way Trump and his allies treated special counsel Mueller and, before that, former FBI director James Comey. For months, Trump charged that Mueller was leading a “witch hunt,” an attempted “take-down” of his administration by the “Deep State,” something echoed by a number of Trumpian hacks and lackeys. Like, say, Sean Hannity, who warned his audience that Mueller was “out to get Trump at any cost,” leading “an all hands on deck effort to totally malign and if possible impeach the president of the United States.”

      Now that Mueller’s report has (apparently) come down in a way that Trump finds congenial, the president is changing his tune from that absurd, democracy-eroding rhetoric. Asked on Monday if he thought Mueller had acted honorably, Trump answered, “Yes, he did.”

      What? How could that be? How could someone leading a witch hunt determined to find collusion, regardless of whether any occurred, have concluded in Trump’s favor on that question?

      That, of course, is exactly the way Trump and the Trumpian media treated Comey as well. When the FBI first began investigating Hillary Clinton, Comey was a fearless, straight-arrow lawman. When the FBI director decided not to charge her, he was wrongly protecting her. When Comey reopened the investigation in the final days of the campaign, he was finally doing the right thing. When the FBI decided the new material didn’t warrant prosecution, Comey was again part of a rigged system protecting Clinton.

      Now some of the biggest Trumpswabs are, preposterously, demanding that the mainstream media apologize to Trump.

      There is an apology owed here, to be sure.

      It should be from Trump and the cross-eyed conspiratorialists to one Robert Swan Mueller III.

      Scot Lehigh can be reached at lehigh@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeScotLehigh.

      Source Article from https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/03/26/the-apology-owed-mueller-probe/zOqliqfpBL2w8AU0kKVupK/story.html

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      Betsy DeVos defends Special Olympics budget cuts: ‘We had to make some difficult decisions’ | TheHill – The Hill
      Betsy DeVos defends Special Olympics budget cuts: ‘We had to make some difficult decisions’ | TheHill – The Hill

      Education Secretary Betsy DeVosElizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosDeVos opens investigation into universities tied to college admissions scandal: report Celebrity college scandal exposes deeper issues in academic system Trump signs executive order on campus free speech MORE defended budget cuts to programs including the Special Olympics on Tuesday.

      Appearing before a House subcommittee Tuesday to review the department’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, DeVos said, “We had to make some difficult decisions.”

      DeVos’s remarks came in response to questions from Rep. Mark PocanMark William PocanTwo lawmakers just debated the merits of Nickelback on the House floor On The Money: Mnuchin urges Congress to raise debt limit ‘as soon as possible’ | NY officials subpoena Trump Org’s longtime insurer | Dems offer bill to tax financial transactions Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez back ‘end the forever war’ pledge MORE (D-Wis.), who pressed her on the amount of kids the budget cut would impact.

      “I don’t know the number of kids,” DeVos said before Pocan answered that 272,000 kids would be impacted.

      “I think Special Olympics is an awesome organization, one that is well supported by the philanthropic sector as well,” DeVos said.

      The budget proposed by President TrumpDonald John TrumpPapadopoulos claims he was pressured to sign plea deal Tlaib asking colleagues to support impeachment investigation resolution Trump rips ‘Mainstream Media’: ‘They truly are the Enemy of the People’ MORE and supported by DeVos calls for nearly $18 million in cuts to the Special Olympics.

      Last year, DeVos donated a portion of her salary to the Special Olympics, according to Politico.

      Tuesday was DeVos’s first appearance before a Democrat-controlled House panel.

      Formerly the chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, DeVos was approved as Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education following a contentious confirmation hearing with strong pushback from Republicans.

      DeVos has long been an advocate for school choice, and her proposed budget includes increased charter school funding.

      Source Article from https://thehill.com/policy/finance/435918-betsy-devos-defends-special-olympics-budget-cuts-we-had-to-make-some-difficult

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