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Why some hard Brexiteers hate Theresa May, and why I disagree with them – Washington Examiner
Why some hard Brexiteers hate Theresa May, and why I disagree with them – Washington Examiner

I’ve received a number of emails from Britons who disagree with my rejection last week of the “traitor” label for British Prime Minister Theresa May. These emails offer insight into what motivates those who oppose May’s Brexit deal and her ongoing negotiations to get Brexit effected. The emailers want Brexit carried out without any associated framework deal.

First up is Jeff Wyatt, the gentleman who provoked my original article by calling May a traitor while live on Sky News. Wyatt, a member of the U.K. Independence Party, suggested that May’s mandate to effect Brexit has evaporated with her failure to effect Brexit on time. As he put it to me, “Our intransigent stubborn and deaf Prime Minister has had not one, not two but three huge defeats in the Commons and still she won’t do the honorable thing and simply leave the EU as our law permits nay instructs and go join the rest of the world as a free nation uncoupled by the failing economic and political project that is the EU.”

Yes, May’s mastery of the House of Commons has been less than ideal. Wyatt also pointed to one legal analysis that suggests May’s deal is inconsistent with Brexit referendum voter intent. But I am not alone in disagreeing with that analysis.

Another emailer, A.J. Clark, told me that “Brexit has also impinged on free speech with the British police advising people to tone down the Brexit rhetoric on social media.” Clark is correct in arguing that British speech laws are increasingly authoritarian.

Alexandra told me that Theresa May is “not working for the best interests of the UK but of Brussels as Brussels wants to keep the UK in the EU as it is to their trading and financial advantage.” I accept the contention that Brussels seeks Britain’s retained EU membership, but I believe Alexandra ignores those Brexit voters who wanted restored parliamentary sovereignty but not necessarily an end to preferential British trade access to the European single market.

The above emails were all interesting to read and consider. Still, other emails I received suggest that other hard-Brexit supporters prefer emotion to argument. One, from Nick, began, “Hey Mister, May is a traitor and has committed treason. What a fool you really are.”

Another, the ironically named Richard Braine, told me, “The crimes of William Joyce against the British people were less than those of Theresa May. Joyce was only a treasonous broadcaster, not a treasonous Prime Minister. He was executed.”

Joyce was a Nazi sympathizer who conspired to see his nation destroyed. May is a democratically mandated leader who is trying to manage the political interests of her country. Implying that May deserves to be tried and executed is just dumb. Indeed, it is sick. Braine also used his father as a proxy for his argument. “My 94-year-old father,” Braine told me, “risked his life for several years as a naval officer during WWII, including at D-day. He was fighting for Britain’s survival as an independent country. He voted Leave.”

That reference speaks to the ultimate issue here. Namely, that Brexit is tied up in deep questions of honor and national identity. And while I respect the right of individuals to say what they think — and should have made that clearer in my original article — I remain unconvinced that the Brexit vote was a mandate for a hard Brexit. I have no doubt that Braine’s father, like my Royal Air Force veteran grandfather, is a great Briton. But neither his service nor Braine’s viewpoint gives him the right to dictate the measure of Brexit.

Instead, the referendum and May’s office gives her the responsibility to see Brexit carried out. Assuming that the Brexit deal finally enacted restores parliamentary supremacy, I believe May deserves support. And seeing as the current Parliament cannot bind future Parliaments, that basic arrangement would ensure a future government could alter the terms of trade and free movement with Europe. If, that is, Britons voted to elect that government.

In short, Brexit is very open to interpretation.

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Devin Nunes sues McClatchy for alleged scheme to derail Clinton, Russia investigations – Washington Examiner
Devin Nunes sues McClatchy for alleged scheme to derail Clinton, Russia investigations – Washington Examiner

Rep. Devin Nunes has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the McClatchy Company for allegedly attempting to derail his investigations into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Russia.

A complaint says McClatchy and one its reporters, MacKenzie Mays, “schemed to defame [Nunes] and destroy his reputation.” The central purpose of this alleged scheme was to “interfere with [Nunes]’ Congressional investigation of corruption by the Clinton campaign and alleged ‘collusion’ between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.”

The complaint highlights a story by the Fresno Bee, a California newspaper owned by McClatchy, titled: “A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes: Winery partly owned by Nunes sued after fundraiser event.”

The way the article was written, the lawsuit said, gave the impression that Nunes was somehow involved in a 2015 party aboard a yacht where “25 of the Napa Valley-based [Alpha Omega Winery]’s top investors, all men — [who] were openly using what appeared to be cocaine and ‘drawing straws’ for which sex worker to hire.”

The complaint points to the headline, which describes the event as a fundraiser instead of a charity event, despite McClatchy’s knowledge that Nunes had nothing to do with the event.

“The McClatchy headline intentionally omitted the word ‘charity’ and labeled the event a ‘fundraiser’ in a clear effort to imply it was a political fundraising event that a politician like Congressman Nunes would naturally attend,” the complaint says. “Indeed, the entire purpose of every element of the Yacht/Cocaine/Prostitutes article – the headline, the photo, the film clips, and the text itself – is to link Nunes to an event that McClatchy actually knew before publication he had no involvement with.”

The complaint also alleges McClatchy coordinated in some way with Republican consultant Liz Mair, who is described as an opposition researcher. Mair was referred to in one McClatchy article as only a “political commentator” despite running Mair Strategies, an opposition research firm.

“McClatchy failed to inform readers of Mair’s employment with Mair Strategies, an opposition research company that, in Mair’s own words, ‘smears’ targets for paying clients,” the lawsuit alleges.

May, who was an investigative reporter for the Fresno Bee, is now a reporter for Politico covering education in California.

Appearing on Fox News after he filed the lawsuit Monday, Nunes said some of McClatchy’s reporters there were “the biggest perpetuators of the Russia hoax.”

“I’m serious. I’m coming to clean up all of the mess,” Nunes told host Sean Hannity. “So, if you’re out there and you lied and you defamed, we’re going to come after you.”

The McClatchy lawsuit is Nunes’ second in as many months. He filed a lawsuit last month against Twitter, which also named Mair as a defendant, seeking $250 million in compensatory damages for allegedly “shadow-banning conservatives” to impact the 2018 midterm elections and being defamatory against him.

“Remember, a few weeks ago I filed against Twitter, that they were censoring conservatives,” the California congressman said Monday.

In the March lawsuit, Nunes also listed the people behind the accounts “Devin Nunes’ Mom” and “Devin Nunes’ Cow” as defendants. The cow account went viral, ultimately getting more Twitter followers than Nunes.

Nunes served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee for four years before Democrats took control of the House this year. He is now ranking member of the panel.

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Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner
Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner

Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security.

On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that took many by surprise but was widely welcomed by immigration hardliners.

On Monday, Nielsen told reporters she hopes to support Trump’s agenda from the outside, saying, “I share the president’s goal of securing the border.”

The concept of “securing the border” has been in dispute. The southern U.S. border has been far from secure for years. It’s one of the reasons why Trump is currently president as he ran on a policy platform of building a wall.

But matters have gotten so bad under Nielsen, in particular, Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019. Who could possibly be the next DHS secretary?

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, who was a three-term governor of Texas, is one of the top contenders for the position. However, he’s expressed skepticism that a physical border wall should be built, saying in 2011 during his presidential run, “If you build a 30-foot wall from El Paso to Brownsville, the 35-foot ladder business gets real good.” In 2016, Perry walked back that skepticism, embracing Trump’s proposal to build a wall.

It wouldn’t be shocking if Trump picks Perry. He was confirmed as energy secretary by the Senate, 62 to 37. So, there’s little concern from the White House that he can get confirmed this time around. But there are other potential nominees Trump could pick who might have a more difficult time.

Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state and longtime Trump ally, has been on the White House’s radar for some time, seeing as how he’s in lockstep with Trump on immigration, but his nomination would likely tank in the Senate. Then there’s Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general, who’s also been supportive of Trump but has few allies in the Republican-controlled Senate after demanding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell step down in 2017.

Of course, Kevin McAleenan, who is serving as the acting secretary of Homeland Security, jumping over as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, shouldn’t be ruled out as a permanent replacement. McAleenan carried out Trump’s “zero tolerance policy” for border crossings in the summer of 2018 that led to families being separated.

Like all things happening in the country, the buck stops with the president. Nielsen may not have met the expectations set out by immigration hardliners, but Trump is ultimately responsible for allowing the situation along the southern U.S. border to worsen.

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Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner
Here’s who could replace Kirstjen Nielsen at Homeland Security – Washington Examiner

Amid a national emergency on the southern U.S. border, President Trump made two big changes at the Department of Homeland Security.

On Friday, the White House pulled the nomination of Ron Vitiello to be the permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he served as the acting director of the agency since June 2018. A couple of days later, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a move that took many by surprise but was widely welcomed by immigration hardliners.

On Monday, Nielsen told reporters she hopes to support Trump’s agenda from the outside, saying, “I share the president’s goal of securing the border.”

The concept of “securing the border” has been in dispute. The southern U.S. border has been far from secure for years. It’s one of the reasons why Trump is currently president as he ran on a policy platform of building a wall.

But matters have gotten so bad under Nielsen, in particular, Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019. Who could possibly be the next DHS secretary?

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, who was a three-term governor of Texas, is one of the top contenders for the position. However, he’s expressed skepticism that a physical border wall should be built, saying in 2011 during his presidential run, “If you build a 30-foot wall from El Paso to Brownsville, the 35-foot ladder business gets real good.” In 2016, Perry walked back that skepticism, embracing Trump’s proposal to build a wall.

It wouldn’t be shocking if Trump picks Perry. He was confirmed as energy secretary by the Senate, 62 to 37. So, there’s little concern from the White House that he can get confirmed this time around. But there are other potential nominees Trump could pick who might have a more difficult time.

Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state and longtime Trump ally, has been on the White House’s radar for some time, seeing as how he’s in lockstep with Trump on immigration, but his nomination would likely tank in the Senate. Then there’s Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general, who’s also been supportive of Trump but has few allies in the Republican-controlled Senate after demanding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell step down in 2017.

Of course, Kevin McAleenan, who is serving as the acting secretary of Homeland Security, jumping over as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, shouldn’t be ruled out as a permanent replacement. McAleenan carried out Trump’s “zero tolerance policy” for border crossings in the summer of 2018 that led to families being separated.

Like all things happening in the country, the buck stops with the president. Nielsen may not have met the expectations set out by immigration hardliners, but Trump is ultimately responsible for allowing the situation along the southern U.S. border to worsen.

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A single Twitter user showed just how easy it is to mislead anti-Trump politicians and media – Washington Examiner
A single Twitter user showed just how easy it is to mislead anti-Trump politicians and media – Washington Examiner

If you think only one political group in the United States is susceptible to the proliferation of political propaganda on social media, you are sorely mistaken.

Though it is true online disinformation campaigns have found a comfortable home in “MAGA” Land, the anti-Trump resistance is at least as gullible and ready to believe the worst of its enemies, as a single Twitter user demonstrated this weekend.

A person named Mark Elliott tweeted a C-SPAN video on April 5 with a caption that read, “[President Trump] on people asking for asylum ‘These aren’t people. These are animals.’”

The video included in the tweet showed Trump saying:

But everything about Elliott’s tweet is a lie, from its central claim right down to the implication that the video is from a recent White House event. First, Trump said no such thing about asylum seekers. He was speaking specifically about members of the brutal, barbaric Salvadoran gang MS-13, which is known for hacking its enemies to death with machetes. And the video is not even from this year. It is from 2018, back when the press first misreported that Trump had called immigrants “animals.”

None of this stopped Elliott’s tweet from going viral this weekend. More than 15,000 social media users have shared his “asylum” claim directly. Then, there are the those who have shared or commented on his tweet on their individual social media pages, including politically active celebrities, members of Congress, reporters at national newsrooms, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.

Between Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, disgraced former news anchor Dan Rather, and outspoken supermodel Chrissy Teigen, more than 80,000 people “learned” this weekend that the president may or may not have called asylum seekers “animals.” That number does not count the 15,000 who have retweeted Elliott’s tweet.

One amazing aspect of this story is just how willing allegedly thorough newsmen were to believe the supposed context provided by some guy named Mark Elliott. Few who commented on his tweet appear to have asked, “Is this really the context in which these remarks were made? Did the president really say this?” Mark Elliott’s say-so was apparently good enough for everybody.

And many of the people angrily commenting on it seem to have forgotten entirely that we had this exact same fight one year ago about these exact same comments pulled from this exact same White House video. Do they really not remember any of this?

So, there you have it: A person you have never heard of managed somehow to get mainstream reporters, celebrities with millions of followers, members of Congress, and presidential candidates to share a lie based on a year-old video that most of them had already seen. The fact that a single, intentionally dishonest tweet sparked a viral debate this weekend over comments that have already been litigated should scare you.

At this rate, the Russians and Chinese don’t even have to put in any effort sowing discord and distrust in the U.S. with targeted disinformation campaigns. Just put everyone on Twitter, and it’s all done for them.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-single-twitter-user-showed-just-how-easy-it-is-to-mislead-anti-trump-politicians-and-media

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Felicity Huffman, 13 others to plead guilty in college admissions scandal – NBCNews.com
Felicity Huffman, 13 others to plead guilty in college admissions scandal – NBCNews.com

Actress Felicity Huffman is among 14 defendants in the college admissions scandal who are expected to plead guilty, according to the Department of Justice.

Huffman, who starred in the ABC hit “Desperate Housewives,” admitted to paying $15,000 to get her older daughter unlimited time for her SAT test and to have a proctor administer the test and correct the answers.

Huffman’s husband, William H. Macy, was not charged in the FBI investigation.

Huffman said in a statement Monday that she accepted full responsibility for her actions and would accept the consequences.

“I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community,” Huffman said. “I want to apologize to them and, especially, I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college, and to their parents who make tremendous sacrifices to support their children and do so honestly.”

The actress also said that her daughter “knew absolutely nothing” about her deal with Singer and that she “betrayed” her child.

“This transgression toward her and the public I will carry for the rest of my life,” Huffman said.

The FBI probe exposed a network of wealthy parents who allegedly paid the scheme’s organizer, William Rick Singer, millions of dollars to boost their children’s chances of getting into selective colleges and universities such as Yale, Georgetown and Stanford.

Singer pleaded guilty last month to charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.

Huffman agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, according to federal prosecutors.

The maximum sentence for those charges is 20 years in prison and three years of supervised release and fines.

However, it is doubtful that since there were no other charges committed with the fraud and no violent crime involved that Huffman will spend anywhere near the 20 years in prison.

A plea hearing date has not yet been set.

Huffman appeared in court in Boston on Wednesday, along with fellow actress Lori Loughlin who is also charged in the scandal. Neither of the women entered pleas at that time and the separate appearances before the judge lasted only minutes.

Doha Madani is a breaking news reporter for NBC News. 

Tom Winter

Tom Winter is a producer and reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit based in New York, covering crime, courts, terrorism, and financial fraud on the East Coast.

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Trump is removing US Secret Service director – CNN
Trump is removing US Secret Service director – CNN

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    It’s Trump’s fault that the border is a mess and no new DHS secretary will change that – Washington Examiner
    It’s Trump’s fault that the border is a mess and no new DHS secretary will change that – Washington Examiner

    President Trump is never going to find whatever magic fix he’s searching for in a new secretary of Homeland Security.

    Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned from the department Sunday after months of reports that the president was dissatisfied with her work, isn’t responsible for the chaos at the border. More than two years into his presidency, the blame is solely on Trump.

    It’s Trump who promised to build a wall. It’s Trump who railed against the gang members, drug traffickers, and rapists taking advantage of lax border security to enter the country. It’s Trump who won a national election, against all odds, in large part for declaring that he could bring order to our jungle of an immigration system.

    And it’s Trump who has squandered all of his political capital, plus two years of his party fully in control of Congress, on a lazy tax cut and an ill-fated attempt to repeal Obamacare. (And guess what he’s doing now? Still trying to repeal Obamacare!)

    [Read more: Ann Coulter celebrates Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation: ‘Hallelujah!’]

    Average Americans are happy to have another $900 at the end of the year, thanks to the tax cut, but what difference does it make when their schools are being overrun by MS-13 gang members? What difference does it make when all of their country’s government resources aren’t going to making their lives better, but to the Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans pouring across the border and now getting free healthcare and child services?

    It’s true that nearly every action Trump has taken on immigration has been hamstrung by absurd court orders and a Democratic Party that supports a policy of open borders and zero deportations. But the excuse doesn’t work when you realize that Trump, rather than devoting every fiber of his being to halting the invasion he’s been warning about since 2015, instead chose to hand the keys of his presidency to Paul Ryan.

    Fixing the border requires a wall, yes, but more pressing is the asylum law that’s turning our country into a waste dump for Central America’s problems. The only way to change that is through Congress, but Trump can only talk about “the wall,” “the wall,” “the wall.” It’s like banging your head against one.

    He missed his little window (two years) to get it done when he and Republicans had a hold on Congress. Now it’s probably too late. It’s not Nielsen’s fault, and her successor won’t make any difference that she didn’t.

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    Why Iran just listed US military personnel as terrorists – Washington Examiner
    Why Iran just listed US military personnel as terrorists – Washington Examiner

    Responding to the Trump administration’s decision to list the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group, Iran on Tuesday officially listed U.S. military personnel in the Middle East as terrorists.

    Iran’s hardliner faction intends for that response to deter the U.S. from continuing its pressure campaign against Iran. It wants the U.S. to fear attacks on its forces in the Middle East. But while it is likely that the IRGC will lash out in some fashion, their fury is really a function of fear, not confidence.

    The Iranian hardliners know that Trump’s action will hamper the IRGC’s ability to earn foreign capital. That’s because foreign companies, and European ones in particular, will fear doing business in Iran lest they face new U.S. sanctions. Considering that the IRGC controls critical industries in the Iranian economy, such as the telecommunications and energy sectors, Trump’s listing is a big problem for the organization.

    IRGC commanding officer Mohammad Ali Jafari proved as much Sunday when he warned that “If (the Americans) make such a stupid move, the U.S. Army and American security forces stationed in West Asia will lose their current status of ease and serenity.” Trying to placate the hardliners, the more-moderate foreign minister Javad Zarif called for the U.S. military’s Central Command to be listed as a terrorist organization. Pro-hardliner media have also hinted at Iranian terrorist reprisals, warning that Trump’s action will mean more chaos in the Middle East.

    Nevertheless, it’s clear the hardliners feel increasingly encircled. This situation is unstable.

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    Bernie Sanders fast facts: 5 things to know about the Vermont senator – Fox News
    Bernie Sanders fast facts: 5 things to know about the Vermont senator – Fox News
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    Sanders on Fox News town hall: It’s important to talk to Trump supporters

    Bernie Sanders made waves as a presidential candidate in 2016 — with supporters backing the Vermont senator’s call for a “political revolution” and repeating the popular campaign phrase “Feel The Bern.”

    And though Hillary Clinton ultimately defeated him to become the Democratic party’s nominee, the 77-year-old is making quite a comeback.

    Sanders has already hauled in a whopping $18.2 million since launching his 2020 campaign in February, surpassing his 2016 numbers. He appears to be miles ahead of his competitors, making at least $6 million more than his closest fundraising opponent, California Sen. Kamala Harris, who has pulled in at least $12 million in donations.

    Sanders will join Fox News Channel for a Town Hall co-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Monday, April 15, at 6:30 p.m. ET in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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    Name recognition has apparently worked in Sanders’ favor this time around.

    His name remains on the top of polls, typically behind former Vice President Joe Biden who has stayed silent about his 2020 plans thus far. In an early March Monmouth poll, Sanders sat just 3 percentage points behind Biden. Weeks later, in a Fox News poll, Democratic primary voters once again voted him as their second choice — with Biden at 31 percent and Sanders at 23 percent.

    Before Sanders discusses his political record, economic policies and ideas on stage during Fox News’ Town Hall next Monday, take a look at five fast facts to know about the self-described Democratic socialist.

    He’s the longest-serving Independent member of Congress in U.S. history

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    Sanders has served as Vermont’s senator since 2007. Before that, he spent 16 years as a lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives. His combined years of service in the government makes him the longest-serving Independent member of Congress ever, according to his official bio.

    His political career kickstarted in 1981 when he was elected mayor of Burlington by just 10 votes. Sanders often points to his narrow mayoral victory as an example that every vote counts.

    “In 1981, I won my first election to become Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes. Please remember that every vote matters and you can make a real difference in shaping our nation’s future,” tweeted Sanders in October 2018 ahead of the midterm elections.

    He was mayor for roughly eight years before stepping down to gain a seat in the House in 1991.

    He was the first non-Christian candidate to win a presidential primary

    Though he didn’t publicly discuss this historic moment, many pointed out in 2016 that Sanders was the first non-Christian to win a presidential primary.

    Sanders, who is Jewish, has said in the past that his spiritual nature has encouraged him to seek office.

    “I believe that there is a connection between all living things and that my belief in God requires me to do all that I can to follow the ‘Golden Rule,’ to do unto others and as I would have them do unto me,” he once said, according to USA Today. “As a public servant, it requires me to do all that I can to ensure that every person lives with dignity and security.”

    He once worked as a carpenter, writer

    According to his Congressional biography, Sanders once worked as a carpenter and journalist before trying his hand at politics.

    After spending time in Israel, the Brooklyn native moved to Vermont, taking on various jobs including carpentry, filmmaking and freelance writing.

    “His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t,” Denny Morrisseau, a Liberty Union member in the early 1970s, told Politico in 2015.

    He didn’t make a decent living off his writing either. He submitted articles to local newspapers including the Vermont Freeman and Vermont Life, among others, the publication states.

    He was first to propose “Medicare for All”

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    The “Medicare for All” bill was first introduced in 2016 by Sanders, who said it would be another step toward achieving universal health care.

    “Medicare for All” is a single-payer health insurance plan that would require all U.S. residents to be covered with no copays and deductibles for medical services. The insurance industry would be regulated to play a minor role in the system.

    BERNIE SANDERS, IN IOWA, PROMISES ‘MEDICARE FOR ALL’; SAYS TRUMP ‘EMBARASSES US EVERY SINGLE DAY’

    “[Sanders’] plan will cover the entire continuum of health care, from inpatient to outpatient care; preventive to emergency care; primary care to specialty care, including long-term and palliative care; vision, hearing and oral health care; mental health and substance abuse services; as well as prescription medications, medical equipment, supplies, diagnostics and treatments,” Sanders’ old campaign website explained. “Patients will be able to choose a health care provider without worrying about whether that provider is in-network and will be able to get the care they need without having to read any fine print or trying to figure out how they can afford the out-of-pocket costs.”

    The phrase “for all” doesn’t mean the plan would instantly give every American insurance. It would be slowly extended to citizens (from older to younger) over a period of four years, NPR reports.

    You can read more about the plan here.

    He’s had several failed campaigns

    His 2016 Democratic bid was perhaps his most notable campaign fail in recent history — but that’s not the only time Sanders has faced a political loss.

    He also had unsuccessful Independent runs for U.S. Senate in 1972 and 1974, according to his Congressional bio. And he lost the election for governor of Vermont in 1972, 1976 and 1986.

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    Woman accused of illegal entry to Mar-a-Lago had numerous electronic devices, thousands in cash – CNN
    Woman accused of illegal entry to Mar-a-Lago had numerous electronic devices, thousands in cash – CNN

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    Hopes For Palestinian State Fade As Israeli Settlements Expand In West Bank – NPR
    Hopes For Palestinian State Fade As Israeli Settlements Expand In West Bank – NPR

    Israeli settlers celebrate the Jewish Purim holiday at al-Shuhada street in the divided West Bank town of Hebron, on March 21.

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    When it came down to a final issue for Israeli voters to ponder before Tuesday’s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an extraordinary campaign pledge: If re-elected, he said on Saturday, he would annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

    Such a move would represent a dramatic, far-right policy change for Israel, staking a permanent claim over lands Palestinians demand for their own state.

    Even if it is an election tactic to energize his nationalist base, Netanyahu’s annexation pledge is a fitting final chord to a decade of his administration, which began with a reluctant embrace of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ended with the chances of such an outcome dwindling to a new low point.

    Since Netanyahu returned to office in 2009, the Jewish settler movement has grown in size and influence. That evolution was apparent last month in the West Bank city of Hebron.

    In one of the West Bank’s tensest cities — where several hundred Israeli settlers live in guarded enclaves among some 200,000 Palestinians — Israelis dressed up in costume and paraded down the main street. It was the Jewish carnival holiday of Purim, but the settlers were celebrating more than just the religious festivities.

    In January, they had successfully lobbied Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to expel an international observer group, tasked with patrolling Hebron and making Palestinians in the city feel safe after an Israeli settler killed 29 Palestinian worshippers there on Purim in 1994.

    Chicago native and Hebron settler Yisrael Zeev is in costume as a pipe-smoking farmer and driving a float in the Purim holiday parade. A red swath from the uniform of an international observer from the recently expelled Temporary International Presence in Hebron flutters on a pole.

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    “We will not allow the continuation of an international force that acts against us,” Netanyahu said in a statement about the Temporary International Presence in Hebron.

    Settlers accused the organization of causing friction and undermining Israeli rule in the city. But member countries of the group criticized the closure of the mission, saying the observers “promoted conflict resolution between Israelis and Palestinians” and helped prevent violence.

    It was Netanyahu, during his first term in office in 1996, who had allowed for the founding of the unarmed civilian group.

    “Apparently they were very temporary, and we are the permanent Israeli presence in Hevron,” said Yisrael Zeev, an Israeli settler in the city, calling the city by its Hebrew name.

    Zeev drove a float in the parade dressed as an American farmer, with a swath of an observer’s uniform flapping from a pole like the flag of a vanquished enemy. Some settlers, including a candidate for national elections, dressed in costume as the expelled international observers.

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    “Everything’s going in the right direction,” Zeev said.

    Israel captured the West Bank in 1967, and has occupied it ever since. Both Israelis and Palestinians have historical ties there.

    In 2009, a few months after entering office, Netanyahu gave a speech that has become famous: For the first time, he publicly called for the creation of Palestinian state. He was facing pressure from then-President Obama, who advocated for a Palestinian state alongside Israel: a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    But it didn’t stop Netanyahu from enlarging Jewish settlements in the occupied land. Apart from a 10-month settlement construction freeze at Obama’s request, Netanyahu’s government has continued to build homes for Israelis in the West Bank, leaving the map of what could be left for a Palestinian state looking like Swiss cheese.

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    About three-quarters of the construction has taken place in settlements deep in the West Bank “that Israel will probably need to evict in the framework of a two-state agreement,” said Hagit Ofran of Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group that examines aerial photos to count each settlement unit built. The homes range from spacious U.S. suburb-style homes to multifamily structures to trailers set up on a hill.

    “Every year they build at least 2,000 units, which means thousands of new settlers every year in the West Bank,” Ofran said. “If we want to have peace, specifically where Netanyahu is building is in places that will be harder to compromise.”

    The phenomenon of completely new settlements, which Israel previously stopped, was renewed during Netanyahu’s tenure. Settlers built a few dozen small outposts without government permission but with Israel largely turning a blind eye, Ofran said.

    By the time Netanyahu ran for re-election in 2015, he vocally opposed a Palestinian state. Recently, according to Peace Now figures, Israel has advanced more plans for settlement construction, with little opposition from President Trump.

    “The evolution isn’t just that [Netanyahu has] gone more to the right. It’s that the entire country has gone more to the right, because the Palestinians have killed a lot of their support in Israel,” said Israeli political analyst Reuven Hazan.

    Most of the Israeli public doesn’t believe a peace deal is possible now, he said, with instability in the Middle East and a fractured Palestinian leadership divided between the militant Hamas in Gaza and a weakened Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

    “The prospects of a peace partner or a viable peace process is not something that you can sell to the man or woman on the street, nor can you win an election on today,” Hazan said.

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    In the runup to Tuesday’s elections, two dozen senior government ministers and lawmakers released video statements endorsing a policy once considered fringe. Instead of negotiating with Palestinians about the West Bank, they’re calling for Israel to unilaterally annex parts of it.

    Netanyahu resisted that move for years. But last month, following Trump’s backing of Israel’s annexation of land it captured from Syria in 1967, Netanyahu argued Israel has the right to keep land it seized in war.

    In a TV interview on Saturday, just days before the elections, he pledged to “impose Israeli sovereignty” over Jewish settlements if re-elected, including isolated ones deep in the West Bank. In a weekend meeting with settler leaders, Netanyahu said he would do so “immediately” after the vote, said settler leader Yossi Dagan. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem declined comment.

    Palestinians see the chances of having their own state slipping away.

    In Hebron, Palestinian resident Mufid Sharabati stands on his roof and counts the abandoned homes — about 10 that he can see. He says about 60 Palestinian families left the neighborhood in the last five years because life among Israeli settlers and soldiers has become too difficult.

    There have been reports of settler harassment of Palestinians, as well as a recent wave of Palestinian stabbings against soldiers in the city. Sharabati says he must show Israeli soldiers his assigned number, 711, written in Sharpie on his ID cover, to enter the enclave he lives in alongside Israeli settlers. He is part of a civil society campaign called “Dismantle the Ghetto.”

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    Jewish settlers in Hebron say it is important they live in the city because of its biblical history — as the traditional site of the tomb of Abraham and other ancestors — and because it was home to an old Jewish community that ended when Arabs killed some 69 Hebron Jews in 1929.

    Israelis often view Hebron as an extreme example of Israeli-Palestinian friction — the only place in the West Bank where Israeli settlers live under military guard in the heart of a city among Palestinians.

    “There is nothing extreme about Hebron,” said Yehuda Shaul of Breaking the Silence, a left-wing Israeli veterans group shunned by Netanyahu’s government for its work collecting unflattering soldier testimonies about their service in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. “Restrictions of movement do you have only in Hebron? All over the West Bank. Settler violence in Hebron? You have all over the West Bank. Military presence only in Hebron? All over the West Bank.”

    The Palestinian-only part of Hebron is accessible from the settler area through a military checkpoint. Palestinian politics professor Assad Aweiwei stands on the Palestinian side. He’s not allowed to cross through.

    “This is apartheid politics,” he said. “We must change the condition. We must be equal in this land. We can live together.”

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas failed to deliver on his promise of an independent Palestinian state, and a growing number of Palestinians — including Aweiwei — advocate one shared state with Israelis. Aweiwei says Palestinians would likely become the majority, like apartheid South Africa became a black-majority democracy.

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    That would put an end to Israel as a Jewish state.

    In the last decade under Netanyahu, Israel has approved more settlement housing in Hebron, and invested in tourism, archaeology and educational tours to normalize the tense city for average Israelis who tend to avoid it — Israelis like Ophir Solonikov.

    In late March, he visited Hebron for the first time on his 50 birthday and on the Purim holiday. He’s not a Netanyahu voter, not a settler, and not religious. But he sees the West Bank city — where Jewish and Muslim traditions say Abraham is buried — as a part of Israel.

    Solonikov thinks Israel should pay Palestinians to leave — a policy promoted by a far-right libertarian candidate he supports, Moshe Feiglin, who is shaping up to be an influential kingmaker in the close election race.

    “I dunno,” Solonikov said as holiday music blared, “if you do it in good will, it’s a good idea.”

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    Nielsen out at Homeland Security as Trump focuses on border – Fox News
    Nielsen out at Homeland Security as Trump focuses on border – Fox News

    FILE – In this Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, file photo, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, speaks with Border Patrol agents near a newly fortified border wall structure in Calexico, Calif. In a tweet on Sunday, April 7, 2019, President Donald Trump said he’s accepted Nielsen’s resignation. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

    WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned amid President Donald Trump’s growing frustration and bitterness over the number of Central American families crossing the southern border.

    Trump announced on Sunday in a tweet that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan would be taking over as acting head of the department. McAleenan is a longtime border official who is well respected by many members of Congress and within the administration. The decision to name a top immigration officer to the post reflects Trump’s priority for the sprawling department founded to combat terrorism following the Sept. 11 attacks.

    “I have determined that it is the right time for me to step aside,” Nielsen wrote in her resignation letter . “I hope that the next secretary will have the support of Congress and the courts in fixing the laws which have impeded our ability to fully secure America’s borders and which have contributed to discord in our nation’s discourse.”

    Though Trump aides were eyeing a staff shake-up at the Department of Homeland Security and had already withdrawn the nomination for another key immigration post, the development Sunday was unexpected.

    Still, it was unclear how McAleenan would immediately assume the role. The agency’s undersecretary of management, Claire Grady, is technically next in line for the job.

    Nielsen traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday with Trump to participate in a roundtable with border officers and local law enforcement. There she echoed Trump’s comments on the situation at the border, though she ducked out of the room while Trump spoke. As they toured a section of newly rebuilt barriers, Nielsen was at Trump’s side, introducing him to local officials. She returned to Washington afterward as Trump continued on a fundraising trip to California and Nevada.

    Nielsen had grown increasingly frustrated by what she saw as a lack of support from other departments and increased meddling by Trump aides on difficult immigration issues, according to three people familiar with details of her resignation. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

    She went into the White House on Sunday to meet with Trump not knowing whether she’d be fired or would resign. She ended up resigning, though she was not forced to do so, they said.

    Nielsen, who says she’s staying on until Wednesday, is the latest person felled in the Trump administration’s unprecedented churn of top staff and Cabinet officials, brought about by the president’s mercurial management style, insistence on blind loyalty and rash policy announcements.

    Nielsen was also the highest profile female Cabinet member, and her exit leaves DHS along with the Pentagon and the White House staff itself without permanent heads. Patrick Shanahan has held the post of acting defense secretary since the former secretary, Jim Mattis, was pushed out in December over criticism of the president’s Syria withdrawal plans. Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has held his post since January, following John Kelly’s resignation last year.

    McAleenan has helped shape many of the administration’s policies to date and is considered highly competent by congressional leaders, the White House and Homeland Security officials. But it’s unclear if he can have much more of an effect on the issues at the border. The Trump administration has bumped up against legal restrictions and court rulings that have hamstrung many of its major efforts to remake border security.

    Rep. Joaquin Castro, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, was critical of Nielsen, saying she spent her tenure “championing President Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant agenda,” and he called McAleenan’s appointment “deeply disturbing.”

    “He cannot be trusted as Acting DHS Secretary based on his record of prioritizing Trump’s harmful policies that undermine national security and the economy, and hurt vulnerable families and children at the border,” Castro, a Texas Democrat, said in a statement.

    Tensions between the White House and Nielsen have persisted almost from the moment she became secretary, after her predecessor, Kelly, became the White House chief of staff in 2017. Nielsen was viewed as resistant to some of the harshest immigration measures supported by the president and his aides, particularly senior adviser Stephen Miller, both on matters around the border and others like protected status for some refugees.

    Once Kelly left the White House, Nielsen’s days appeared to be numbered, and she had expected to be pushed out last November.

    During the government shutdown over Trump’s insistence for funding for a border wall, Nielsen’s standing inside the White House appeared to rise. But in recent weeks, as a new wave of migration has taxed resources along the border and as Trump sought to regain control of the issue for his 2020 re-election campaign, tensions flared anew.

    The final straw came when Trump gave Nielsen no heads-up or opportunity to discuss his decision to pull the nomination of acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Ron Vitiello — a move seen as part of a larger effort by Miller, an immigration hardliner, and his allies at the White House to clean house at the department and bring in more people who share their views, the people said.

    Nielsen had wanted to discuss the move with Trump during their visit to the border Friday, but when there was no time, she asked for the meeting Sunday. She walked into it prepared to resign, depending on what she heard. The people described mounting frustrations on both sides, with Trump exasperated at the situation at the border and Nielsen frustrated by White House actions she felt were counterproductive.

    Arrests along the southern border have skyrocketed recently. Border agents are on track to make 100,000 arrests and denials of entry at the southern border in March, more than half of which are families with children. A press conference to announce the most recent border numbers — scheduled to be held by McAleenan on Monday — was postponed.

    Nielsen dutifully pushed Trump’s immigration policies, including funding for his border wall, and defended the administration’s practice of separating children from parents. She told a Senate committee that removing children from parents facing criminal charges happens “in the United States every day.” But she was also instrumental in ending the policy.

    Under Nielsen, migrants seeking asylum are waiting in Mexico as their cases progress. She also moved to abandon longstanding regulations that dictate how long children are allowed to be held in immigration detention and requested bed space from the U.S. military for 12,000 people in an effort to detain all families who cross the border. Right now there is space for about 3,000 families, and facilities are at capacity.

    Nielsen also advocated for strong cybersecurity defense and often said she believed the next major terror attack would occur online — not by planes or bombs. She was tasked with helping states secure elections following Russian interference during the 2018 election.

    She led the federal agency since December 2017 and was this administration’s third Homeland Security secretary. A protege of Kelly’s, he brought her to the White House after Trump named him chief of staff.

    Nielsen, 45, previously served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush and worked for the Transportation Security Administration.

    She rose through the Trump ranks quickly — joining the transition team after the election to help guide Kelly through the confirmation process. She quickly became a trusted aide to Kelly, and the two worked together to impose order on a dysfunctional White House that lacked clear lines of command.

    House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said her tenure was “a disaster from the start.” The policies she helped create “have been an abysmal failure and have helped create the humanitarian crisis at the border.”

    His Senate counterpart, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said the government needed “steady, informed and effective leadership in the administration and in Congress to have any hope of fixing our out-of-control border security and immigration problems.”

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    Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

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    This story corrects the month in which border agents are on track to make 100,000 arrests and denials of entry to March, not this month.

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    Trump designates elite Iranian military force as a terrorist organization – CNN
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    Bernie Sanders Finds Himself in a New Role as Front-Runner – RealClearPolitics
    Bernie Sanders Finds Himself in a New Role as Front-Runner – RealClearPolitics

    DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is quieting critics who questioned whether he could recapture the energy of his upstart 2016 campaign, surpassing his rivals in early fundraising and establishing himself as an indisputable front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

    Less than two months into his second White House bid , no other declared candidate in the crowded Democratic field currently has amassed so many advantages: a $28 million war chest, a loyal and enthusiastic voter base and a set of clearly defined policy objectives.

    That puts Sanders on markedly different footing than during his first White House run, creating new challenges for a candidate whose supporters relish his role as an underdog and an outsider. He now carries the weight of high expectations and will face heightened scrutiny over everything from the cost and feasibility of his government-funded policy proposals to his tax returns, which he has not yet released. He initially blamed “mechanical issues” for the delay, and his campaign now says he wants to wait until after the April 15 tax filing deadline to fulfill his promise to release a decade worth of returns .

    Sanders has largely embraced his new front-runner status. More than any other candidate, he draws explicit comparisons with President Donald Trump in his campaign remarks, previewing his approach to a general election faceoff with the incumbent Republican. Behind the scenes, Sanders is also building out a larger, more diverse campaign operation, responding to criticism that his 2016 organization skewed too heavily white and male. Campaign officials say the 2020 campaign staff — roughly 100 people and growing — is majority female and 40 percent people of color.

    Still, Sanders’ message and style hasn’t changed from 2016, when he stunned many Democrats by mounting a formidable challenge to Hillary Clinton and besting her in more than 20 primary contests.

    After briefly acquiescing to his advisers’ suggestions that he reveal more about his upbringing and personal history, Sanders has returned to his comfort zone: delivering lengthy campaign speeches chockablock with the same policy prescriptions he campaigned on during the 2016 campaign. In Davenport, Iowa, on Friday night, Sanders spent 63 minutes outlining his views on health care, criminal justice reform and economic inequality.

    “With your help, we are going to complete what we started here,” Sanders told the 1,200-person crowd, referring to his virtual tie with Clinton in the 2016 Iowa caucuses.

    Sanders’ approach underscores his belief that his success in 2016 was not a fluke or simply a function of being the next best alternative to Clinton. His advisers argue the populist economic message Sanders has espoused for years, often in obscurity, has now been embraced not only by a slew of his Democratic rivals, but also Trump.

    “Donald Trump campaigned on economic terms as faux Bernie Sanders. It was taking his language and selling it to the American people,” said Faiz Shakir, Sanders’ campaign manager. “And now how do you defeat faux Bernie Sanders? You defeat him with real Bernie Sanders.”

    Sanders owes some of his fast start to the fact that he never really stopped running for president after the 2016 campaign. Our Revolution, the political group Sanders launched after the campaign, has collected information on voters and held events in early voting states since the last election. Sanders was also active in the 2018 midterms, throwing his support behind progressive Democratic candidates across the country, though many were defeated.

    “He spent 2018 lifting up progressives all over the country,” said Rebecca Katz, a progressive Democratic consultant. “Even though many of them did not win, it was appreciated, it was movement building and it was a different calculation than most politicians make.”

    Despite his strong launch, Sanders’ current standing atop the Democratic field is not entirely enviable. Presidential primaries are long and turbulent, and past elections underscore how many early front-runners have been tossed aside before the first votes are cast. Former Vice President Joe Biden has signaled his expected presidential campaign would serve as a centrist check on Sanders’ brand of progressive politics.

    And though Sanders’ $18 million first-quarter fundraising haul far outpaced the rest of the Democratic field, some rival campaigns breathed a sigh of relief, having anticipated the Vermont senator would clear $20 million or more.

    “He did very well. He could have done better,” said Mo Elleithee, who advised Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and now runs the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service.

    Sanders also still has to prove that he can overcome some of the same vulnerabilities that contributed to his defeat in 2016.

    Chief among them will be bolstering his standing with black voters, one of the most important constituencies in Democratic politics. Black voters overwhelmingly sided with Clinton in 2016, halting Sanders’ momentum when the contest moved into more diverse states. He lost the South Carolina primary by a staggering 48 points.

    Some of Sanders’ top advisers dismiss the notion that he’ll face similar problems in 2020, noting that he has spent time building relationships with black leaders in South Carolina and other Southern states. He’s also sharpened his campaign message on criminal justice issues and racial inequality.

    “I understand that a lot of people took a lot of things out of the South Carolina results,” Shakir said. “We are going to continue to court and address these issues directly, but we are operating with a great deal of confidence that this is going to be a particular demographic that supports Bernie Sanders at the end of the day.”

    Perhaps Sanders’ biggest challenge is overcoming skepticism among voters who may be partial to his focus on economic inequality but fear that nominating a 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist would put Democrats in a weak position against Trump in the general election.

    “That’s a thing that scares me about him,” said Gwen Hobson, a 70-year-old Democratic voter, who attended Sanders’ rally on Friday in Davenport.

    Yet some of Sanders’ longtime supporters say their enthusiasm for him is unshakable. In Davenport on Friday, several voters donned faded t-shirts from Sanders’ 2016 campaign. Melita Tunnicliff, 57, wore a button she bought during that campaign with Sanders’ photo and the phrase “Not For Sale.”

    Asked if she was open to other Democratic candidates this time around, Tunnicliff shook her head no.

    “I’ve been waiting for Bernie,” she said.

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    Boeing, Southwest stock downgraded as 737 Max troubles deepen. Shares slide – CNBC
    Boeing, Southwest stock downgraded as 737 Max troubles deepen. Shares slide – CNBC

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    Wall Street analysts downgraded shares of Boeing and Southwest Airlines on Monday as troubles worsen for the airplane maker’s popular 737 Max jets.

    Boeing announced late Friday plans to cut production of the jet, which has been grounded following the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that killed all 157 people aboard. It was the second fatal crash of the popular aircraft in less than five months and investigators suspect that faulty data feeding into the aircraft’s automated flight system played a major role in both accidents.

    Shares of Boeing tumbled 4.1 percent while Southwest slid 2.7 percent in midday trading.

    Bank of America Merrill Lynch cut its rating on Boeing to neutral from buy Monday, saying it expects production to be delayed by six to nine months.

    Raymond James downgraded Southwest Airlines stock and lowered its earnings projections, citing concerns that the grounding could last through peak summer travel.

    Southwest has 34 Max jets out of its fleet of about 750 aircraft, accounting for roughly 4 percent of its passenger capacity.

    The airline, which reports earnings April 25, said it expects to lose $150 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2019 due to the Max groundings, among other factors like weather-related cancellations, maintenance issues and slowed travel demand. Raymond James said groundings were a “one time” situation, and it expects recuperation through maintenance credits or lower ownership costs of future aircraft.

    American Airlines said it’s extending cancellations of 90 daily flights involving the 737 Max jet by more than a month to June 5.

    Raymond James downgraded Southwest from the equivalent of a buy rating to a hold rating, and lowered its earnings-per-share estimate by 5 cents to $4.40.

    “The reputational loss from these events could erode long-term market share and pricing power of the 737 MAX,” BofA analyst Ronald Epstein said in a note to clients. “A six-month delay also means lower margins due to penalties owed to customers, weaker negotiating position with airlines as airlines consider cancellations, and operational inefficiencies from the production disruption.”

    Boeing is slashing 737 Max production by 20 percent as it tries to find a software fix to get the jets back in the air. The company’s shares have have fallen nearly 9 percent in the past month.

    Despite the groundings, Raymond James said it’s confident in Southwest’s overall ability to maintain “longer term superior margins, FCF profile, and low leverage while capitalizing on technology catch-up and international growth opportunities.”

    The groundings will likely have less impact for American and United since those airlines have fewer 737 Max jets than Southwest, the report noted.

    Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/08/southwest-stock-downgraded-to-market-perform-over-boeings-737-max-jet.html

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    Mother: 5th grader who died after fight hit head on shelf – wpde.com
    Mother: 5th grader who died after fight hit head on shelf – wpde.com
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    Beto O’Rourke calls Israeli leader Netanyahu a ‘racist’ – Fox News
    Beto O’Rourke calls Israeli leader Netanyahu a ‘racist’ – Fox News
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    Beto O’Rourke comapres Trump’s immigration rhetoric to Nazi Germany

    O’Rouke, Castro compare Trump to the Third Reich; reaction from former ICE director Tom Homan and Catalina magazine founder Cathy Areu.

    Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is once again taking aim at Benjamin Netanyahu, going so far as to label the conservative Israeli leader a “racist” who’s an obstacle to Mideast peace.

    Asked about the peace process while campaigning in Iowa City, Iowa, the former three-term congressman from Texas said that “the U.S.-Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships we have on the planet.”

    LIEBERMAN: NETANYAHU NOT A RACIST

    But targeting Netanyahu, O’Rourke argued that if the U.S.-Israeli relation is to be successful going forward, “it must be able to transcend a prime minister who is racist as he warns of Arabs coming to the polls who want to defy any prospect for peace, as he threatens to annex the West Bank and who has sided with a far-right racist party in order to maintain his hold on power.”

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    O’Rourke’s criticism came just hours before Tuesday’s election in Israel, where the longtime leader is fighting to keep his right-wing government in power and keep his job as prime minister, all while staring down allegations of corruption.

    If he wins, Netanyahu would become the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history.

    O’ROURKE SLAMS NETANYAHU

    O’Rourke’s pointed comments weren’t the first time he’s slammed Netanyahu. Last month, campaigning in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, he charged that “we have a prime minister in Israel who has openly sided with racists.”

    At the time, O’Rourke also jabbed at Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

    “On the Palestinian side, we have an ineffectual leader. Mahmoud Abbas has not been very effective in bringing his side to the table,” he lamented.

    He also criticized Abbas during Sunday’s stop in Iowa.

    Former Sen. Joe Lieberman disagreed with O’Rourke’s take on Netanyahu.

    Lieberman, who ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination before becoming an independent, claimed that while Netanyahu’s “opinionated” and “controversial,” he’s not intolerant.

    “This is an ally in the midst of an election,” he said on Fox Business Network during an appearance on ‘Varney & Co.’ on Monday. “What I would say, and I know Prime Minister Netanyahu a long time, I agree with him a lot of the time, I sometimes disagree — he’s not a racist.”

    O’Rourke’s comments were part of a larger debate within the Democratic Party over Netanyahu and his government’s treatment of Palestinians.

    Netanyahu is close with Republican President Trump. In the weeks leading up to the Israeli contest, Trump hosted Netanyahu at the White House and signed a proclamation recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel, overturning longstanding U.S. policy.

    The two moves appeared to give Netanyahu a foreign policy boost in the closing weeks before the election.

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/beto-orourke-calls-israeli-leader-netanyahu-a-racist

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    Hunger and an ‘Abandoned’ Hospital: Puerto Rico Waits as Washington Bickers – The New York Times
    Hunger and an ‘Abandoned’ Hospital: Puerto Rico Waits as Washington Bickers – The New York Times

    For Mr. Rosselló, the funding fight is a question of fairness. For every long-term rebuilding project underway in Puerto Rico at this point after Hurricane Maria, there were 28 projects underway in Texas for damage from Hurricane Harvey, and 32 projects in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, the governor said. “Puerto Rico is getting much fewer and much lower resources than any comparable jurisdiction in the United States.”

    A University of Michigan analysis published in the journal BMJ Global Health in January found it took twice as long — four months — for Hurricane Maria survivors in Puerto Rico to receive a comparable amount of individual aid (about $1 billion) as Hurricane Harvey survivors in Texas and Hurricane Irma survivors in Florida, though Maria was stronger and more devastating. Maria killed an estimated 2,975 people in Puerto Rico.

    In addition to the slow disbursement of aid, a report last month from the Government Accountability Office found that the Department of Housing and Urban Development lacked a robust plan to monitor disaster relief grants, including $20 billion approved for Puerto Rico.

    In Vieques, with the hospital out of commission, dialysis patients had to travel to the big island three times a week to get treatment for more than a year after the storm. Several patients died. Finally, in November, a mobile dialysis unit in a shiny trailer arrived at the temporary clinic, allowing local treatments to resume.

    “It wasn’t easy,” said Edwin Alvarado Cordero, a 58-year-old diabetic. Standing across the street from the pharmacy in Isabel Segunda, the bigger of the island’s two towns, Mr. Alvarado recounted his thrice-weekly trips from Vieques to Humacao, which began at 4 a.m. and ended at 5:30 p.m.

    Last year, on the ferry to the big island, Mr. Alvarado suffered a heart attack. He had open-heart surgery and survived. Though he can now receive dialysis in Vieques, he still travels to San Juan periodically to see his cardiologist. Specialists visit Vieques infrequently.

    “It’s far, but it’s better there,” Mr. Alvarado said. “What’s left of the hospital here is grass and horses. They abandoned it.”

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/us/puerto-rico-trump-vieques.html

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    ‘Start Here’: Kirstjen Nielsen quits Homeland Security, kidnapped American freed – ABC News
    ‘Start Here’: Kirstjen Nielsen quits Homeland Security, kidnapped American freed – ABC News

    It’s Monday, April 8, 2019. Let’s start here.

    1. Homeland insecurity

    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen stood next to President Donald Trump at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday.

    Two days later, she walked into the White House and quit.

    Trump confirmed her resignation on Twitter after a meeting about border security turned into a discussion over her future, sources told ABC News.

    However sudden the news felt, it was a long time coming, ABC News White House Correspondent Tara Palmeri tells us on “Start Here.”

    “It was always known that President Trump was not happy with Nielsen,” Palmeri says. “It was a matter of not if it will happen, but when it will happen.”

    2. Tourist trap?

    An American tourist and her Congolese tour guide are safe and in “good health” after they were kidnapped in Uganda and a $500,000 ransom was demanded, police said.

    A spokesperson for Wild Frontiers Uganda told ABC News a ransom was paid — it’s unclear exactly how much or by whom — raising concern over whether doing so may encourage more kidnappings, Senior Foreign Correspondent Ian Pannell reports from Queen Elizabeth National Park.

    “They want tourists to come back, they want them to see that this is a safe place, that it’s an unprecedented event,” Pannell says on today’s podcast. “If money’s changing hands in exchange for foreign tourists, then that potentially endangers others.”

    (Martin Zwick/Reda & Co/UIG via Getty Images, FILE) The Crater Area in Queen Elizabeth National Park with view of the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda, East Africa in this Sept. 18, 2016.file photo.

    3. Fungus among us

    A deadly, drug-resistant fungus has broken out in healthcare facilities — and it’s spreading.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described Candida auris as a “serious global health threat” that can cause bloodstream infections and is difficult to identify with standard technology. More than 587 cases have been confirmed in the U.S., mostly in New York City, New Jersey and Chicago, according to the CDC.

    “What we’ve learned is, this microbe, Candida auris, is resistant to the typical cleaning agents that hospital and health care facilities often use,” says infectious disease specialist Dr. Todd Ellerin. “If we don’t change the way we clean rooms, then the Candida will hang out there. It could potentially infect the next person that enters the room.”

    4. Tangled with weed

    Some immigrants fear careers in the legal cannabis industry have hurt their chances for full citizenship.

    “I was led down a path to confess in my [citizenship] interview that I broke the law, that I willingly had known that I had broken the law,” Oswaldo Barrientos, who worked at a marijuana dispensary in Colorado, tells ABC News.

    Because marijuana remains illegal under federal law, a related job may disqualify someone from lawful residency, ABC News’ Clayton Sandell explains on “Start Here.”

    “It’s legal on one level,” he says, “and illegal on another.”

    (ABC News) Denver Mayor Michael Hancock listens during a meeting about immigration problems stemming with legal marijuana jobs.

    “Start Here,” ABC News’ flagship podcast, offers a straightforward look at the day’s top stories in 20 minutes. Listen for free every weekday on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn or the ABC News app. Follow @StartHereABC on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for exclusive content and show updates.

    Elsewhere:

    ‘Leaving only a human skull and a pair of pants’: Lions feast on a suspected poacher killed by an elephant.

    ‘John asked co-workers to take pictures of him’: A man accused of murdering his elderly mother asks colleagues to help with his alibi.

    ‘We are pleased to be able to reach resolution in this matter’: Motel 6 agrees to pay $12 million after illegally sharing the personal information of 80,000 customers with U.S. immigration officials.

    From our friends at FiveThirtyEight:

    Willians Astudillo is a baseball enigma: While he looks something like Bartolo Colon, he’s hitting like Ty Cobb.

    Doff your cap:

    The U.S. Postal Service said it will honor George H.W. Bush by releasing a commemorative stamp on June 12, which would’ve been the former president’s 95th birthday.

    The stamp features a portrait of Bush painted by Michael J. Deas from a 1997 photograph taken by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

    Bush, the 41st president, died Nov. 30, 2018.

    Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/US/start-here-kirstjen-nielsen-quits-homeland-security-kidnapped-american/story?id=62142321

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    How Israel Chooses a Leader and What’s at Stake – The New York Times
    How Israel Chooses a Leader and What’s at Stake – The New York Times

    Mr. Netanyahu could be indicted. Israel’s attorney general announced last month that he planned to bring charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

    A final decision on charges is likely by year’s end. Under the current law, Mr. Netanyahu, if re-elected, would not have to resign until a final conviction, although new legislation or public pressure could force him to step down. Mr. Netanyahu has described the charges as a baseless partisan witch hunt. But with a first sitting prime minister to be charged, Israel would be entering uncharted legal and political terrain.

    The uncertainty has worked against Mr. Netanyahu in the prelude to the vote.

    “The attorney general’s report has done something that has never happened in Israel’s 70-year history, and that is that a prime minister is under a legal cloud,” said David Makovsky, an expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

    The election also is the first time that three former heads of the army, the Israel Defense Forces, have united to run for office. The Blue and White alliance is led by Mr. Gantz and two other veteran generals, Gabi Ashkenazi and Moshe Yaalon.

    They have teamed up with a well-known centrist party, Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid, a former journalist, television host and finance minister. Mr. Gantz has agreed to hand off the prime minister position to Mr. Lapid after two and a half years if their parties win.

    While Mr. Netanyahu has a strong record of defending Israel, the Blue and White alliance’s military credentials have made it more difficult for him to attack Mr. Gantz and his colleagues as weak on security.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/world/middleeast/israel-election-explainer.html

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