Friday, August 24, 2018

Friday's Headlines: Critics fear Trump’s attacks are inflicting lasting damage on the justice system

 
Democracy Dies in Darkness
 
 
Today's Headlines
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
 
 
Critics fear Trump's attacks are inflicting lasting damage on the justice system
President Trump took his criticism of the criminal justice system to new heights, alarming national security and law enforcement officials who fear the president is seeking to protect himself from encroaching investigations at the expense of American ­institutions.
The Fix | Analysis
Some of Trump's allies seem to have finally had it with him
Michael Cohen. Jeff Sessions. Maybe tabloid boss David Pecker. In the span of three days, the president may have lost the loyalties of three people he used to rely on.
 
Sessions pushes back on Trump, says Justice Dept. won't be influenced by politics
The statement came after Trump lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying he failed to take control of the Justice Department and was given his job only because of his loyalty. Two senators suggested Sessions might be replaced.
 
'Dangerous and poisoned': Critics blast Trump for backing white nationalist conspiracy theory on South Africa
The president's inaccurate tweet about the "large scale killing" of white farmers marked his latest bid to signal common cause with nationalist movements abroad.
 
One hates Trump. The other loves him. But as he comes to town, both of these W.Va. bus drivers see a bleak America.
They may not share opinions on the president, but longtime friends Paul Black and Paul Cochran have an almost identical view of their struggling community and the challenges facing the kids on their school buses.
 
Retropolis | The Past, Rediscovered
He saved JFK's life during WWII — with the help of an SOS carved on a coconut
William F. Liebenow, who was buried Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery, never liked to brag about rescuing John F. Kennedy when the future president and his PT-109 crew were stranded on a Pacific island in 1943.
 
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Opinions
 
A cancer on the presidency
 
I was an astronaut. We need a Space Force.
 
Last chance, Republicans
 
Mike Pompeo faces a moment of truth on North Korea
 
No collusion? We'll see. But what about tax fraud?
 
Arming teachers with federal education money? Are they even thinking?
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As Hurricane Lane nears, Hawaii braces for potentially devastating flash floods, mudslides and waves of up to 25 feet
With a major hurricane bearing down on the state for the first time since 1992, residents shifted their attention from one natural disaster — volcanic eruptions — to another.
 
 
Australian prime minister ousted by his party's conservatives
A dispute over greenhouse gas emissions capped an ongoing feud between Malcolm Turnbull and the right wing of his own Liberal Party, which voted Friday to make Scott Morrison the country's fourth prime minister in five years.
 
Analysis
By a 3-to-1 margin, Trump supporters embrace his personality over his policies
Most Americans, however, think he hasn't set a high moral standard and has worked to inappropriately enrich himself and his allies.
 
Majority-black Georgia county fires consultant who proposed closing two-thirds of its polling places
The move comes ahead of a scheduled Friday vote on the plan — a meeting that activists plan to pack, saying they remain wary of the Board of Elections for taking the proposal seriously in the first place.
 
As stakes rise in Nia Wilson case, simmering racial tensions intensify in Oakland
Calls to press hate-crime charges against a white, schizophrenic felon who is suspected of attacking two black women are straining a gentrifying California city that has been steadily losing its black population.
 
Early Lead | Analysis
ESPN's Michelle Beadle re-ups football boycott as she blasts Urban Meyer, Ohio State
She isn't the only ESPN employee firing away at the coach.
 
Safest level of alcohol consumption is none, worldwide study shows
But don't tell that to the Danes, Portuguese or Romanians.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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