Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Wednesday's Headlines: Candidates reach for the ticket to Democratic debates: 65,000 donors

 
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Candidates reach for the ticket to Democratic debates: 65,000 donors
The new criteria have proved to be a boon to lesser-known candidates seeking a national stage and could create challenges for more-established politicians seeking to break away from the pack.
Sanders, Warren are struggling to draw interest from black voters
The two 2020 presidential contenders often confront skepticism — if not ambivalence or indifference — from black voters, who have been notably absent from their campaign events.
 
Mueller team cites 'press of other work' in seeking delay to open Manafort records
The filing comes amid public signs that the special counsel's investigation is winding down and speculation that he could any day transmit his final report to the attorney general.
 
Mueller sought Cohen emails months before FBI raid, warrants show
Search warrants unsealed in the case of Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, offer new insights into how investigators worked to scour the digital trails of Trump associates.
 
A Trojan horse: USC was the most frequent target in alleged admissions scheme
Interim president Wanda M. Austin acknowledged the breadth of the university's exposure to the scandal poses many questions. Chief among them: Why weren't alarms raised internally years ago?
 
'They are twins': Netanyahu's kinship with Trump has never been clearer
As the longtime Israeli leader seeks a fifth term in elections next month, the similarities between the two polarizing figures — both under investigation for possible wrongdoing in what each has labeled a "witch hunt" — are being thrown into ever starker relief.
 
Their ancestors fled U.S. slavery for Mexico. Now they're looking north again.
Some Mascogos are considering coming back to the nation that enslaved their forebears. Their relationship with the United States is fraught, but their reason for returning — both legally and illegally — is not unique: They're looking for work.
 
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The White House hasn't turned over a single piece of paper to my committee
 
The New Zealand killer and the Islamic State are cut from the same cloth
 
The true running mates of 2020 deserve a better script
 
Devin Nunes is having a cow
 
The U.S. needs to treat white supremacism as the worldwide killer it is
 
I disagreed with Obama. But Trump has made that insignificant.
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First victims of Christchurch shootings laid to rest, as police say gunman had planned another attack
Authorities say the suspect was on his way to attack another target when he was apprehended. They did not disclose the target but a manifesto the alleged shooter posted online had made reference to another mosque.
 
 
After unusual tweet-lashing, is Trump turning on Fox News?
The spat comes as Fox's parent company is undergoing a generational change — one that produced another, perhaps more subtle sign of independence from the president.
 
White House is ignoring House panels' requests for documents, Democrats say
The Trump administration maintains that the requests are too expansive or infringe on presidential privilege. But Democrats say the White House is preventing them from carrying out their oversight duty.
 
'Everything is destroyed': Fears of a massive human toll follow cyclone in southern Africa
Government and aid agencies sounded the alarm after aerial footage showed a vast area of wreckage wrought by Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique.
 
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Devin Nunes is suing Twitter and a satirical cow over mean tweets. Does he have a case?
Experts say the case is doomed to fail. But at least one of those people believes Nunes could be laying the groundwork for the Supreme Court to reconsider defamation of public officials and overturn a statute passed by Congress.
 
USDA is turning lab cats into cannibals by forcing them to eat feline meat, watchdog says
The goal was to study the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which causes toxoplasmosis, a flu-like disease that can infect humans for weeks or months.
 
A two-day-old Texas chemical fire still hasn't burned itself out, and officials don't know when it will
The fire, which began Sunday near Houston, remained intense enough Tuesday to create its own micro weather system, but officials said the air quality is safe.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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