HUFFPOST - Venezuela’s Acting President Signs Oil Industry Overhaul, Easing State Control To Lure Investors
It comes weeks after the U.S. launched a military strike inside the country.
HUFFPOST - 'Very Dangerous': Trump Hits Canada With His Strangest Warning Yet
Critics on social media gave the president the cold shoulder over this comment.
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NYTIMES (Trish Bendix) - Jimmy Kimmel Teases ‘Melania’
The late night host said, “Not since ‘The Terminator’ has there been this much excitement for a movie about a European cyborg.”
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NPR (The Associated Press) - Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over leaked tax information
President Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, accusing them of failing to prevent a leak of his tax information to news outlets.
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NYTIMES (Thant Myint-U) - Trump’s Board of Peace Is Anything But
America has conveniently forgotten that it once took the world to end conflicts.
NYTIMES (W.J. Hennigan) - The End of Nuclear Arms Control
Once the New START treaty ends, we will have returned to an era without limits, when arsenals can reach unconstrained heights.
NYTIMES (Alexandra Stevenson and Peter Eavis) - Panama Court Strikes Down Hong Kong Firm’s Canal Contract
President Trump has said he wants American control of the canal, putting the longtime ports operator, CK Hutchison, in the cross-hairs of the U.S.-China trade conflict.
NYTIMES (Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse) - Democrats Reach Spending Deal With Trump, Seeking to Rein In ICE
Democrats and the White House agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they negotiate restrictions on an immigration crackdown. Senators said they hoped to vote on the deal on Friday.
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AXIOS (Andrew Solender) - Republican to force vote on expelling Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress
Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) said Thursday he will force a vote next week to expel Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) from Congress over allegations of campaign finance violations and other financial misconduct. Why it matters: The announcement comes after a House Ethics investigative subcommittee said it found "substantial evidence" to support the criminal charges Cherfilus-McCormick is facing, which she denies. - The panel released a 59-page report Thursday citing "substantial evidence of conduct consistent with the allegations" in the indictment charging her, "as well as more extensive misconduct." - Cherfilus-McCormick said in a statement responding to the report: "I reject these allegations and remain confident the full facts…
NYTIMES (Jin Yu Young) - South Korean Stocks, Kospi Index Are Trading at a Record High
Spurred by government policies and the global A.I. boom, the market’s value has jumped by hundreds of billions of dollars. Individual investors have piled in.