Mueller indicts Trump associate Roger Stone

Charges include obstruction of an official proceeding, false statements and witness tampering. No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Friday, January 25 MUELLER INDICTS ROGER STONE Roger Stone, an eccentric longtime Republican strategist, was arrested this morning on charges that include obstruction of an official proceeding, false statements and witness tampering. A federal grand jury impaneled by special counsel Robert Mueller charged Stone in a seven-count indictment. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] COMPETING SHUTDOWN BILLS FAIL IN SENATE Dueling proposals to reopen parts of the government failed to advance in the Senate, signaling the shutdown will continue for at least another week. A Republican bill that included border wall funding was blocked by a vote of 50 to 47. A Democratic bill that would have reopened the government until Feb. 8 while leaders worked on border security deal also failed to pass, 52 to 44. [HuffPost] ROSS CAN’T UNDERSTAND FEDERAL WORKERS STRUGGLING Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross downplayed the shutdown’s impact on federal workers, saying they should simply take out loans. “The 30 days of pay which some people will be out ― there’s no real reason why they shouldn’t be able to get a loan against it,” said Ross, a billionaire. The comments drew a fiery backlash from lawmakers. [HuffPost] AOC BUCKS PARTY VOTE Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was the lone House Democrat to vote against a bill to reopen the government. “We didn’t vote with the party because one of the spending bills included ICE funding and our community felt strongly about not funding that,” she wrote. [HuffPost] COLORADO DEM SLAMS CRUZ OVER SHUTDOWN Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) launched into an impassioned speech on the Senate floor, slamming Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his role in the shutdown. “I seldom, as you know, rise on this floor to contradict somebody on the other side,” Bennet said. “But these crocodile tears that the senator from Texas is crying for first responders are too hard for me to take.” [HuffPost] U.S. OFFICIALS RECALLED FROM VENEZUELA The U.S. State Department ordered all non-emergency government employees to depart Venezuela amid an ongoing government crisis in the country. [CNN] COHEN SUBPOENAED TO TESTIFY The Senate intelligence committee subpoenaed Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to testify, a day after Cohen said he planned to postpone an appearance next month in the U.S. House of Representatives. [HuffPost]       SECURITY OFFICIALS OVERRULED ON KUSHNER CLEARANCE A Trump administration personnel official overruled intelligence experts who had denied top-secret security clearance for Jared Kushner. Trump’s son-in-law’s clearance was denied twice by two White House security experts because of FBI concerns about foreign influence on Kushner. But they were overruled by Carl Kline when he was installed as the director of the personnel security office of the president. [HuffPost] DEMS TO PROBE TRUMP LEASE Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning to investigate Trump’s controversial lease to operate a hotel in D.C.’s Old Post Office Building, a federal property. [HuffPost] FLORIDA REPUBLICAN QUITS OVER BLACKFACE PICTURE Florida’s top elections official abruptly resigned after a newspaper obtained pictures of him in blackface posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim. [HuffPost] WARREN UNVEILS ULTRA-MILLIONAIRE TAX Sen. Elizabeth Warren is proposing an ultra-millionaire tax that would hit an estimated 75,000 of the wealthiest American households. The new plan would impose a 2 percent fee annually on households’ net worth greater than $50 million. [HuffPost] WHITE HOUSE PREPARING NATIONAL EMERGENCY ORDER The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in funds for his border wall. [CNN] TRUMP GREEN-LIGHTS FOSTER CARE DISCRIMINATION The Trump administration has granted a federally funded foster care agency in South Carolina the right to freely discriminate against potential foster parents who are LGBTQ or who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Catholic or other non-Protestant faiths. [HuffPost]       This Pennsylvania man has an emotional support alligator to help him deal with depression. Academic researchers actually studied how to survive as a character on “Game Of Thrones.” Here are nine ways therapists personally deal with grief. Here’s some Valentine's Day jewelry for your girlfriend that's not a cheesy heart necklace. You really shouldn’t ignore these seven insidious marriage problems. Matt Smith is reportedly in talks to join Jared Leto in “Morbius,” a film based on the Spider-Man villain. This autistic teen won a lifetime of peanut butter — and gave it to furloughed federal workers. Here are 50 stunning looks from the Paris Couture fashion shows. Parents are throwing “period parties” to smash the stigma of menstruation. There’s likely not much difference between a $12 moisturizer and a $325 moisturizer. What happens to those caught up in the lies of conspiracy theorists? The Guardian spoke to victims whose lives were ruined by falsehoods. Actress Mindy Kaling thinks she knows what Kelly Kapoor, the character she played in “The Office,” would be up to now — and it’s not good. A 23-year-old college student in Rennes, France, reportedly called in a fake bomb threat for an EasyJet flight to stop his parents from visiting him. Patton Oswalt responded to a Twitter troll by donating money to his GoFundMe page to pay his medical bills. 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