| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, January 9TRUMP DELIVERS PRIMETIME FLOP In an Oval Office address televised by all major networks, President Donald Trump repeated his demand for $5.7 billion in border wall money in order to end the federal government shutdown. Trump said there’s a national security crisis at the border. That’s a myth. The real crisis is how to handle a historically high number of Central American families and children coming into the country, many of whom are asking for asylum. And a wall does nothing to solve that problem. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]CRITICS SLAM ADDRESS FOR ITS LIES Critics panned Trump’s speech for its lies and misrepresentations. Even Fox News, the president’s favorite network, jumped in to challenge many of Trump’s baseless claims. [HuffPost]ROSENSTEIN 'TO EXIT JUSTICE DEPARTMENT' Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — the man who launched the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference — is expected to leave his role in the coming weeks. White House officials told ABC News Rosenstein will depart around the time William Barr, Trump's nominee for attorney general, is expected to take office. [ABC]MANAFORT 'SHARED POLLING DATA' WITH RUSSIANS Attorneys for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort accidentally revealed in a court filing that Robert Mueller’s team says their client lied about sharing campaign polling data with a Russian operative. [HuffPost]SCOTUS WEIGHS IN ON MUELLER SUBPOENA An unidentified company owned by a foreign government is facing a court-imposed fine of $50,000 a day for refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena that is likely part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. [AP]SHUTDOWN WIN FOR SENATE DEMS Senate Democrats filibustered bipartisan foreign policy legislation dealing with several Middle Eastern countries, demanding Republicans first allow a vote on reopening the government before bringing other matters to the floor. [HuffPost] PROUD BOYS’ WIFE THREATENS NEIGHBORS The wife of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has been privately intimidating her neighbors and threatening them with lawsuits after the community in Westchester County, New York, took a stand against her bigoted husband with yard signs. [HuffPost]CONWAY TANGLES WITH CNN REPORTER Jim Acosta got into a heated face-off with Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, who called the CNN reporter an attention-seeking “smartass.” Conway earlier shrugged off White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ false claim that thousands of terrorists are crossing into the U.S. from Mexico as merely “an unfortunate misstatement.” [HuffPost]U.S. CARBON EMISSIONS RISE The Trump administration has repeatedly cited a decline in U.S. carbon emissions to justify its fossil fuel-focused “energy dominance” agenda. But a new analysis shows that the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions rose sharply in 2018. [HuffPost]SANDERS: REAL CRISIS IS CLIMATE CHANGE Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) responded to Trump’s televised address on border wall funding by calling climate change “the biggest crisis of all.” [HuffPost]VEGETATIVE PATIENT RAPED The CEO of the Phoenix-based Hacienda HealthCare nursing facility resigned after a patient who has been in a vegetative state for over a decade gave birth to a child. Police continue to look for the rapist. [HuffPost]CALL FOR R. KELLY VICTIMS TO COME FORWARD A prosecutor in Illinois is calling on victims of R. Kelly’s alleged abuse and witnesses to tell her or the police so she can formally investigate any claims against the Chicago-born R&B singer. [HuffPost]
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