Trump folds to Pelosi in State of the Union fight

“I will do the address when the shutdown is over.” No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Thursday, January 24  TRUMP FOLDS ON STATE OF UNION President Donald Trump said he would postpone his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends, bowing to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request. “I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over,” he posted on Twitter, noting that he was “not looking for an alternative venue for the SOTU Address because there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber.” [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] HOUSE TO PROBE INAUGURATION An investigation into the handling of classified information by the White House and the team that oversaw Trump’s transition has been launched by the House oversight committee following what it describes as a litany of “grave breaches of natural security at the highest levels.” [HuffPost] COHEN CANCELS TESTIMONY Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen indefinitely postponed his scheduled congressional testimony, citing “ongoing threats” from the president and lawyer Rudy Giuliani. [HuffPost] FEDERAL WORKERS PROTEST SHUTDOWN Furloughed federal workers took to the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington to call for the government to reopen, chanting, “No more food banks, we need paychecks!” And, as the shutdown drags on, food assistance for millions will soon run out. [HuffPost] FLIGHT UNIONS ISSUE SHUTDOWN WARNING Union leaders representing air traffic controllers, pilots and flight attendants released a joint statement about the incalculable risk to the safety and security of airlines and travelers caused by the government shutdown. “In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented,” they warned. [HuffPost] TRUMP RECOGNIZES VENEZUELA OPPOSITION LEADER Amid widespread protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Trump moved to officially recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s new interim president. [HuffPost]       OKLAHOMA STUDENTS IN BLACKFACE SCANDAL Two students, including a sorority member, have withdrawn from the University of Oklahoma after a video surfaced last week showing one of the women smearing black paint on her face and saying a racial slur. [HuffPost] SENATOR REVEALS COLLEGE RAPE Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said that she was raped when she was in college — a revelation she chose to make after intimate deals of her divorce were made public this week. [HuffPost] TECH GIANTS PUSHING CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL EVENT Google, Facebook, and Microsoft sponsored a conference that promoted climate change denial to young libertarians. [HuffPost] NURSE ARRESTED IN ALLEGED COMA RAPE A nurse was charged with raping and impregnating a woman in a vegetative state at a nursing facility in Arizona. Nathan Sutherland, 36, who worked at Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, where the sexual assault occurred, was booked on one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult abuse. [HuffPost] GAY CONVERSION THERAPIST COMES OUT A Utah-based proponent of the widely discredited practice of gay conversion therapy has announced that he now identifies as gay. [HuffPost] LIBERAL GROUPS SINK DARK MONEY INTO 2018 Liberal groups were responsible for more than half of the $150 million of dark money spent to influence the 2018 elections, the first time they outspent conservative counterparts since 2010. [HuffPost]       “Bohemian Rhapsody” director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. His alleged victims tell their stories for the first time here. A white supremacist pleaded guilty to killing a black man with a sword as part of an attack that authorities said was intended to incite a race war in the United States. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has these three burning questions for Sean Hannity and Fox News. A trove of more than 24 million financial and banking documents, representing tens of thousands of loans and mortgages from some of the biggest banks in the U.S., has been found online after a server security lapse. Jayme Closs, the Wisconsin teen who escaped after being held captive for nearly three months, will receive a $25,000 donation that was originally intended to be given to anyone who offered information that led to her rescue. It’s impossible to eat healthfully. Here’s why. DNA just led to a major break in a murder case that’s baffled police for nearly three decades. Stormy Daniels is mad at Michael Cohen for postponing his scheduled congressional testimony ― and she’s not pulling punches. Rami Malek responded to the mounting sexual misconduct accusations against Bryan Singer, saying he “didn’t know much” about the troubling claims before signing on to play Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Here are the most romantic hotels in the world in 2019. 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