| No Images? Click here  Thursday, March 14BETO’S RUNNING Beto O’Rourke, the Texan who gained a national following with his long-shot campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz last year, is running for president. He confirmed his candidacy in a video posted Thursday morning. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]GAMBINO CRIME BOSS GUNNED DOWN Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali, boss of the notorious Gambino crime family, was killed on Staten Island late Wednesday, New York police said. Cali, 53, was shot six times outside his home shortly after 9 p.m. [HuffPost]TRUMP FACING NATIONAL EMERGENCY DEFEAT President Donald Trump appears headed for an embarrassing reprimand from members of his own party today when the Senate votes on a resolution disapproving of his declaration of emergency over the border. [HuffPost]TRUMP GROUNDS BOEING CRASH PLANES Trump has announced an immediate grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes after most of the world’s aviation authorities banned the model following the second fatal crash in five months. “All of those planes are grounded effectively immediately,” Trump said at a press conference on Wednesday. [HuffPost]MAY’S BREXIT MAYHEM What the hell just happened in Britain? Humiliated Theresa May is on the brink, but she’s trying one final Brexit gamble. [HuffPost]IRONY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMPLAINTS The college admissions scam only confirmed what many people already knew: Higher education is rigged to benefit wealthy, white students. But the scandal also laid bare the irony of people who complain affirmative action gives an unfair advantage to students of color in admissions. [HuffPost]
 10 DEAD IN BRAZIL SCHOOL SHOOTING Two young men wearing hoods and carrying guns, knives and crossbows opened fire at a school in southern Brazil on Wednesday, killing eight people before taking their own lives, authorities said. [AP]NEOMI RAO CONFIRMED A woman who blamed women for date rape will now fill Brett Kavanaugh’s former U.S. appeals court seat. [HuffPost]TRUMP TROLL ‘FAKED TERRORIST THREATS’ Twitter troll Jacob Wohl appears to have faked death threats against himself to inject drama into a documentary, which raises the possibility that he committed a crime when he filed a police report about those messages. [HuffPost]AMAZON YANKS BOOKS OFFERING ‘AUTISM ‘CURES’ Amazon has removed at least two listings for books containing nonscientific “cures” for autism, including drinking and bathing in a bleach-like substance and ingesting a drug used to treat lead poisoning. [HuffPost]TRUMP NOMINEE’S ‘REGRET’ Kenneth Lee, one of Trump’s many judicial nominees, said he regrets his past controversial writings on AIDS in the LGBTQ community and sexual assault. [HuffPost]TRUMP STILL WON’T DISAVOW WHITE NATIONALIST Two months after Rep. Steve King of Iowa was roundly condemned by other Republicans, Trump has offered not a single word of criticism of the white nationalist ― even as he hammers Democrats for not more aggressively denouncing one of their members. [HuffPost]
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