| No Images? Click here  Friday, April 26BIDEN’S BAD FIRST DAY Joe Biden has spent the past month attempting to address the discomfort of several women who said he inappropriately touched them in the past. Though he joins the 2020 presidential race after a storied career in Washington championing unity and American values, he spent the first day of his campaign wrestling sticky issues. [HuffPost]TRUMP: MUELLER PROBE WAS ATTEMPTED COUP President Donald Trump continued to lambaste the Mueller investigation, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity the probe amounted to an attempted “coup” that left “great people” suffering at the hands of “very serious Trump-haters.” [HuffPost]JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ATTACK ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD A federal judge in Washington state blocked a Trump administration cutoff of U.S. subsidies for poor women obtaining birth control from Planned Parenthood and other clinics that offer abortion services or information. [Reuters]SUSPECTED SRI LANKA ATTACK LEADER DEAD Police said Mohamed Zahran, the leader of local militant group National Towheed Jamaat known for his vitriolic extremist speeches on social media, was killed in one of the nine suicide bombings that left more than 250 dead in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. [AP]LARA TRUMP: MIGRANTS ARE ‘DOWNFALL OF GERMANY’ Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and 2020 campaign adviser, asserted that Germany’s acceptance of migrants was “the downfall” of the country. She said Angela Merkel’s open-door policy was “one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany,” and “this president knows that.” [HuffPost]FAKE HEIRESS FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD Anna Sorkin, who posed as a German heiress to scam hotels, restaurants and a Vanity Fair employee out of tens of thousands of dollars while living lavishly in New York City, was found guilty of fraud charges. Sorokin faces five to 15 years in prison for second-degree grand larceny. [HuffPost]
 THOUSANDS OF SEPARATED CHILDREN MUST BE IDENTIFIED The U.S. government has six months to identify families it separated before it instituted a zero tolerance immigration policy last April, according to an order issued by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw. In February, the Office of Refugee Resettlement said it was too much of a “burden” to find the members of these families. [HuffPost]TWITTER CEO WON’T REMOVE TRUMP’S OFFENSIVE TWEETS Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey directly told Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) during a phone call that he stands by the decision to allow Trump’s tweet that targeted the congresswoman and later incited a wave of death threats against her. [HuffPost]EX-BUSH SPEECHWRITER REVEALS TRUMP TARGET Michael Gerson, a columnist and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, says he knows how the eventual Democratic nominee can defeat Trump in next year’s election. He recommended that the Democrats “relentlessly turn the president’s claim of authenticity against him.” [HuffPost]TRUMP REVEALS THE DEM HE’S ROOTING FOR Trump told Fox News why he calls Joe Biden “sleepy Joe,” suggested Bernie Sanders had “misguided energy,” claimed Beto O’Rourke’s popularity was “a fluke,” and said Kamela Harris has “a little bit of a nasty wit.” Though he doesn’t think Pete Buttigieg will make it, he’s “rooting” for Mayor Pete to do well. [HuffPost]QUARANTINE AT 2 LA UNIVERSITIES Health officials on Thursday issued quarantine orders at the University of California, Los Angeles, and California State University Los Angeles amid a measles outbreak in Los Angeles County. Students who may have been exposed to the disease and who cannot show verification of immunization must remain in their residences. [HuffPost]CHARLOTTESVILLE ISN’T A CAMPAIGN PROP Former Vice President Joe Biden’s invocation of the deadly protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, as his reason for seeking the presidency is angering progressive activists there who believe the Democrat is using the city as a prop to help convince primary voters to look past his own questionable record on race. [HuffPost]
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