| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, April 23DEMS DIVIDED ON IMPEACHING TRUMP Five leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination weighed in on President Donald Trump’s culpability following the release of the Mueller report. Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg had impeachment opinions ranging from full speed ahead to keep investigating. [HuffPost]DONALD MCGAHN CALLED TO CONGRESS The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to former White House counsel Don McGahn on Monday as part of its investigation into Trump’s potential obstruction of justice in the Mueller probe. [HuffPost]TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING TUMBLES President Trump’s approval rating plunged after the release of the redacted Mueller report, according to two new polls. It dropped to 37% ― a decline of 3 percentage points from a similar poll days earlier. Reuters described the new rating as the president’s lowest of 2019. [HuffPost]SRI LANKA ARRESTS 40 SUSPECTS As a state of emergency took effect giving the Sri Lankan military wartime powers, police arrested 40 suspects, including the driver of a van allegedly used by suicide bombers involved in deadly Easter bombings and the owner of a house where some of them lived. [AP]WOMAN ARRESTED IN JOURNALIST’S KILLING A 57-year-old woman has been charged under the Terrorism Act in with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry/Londonderry, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said. McKee, 29, was shot in what police called a riot on the Creggan estate on April 18. [HuffPost]REPORTER SUES KINGS COACH CLAIMING SEXUAL ASSAULT A sports reporter filed a lawsuit against the Sacramento Kings’ new head coach, Luke Walton, claiming he sexually assaulted her. Kelli Tennant alleges that Walton forced himself on her after inviting her into his hotel room in Santa Monica, California. [HuffPost]
 TRUMP TAX RETURN DEADLINE The IRS has until 5 p.m. today to hand over copies of Trump’s tax returns or else face a legal battle. Congressional Democrats set the deadline earlier this month after the Trump administration said it needed more time to respond to their original request for six years of Trump’s personal and business returns. [HuffPost]INTERNATIONAL NETWORK INVOLVED IN BOMBINGS Seven suicide bombers took part in the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, and a government spokesman said an international network was involved. Police had reportedly received a tip of a possible attack on churches by a little-known domestic Islamist group some 10 days earlier, but failed to take action. [Reuters]U.S. THREATENS TO VETO UN SUPPORT OF RAPE VICTIMS The U.S. is reportedly threatening to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at preventing the use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war and terrorism. The proposal includes promises to provide reproductive and sexual health support to survivors of rape in conflict — and the U.S. is reportedly having none of it. [HuffPost]SUPREME COURT TO TACKLE CRUCIAL GAY RIGHTS CASE A Supreme Court reshaped by Trump said on Monday that it would hear a major LGBTQ rights case, giving the White House a possible assist in its ongoing assault on gay and transgender rights. The court will consider whether Title VII, the federal civil rights law that prohibits workplace discrimination, applies to LGBTQ workers. [HuffPost]KAMALA HARRIS’ PLAN TO TACKLE GUN VIOLENCE Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said that, if elected president, she would take executive action in her first months in office to curb gun violence in the U.S. unless Congress acted first. “I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws,” she said. [HuffPost]WARREN’S VISION TO CURB CLIMATE CHANGE Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) promised to make the Green New Deal the centerpiece of her administration’s climate policy if she’s elected president. The biggest change might be who she’d nominate to lead the agency Trump has put in the hands of the industries it regulates. “No coal lobbyists for head of EPA,” Warren said. [HuffPost]
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