| Thursday, April 17MUELLER REPORT TODAY Seven-hundred-and-two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel, the Justice Department on Thursday will release a redacted version of Mueller’s report on the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]DOZENS CHARGED IN OPIOID CRACKDOWN Federal authorities charged 60 people, including a doctor accused of trading drugs for sex and another of prescribing to his Facebook friends, with illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and other drugs. [AP]FLIGHT ATTENDANT IN COMA AFTER CATCHING MEASLES A flight attendant in Israel has been in a coma for 10 days after contracting measles following a flight from New York, CNN reported Wednesday, as measles outbreaks in both countries raise public health concerns. The 43-year-old woman reportedly has encephalitis, or swelling of the brain. [HuffPost]COLUMBINE ZEALOT FOUND DEAD The FBI said there is “no longer a threat to the community” in the search for Sol Pais, the 18-year-old woman who traveled to Colorado from Florida this week and made threats that led to the closure of Denver-area schools Wednesday. Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader said Pais was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. [HuffPost]KAMALA HARRIS REGRETS PARENT ARRESTS Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said she regrets that some California prosecutors “criminalized the parents” of truant children using a controversial 2011 law she helped pass when she was the district attorney of San Francisco. [HuffPost]PERU’S EX-PRESIDENT DIES AFTER SELF-INFLICTED GUN WOUND Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest in connection with a bribery probe, authorities said. He was 69. [Reuters] 👋 Help tell crucial stories. Join HuffPost and help us report
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climate change, and inequality. DEMS CALL FOR BARR TO CANCEL MUELLER NEWS CONFERENCE Democrats have demanded that Attorney General William Barr cancel his planned news conference on Mueller’s report. Barr, who was handpicked by Trump for his post, has scheduled the conference for 9:30 a.m., before the report is to be released to Congress. [HuffPost]NORTH KOREA TESTS NEW ‘TACTICAL GUIDED WEAPON’ North Korea tested a new type of tactical guided weapon on Wednesday, the regime’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said. Kim Jong Un apparently oversaw the testing this week. It’s unclear what type of weapon it is, but KCNA said it had a “powerful warhead.” [HuffPost]ANTI-VAXXERS SUE NEW YORK CITY A group of parents in Brooklyn are suing the New York City Health Department for ordering mandatory measles vaccinations in parts of the borough amid a growing outbreak of the highly contagious virus. [HuffPost]ARKANSAS TO REMOVE CONFEDERATE STATUES Arkansas is replacing century-old statues that represent the state in the U.S. Capitol with more modern figures: music legend Johnny Cash and civil rights hero Daisy Lee Gatson Bates. Currently, Arkansas is represented by Civil War-era attorney Uriah Milton Rose and James Paul Clarke, a post-Reconstruction governor and U.S. senator. [HuffPost]BLACK CHURCHES BURNED BY ARSON SEE DONATIONS SURGE As the world mourns this week’s fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, three historically black Louisiana churches destroyed by arson in recent weeks are getting fundraising attention. An online fundraiser had received more than $1 million in donations, with the majority pouring in since the Paris fire. [HuffPost]THE RACE FOR ELECTABILITY The perception of which candidates stand the best chance of toppling Trump will play a major role in deciding who ultimately wins the Democratic Party nomination, according to polling and interviews with campaigns, operatives and rank-and-file voters. But many of those perceptions and theories are based on flimsy evidence. [HuffPost] 👋You may have noticed our website is now www.huffpost.com. Don't worry, it'll still be the same HuffPost you know and love, just with a new URL. Make sure to update your bookmarks! HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media Group. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More.Start your workday the right way with the news that matters most — all with a dash of signature Morning Email snark. Does somebody keep forwarding you this email? Get your own copy. It's free! Sign up here.Check out HuffPost Politics for more of the good stuff.©2019 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
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