| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, April 10ISRAEL VOTES EXTREME Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have narrowly won the Israeli national election and secured a record fifth term in office on Wednesday after months of scrambling to remain in power by striking deals with far-right extremists, promoting conspiracy theories, sidling up to authoritarian leaders and promising new restrictions on Palestinian rights. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share to Facebook]GOP WITNESS’S HITLER REMARKS PLAYED DURING HEARING During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on white nationalism and hate crimes where conservative commentator Candace Owens testified at the request of Republicans, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) played a 2018 recording of Owens arguing that what Adolf Hitler practiced wasn’t really “nationalism.” Owens said at the hearing that discussing white nationalism at all is simply a Democratic ploy to win elections. [HuffPost]MNUCHIN HINTS HE’D BREAK LAW FOR TRUMP Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin scolded Democrats for requesting President Donald Trump’s tax returns, saying they ought to be glad Republicans didn’t do the same. By law, the treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, is supposed to hand over the documents. Mnuchin suggested the request was out of line, since Trump won the election in 2016 and had already disclosed some information about his personal finances. [HuffPost]SIMPLER TAXES ON CHOPPING BLOCK Few Americans take advantage of free online tax filing, opting instead to pay for services such as TurboTax, and consumer advocates say Congress is trying to keep it that way. The Internal Revenue Service would be disallowed from creating its own system for free online tax filing under a bipartisan bill the House passed Tuesday. [HuffPost]NYC ANNOUNCES MANDATORY VACCINATIONS New York City on Tuesday took the highly unusual step of declaring a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn, ordering mandatory measles vaccinations amid a broad ― and growing ― outbreak of the highly contagious virus. Since Sept. 30, the area has produced 285 measles cases, including 246 children. [HuffPost]MAGIC JOHNSON RESIGNS Magic Johnson abruptly quit as the Los Angeles Lakers’ president of basketball operations Tuesday night, citing his desire to return to the simpler life he enjoyed as a wealthy businessman and beloved former player before taking charge of this tempestuous franchise just over two years ago. [AP]
 TRUMP’S REVENGE FOR MUELLER PROBE IS COMING Trump and his supporters have long called for the Justice Department to scrutinize decisions made by the FBI related to its 2016 investigation into the Trump presidential campaign — an investigation that the president has repeatedly lambasted as politically motivated. It now appears that Attorney General William Barr is acceding to this demand. [HuffPost]MONEY LAUNDERING CHARGES FOR AUNT BECKY & CO. Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, as well as 14 other parents, were indicted Tuesday on new charges in a massive college admissions scheme. A federal grand jury in Boston indicted the 16 parents on charges of conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering, prosecutors said. [HuffPost]SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS PROTEST KAVANAUGH HIRING Sexual assault survivors and student activists at George Mason University are protesting the school’s hiring of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a visiting professor. News of Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Antonin Scalia Law School surfaced in late March in George Mason’s undergraduate newspaper, the Fourth Estate, sparking swift outcry. [HuffPost]FEDERAL EMPLOYEE CAN’T REUNITE WITH WIFE Every morning, Abbas turns off the alarm on his phone and opens his email to scan for a message from the U.S. Embassy. But the Department of Defense employee has yet to receive that email. Abbas, a Muslim American, must tell his wife, a Syrian native stranded in Turkey, that his own employer has not yet allowed for her to join him in his home country. [HuffPost]SENATORS: AMERICA ISN’T FULL Trump’s blunt suggestion last week that the United States is too “full” to accommodate migrants isn’t shared by lawmakers from some of the least populated areas of the country, who maintain that lawful immigrants are more than welcome in their states. [HuffPost]GOP ATTACKS PUERTO RICO’S RENEWABLES PLAN Republicans on Tuesday pilloried Puerto Rico’s plan to stop burning imported fossil fuels to generate electricity, calling the proposal senseless and opening a new front in an increasingly bitter partisan battle over the storm-ravaged island’s struggle to recover. [HuffPost]
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