| No Images? Click here  Monday, April 15OMAR: DEATH THREAT INCREASE SINCE TRUMP ATTACK Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said she has seen a significant increase in threats to her life since President Donald Trump tweeted a misleading video about comments she made about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]CYCLONE IDAI’S DEATH TOLL TOPS 1,000 Hundreds of thousands of people are still in need of aid after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in March. More than 1,000 people have been reported killed by the storm’s heavy rain and flooding. The World Bank estimates the affected countries will need over $2 billion to recover. [Reuters]TIGER TAKES IT In a spectacular return to past glory, Tiger Woods won the 2019 Masters on Sunday, his first victory in one of golf’s four major tournaments in over a decade. Woods’ triumph marked his fifth Masters title; he previously won the green jacket awarded its victor in 1997, 2001, 2002, and 2005. [HuffPost]TRUMP DECLARES ‘ABSOLUTE RIGHT’ TO TARGET CITIES In a late-night tweet, Trump declared he had the “absolute legal right” to release detained undocumented immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities, and demanded that his request be fulfilled. [HuffPost]BOLSONARO CLARIFIES HOLOCAUST STATEMENT Days after causing an uproar among Israelis and others with his suggestion that the crimes of the Holocaust could be forgiven though not forgotten, far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro insisted his remarks had been misinterpreted. [HuffPost]KAMALA HARRIS RELEASES 15 YEARS OF TAX RETURNS Sen. Kamala Harris released 15 years of her tax returns on Sunday, providing more tax records than any other Democratic presidential candidate. The returns, which span from 2004 to 2018, cover her time working as San Francisco district attorney, California attorney general and a U.S. senator. [HuffPost]
 TRUMP CAMPAIGN TO REPORT $30 MILLION HAUL Trump’s reelection campaign is set to report that it raised more than $30 million in the first quarter of 2019, more than his top two Democratic rivals combined. The haul brings the campaign’s cash on hand to $40.8 million, an unprecedented war chest for an incumbent president this early in a campaign. [AP]TRUMP ACCUSED OF ‘STEALING’ $150,000 AFTER 9/11 Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) strongly defended Rep. Ilhan Omar Sunday against a provocative Trump tweet attacking her over comments referencing 9/11. Nadler said the president has “no moral authority” to criticize Omar, particularly since Trump “stole” a $150,000 grant intended to help struggling small businesses after the terror strike. [HuffPost]BUTTIGIEG FORMALLY ANNOUNCES 2020 RUN Pete Buttigieg is officially running for president. He kicked off his 2020 campaign for the Democratic nomination on Sunday after spending weeks touring early primary states. The 37-year-old, who is openly gay and strongly Christian, made the announcement from an old Studebaker factory in South Bend, Indiana, where he has served as mayor since 2012. [HuffPost]DEM’S ‘NOT SMART ENOUGH’ FOR TRUMP’S TAXES “I don’t think Congress, particularly not this group of congressmen and women, are smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that I would assume President Trump’s taxes will be,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Fox News Sunday. [HuffPost]AL-BASHIR’S HORRIFIC LEGACY Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president deposed by his own military after mass protests against his 30-year dictatorship, played a central role in some of the worst atrocities of the past century and left a legacy of human suffering. [HuffPost]THE BERING SEA ISN’T AS FROZEN AS IT SHOULD BE The Yupik Eskimo village of Kotlik on Alaska’s northwest coast relies on a cold, hard blanket of sea ice to protect homes from vicious winter Bering Sea storms. The ice normally prevents waves from forming and locks onto beaches, walling off villages. But not this year. [AP]
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