| No Images? Click here  Monday, April 29THE 2019 ELECTION THAT COULD SHAKE WALL STREET Christopher Tobe, an independent financial adviser running for Kentucky state auditor, has promised to wield the office powers in a way they haven’t been used before — not in Kentucky and maybe not anywhere else — in an effort to clean up the state’s worst-in-the-nation public pension system. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]BARR THREATENS TO BAIL ON HOUSE HEARING Attorney General William Barr threatened to duck a scheduled Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee to review the Mueller report if the panel moves forward with its proposed questioning format, two senior Democratic committee aides confirmed to HuffPost. [HuffPost]HUNDREDS DIE FROM OVERWORK Hundreds of election workers have died of overwork and almost 2,000 have fallen ill following the world’s biggest single-day elections in Indonesia earlier this month. At least 272 election officers had died since the April 17 vote, mostly from fatigue-related illnesses, Reuters reported. [HuffPost]GUANTANAMO PRISON OFFICER FIRED Military officials say Navy Rear Adm. John Ring, commander of the task force that runs the prison at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been fired for a “loss of confidence in his ability to command.” The facility’s deputy commander, Army Brig. Gen. John Hussey, has been designated acting commander. [AP]‘AVENGERS’ SMASH BOX OFFICE RECORD “Avengers: Endgame” has shattered the record for biggest opening weekend -- previously held by “Infinity War” at $640 million -- with an estimated $350 million in domestic ticket sales and $1.2 billion globally. “Endgame” has already made more than movies like “Skyfall,” ″Aquaman” and “The Dark Knight Rises” in their entire runs. [AP]JUDGE AND CIVIL RIGHTS ICON DIES AT 96 Judge Damon J. Keith, a grandson of slaves and figure in the civil rights movement who as a federal judge was sued by President Richard Nixon over a ruling against warrantless wiretaps, died Sunday. He was 96. [AP]
 People before power. We think regular people’s stories are important – and we think you do too. TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER NAMES BLUE TARGETS Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale named four states lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016 that he thinks the president could win next year. He said President Donald Trump could win Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire and New Mexico, and promises “bigger, better and badder than we were in 2016.” [HuffPost]WHITE NATIONALISTS STORM BOOKSTORE READING A small group of white nationalists stormed a bookstore in Washington, D.C., to protest an event for a book on racial politics and how it’s impacting lower- and middle-class white Americans. Videos showed the group standing in a line before the audience chanting, “This land is our land.” [HuffPost]O’ROURKE TAKES PRIMARY FIGHT TO HARRIS’ TURF Beto O’Rourke brought his presidential campaign to Kamala Harris’ turf in California for the first time this weekend, pitching San Francisco-area voters on his ability to invoke the magic of his unsuccessful 2018 Texas Senate race in a political showdown with Trump. [HuffPost]SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER 7 BODIES FOUND IN TENNESSEE A suspect in the killings of seven people, including a young girl, in rural Tennessee was shot and captured by police after an hourslong manhunt triggered by the discovery of the bodies in two separate homes, authorities said on Sunday. [Reuters]ELLISON WARNS DEMS AGAINST DRUG PRICE DEAL Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) blasted the idea of using arbitration to lower Medicare’s prescription drug prices as “sort of a sellout to Big Pharma,” challenging congressional progressives to vote down any deal with Trump that includes arbitration. [HuffPost]TRUMP NOMINEE REGRETS DISPARAGING WOMEN Trump’s choice for a seat on the powerful Federal Reserve Board said he regrets some of his writings from nearly two decades ago in which he made derogatory remarks about women in sports. [HuffPost]
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