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ASSANGE ARRESTED IN LONDON Julian Assange, the controversial founder of Wikileaks, was expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and arrested on charges of breaching bail conditions in a Swedish rape case that’s no longer under investigation. He’s also wanted in the U.S. for publishing classified documents. He had been holed up in the embassy for more than six years. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]MNUCHIN STALLS ON TRUMP TAXES The Trump administration needs more time to comply with a Democratic request for copies of President Donald Trump’s tax returns. In a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin described the request as unprecedented, and said he is consulting with the Justice Department on how to respond. [HuffPost]SUSPECT ARRESTED IN BLACK CHURCH FIRES A man has been charged in connection with suspicious fires that burned three historically black Louisiana churches within 10 days. State Fire Marshal H. Browning said last week that “patterns” had been identified in blazes that destroyed the churches in St. Landry Parish. [HuffPost]BARR ASSEMBLES TEAM TO SCRUTINIZE PROBE Attorney General William Barr, who was tapped by Trump to head the Justice Department in December, has assigned a team to review earlier counterintelligence decisions made by the Justice Department and the FBI, including a look into the origins of the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia. [HuffPost]NZ BANS SEMI-AUTOMATIC WEAPONS New Zealand’s Parliament on Wednesday passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military-style weapons, less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded. [AP]ARMY FORCED OMAR AL-BASHIR TO STEP DOWN Tens of thousands of Sudanese were making their way to the center of the country’s capital on Thursday, cheering and clapping in celebration as two senior officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power. [AP]
 LAWMAKERS CONSIDER DEATH PENALTY FOR ABORTIONS Texas lawmakers listened to hundreds of Texans testify in support of a bill that would criminalize abortion and threaten the death penalty for any woman who undergoes the procedure. [HuffPost]PARKLAND FAMILIES SUE OVER NEGLIGENCE More than two dozen survivors and families of those slain in last year’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, have filed at least 20 lawsuits against the school district and sheriff’s office over alleged efforts to block compensation and negligence that led to the mass shooting. [HuffPost]ACTING ICE DIRECTOR GONE BY END OF WEEK Ronald Vitiello, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will leave his post on Friday. Vitiello, a former Border Patrol official, has been leading the immigration agency since June. Trump said last week he was pulling Vitiello’s nomination to head the agency on a permanent basis, saying he wanted to go in a “tougher direction.” [HuffPost]TRUMP AND NETANYAHU WILL KEEP THEIR BIG WIN As Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to begin his fifth term as prime minister of Israel — after working with an openly racist party and promising an unprecedented seizure of land claimed by the Palestinians — the hallmark achievement of his political alliance with Trump seems more secure than ever. [HuffPost]EU LEADERS AGREE TO EXTEND BREXIT DEADLINE European Union leaders on Thursday offered Britain an extension to Brexit that would allow the country to delay its EU departure date until Halloween. Leaders of the 27 remaining EU member states met for more than six hours before agreeing after midnight to postpone Brexit. [HuffPost]INDIA KICKS OFF WORLD’S LARGEST ELECTION Nine hundred million people, just shy of the combined populations of Europe and America, will have the chance to vote as Indians line up to decide who will lead the country for the next five years. The phased polls begin on April 11 and will continue for a month in different parts of the country. The results are expected on May 23. [HuffPost]
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