| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, April 30TRUMP AND FAMILY SUE TO BLOCK BANKS President Donald Trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent banks from handing over documents to congressional committees. The federal suit attempts to stop financial institutions with Trump business from complying with congressional subpoenas. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]JAKARTA IS SINKING Indonesia’s decades-long discussion about building a new capital has inched forward after President Joko Widodo approved a long-term plan for the government to abandon overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta. [AP]FOX NEWS ANALYST: TRUMP SHOWS ‘CLASSIC’ OBSTRUCTION Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano is sticking to his damning assessment of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, despite attacks from Trump. Napolitano said the report exposed a pattern of obstruction by the president that was “unlawful, defenseless and condemnable.” [HuffPost]LA LAUNCHES ITS OWN GREEN NEW DEAL Los Angeles just launched its own Green New Deal, setting up the second-largest U.S. city to have a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. “Politicians in Washington don’t have to look across the aisle in Congress to know what a Green New Deal is ― they can look across the country,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said. [HuffPost]30% OF CONSERVATIVES WON’T VOTE FOR TRUMP Nearly a third of self-described conservatives and 1 in 6 Republicans say they will not vote to give Trump a second term as president, according to a new poll. “He’s hemorrhaging Republicans and conservatives,” said John Weaver, who ran former Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s unsuccessful 2016 campaign for the GOP nomination. [HuffPost]O’ROURKE DEFENDS $5 TRILLION CLIMATE PLAN Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke defended his ambitious proposal to tackle climate change amid criticism that the $5 trillion plan is overly vague and that his past action to address the crisis didn’t go far enough. [HuffPost]
 DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL RESIGNS Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who endured months of criticism from Trump after appointing Robert Mueller as special counsel, will step aside next month after a lengthy career at the Justice Department. [HuffPost]THESE HEROES CHASED SYNAGOGUE GUNMAN AWAY An Army veteran, an off-duty Border Patrol officer and an Israeli war veteran are credited with coming to the rescue in Saturday’s deadly shooting inside California synagogue Chabad of Poway that left one woman dead and three others injured. [HuffPost]TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: GIG WORKERS NOT EMPLOYEES The Labor Department announced it had determined workers such as Uber drivers are not employees but independent contractors, and therefore are not protected by labor standards like the minimum wage and overtime pay. [HuffPost]ISIS LEADER MAKES FIRST VIDEO APPEARANCE IN 5 YEARS The leader of the Islamic State group has appeared for the first time in five years in a video released by the extremist group’s propaganda arm. It is his first video appearance since he delivered a sermon at the al-Nuri mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014. [AP]SRI LANKA FACES VEIL BAN Sri Lanka has moved to ban face veils following deadly terrorist attacks at hotels and churches on Easter Sunday. President Maithripala Sirisena’s office cited “emergency regulations” in its announcement that it would prohibit “all forms of face covers that may hinder one’s identity being ascertained.” [HuffPost]SOCIALISTS WIN SPANISH ELECTION WITHOUT MAJORITY Spain’s ruling Socialists were considering possible partners for a new government after they won a national election but failed to secure a majority. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez faces a choice between a complex alliance with fellow leftists Podemos or joining forces across the political divide with the center-right Ciudadanos. [Reuters]
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