| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, May 8NYT REVEALS 10 YEARS OF TRUMP’S TAX INFO Donald Trump’s tax filings from 1985 to 1994 show he accumulated more than $1 billion in businesses losses, according to information obtained by The New York Times. The analysis shows Trump was already deep in financial trouble in 1987 when he published his book “The Art of the Deal,” and raises questions about other financial skeletons in his closet. [HuffPost]AT LEAST 1 DEAD, 8 INJURED IN DENVER SCHOOL SHOOTING An 18-year-old student was killed and eight others were injured after two fellow students opened fire on a science and technology school in the Denver area on Tuesday. The gunmen entered two classrooms in different locations “deep” inside STEM School Highlands Ranch and began shooting. [HuffPost]WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP COULD BLOCK MUELLER White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump may well try to block Robert Mueller from testifying before Congress. Her comments added weight to Trump’s weekend tweets in which he said: “Bob Mueller should not testify.” [HuffPost]DEMS TO VOTE ON HOLDING BARR IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will go ahead with Wednesday’s scheduled vote toward holding U.S. Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress after the Justice Department failed to produce the full Mueller report along with its underlying evidence. [HuffPost]UBER, LYFT DRIVERS GO ON STRIKE NATIONWIDE Uber and Lyft drivers are going on strike in cities across the country Wednesday, demanding higher pay and better working conditions. Thousands of drivers are expected to participate in the strike, as well as rallies and pickets, organized by local driver groups in at least 10 cities nationwide. [HuffPost]COUPLE DIES OF BUBONIC PLAGUE The Mongolian government has lifted a six-day quarantine on 118 people that was imposed after a Mongolian couple died of bubonic plague. The couple reportedly caught the disease after eating raw kidney from a marmot, a burrowing type of rodent, according to USA Today. [HuffPost]
 ARIZONA STUDENTS PROTEST DETAINMENT OF CLASSMATE More than 120 students in Tucson, Arizona, walked out of class to protest Thomas Torres Maytorena’s detainment by U.S. Customs and Border Protection just weeks ahead of his graduation. [HuffPost]TENNESSEE HOUSE SPEAKER REFUSES TO RESIGN Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada is refusing to resign despite engaging in sexually charged text messages about women with his then-chief of staff. The aide, Cade Cothren, resigned on Monday following revelations of those messages and other questionable behavior. [HuffPost]RELEASE TERMS SET FOR COAST GUARDSMAN ACCUSED OF TERROR PLOT A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling firearms and drafting a hit list of prominent Democrats and journalists can be released from custody and supervised by relatives in Virginia while awaiting trial, a federal magistrate judge said. [AP]COHEN STOPPED RACY FALWELL PICS GOING PUBLIC Months before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.’s game-changing presidential endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, Falwell asked Trump fixer Michael Cohen for a personal favor regarding some “personal” photographs. [Reuters]PAID FAMILY LEAVE ON THE AGENDA The U.S. is creeping closer to an actual paid family leave law, perhaps finally catching up to every other industrialized country in offering time off to new parents. The House Ways and Means Committee today will hold its first full hearing devoted exclusively to the topic. But don’t expect much media coverage. [HuffPost]IRAN SCALES BACK NUCLEAR COMMITMENTS Iran said it had started scaling back parts of its commitments under its 2015 nuclear deal and threatened to do more if world powers did not protect it from U.S. sanctions, a year after Washington pulled out of the pact. [Reuters]
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