| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, May 7CONGRESS IS FAILING As House Democrats dither over impeachment in a divided government and Senate Republicans are satisfied confirming judges rather than passing legislation, a pressing question is emerging: What the hell is Congress good for, anyway? [HuffPost]TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DEFIES TAX DISCLOSURE LAW The Trump administration won’t comply with a Democratic request for the president’s tax returns, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced. Federal law says Congress can access any private tax information it wants, but Mnuchin apparently hopes a Republican judge eventually will rule the law was unconstitutional all along. [HuffPost]500+ EX-PROSECUTORS: TRUMP LUCKY HE WASN’T CHARGED President Donald Trump’s conduct as outlined in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report would have led to obstruction of justice charges if he were not a sitting president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors said in a statement Monday. [HuffPost]IT’S A BOY Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcomed their first child, a son weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces. The Duchess of Sussex went into labor early on Monday, with Harry by her side, and mother and child are now both doing well, Buckingham Palace announced. The child will be seventh in line to the throne. [HuffPost]MYANMAR FREES 2 REUTERS JOURNALISTS The government of Myanmar on Tuesday released two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for more than a year amid an international outcry over press freedom. Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been jailed since late 2017 over allegations that they received documents containing state secrets from a police officer. [HuffPost]PRIVATE PLANE FROM VEGAS CRASHES IN MEXICO A private plane from Las Vegas carrying 13 people was found wrecked in northern Mexico after going missing on Sunday. Mexico’s Coahuila state government released a statement saying that there was an aerial sighting of the jet in the mountains, but that no survivors were found. [HuffPost]
 People before power. We believe the stories of regular people matter most. Help us tell them by becoming a HuffPost member today. SHOCKING REPORT ON LOSS OF NATURE Planet Earth has been put on red alert by hundreds of leading scientists who have warned that humanity faces an existential threat within decades. Up to 1 million species could be made extinct by humans’ actions if present trends continue. [HuffPost]MEASLES OUTBREAK CONTINUES TO SPREAD The number of U.S. measles cases this year continues climbing, with 764 cases in 23 states reported as of late last week. “This is the greatest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1994 and since measles was declared eliminated in 2000,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a release. [HuffPost]FORMER AIDE: PRE-TRUMP RUDY WOULD’VE INDICTED TRUMP Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor who is now a personal attorney to Trump, did not sign the letter with more than 500 prosecutors saying that Trump would be charged with obstruction were he not president. Jeffrey Harris, one of the signatories and Giuliani’s former assistant, told CNN his old boss would’ve charged Trump. [HuffPost]CHELSEA MANNING ASKS FOR RELEASE Government whistleblower and transgender activist Chelsea Manning has asked a court to release her from prison, two weeks after federal judges denied her appeal seeking to overturn a contempt finding for refusing to testify before a grand jury. [HuffPost]TENNESSEE HOUSE SPEAKER RESIGNS OVER TWEETS Following reports that Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada’s chief of staff, 32-year-old Cade Cothren, sent sexually explicit text messages to an intern and a lobbyist, used cocaine in the legislative office building and sent texts disparaging African Americans, Cothren tendered his resignation. [HuffPost]GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER FALLS QUIET AS CEASE-FIRE TAKES HOLD A surge in deadly violence in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel petered out overnight with Palestinian officials reporting that Egypt had mediated a cease-fire that ended the most serious spate of cross-border clashes for months. [Reuters]
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