| No Images? Click here  Monday, May 13THE ‘ELECTION FRAUD’ HAS NO CLOTHES In 2018, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office sent several press releases trumpeting arrests and indictments involving voting misconduct. These often made headlines -- including nationally in outlets such as Breitbart -- creating the impression of a pervasive problem. But the few cases brought by the office are mostly minor and fail to show widespread fraud. [HuffPost]2020 RIVALS RIP BIDEN’S CLIMATE ‘COMPROMISE’ Three of former Vice President Joe Biden’s rivals in the Democratic presidential race took issue with his approach to combating climate change following a report that he plans to pursue a “middle ground” to reduce carbon emissions. [HuffPost]PREGNANT WOMEN STILL STRUGGLE TO KEEP JOBS Just four years ago, the Supreme Court’s Young v. UPS decision appeared to make it harder for companies to deny expecting mothers accommodations they need to keep working. Instead, women have lost two-thirds of the accommodation cases decided since Young. [HuffPost]TRUMP SEEKS HUGE SUBSIDY TO BUFFER HIS TRADE WAR President Donald Trump is seeking an additional $15 billion in U.S. subsidies to protect farmers from the devastating impact of his trade war with China. That’s on top of $12 billion already earmarked for the farmers to help them weather the fallout. [HuffPost]RASHIDA TLAIB LAMBASTS GOP LAWMAKERS Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is accusing Republican lawmakers of twisting her words to push a “racist and hateful agenda.” Tlaib, who in January became the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress, spoke about the Holocaust and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict during an interview on Sunday. [HuffPost]GUNMEN KILL AT LEAST 6 IN BURKINA FASO Gunmen killed six people, including a priest, outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso, the second attack on Christians in two weeks in a nation increasingly overrun by jihadists. [Reuters]
 UN CHIEF: WORLD ‘NOT ON TRACK’ TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the political will to fight climate change seems to be fading at the same time as things are getting worse for those feeling the effects. [AP]KUDLOW ADMITS U.S. WILL PAY TARIFFS ON CHINESE GOODS White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow undercut Trump’s claim that China will pay for tariffs imposed by the administration on goods entering the U.S., admitting that Americans will end up helping foot the bill. [HuffPost]WASHINGTON STATE NARROWS VACCINE EXEMPTION Parents in Washington state will soon no longer be able to claim a personal or philosophical exemption to avoid vaccinating their children for measles, mumps and rubella amid one of the nation’s largest measles outbreaks since officials in 2000 declared the virus was eliminated. [HuffPost]VIDEO SHOWS BIDEN ONCE RAILED AGAINST ‘ILLEGALS’ In a newly unearthed speech from November 2006, Joe Biden touts his support for a 700-mile southern barrier, warns of “tons” of drugs pouring in from “corrupt Mexico” and calls for a crackdown on American employers who hire “illegals.” [HuffPost]STATE SUES DRUGMAKERS OVER ALLEGED PRICE-FIXING Attorneys general from more than 40 states are alleging the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers conspired to artificially inflate and manipulate prices for more than 100 different generic drugs, including treatments for diabetes, cancer and arthritis. [AP]HOSPITAL ALLEGEDLY LEAKS WOMAN’S INFO TO RAPIST A Missouri woman who sought treatment at a Kansas hospital after a violent sexual assault has filed a lawsuit against the hospital and one of its staffers, whom she says leaked her personal information to her attacker. Her abuser then sexually assaulted her again, she says. [HuffPost]
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