| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, June 5NEO-NAZIS KEEP WINNING IN COURT A federal judge this week cited the First Amendment in tossing charges against three members of a neo-Nazi organization accused of conspiring to assault their ideological opponents, handing the government another defeat in its struggle to curtail white supremacist violence. [HuffPost]SCHIFF: BARR IS ‘2ND MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN U.S.’ Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, called Attorney General William Barr “the second-most dangerous man in the country.” He cited Barr’s argument that Trump could have ended the special counsel investigation at any time. [HuffPost]TRUMP DEFENDS TRANSGENDER TROOP BAN Trump defended his administration’s efforts to ban transgender people from serving in the military in a U.K. interview that aired Wednesday. He said America’s armed services had to have a “standard” and stick to it, and made a bogus claim about the “massive” cost of medication. [HuffPost]WARREN PITCHES FOR ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM The trade platform Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren unveiled Tuesday in Detroit is a little different from her usual offerings of detailed reforms. Warren is making a clear statement of principles, and a break with the past 30 years of American trade policy. [HuffPost]DREAM AND PROMISE ACT PASSES HOUSE The House passed a bill on Tuesday to give more than 2 million undocumented immigrants a chance at legal status and eventual U.S. citizenship, including the so-called Dreamers, who came to the U.S. as children, and others with temporary humanitarian protection. [HuffPost]MANAFORT IS RIKERS BOUND Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman convicted of multiple federal crimes, is being moved to the notorious New York City jail on Rikers Island, where he could face solitary confinement. [HuffPost]
 Help us tell more stories from real people, in their words. Become a member so we can deliver the voices you want to hear.  PASTOR CASTS DOUBT ON WHITE HOUSE CLAIM A pastor’s explanation of Trump’s sudden visit to his church on Franklin Graham’s “Pray for Donald Trump Day” casts doubt on the White House’s widely publicized claim that the president went there to pray for Friday’s shooting victims in Virginia Beach. [HuffPost]DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COULD RESTORE PRISONERS’ VOTING RIGHTS District of Columbia residents with felony convictions could vote from inside prison under legislation introduced Tuesday. If the bill becomes law, D.C. would join Maine and Vermont as the only places in the United States that allow incarcerated felons to vote. [HuffPost]TRUMP EXPLAINS ‘NASTY’ MEGHAN COMMENT Piers Morgan asked the president on “Good Morning Britain” about his comments after learning the Duchess of Sussex once said he was “misogynistic” and “divisive.” Trump said: “They said some of the things that she said and It’s actually on tape. And I said: ‘Well, I didn’t know she was nasty.’” [HuffPost]THE TOXIC WATER CRISIS STUMPING 2020 DEMOCRATS Widely used chemicals known as PFOA loom as the nation’s most widespread and least understood environmental health crisis. Its causes mirror those of climate change. Yet recognition of the issue -- complex and scientifically dense as it is -- is a rare point of bipartisan agreement. [HuffPost]RESTRICTIONS TIGHTENED ON U.S. TRAVEL TO CUBA The Trump administration is imposing new sanctions on Cuba this week, including banning all U.S. travel to the island for tourism in response to the Cuban government’s support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. [HuffPost]CHINA WARNS TOURISTS AGAINST U.S. TRAVEL China is cautioning its citizens against traveling to the U.S., saying “shootings, robberies and thefts have occurred frequently in the United States,” and telling tourists to look out for harassment by American law enforcement as tensions between the two countries continue to build. [HuffPost]
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