| No Images? Click here  Thursday, July 18TRUMP RENEWS HATE ATTACK President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on four freshman Democrats in Congress, all women of color, saying at a North Carolina rally that “if they don’t like” America, “let them leave.” [HuffPost]ILHAN OMAR PROMISES TO ‘RISE’ IN THE FACE OF HATE As Trump supporters chanted to “send” U.S. citizen and congresswoman Ilhan Omar “back” to where she came from, the Democrat from Minnesota quoted a poem by civil rights activist Maya Angelou: “You may kill me with your hatefulness,” Omar wrote in a tweet. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.” [HuffPost]TRUMP’S UNINTENDED ICE TIP-OFF On Friday, Trump announced that mass raids targeting roughly 2,000 undocumented families in 10 cities would begin that weekend. Government officials almost never publicize raids in advance, and Trump’s push for deportations gave undocumented people, lawyers and activists the time to mobilize in an unprecedented way. [HuffPost]KEVIN SPACEY GROPING CASE DROPPED Prosecutors dropped a case accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a Nantucket island bar in 2016, more than a week after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information that supports the actor’s claims of innocence. [AP]GOP SEN. BLOCKS 9/11 COMPENSATION FUND BILL Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R), has blocked a bipartisan bill that would ensure a victims’ compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money. He says any new spending such as the 9/11 bill should be offset by cuts. [AP]KYOTO ANIMATION STUDIO ARSON KILLS AT LEAST 7 A man burst into an animation production studio in Kyoto, Japan, and set it on fire early Thursday, killing at least 7 people and leaving more possibly trapped inside. [AP]
  HOUSE VOTES TO TABLE IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION The House of Representatives voted to table a resolution to impeach Trump by a vote of 334-95 on Wednesday ― the latest show of simmering discontent among some Democrats about the refusal of their party’s leadership to challenge the president. [HuffPost]EU SMACKS AMAZON WITH ANTITRUST PROBE The European Union said it is investigating whether Amazon uses data from independent retailers to gain an unfair advantage, a decision that could lead to changes in how the internet’s biggest marketplace works. [AP]DANGEROUS HEAT WAVE TO SCORCH MIDWEST AND EAST COAST The heat wave that has been roasting much of the U.S. in recent days is just getting warmed up, with temperatures expected to soar to dangerous levels through the weekend. More than 100 local heat records are expected to fall Saturday. [AP]THEY BLOCKED TRUMP’S CENSUS QUESTION. NOW, TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE. There won’t be a citizenship question on the 2020 census. But activists and officials say the Trump administration may have done lasting damage to the survey nonetheless, in deterring immigrants and people of color from participating. [HuffPost]PRIVACY CONCERNS ARISE OVER “FACEAPP” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is calling on the FBI to investigate a Russian company’s photo app that’s once again rising in popularity. Schumer has highlighted the fact that users must provide FaceApp full access to their personal photos and data. [HuffPost]WOMAN JAILED FOR RECORDING BOSS’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT Baiq Nuril recorded one of her boss’s explicit phone calls as evidence of the sexual harassment she said she endured on more than 50 occasions. The recording was forwarded by a colleague to the local department of education in Indonesia. Shortly after, Nuril was fired from her job, jailed, and her boss sued her for defamation. [CNN]
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