| No Images? Click here  Thursday, July 25WARREN PUSHES PELOSI: IMPEACH HIM Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) praised the NAACP for supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump and took a jab at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her reluctance to do so. [HuffPost]GOP’s MUELLER MANTRA: TRUMP’S ABOVE THE LAW The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has long held that the president cannot be indicted while in office. But Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee suggested during Robert Mueller’s testimony that investigators should never have probed Trump’s conduct to begin with. [HuffPost]PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR RESIGNS Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló resigned late Wednesday amid mass protests over the publication of embarrassing chat messages and charges of corruption within his administration. [HuffPost]FACEBOOK FINED RECORD $5 BILLION Federal regulators have fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. But they are only holding CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally responsible in a limited fashion. [AP]FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ASYLUM RESTRICTIONS A California federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a new rule ending asylum protections for most Central American migrants, calling the rule “inconsistent with the existing asylum laws.” [HuffPost]JOHNSON OFFICIALLY APPOINTED UK PM AFTER MEETING QUEEN Boris Johnson has officially been appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom after meeting with the queen at Buckingham Palace. Speaking outside Downing Street, he said he would take the U.K. out of the European Union by Oct. 31 “no ifs, no buts” and hit out at “pessimists.” [HuffPost]
.   NORTH KOREA FIRES PROJECTILES, SAYS SOUTH KOREA North Korea launched two unidentified projectiles off its east coast early Thursday, an act sure to escalate tensions as Trump attempts to rein in Pyongyang’s nuclear program. [HuffPost]BIDEN AND BOOKER AMP TENSION AHEAD OF NEXT DEBATE Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and former Vice President Joe Biden leveled up their attacks as they prepared to face off in the second 2020 Democratic presidential debate. Joining other 2020 hopefuls at the NAACP National Convention in Detroit, Booker hit at Biden’s record on criminal justice reform. [HuffPost]EPSTEIN FOUND INJURED IN CELL Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found injured and in a fetal position in his jail cell,, according to sources cited by NBC New York. Investigators are reportedly trying to determine what happened, but the wealthy sex offender was said to have been semi-conscious when he was discovered. [The Daily Beast]A$AP ROCKY CHARGED WITH ASSAULT A$AP Rocky has been charged with assault in Sweden and will remain in custody until a trial, prosecutors say. The rapper, real name Rakim Mayers, was arrested in early July following a confrontation on June 30. Two men arrested with him have also been charged with assault. [HuffPost]‘UNPRECEDENTED’ WILDFIRES RAGE IN THE ARCTIC More than 100 intense wildfires scientists describe as unprecedented have ravaged the Arctic since June. New satellite images show huge clouds of smoke billowing across uninhabited land in Greenland, Siberia and parts of Alaska. [CNN]KIM KARDASHIAN VISITS JAIL TO DISCUSS REFORM Kim Kardashian visited the District of Columbia Correctional Treatment Facility this week to speak with inmates about a topic on which the media mogul has increasingly become an advocate: criminal justice reform. [HuffPost]
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