Pelosi slams ‘slumlord’ Kushner

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bashed Jared Kushner’s Baltimore properties. No Images? Click here   By Holly Thomas     Friday, August 2 SPEAKER SLAMS ‘SLUMLORD’ KUSHNER House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday bashed senior White House adviser Jared Kushner as a Baltimore “slumlord.” It was the latest parry against President Donald Trump’s continuing racist attacks on Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings and his Baltimore-based district. [HuffPost] 9 HOURS OF DEBATES, 0 ON VOTER ASSAULT On June 27, the Supreme Court ruled that excessive partisan gerrymandering did not violate the Constitution, one of the most significant voting rights decisions in a generation. But over two nights in Detroit, the Democratic debate moderators didn’t ask a single question about gerrymandering or voting rights. [HuffPost] TRUMP AGAIN ASSAILS BALTIMORE, ATTACKS MORE U.S. CITIES At a raucous rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday night, Trump continued to drag the city of Baltimore through the mud ― and extended his attacks to Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. [HuffPost] WILL HURD, LAST BLACK GOP MEMBER IN CONGRESS, RETIRES Republican Rep. Will Hurd announced that he won’t seek reelection in 2020. Hurd, who’s served since 2015, said he wants to focus on issues like relations with China, poverty in Central America and the rise of artificial intelligence from the private sector. [HuffPost] MISSILE ATTACK ON PARADE KILLS AT LEAST 40 IN YEMEN A rebel missile struck a military parade in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden as coordinated suicide bombings targeted a police station in another part of the city, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens. [AP] SAUDI ARABIA LOOSENS RESTRICTIONS ON WOMEN’S TRAVEL Saudi Arabia issued new laws early Friday that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a longstanding and controversial guardianship policy that required male consent for a woman to travel or carry a passport. [HuffPost]       TRUMP THREATENS CHINA AGAIN WITH NEW TARIFFS Trump said he would impose an additional 10% tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports starting Sept. 1 as talks aimed at easing tensions between the world’s two largest economies appeared to falter. [Reuters] JAPAN ESCALATES TRADE DISPUTE WITH SOUTH KOREA Japan removed South Korea as a preferred trading partner on Friday, escalating a bitter row between the countries that threatens the global supply chain for smartphones and other electronic devices. [BBC] NORTH KOREAN SOLDIER ‘DEFECTS ACROSS DMZ’ The South Korean military detained a North Korean soldier who crossed the heavily fortified demilitarized zone that separates the two countries, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. [Reuters] POTENTIALLY HABITABLE ‘SUPER EARTH’ FOUND NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has spotted some intriguing new exoplanets only 31 light-years away from Earth. GJ 357 d, a super-Earth that is 6.1 times the Earth's mass, is the most intriguing because it orbits a star at a distance where the temperature might support liquid water on the surface. [CNN] PM BORIS JOHNSON HANGS BY A THREAD U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's first full week in office ended on a very sour note when one of his own lawmakers was robbed of a parliamentary seat in a special election. Despite a surge for his Conservative party in opinion polls, breathless reports of a "Boris bounce" appear to have been premature. 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