| No Images? Click here   By Holly ThomasEditor's note: Due to work on our email newsletter system we'll be unable to send out the Morning Email on Thursday Oct. 17, Friday Oct. 18 and Monday Oct. 21. For the latest news, please go to huffpost.com. Wednesday, October 16DEMOCRATS TURN FIRE ON NEW FRONT-RUNNER Public polls are mixed about whether Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is now the leading candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary field. But the behavior of her rivals on the stage at the fourth Democratic debate showed she is. [HuffPost]TRUMP’S KURD BETRAYALS HAVE EVANGELICALS UP IN ARMS White evangelical Christians have been some of President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters. But the president’s decision to effectively abandon Kurdish fighters, considered key allies in the fight against the so-called Islamic State, appears to have caused a fracturing in this powerful religious group. [HuffPost]TRUMP DIRTY TRICKS STRAIGHT OUT OF NIXON PLAYBOOK On a snowy day in Manchester, New Hampshire, Democratic Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie, the front-runner for the party’s 1972 presidential nomination, stood before the offices of the conservative Union Leader newspaper and denounced the paper’s publisher William Loeb for publishing smears against him. Forty-five years later, Joe Biden stood before a crowd in Las Vegas to give a very similar message. [HuffPost]GIULIANI GOT $500,000 FROM INDICTED ASSOCIATE Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani refused to say why the company of an indicted associate paid him $500,000 last year, while that associate was helping him dig up dirt in Ukraine against Democrats ― other than to deny the two matters were connected. [HuffPost]FELICITY HUFFMAN REPORTS TO PRISON Actress Felicity Huffman reported to federal prison to begin a 14-day sentence for her role in the massive college admissions scandal that swept across top-tier universities earlier this year. The “Desperate Housewives” star is the first of more than 30 parents charged in the scheme to begin serving time. [HuffPost]TACO BELL RECALLS 2.3 MILLION POUNDS OF BEEF Taco Bell recalled about 2.3 million pounds of seasoned beef after a customer discovered metal shavings in their food, the fast food chain said in a statement Tuesday. The voluntary action involved restaurants in 21 states in the Southeast, Northeast and Midwest. [HuffPost] A global HuffPost project on everything you ever wanted to know about therapy, whether you've been once or 100 times. PELOSI ON IMPEACHMENT: ALL ROADS SEEM TO LEAD TO PUTIN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that the impeachment inquiry into Trump has so far led congressional committees to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “All roads seem to lead to Putin with the president,” Pelosi said during a news conference. [HuffPost]GIULIANI ‘URGED TRUMP TO EXPEL TURKISH CLERIC’ Rudy Giuliani repeatedly urged Trump in 2017 to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania, to Turkey — a move that would have fulfilled a top priority of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. [HuffPost]HONG KONG PROTESTERS BURN LEBRON JAMES JERSEY Hours after LeBron James described Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey as “not educated” and “misinformed,” a replica of the Los Angeles Lakers forward’s jersey was burning in the streets of Hong Kong. [HuffPost]GREEN WAVE CONTINUES AS SENATE DEMS COLLECT CASH Democratic victories in 2018 were funded by an unprecedented wave of small-dollar online giving dubbed the “Green Wave.” At the start of the 2020 election cycle, some Democratic operatives focused on House and Senate races feared an all-consuming presidential primary contest would slow the party’s financial momentum. It hasn’t. [HuffPost]P.O.C DOMINATED 2018. WHY NOT 2020? A year after candidates of color flourished in Democratic primaries around the country during the midterm elections, the three leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination are all white, and Asian American, Black and Latino candidates are trapped in single digits in public polling. [HuffPost]LOGGING GREENLIGHTED IN LARGEST NATIONAL FOREST The Trump administration took a significant step toward opening the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest -- Alaska’s Tongass National Forest -- to logging and other potential extractive development. [HuffPost]
And love this newsletter? Share it with a friend!
👋You may have noticed our website is now www.huffpost.com. Don't worry, it'll still be the same HuffPost you know and love, just with a new URL. Make sure to update your bookmarks! HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media Group. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More.Start your workday the right way with the news that matters most — all with a dash of signature Morning Email snark. Does somebody keep forwarding you this email? Get your own copy. It's free! Sign up here.Check out HuffPost Politics for more of the good stuff.©2019 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 | ||||||||||||||||
 |  |  |  |
-
-
0 comments:
Post a Comment