Plus, GOP pushes to out whistleblower; Boeing crushed at the capitol.
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Wednesday, October 30
UKRAINE CALL SUMMARY LEFT OUT 'KEY DETAILS' Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the first impeachment witness to testify he personally listened in on President Donald Trump’s July 25 call with the Ukrainian president, told House lawmakers that the White House reconstruction of the discussion skipped 'key details,' The New York Times reported. [HuffPost]
GOP PUSHES TO OUT WHISTLEBLOWER Republicans say they need to hear from the intelligence official who initially raised the alarm over Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals in order to assess the whistleblower’s credibility. [Reuters]
BOEING CRUSHED AT THE CAPITOL Exactly one year after a Lion Air flight from Jakarta, Indonesia, plunged into the Java Sea, killing 189 people, lawmakers on Capitol Hill grilled Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg on the failures of his company’s bestselling plane, the 737 Max. [HuffPost]
SNAP UK ELECTION BEFORE CHRISTMAS The U.K. is heading for a December election after Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn announced that he would back a snap poll. Corbyn said he was satisfied that no-deal Brexit was “off the table” because the European Union has delayed the U.K.’s departure until Jan. 31. [HuffPost]
COP TOLD TO 'TONE DOWN' HIS 'GAYNESS' WINS $20 MILLION A jury has awarded a Missouri police officer nearly $20 million after he was told to “tone down” his “gayness” if he ever wanted to be promoted, according to his lawsuit, which has prompted calls for his department’s police chief to resign. [HuffPost]
OBAMA CALLS OUT WOKE CULTURE Former President Barack Obama says “compromise” shouldn’t be frowned upon and described Twitter outrage as “not activism.” He called out what he perceived as a “danger” among younger people, explaining: “There is this sense sometimes of ‘the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that’s enough.’” [HuffPost]
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POLICE KILLED THEIR SIBLINGS. NOW, THEY FIGHT FOR JUSTICE. Ashley Carr and Alissa Charles-Findley never wanted the spotlight. But their families were thrust into it when Texas police officers, in separate incidents roughly a year apart, opened fire on their siblings in their own homes. [HuffPost]
REPUBLICANS DEFEND IMPEACHMENT WITNESS Republicans came to the defense of a decorated war veteran and key witness in the impeachment inquiry after some Trump allies questioned his patriotism and loyalty to the country. [HuffPost]
LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS AMID PROTESTS Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said he would submit his resignation, declaring a “dead end” in trying to resolve a crisis unleashed by huge protests against Lebanon’s ruling elite. [Reuters]
DIRECTOR TRACKED PATIENTS' PERIODS ON SPREADSHEET Missouri’s health director admitted to a state review panel that he tracked the menstrual periods of women who visited Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, prompting one state lawmaker to call for an investigation. [HuffPost]
WHAT HAPPENS TO TERROR GROUPS WHEN YOU KILL THEIR LEADER? Trump and U.S. officials have described the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as a devastating blow to the group and part of its total defeat. But the history of terrorism shows that the demise of extremist groups is rarely that simple. [HuffPost]
MOUNTAIN GORILLAS GET MUCH-NEEDED BOOST The world’s longest-running gorilla study was started in 1967 by famed American primatologist Dian Fossey. Fossey, alarmed by poaching and deforestation, predicted the species could be extinct by 2000. But a sustained conservation campaign has averted the worst. [AP] |
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