It's not clear what the media mogul brings to the party.
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Friday, November 8
MEMO TO BLOOMBERG: DEMS DON'T WANT MORE CANDIDATES Media mogul, billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent over $100 million during his last mayoral bid and has the resources to spend exponentially more on a nationwide campaign. But it’s not clear what Bloomberg, who decided against a presidential bid earlier in the year but now appears to be preparing for one, has to offer. [HuffPost]
TRUMP ORDERED TO SPEND $2 MILLION IN ETHICS LAWSUIT A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to personally pay $2 million to settle the state attorney general’s civil lawsuit against his now-defunct charitable organization, The Donald J. Trump Foundation. [HuffPost]
ZELENSKY WAS SET TO ANNOUNCE BIDEN PROBE ON CNN Ukraine’s president was preparing to announce a groundless investigation into Joe Biden on CNN — against his better judgment — but ducked out of it when Congress pressed Trump to release military aid he was withholding two days before the scheduled TV appearance. [HuffPost]
HOW A GANG OF ANGRY TEACHERS BEAT KENTUCKY'S TRUMP No one besides Gov. Matt Bevin himself did more to cement his status as the least-popular Republican governor in the United States than Nema Brewer, the public school employee who sparked Kentucky’s mass mobilization of teachers last year. [HuffPost]
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR PLACED UNDER POLICE PROTECTION Police in Italy placed a Holocaust survivor under protection after she called for the creation of an anti-hate parliamentary commission — and received a deluge of anti-Semitic threats in response. [HuffPost]
EMBATTLED PLACIDO DOMINGO PULLS OUT OF OLYMPIC EVENTS The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee announced that opera legend Placido Domingo has said he won’t perform at pre-Olympics cultural events in Japan. The occasion was meant to bring together opera and traditional Japanese Kabuki theater. [AP] |
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DEMS SUBPOENA MULVANEY IN IMPEACHMENT PROBE House Democrats have subpoenaed acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney in the Trump impeachment probe, demanding his testimony Friday as they wrap up closed-door interviews and move into a public phase of the investigation. [AP]
HOW 'CONGRESSMAN-1' GOT PULLED INTO GIULIANI'S SCHEME In 2018, when the National Republican Congressional Committee contacted longtime Rep. Pete Sessions, asking if he wanted to attend a meet-and-greet fundraiser with the president and high-dollar donors at Mar-a-Lago, the answer was an easy yes. He needed all the help he could get. [HuffPost]
MUSLIM WOMEN ARE CLAIMING THEIR PLACE IN U.S. POLITICS It was just two years ago that 55-year-old Ghazala Hashmi felt unnerved by Trump’s Muslim ban and knew she had to do something. This week she did, becoming the first Muslim elected to Virginia’s state Senate. [HuffPost]
BUTTIGIEG PITCHES HIMSELF AS THE OBAMA OF 2020 “I want to ask you to really visualize the first day when the sun comes up in this country and Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States,” Pete Buttigieg told about 1,000 Iowa voters over the weekend in the college town of Decorah. [HuffPost]
ALEX JONES KEEPS LOSING COURT BATTLES AGAINST SANDY HOOK PARENTS Legal costs are rising for Alex Jones, the fear-mongering conspiracy theorist who makes money peddling lies. Jones is currently being sued by nine families of those who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting after he falsely and repeatedly claimed on his conspiracy outlet Infowars that the massacre was staged. [HuffPost]
BRAZIL TOP COURT RULING COULD FREE DA SILVA Brazil’s Supreme Court delivered a narrow decision Thursday night that could release almost 5,000 inmates still appealing their convictions, including jailed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. [AP] |
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