Pelosi invites Trump to testify.
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Monday, November 18
TRUMP TRASHES PENCE AIDE: 'NEVER TRUMPER!' President Donald Trump lashed out on Sunday against Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy aide to Vice President Mike Pence who has testified in the impeachment inquiry. 'She should meet with the other Never Trumpers, who I don’t know & mostly never even heard of, & work out a better presidential attack!” he tweeted. [HuffPost]
PELOSI: TRUMP'S ACTIONS 'SO MUCH WORSE THAN NIXON' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Trump’s dealings with Ukraine are “so much worse” than former President Richard Nixon’s actions in the Watergate scandal, which prompted his resignation from office. [HuffPost]
AT LEAST 10 SHOT, 4 KILLED, WATCHING FOOTBALL GAME At least 10 people were shot, four of them fatally, at a family gathering in Fresno, California, on Sunday evening. “Unknown suspects approached the residence, snuck [in] and opened fire,” Deputy Chief Michael Reid told reporters. [HuffPost]
IRAN'S TOP LEADER WARNS 'THUGS' AS PROTEST SPREADS Iran’s supreme leader cautiously backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices by 50% after days of widespread protests, calling those who attacked public property during demonstrations “thugs” and signaling a potential crackdown. [AP]
HONG KONG CAMPUS SIEGE ENTERS 2ND DAY A standoff at a Hong Kong university between protesters and the police entered a second day on Monday with riot officers lobbing tear gas and firing rubber bullets at some students trying to flee the besieged campus, while others stayed bunkered inside with homemade weapons. [New York Times]
PRINCE ANDREW 'LET THE SIDE DOWN' WITH EPSTEIN Britain’s Prince Andrew said in a BBC interview that he didn't remember meeting an American woman who alleges she was forced to have sex with him when she was underage. He added that he had “let the side down” by staying with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein’s conviction for paying a teenage girl for sex. [Reuters] |
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PELOSI: TRUMP IS WELCOME TO TESTIFY Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited Trump to testify in front of investigators in the impeachment inquiry ahead of a week that will see several key witnesses appear publicly. [AP]
SECRET DOCS SHOW HOW TEHRAN WIELDS POWER IN IRAN Hundreds of leaked intelligence reports have shed light on a shadow war for regional influence — and the battles within the Islamic republic’s own spy division. The unprecedented leak also exposes Tehran’s vast influence in Iraq. [New York Times]
MCCARTHY: ABC SHOULD EXPLAIN SPIKED EPSTEIN STORY House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) demanded ABC News provide lawmakers with more information over its decision not to run a story on the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein several years before his arrest on a spate of sex trafficking charges. [HuffPost]
UN URGES PEACE TALKS TO END BOLIVIA CRISIS Shadowed by street violence and food shortages, a U.N. envoy is urging the government of Bolivia’s self-proclaimed interim president and supporters of self-exiled leader Evo Morales to begin talks on peacefully resolving a crisis that has already claimed 23 lives. [AP]
'NO MERCY' IN CHINA'S MUSLIM INTERNMENT CAMPS Hundreds of pages of internal communications between Chinese officials detail the ruthless machinations behind the detention of an estimated 1 million Muslims in internment camps in recent years, according to The New York Times, which obtained the documents. [HuffPost]
WHY TRUMP AND HIS GOP LOST ANOTHER DEEP RED STATE For the second time this month, Trump failed to carry a Republican gubernatorial candidate across the finish line in a deep-red state. Last time, Kentucky was the stage. This time it was Louisiana. [CNN] |
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