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Monday, December 30
ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKER: I'LL GET YOU Five people were injured Saturday night when a man armed with what appeared to be a machete burst into a rabbi’s home in a New York City suburb and slashed at people attending a Hanukkah celebration, before running out screaming "I'll get you." The suspect, who has been identified as Grafton E. Thomas, is in custody. [HuffPost]
SHOOTING AT TEXAS CHURCH LEAVES SEVERAL DEAD A gunman opened fire inside a church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, killing two parishioners before being fatally shot by an armed churchgoer. “Unfortunately this country has seen so many of these that we’ve gotten used to it at this point and it’s tragic,” Jeoff Williams, a Texas Department of Public Safety regional director, said. [HuffPost]
REP. JOHN LEWIS DIAGNOSED WITH STAGE 4 CANCER Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon, announced that he has been diagnosed with, and is in treatment for, stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “I have been in some kind of fight ― for freedom, equality, basic human rights ― for nearly my entire life,” Lewis said. “I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now.” [HuffPost]
NYC MAYOR ANNOUNCES PLAN TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced new measures to combat anti-Semitism following 13 attacks against the Jewish community around the city in recent weeks. The new measures focus on key Brooklyn neighborhoods, and will include larger police presences, more security cameras, and “neighborhood safety coalitions.” [HuffPost]
TALIBAN COUNCIL AGREES TO CEASE-FIRE IN AFGHANISTAN The Taliban said Sunday they have agreed to a temporary cease-fire nationwide, providing a window during which a peace agreement with the United States could be signed. A peace deal would allow Washington to bring home its troops from Afghanistan and end its 18-year military engagement there, America’s longest. [AP]
TRUMP RETWEETS POST NAMING WHISTLEBLOWER President Donald Trump retweeted, then deleted, a post that included the alleged name of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment by the House. [AP] |
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UNREST AMONG AIDES WHEN TRUMP WITHHELD UKRAINE AID On Sunday, the New York Times published a thorough account of the shock, consternation and fears over morality and potential fallout expressed by some officials who were ordered to carry out the scheme that ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment in December. [HuffPost]
POLICE CHIEF ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH MORMON KILLINGS The police chief of a small town in Mexico has been arrested in connection with a massacre that left nine people dead after an ambush in the state of Sonora on Nov. 4. Mexican officials have attributed the attack to organized crime in Sonora, a state that shares a border with the U.S. [HuffPost]
SPOTIFY TO PAUSE SELLING POLITICAL ADS IN 2020 Music streaming behemoth Spotify will suspend political ads starting in the new year. The suspension “will include political advertising content in our ad-supported tier and in Spotify original and exclusive podcasts,” the platform said in a statement Friday as first reported by Ad Age. [HuffPost]
GABBARD: IMPEACHING TRUMP WILL 'EMBOLDEN' HIM "I think impeachment, unfortunately, will only further embolden Donald Trump, increase his support and the likelihood that he’ll have a better shot at getting elected,” Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D) told ABC News, while defending her decision not to vote to impeach President Trump. [HuffPost]
U.S. STRIKES IN IRAQ TARGET IRANIAN-BACKED MILITIA The U.S. military carried out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against the Kataib Hezbollah militia group in response to the killing of a U.S. civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base. Iraqi security and militia sources said at least 25 militia fighters were killed and at least 55 wounded following three U.S. airstrikes in Iraq on Sunday. [HuffPost]
100 FAMILIES SUE U.S. CONTRACTORS FOR 'PAYING OFF TALIBAN' More than 100 Gold Star families have sued several American defense contractors for allegedly paying protection money to the Taliban while building projects in Afghanistan. The payments, the lawsuit argues, “aided and abetted terrorism” against Americans by enabling the Taliban to continue to fight — and kill U.S. troops. [HuffPost] |
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Monday, December 30
ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKER: I'LL GET YOU Five people were injured Saturday night when a man armed with what appeared to be a machete burst into a rabbi’s home in a New York City suburb and slashed at people attending a Hanukkah celebration, before running out screaming "I'll get you." The suspect, who has been identified as Grafton E. Thomas, is in custody. [HuffPost]
SHOOTING AT TEXAS CHURCH LEAVES SEVERAL DEAD A gunman opened fire inside a church near Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday, killing two parishioners before being fatally shot by an armed churchgoer. “Unfortunately this country has seen so many of these that we’ve gotten used to it at this point and it’s tragic,” Jeoff Williams, a Texas Department of Public Safety regional director, said. [HuffPost]
REP. JOHN LEWIS DIAGNOSED WITH STAGE 4 CANCER Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon, announced that he has been diagnosed with, and is in treatment for, stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “I have been in some kind of fight ― for freedom, equality, basic human rights ― for nearly my entire life,” Lewis said. “I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now.” [HuffPost]
NYC MAYOR ANNOUNCES PLAN TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced new measures to combat anti-Semitism following 13 attacks against the Jewish community around the city in recent weeks. The new measures focus on key Brooklyn neighborhoods, and will include larger police presences, more security cameras, and “neighborhood safety coalitions.” [HuffPost]
TALIBAN COUNCIL AGREES TO CEASE-FIRE IN AFGHANISTAN The Taliban said Sunday they have agreed to a temporary cease-fire nationwide, providing a window during which a peace agreement with the United States could be signed. A peace deal would allow Washington to bring home its troops from Afghanistan and end its 18-year military engagement there, America’s longest. [AP]
TRUMP RETWEETS POST NAMING WHISTLEBLOWER President Donald Trump retweeted, then deleted, a post that included the alleged name of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment by the House. [AP] |
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UNREST AMONG AIDES WHEN TRUMP WITHHELD UKRAINE AID On Sunday, the New York Times published a thorough account of the shock, consternation and fears over morality and potential fallout expressed by some officials who were ordered to carry out the scheme that ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment in December. [HuffPost]
POLICE CHIEF ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH MORMON KILLINGS The police chief of a small town in Mexico has been arrested in connection with a massacre that left nine people dead after an ambush in the state of Sonora on Nov. 4. Mexican officials have attributed the attack to organized crime in Sonora, a state that shares a border with the U.S. [HuffPost]
SPOTIFY TO PAUSE SELLING POLITICAL ADS IN 2020 Music streaming behemoth Spotify will suspend political ads starting in the new year. The suspension “will include political advertising content in our ad-supported tier and in Spotify original and exclusive podcasts,” the platform said in a statement Friday as first reported by Ad Age. [HuffPost]
GABBARD: IMPEACHING TRUMP WILL 'EMBOLDEN' HIM "I think impeachment, unfortunately, will only further embolden Donald Trump, increase his support and the likelihood that he’ll have a better shot at getting elected,” Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D) told ABC News, while defending her decision not to vote to impeach President Trump. [HuffPost]
U.S. STRIKES IN IRAQ TARGET IRANIAN-BACKED MILITIA The U.S. military carried out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against the Kataib Hezbollah militia group in response to the killing of a U.S. civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base. Iraqi security and militia sources said at least 25 militia fighters were killed and at least 55 wounded following three U.S. airstrikes in Iraq on Sunday. [HuffPost]
100 FAMILIES SUE U.S. CONTRACTORS FOR 'PAYING OFF TALIBAN' More than 100 Gold Star families have sued several American defense contractors for allegedly paying protection money to the Taliban while building projects in Afghanistan. The payments, the lawsuit argues, “aided and abetted terrorism” against Americans by enabling the Taliban to continue to fight — and kill U.S. troops. [HuffPost] |
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