Pelosi calls Trump's letter "sick."
| | | | | | | TOP STORIES
Wednesday, December 18
IMPEACHMENT EVE: NATIONWIDE RALLIES Hundreds of protests played out throughout the country on Tuesday evening to demand that President Donald Trump be removed from office, an appropriately dramatic setup for today’s historic impeachment vote in the House. [HuffPost]
PELOSI HASN'T HAD TIME FOR TRUMP'S 'RIDICULOUS' LETTER House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blew past reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday night, just hours after the president sent her a raging, insult-laden letter condemning House Democrats for the impeachment process and pronouncing himself victim of an attempted coup. [HuffPost]
BENEATH THE VEGAS STRIP, THE HOMELESS LIVE IN TUNNELS Donovan has been taking shelter in the concrete tunnels that run under the Las Vegas Strip for two years. These dark passageways are part of a huge drainage network designed to protect the glittering casino district from flash flooding. It’s estimated that nearly 300 homeless people live in these tunnels. [HuffPost]
MORE DEMS IN PRO-TRUMP DISTRICTS SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT Democrats holding vulnerable seats in the House of Representatives have continued to come out in support of impeachment in recent days, signaling a more unified front than Republicans have suggested. [HuffPost]
SECRETIVE COURT REBUKES FBI OVER RUSSIA PROBE The chief judge of a secretive surveillance court said the FBI provided “unsupported” information when it applied to eavesdrop on a former Trump campaign adviser and directed the bureau to report back by next month on what steps it was taking to fix the problems. [AP]
PAKISTAN SENTENCES FORMER DICTATOR TO DEATH A Pakistani court sentenced the country’s former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the state of emergency he imposed in 2007 while in power. [AP] |
|
|
|
|
|
| | | | WHAT'S BREWING
POPE FRANCIS ISSUES SWEEPING SEXUAL ABUSE REFORMS Pope Francis announced sweeping changes to the way the Roman Catholic Church deals with cases of sexual abuse of minors, abolishing the rule of “pontifical secrecy” that previously covered them. [Reuters]
JUDGE OKS NEARLY $25 BILLION FOR PG&E FIRE VICTIMS A federal bankruptcy judge approved two Pacific Gas & Electric settlements totaling $24.5 billion to help pay the losses suffered by homeowners, businesses and insurers in the aftermath of catastrophic Northern California wildfires that sent the nation’s largest utility into a financial morass. [AP]
JERSEY CITY MAYOR WANTS OUSTER OF OFFICIAL WHO DEFENDED STORE ASSAULT Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop is calling on a school official who referred to Jewish people as “brutes” in an angry Facebook post to resign. Jersey City Board of Education trustee Joan Terrell-Paige's Facebook comment appeared to justify last week’s deadly assault on a Jewish market carried out by two shooters in the New Jersey town. [HuffPost]
NEW ZEALAND SCALES DOWN SEARCH FOR TWO MISSING AFTER ERUPTION New Zealand police said they would be scaling down search operations for two people still missing after a volcanic eruption last week, admitting the bodies may never be found. [Reuters]
GOVERNMENT FORCED SEX WORKERS OFFLINE LAST YEAR. NOW, IT WANTS TO SURVEY THE DAMAGE. Congress rarely passes major legislation with a bipartisan vote, but last year both parties agreed that sex work should no longer be promoted online. Experts and sex workers themselves warned that punishing sites that host prostitution ads would force the industry into dangerous shadows, but Congress ignored them. [HuffPost]
A GUIDE TO THE MEMES THAT DEFINED A DECADE Over the the last 10 years, arguably the world’s largest cultural shift came in the form of the internet. It drastically shifted how we exist on this planet. Everything from how we talk and eat to how we travel and shop has been impacted. Hell, 10 years ago this sentence ― “Can you Venmo me for the Uber and Seamless last night?” ― would have been nonsense. [HuffPost] |
|
|
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 👋 You may have noticed that 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.
Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? - Subscribe here! ©2019 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email becuase you signed up for updates from HuffPost
Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
0 comments:
Post a Comment