New Zealand volcano explosion kills at least five.
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Monday, December 9
TRUMP SLAMMED FOR ANTI-SEMITIC CLAIM Jewish groups denounced President Donald Trump for anti-Semitic tropes after he referred to some Jewish voters in the real estate business as “brutal killers” who will vote for him to dodge a wealth tax. Trump also complained that some Jews “don’t love Israel enough” in a weekend speech to a Jewish group. [HuffPost]
NEW ZEALAND VOLCANO EXPLOSION LEAVES AT LEAST 5 DEAD A volcano erupted on New Zealand’s White Island on Monday afternoon, killing at least five people and injuring as many as 20. Several tourists visiting the site remained unaccounted for. [HuffPost]
NADLER: JURY WOULD CONVICT IN '3 MINUTES FLAT' House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said the ongoing impeachment inquiry into Trump has produced a “rock solid case” against the president regarding his dealings with Ukraine. [HuffPost]
BIDEN 'HASN'T ASKED' WHAT HUNTER DID IN UKRAINE Former Vice President Joe Biden said he doesn’t know what work his son Hunter Biden did in Ukraine while serving on the board of an energy company there for five years, but noted that it didn’t matter “because I trust my son.” [HuffPost]
HONG KONG PROTESTS MARK 6 MONTHS WITH RALLY Almost hidden among the throngs of demonstrators who marched in Hong Kong on Sunday was one woman who crawled, literally on hands and knees on the rough road surface — an apt metaphor for the arduous path traveled by Hong Kong’s protest movement in the past six months. [AP]
RUSSIA BANNED FROM MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS Russia was banned from the Olympics and world championships in a range of sports for four years on Monday after the World Anti-Doping Agency ruled to punish it for manipulating laboratory data. [Reuters] |
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THE DEMOCRATS CONFRONT THE CHAOS VOTE Over the summer, the American Political Science Association granted one of its most prestigious awards to a trio of researchers purporting to show the emergence of a new “psychological syndrome” common among disaffected young men. This phenomenon, ominously dubbed a “Need for Chaos,” is disrupting politics not only in the United States but also in other “advanced Democracies.” [HuffPost]
SAUDI LINK TO FLORIDA SHOOTING PROBED FOR TERRORISIM The FBI said it was conducting a terrorism investigation into the shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola as new information emerged. The gunman, a Saudi trainee identified as 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani, filed a formal complaint earlier this year against one of his instructors. [New York Times]
DOJ WATCHDOG EXPECTED TO FIND RUSSIA PROBE VALID The Justice Department’s internal watchdog will release a highly anticipated report Monday that is expected to reject Trump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegitimate and tainted by political bias from FBI leaders. But it is also expected to document errors during the investigation. [AP]
WOMAN'S DEATH SEES FIRST EVER 'PERIOD HUT' ARREST After a 21-year-old woman died in Nepal after spending three frigid nights in an unheated “period hut,” local police made what’s been described as the country’s first-ever arrest in connection with the illegal — but centuries-old — practice of chhaupadi. [HuffPost]
LEBANON'S JOURNALISTS SUFFER ABUSE, THREATS Lebanese journalists are facing threats and wide-ranging harassment in their work — including verbal insults and physical attacks, even death threats — while reporting on nearly 50 days of anti-government protests, despite Lebanon’s reputation as a haven for free speech in a troubled region. [AP]
REDDIT SUSPECTS RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN UK The prospect of Russian interference in Britain’s election flared anew after the social media platform Reddit concluded that people from Russia leaked confidential British government documents on Brexit trade talks just days before the general U.K. vote. [AP] |
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