Gov. employees snapped doing Nazi salute.
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Friday, December 6
WARREN HITS BUTTIGIEG: WHY RAISE MONEY IN SECRET? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took direct aim at 2020 presidential rival Pete Buttigieg on Thursday, chastising the South Bend, Indiana, mayor for holding closed-door fundraisers and urging him to reveal his big-money donors. [HuffPost]
INSIDE THE CELL WHERE A 16-YEAR-OLD DIED UNDER BORDER PATROL CARE Video obtained by ProPublica shows the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a concrete cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate alerted guards. The video doesn’t match the Border Patrol’s account of his death. [HuffPost]
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SUSPENDED OVER NAZI SALUTE A photo shows roughly 30 employees of West Virginia's Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety making the racist gesture, which was used to hail German dictator Adolf Hitler while he oversaw the slaughter of millions of Jews during World War II. [HuffPost]
UBER REVEALS RATES OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS Uber released data revealing the number of incidents of sexual assault reported by riders and drivers on its ride-sharing platform in 2017 and 2018. More than 99.9% of rides happen without a hitch, but “even one report is one too many,” the company notes. [HuffPost]
MCDOUGAL SUES FOX NEWS OVER TRUMP RUMOR Karen McDougal, a former magazine model who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, has filed a lawsuit claiming that Fox News defamed her by airing a segment in which host Tucker Carlson accused her of extortion. [HuffPost]
MASS STRIKE CAUSES TRAVEL CHAOS ACROSS FRANCE The Eiffel Tower shut down Thursday, France’s vaunted high-speed trains stood still and teachers walked off the job as unions launched nationwide strikes and protests over the government’s plan to overhaul the retirement system. [AP] |
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BIDEN SNAPS AT VOTER: 'YOU'RE A DAMN LIAR' Joe Biden apparently lost his temper during an intense exchange with a voter in Iowa after the man accused the former vice president of being too old for the Oval Office and of “selling access” to the U.S. president during his time in the Obama administration. [HuffPost]
IMMIGRANTS GROUP: BUTTIGIEG MUST RETURN ICE-LINKED DONATIONS A coalition of four immigrant rights groups urged 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to return more than $50,000 in donations from McKinsey & Co. employees amid reports that the consulting firm helped the Trump administration carry out its hard-line deportation policies. [HuffPost]
TRUMP KEEPS BUTTING INTO SENATE RACES The efforts by Trump and his top allies to handpick candidates in New Hampshire, Kansas and most recently Georgia, for example, have ruffled feathers with national and local GOP officials who have their own ideas about who should run for the upper chamber. [HuffPost]
THINGS AREN'T LOOKING GREAT FOR THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT It’s bad enough that Congress let the Violence Against Women Act lapse in February. But 10 months later, legislation to renew the landmark 1994 law has hit a wall in the Senate, where Republicans aren’t even united behind their own bill. [HuffPost]
KINDERGARTENERS REPRESENT AT PAL'S ADOPTION HEARING They were squirmy and noisy and not paying attention all the time, but what judge couldn’t be charmed by an entire kindergarten class invited by one of their own for his final adoption hearing? [HuffPost]
'I GOT INSEMINATED IN A BURGER KING BATHROOM' Most people heading in for a late-night Whopper at the Kankakee, Illinois, Burger King would have been shocked to know that a lesbian was meeting her sperm donor inside the restaurant, but there I was outside the men’s restroom, waiting for a paper cup full of semen. [HuffPost] |
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