Wednesday 24 May 2017

Evening Edition: Brother of British bomber arrested in Libya after authorities say he was planning attack

'We had to pull nails out of children's faces': Homeless men helped after blast; How a dubious Russian document influenced the FBI's handling of the Clinton email probe; Betsy DeVos won't say whether she'd withhold federal funds from private schools that discriminate; Decades of Israeli occupation boil down to a single word for Palestinians: Frustration; Do you trust Trump's judgment?; Administration: Tax receipts are coming in slowly, and government could run out of cash sooner than expected; Ben Carson calls poverty ‘a state of mind’ during interview; The life and death of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory; Despite promise, Trump's business has made limited effort to identify foreign profits ; As European leaders sit with Trump, relief that meetings are happening at all; Scientists publish study rebutting Scott Pruitt on climate change; Christian school: Teen is banned from graduation 'not because she is pregnant but because she was immoral'; The Senate's getting its ticket to ride on the health-care roller coaster; The case against putting calorie counts on menus;
 
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Brother of British bomber arrested in Libya after authorities say he was planning attack
Libya's counterterrorism service said the younger brother of 22-year-old bomber Salman Abedi was arrested before he could carry out an attack in the capital, Tripoli. The brothers' father was also arrested as the crackdown on a suspected terrorist network extended to a second continent.
'We had to pull nails out of children's faces': Homeless men helped after blast
Two homeless rescuers are being rewarded for their daring actions, though the devastation they encountered left them scarred.
 
How a dubious Russian document influenced the FBI's handling of the Clinton email probe
The bureau's then-director, James B. Comey, may have relied on unconfirmed intelligence when he decided to announce on his own, without Justice Department involvement, that the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server was over, officials said.
 
Betsy DeVos won't say whether she'd withhold federal funds from private schools that discriminate
Testifying before a House committee on President Trump's, the education secretary repeatedly emphasized a return to more local control over schools.
 
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Occupied: Year 50
Decades of Israeli occupation boil down to a single word for Palestinians: Frustration
Most Palestinians have never known anything but the Israeli occupation of the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — a system by which Israel exerts control over 2.6 million Arabs. For one father, a better job means a daily commute through a chaotic Israeli checkpoint.
 
Do you trust Trump's judgment?
It's a simple question, but for Republicans in Congress, it's not an easy one. Most of the lawmakers weren't eager to address the subject head-on. They diverted and demurred. They paused contemplatively before answering. Some grew visibly uncomfortable. Here's what they said.
 
Administration: Tax receipts are coming in slowly, and government could run out of cash sooner than expected
Budget chief Mick Mulvaney said the White House did not have a "stated policy yet" on what Congress should do about the debt ceiling.
 
Ben Carson calls poverty ‘a state of mind’ during interview
The HUD secretary said a person with "the wrong mindset" won't get out of poverty even if you "give them everything in the world."
 
The life and death of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory
Word that a hacker may have tried to gain access to Rich's email account may be the final blow to the fake-news tale that Rich had fed DNC emails to WikiLeaks.
 
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Despite promise, Trump's business has made limited effort to identify foreign profits
Documents show the ease with which foreign money could be paid into the president's business interests, even though Trump pledged to donate all profits from foreign-government sources at his Washington hotel and other businesses.
 
As European leaders sit with Trump, relief that meetings are happening at all
Brussels is a city filled with organizations Trump has condemned, and many top officials here say they will count it a success if there are no blowups during the visit.
 
Scientists publish study rebutting Scott Pruitt on climate change
The Environmental Protection Agency administrator wrote that satellite data show a "leveling off of warming." Scientists say that's not true.
 
Christian school: Teen is banned from graduation 'not because she is pregnant but because she was immoral'
Despite a public outcry and growing pressure from national antiabortion groups to reconsider its stance, Heritage Academy in Hagerstown says the student broke the school's rules by engaging in intimate sexual activity.
 
The Health 202 | Analysis
The Senate's getting its ticket to ride on the health-care roller coaster
The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release its final estimate of how much the House's American Health Care Act would cost and how many people it would cover, freeing the Republicans in the Senate to begin work on their version of the measure.
 
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The case against putting calorie counts on menus
Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema entertains your dining questions, rants and raves.
 
 
     
 
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