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WikiLeaks' Assange arrested in London; US charge unveiled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents. https://apnews.com/f9878e358d1a4cde9685815b0512909d

Israeli PM Netanyahu poised for 5th term as rival concedes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival conceded defeat Wednesday, promising to wage a robust battle from the opposition after the ruling Likud party and its nationalist allies won a solid majority in parliamentary elections. https://apnews.com/1bc4b635516f41e2a18cd4d4f9cb9388

Black Hole Picture Revealed for the First Time Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had seen the unseeable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.amp.html?2

Some on Mueller’s Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/william-barr-mueller-report.amp.html

Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy, but Stops Short of Exonerating President on Obstruction The investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III found no evidence that President Trump or any of his aides coordinated with the Russian government’s 2016 election interference, according to a summary of the special counsel’s key findings made public on Sunday by Attorney General William P. Barr. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/mueller-report-summary.amp.html?4

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Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash President Trump declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico on Friday in order to access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall there, transforming…

Christchurch shootings: 49 dead in New Zealand mosque attacks Forty-nine people have been killed and 48 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the nation's deadliest attack. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as a terrorist attack and one of New Zealand's "darkest days". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-47578798?4

Boeing 737 Max 8 Jets Are Grounded Nearly Everywhere Roughly two-thirds of the 737 Max 8 aircraft in the world have been pulled from use by airlines and aviation regulators after the model crashed twice in just five months. An estimated 6,000 of the 8,600…

New York Charges Paul Manafort With 16 Crimes Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, has been charged in New York with mortgage fraud and more than a dozen other state felonies, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., said Wednesday, an effort to ensure he will still face prison time if Mr. Trump pardons him for his federal crimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/nyregion/manafort-indictment.amp.html

Paul Manafort Is Sentenced to Less Than 4 Years in 1 of 2 Cases Against Him Paul Manafort, the political consultant and Trump presidential campaign chairman whose lucrative work in Ukraine and ties to well-connected Russians made him a target of the special…

Ethiopian Airlines Flight Crashes Near Addis Ababa, Killing All Onboard An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying at least 150 people crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline…