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Trump's Son-In-Law Is Told To 'Lawyer Up'
The fire in the underbrush is getting closer to Donald Trump and seems to be burning brighter as well. California Congressman Ted Lieu of Torrance, California, has advised Donald Trump’s son-in-law that he’d better “lawyer up.” Lieu claims Kushner, 36, lied and committed a crime regarding contact with foreign governments. “Kushner committed a felony by not disclosing two meetings with high profile Russians during his security clearance hearings,” Lieu told MSNBC’s AM Joy.
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Russia detains protesters against Chechnya anti-gay violence
Russian police on Monday detained young activists protesting against the persecution of gay men in Chechnya at a May Day parade in Saint Petersburg, an AFP photographer witnessed. Recent reports of a brutal crackdown on gay men in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus region led for a decade by strongman Ramzan Kadyrov have caused an international scandal.
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Brazilian President Temer: 'I won't resign. Oust me if you want'
Brazilian President Michel Temer, facing growing calls for his resignation amid a corruption scandal, will not step down even if he is formally indicted by the Supreme Court, he said in an interview in Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil's largest newspaper, on Monday. Brazilians who have become inured to the massive, three-year corruption investigation were shocked last week by the disclosure of a recording that appeared to show Temer condoning the payment of hush money to a jailed lawmaker.
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Bloodshed, fires and chaos as thousands march in Brazil to demand president’s ouster
Protesters set fires, smashed windows and stormed government buildings to demand the ouster of yet another Brazilian president engulfed in a corruption scandal. By Rosalind Adams, Cora Lewis.
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Audi cheated on diesel emissions tests using software: Official
Germany's transport minister says luxury automaker Audi used software to cheat on diesel emissions tests, an allegation that has already caused trouble for its parent company Volkswagen. Alexander Dobrindt says the software used by Ingolstadt-based Audi was able to recognize when vehicles were being tested and switch on an emissions cleaning system.
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The sad spectacle of Hillary Clinton’s slow-motion breakdown
Hillary Clinton seems to have launched yet another political campaign in 2017, one to convince Americans that they absolutely did the right thing by not electing her president in 2016. By Andrew Malcolm.
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Fox Sports Fires Jamie Horowitz Amid Sexual Harassment Claims
Issues with workplace culture emerged at a new division of 21st Century Fox on Monday as its sports group abruptly fired a top executive, Jamie Horowitz, amid an investigation into sexual harassment, a person briefed on the matter said.
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Wells Fargo Is Trying to Bury Another Massive Scandal
The bank became notorious last year for creating fake accounts on behalf of customers. Now it's trying to kill a class-action lawsuit over shady debit card fees. Wells Fargo became a poster child for corporations that abuse their own customers last year when it got fined for ginning up roughly 2 million (maybe even more) fake accounts to meet high sales goals. The bank has since tried to block customer lawsuits over that misconduct, using fine print buried in contracts known as the forced arbitration clauses, which force customers to go not before judges but a secretive non-judicial process to get relief.
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Wells Fargo uncovers up to 1.4 million more fake accounts
Wells Fargo has uncovered up to 1.4 million more fake accounts after digging deeper into the bank's broken sales culture. The findings show that Wells Fargo's problems are worse than the bank previously admitted to when the scandal began almost a year ago.
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Australia's Commonwealth Bank slapped with class-action suit
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA.AX) was hit on Tuesday with potentially Australia’s biggest class-action lawsuit over a money-laundering scandal that has already smashed its share price and exposed it to billions of dollars in fines. Litigation financier IMF Bentham Ltd (IMF.AX) said it would fund the lawsuit against Australia’s biggest bank, accusing it of making false and misleading statements and failing to disclose breaches of anti-money laundering rules for years.
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Truth in Jest?
Louis C.K. would rather ignore those assault rumours, but at this point, he can’t just let his art do the talking. By Emma Healey.
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Iceland’s Government Collapses, Uncertainty Lies Ahead
Bright Future have just announced that they will be ending their coalition with the Independence Party, effectively collapsing Iceland’s government. By Paul Fontaine.
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Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft
Federal law-enforcement authorities in New York are investigating whether Uber Technologies Inc. used software to interfere illegally with a competitor, according to people familiar with the investigation, adding to legal pressures facing the ride-hailing company and its new chief executive.
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Russian doping whistleblower reveals country plotted his suicide to stop him from telling the truth to world
Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, who helped orchestrate the country's state-sponsored Olympic doping programme, says he fled his homeland because he feared for his life and his family's safety. "Two days before I fled, a friend within the government warned me that Russia was planning my 'suicide'. I thought that my family might be safer with me gone and, if I were to die, at least I would get to tell the truth to the world first," said Rodchenkov, the former director of Russia's anti-doping lab that oversaw drug testing at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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Powerful Hollywood agent accused of sexual assault by multiple young men
A powerful Hollywood agent who primarily represents teen and child actors has been accused by two different young men of sexual assault and harassment. In a lengthy Facebook post written on Monday, actor Blaise Godbe Lipman alleged that he was sexually assaulted by Tyler Grasham of the Agency for the Performing Arts (APA) when he was a teenager.
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Why This Is Not Trump’s Watergate
Never mind the obvious factual differences in the stories—the allegations of Russian collusion are far more grave—American law, politics, and journalism is far too different now to think that matters will unfold the way they did in the 1970s. As complex a story as Watergate was, it reads like a children’s book compared to what Mueller and his team are dealing with. As vicious and as partisan as the events were back then, they seem quaint in comparison to the poisonous atmosphere in which the current scandal is unfolding. That is why the comparisons to Watergate are so facile. By Andrew Cohen.
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“Fat Leonard,” the Navy bribery scandal involving more than 60 admirals, explained
It involves fancy dinners, prostitutes, and lots of alcohol. By Alex Ward.
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This [UK PM’s] cabinet has successfully normalised complete bloody incompetence
In the name of God, go. By Jonn Elledge.
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We Are All Implicated in the Post-Weinstein Reckoning
As stories about abuse, assault, and complicity come flooding out, how do we think about the culprits in our lives? Including, sometimes, ourselves. By Rebecca Traister.
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Old Vic Theater lists 20 allegations against Kevin Spacey
The theatre apologised for not having a culture where people could "speak freely".
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