Light News Dump

HUD says 55,000 children could be displaced under Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/10/hud-says-children-could-be-displaced-under-trump-plan-evict-undocumented-immigrants/

FBI Opens Investigation Into Florida GOP Donor Cindy Yang: The Miami Herald confirmed that a woman who worked for Li “Cindy” Yang’s business received a subpoena from the FBI this week over her Trump donation.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-investigation-cindy-yang-trump_n_5cd4d51ae4b0796a95d8ff69

House Judiciary introduces act to pause statute of limitations on presidential federal offenses
https://www.axios.com/house-judiciary-act-pause-statute-limitations-presidential-federal-offenses-146fa5eb-ff05-430b-a07a-5243f30e4cc6.html

The Senate Is as Much of a Problem as Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/opinion/sunday/senate-democrats-trump.html

Pentagon to transfer $1.5 billion to border wall from Afghan forces, other areasincluding veterans' retirement account. Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved the transfer of $1.5 billion to build 80 miles of barriers. Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat, wrote on Twitter prior to the announcement that the Pentagon “has now reprogrammed 12 times more money to the wall than for repairs at Tyndall [Air Force Base], destroyed by Hurricane Michael. We should put troops first!”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-border-pentagon/pentagon-to-transfer-1-5-billion-to-border-wall-from-afghan-forces-other-areas-idUSKCN1SG1TM

Warren, Cummings, Udall, Haaland, and More Than 95 Colleagues Reintroduce the Bicameral, Comprehensive CARE Act to Combat the Opioid and Substance Use Epidemic in Native Communities
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-cummings-udall-haaland-and-more-than-95-colleagues-reintroduce-the-bicameral-comprehensive-care-act-to-combat-the-opioid-and-substance-use-epidemic-in-native-communities

Climate crisis: Huge VAT rise on solar panels makes installation ‘entirely uneconomic’, say UK experts - ‘We could not have a clearer sign the government has failed to even begin to grasp the urgency’, says Green Party co-leader
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-solar-panels-vat-government-fossil-fuels-sian-berry-a8906361.html

Sadiq Khan: We shouldn’t roll out red carpet for Trump’s visit: “History tells us only two presidents have had a state visit and I don’t think President Trump is in the same class as those two.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/sadiq-khan-we-shouldn-t-roll-out-red-carpet-for-trump-s-visit-a4139331.html

@RoKhanna, who is a top adviser to @BernieSanders campaign, just signed on as a co-sponsor of Rosa DeLauro's "Medicare for America" plan. Earlier this month, Sanders tweeted "we cannot accept any substitute but Medicare For All.” Hmm.. I wonder who else has supported this plan. (Beto) (twitter.com)
https://twitter.com/hctrudo/status/1126920967702351872?s=21

Racist statements towards Indigenous people made by Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak, on her website, have resulted in her suspension without pay from the Senate after she refused to remove them
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Senator-Barred-for-Racist-Letters-Against-Indigenous-Canadians-20190510-0004.html

Trump Administration Plans To End Protections For Endangered Species After U.N. Report Warns Of 'Mass Extinction Event'
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-climate-change-extinction-david-bernhardt-1422623

She Stopped to Help Migrants on a Texas Highway. Moments Later, She Was Arrested.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/us/texas-border-good-samaritan.html

Almost every country in the world has agreed on a legally binding framework for reducing polluting plastic waste, with the United States a notable exception, United Nations environmental officials said Friday
https://apnews.com/0771a60e9b024247b29073aaa4dee6ed

Warren’s opioids message applauded in hard-hit West Virginia
https://www.apnews.com/8c34230a60a24860a6182b6a41b1b694

Durbin, Warren, Nadler, Katko Introduce Bill Making Bankruptcy Relief Available For Student Loan Borrowers
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-warren-nadler-katko-introduce-bill-making-bankruptcy-relief-available-for-student-loan-borrowers

Proposed $1,000 Illinois electric vehicle registration fee called unfair by EV owners and manufacturers
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-electric-vehicle-fee-illinois-20190509-story.html

New York to Kill Its Last Coal Plants With Emissions Rule
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-09/new-york-to-kill-state-s-last-coal-plants-with-an-emissions-rule

Trump Is Asking a Foreign Government to Interfere in the 2020 Election
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/trump-giuliani-ukraine-smear-biden-russia.html

Giuliani Is Asking a Foreign Government to Interfere in the 2020 Election
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/05/10/giuliani-is-asking-a-foreign-government-to-interfere-in-the-2020-election/

Trump is already colluding with a foreign government to get reelected
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/10/trump-is-already-colluding-with-foreign-government-get-reelected/

Only 15% of the products in the Trump store are made in the US
https://qz.com/1483890/how-many-donald-trump-products-are-made-in-the-usa/

Trump accused of taking a child's ball to cheat and win golf championship
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-international-golf-club-championship-ball-cheat-2019-5

A group of Muslim worshippers chased away a masked gunman from their mosque in London on Thursday night in an incident that sparked fear of a repeat of the deadly anti-Islamic terror attack in New Zealand just weeks ag*ago
https://www.newsweek.com/london-mosque-muslims-chase-gunman-christchurch-attacks-1421880?

Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate. It will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth's poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48069663

Rep. Kathleen Rice Introduces Bill Requiring Cybersecurity Training for All House Members
https://kathleenrice.house.gov/newsroom/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1462

Trump Labor Officials Are Secretly Using Forced Arbitration to Get Corporations Off the Hook
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-labor-officials-forced-arbitration.html

House approves $17B disaster aid bill over Trump opposition on Puerto Rico
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/443093-house-approves-17b-disaster-aid-bill-over-trump-opposition-on-puerto-rico

MyPillow Lays Off 150 Workers Months After CEO Credited Trump Tax Cuts for Economic Boom
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-lays-off-150-workers-months-after-ceo-mike-lindell-credited-trump-tax-cuts-for-economic-boom