Israel arrests, beats brother of Ahed Tamimi.
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Trump Laments Latest School Shooting and Vows Action — Again
Liar, liar, liar. Mr. Trump had called for gun control measures after the February school shooting in Parkland, Fla., but did not press for action, and Congress has not followed through.
‘We Should Not Have This in Common’: Santa Fe and Parkland Students React to Shooting
Survivors of the February school shooting in Parkland, Fla. offered sympathy and support to their grieving peers in Santa Fe, Tex.
New Yorkers respond to racist lawyer’s rant with ‘Latin party’ outside his house
Aaron Schlossberg was abusive to Spanish-speaking workers. Now activists are hosting a party with a theme: retribution
There is a street party happening in New York this evening. There will be taco trucks, Jarritos margaritas and a mariachi band – but this is not a Cinco de Mayo parade that got the date wrong. This party’s only theme will be retribution.
Festivities are taking place outside the Manhattan apartment of Aaron Schlossberg, the lawyer who was filmed being irate and abusive towards Hispanic restaurant workers this week. Schlossberg threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on the workers, saying he believed they were illegal immigrants because they were speaking Spanish to some customers.
– Lebanese Internal Security Forces arrest prominent LGBT rights activist, pressure him to cancel Beirut Pride events
Foul censorship of rights! The crackdown violates freedom of assembly and association and is a step backward in a country that has made progress toward respecting the rights of LGBT people.
Asylum seeker hospitalized after being stabbed by group of Israelis | +972 Magazine
Adam says that passersby told him that the same group of Israelis had tried to attack an asylum seeker earlier that day, but had given up when they realized there were too many people around. He has no doubt that the attack was racially-motivated. “These are people who I saw for the first time. They came here to mess with refugees.”
Source: Asylum seeker hospitalized after being stabbed by group of Israelis | +972 Magazine
U.S. ends practice that gave some immigrants reprieves from deportation
130 US lawmakers for work permits to H-1B spouses
The letter by US lawmakers to the secretary of homeland security Kirstjen Nielsen comes weeks ahead of the Trump administration’s formal move to rescind the rule granting these spouses work authorisation in June.
Manafort’s ex-son-in-law reaches plea deal to cooperate in investigations

Insiders say Jeffrey Yohai, ex-business partner to Trump’s former campaign chair, may be asked to help Mueller prosecute Manafort
The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has cut a plea deal with the justice department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal investigations, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
The guilty plea agreement, which is under seal and has not been previously reported, could add to the legal pressure on Manafort, who is facing two indictments brought by the special counsel Robert Mueller in his inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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