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Brock Long’s Woes Mount as House G.O.P. Launches Travel Inquiry

Representative Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Monday he will investigate the potential misuse of government vehicles by FEMA’s chief.

IMF chief highlights recession risk of no-deal Brexit

Christine Lagarde says disorderly exit of UK from EU would have ‘dire consequences’

The UK economy would rapidly start to contract in the event of a disruptive exit from the EU next spring, according to a stark International Monetary Fund report that highlights the recession risks of a no-deal Brexit.

Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director, added that there would be costs to the UK under any outcome that involves leaving the EU.

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Sean Penn: ‘salacious’ #MeToo movement will ‘divide men and women’

Was he carrying bat he hit Madonna with while making his remarks?

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The actor says he is ‘very suspicious’ of spirit of Hollywood post-Weinstein and worries that it is ‘too black and white’

Sean Penn has spoken of his concerns with the movement, worrying that it revolves around too many “salacious” revelations.

The 58-year-old actor, promoting his new TV drama The First, appeared on NBC’s Today programme with co-star Natasha McElhone when conversation shifted to the rise in women coming forward with their experiences of sexual harassment and abuse.

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‘I think we both get it’: Scott Morrison professes admiration for Trump

My sympathies to Australia.

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Australian PM says he and US president both understand that some people have been left behind by globalisation

Scott Morrison says he admires Donald Trump as a “very practical” leader “who’s not going to waste a day” in office, and has told an American newspaper he and the US president share an instinct to help those forgotten by the forces of globalisation.

“I think we both get it,” Morrison told the New York Times, of their common understanding.

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Berkeley police posted activists’ mugshots on Twitter and celebrated retweets, emails reveal

Whose side are you on? Not democracy or anti-white supremacy!

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City has an explicit policy of targeting protesters with mugshot tweets to ‘help create a counter-narrative’

A California police agency that published the names and photos of anti-fascist protesters on Twitter said it was creating a “counter-narrative” on social media and celebrated its high rate of retweets and “engagement”, internal records reveal.

The Berkeley police department (BPD) faced widespread backlash last month after posting the personal information of arrested activists online, leading to Fox News coverage and harassment and abuse against the leftwing demonstrators at a far-right rally. New emails have shown that the city has an explicit policy of targeting protesters with mugshot tweets, with the goal of using “social media to help create a counter-narrative”.

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‘Merde alors!’: Salvini draws fury with reference to African ‘slaves’

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Italian interior minister’s comments on immigration infuriate Luxembourg minister

Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has compared African immigrants to slaves, prompting Luxembourg’s foreign minister to retort angrily using the French curse “Merde alors!

The fiery exchange between Salvini – the leader of the League, which governs in coalition with the populist Five Star Movement – and Jean Asselborn occurred during a behind-closed-doors session at a European conference on security and immigration in Vienna.

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