3 New Stories You Should Read Today – 4/10/2018
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SEARCHED AND SEIZED: F.B.I. AGENTS RAID MICHAEL COHEN’S NEW YORK HOTEL
Law-enforcement agents spent several hours at the Loews Regency hotel on Monday morning, as they executed a search warrant against the president’s personal lawyer. Cohen’s attorney said they were referred by Robert Mueller.
The paparazzi lingering outside the Loews Regency on Park Avenue, hoping to get a photo of U.F.C. fighter Conor McGregor, appeared not to notice the stream of F.B.I. agents that entered the New York hotel early Monday morning, as they made their way up to the room where the president’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been staying. A handful of them remained upstairs for several hours, according to a source familiar with the situation. “Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients,” Cohen’s attorney, Stephen Ryan, said in a statement. “I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.”
Dear White People: If a Memorial Dedicated to Lynchings of Black People Makes You Uncomfortable, Good
What truly pissed me off was that I knew for a fact that CBS would receive complaints that it had had the nerve to show the pictures of bodies hanging from rope as a public spectacle. I know that white people HATE seeing their fucked-up-ness. They hate it. They think none of it is necessary to see. To many, the story can be told without the pictorial proof of hate.
CBS clearly knew this was coming because it filmed a whole-ass video with the 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Flager explaining why the network showed the disturbing pictures and how disturbing it was to see all of those white, sometimes jovial, faces in the crowd watching this terrible shit.
The U.S. to ‘respond’ to Syria attack; Russia warns of ‘repercussions’
After US threat of military action in Syria, Russia warns of ‘grave’ consequences amid escalating rhetoric.
An escalating war of words has broken out between Moscow and Washington over a suspected chemical attack in a Syrian rebel-held town, raising international tensions amid calls for action at an urgent United Nations Security Council meeting.
The US, Britain, France and six other countries requested Monday’s emergency session after rescue teams and medics said a “poisonous chlorine gas attack” in Douma on Saturday killed dozens of people, including many children and women.
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