3 Stories You Should Read 5/13/2020: St. Peters, Isreal, Democrats
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In the category of: Keeping count
This New York pastor says his parish lost 44 people to coronavirus
Reading the list of the coronavirus dead has become a new ritual
The list at St. Peter’s started in mid-March with just one name.
Now, the single-spaced list is so long that it stretches onto a second page. The grim ritual of reading the names out loud has become as much a part of the church’s biweekly Spanish Mass as reciting the Lord’s Prayer.
During each service, broadcast live on Facebook from Arias’ apartment in the Bronx, photos of the dead flash across the screen.
Behind each name, there’s a story.
In the category of: In other news
US to Israel: Be circumspect on annexation of occupied West Bank
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Israeli leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz on one-day visit to Israel.
‘Blatant attack’ on international law
The Palestinians have rejected Trump’s plan and cut ties with the Trump administration in 2017 over its pro-Israel stance.
Their chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said earlier this week that Pompeo’s team had not reached out before the secretary of state’s visit.
“The Trump administration is collaborating with Israel in its annexation plan in what is both an attempt at burying the rights of the Palestinian people as well as a blatant attack on a rules-based international system,” he said.
In the category of: Partyline
Widening rift on mergers during pandemic divides Democrats and Republicans
Democrats want to block some corporate marriages for businesses that accept relief funds. Republicans attack such proposals as “latent socialism.”
Congressional Democrats are ramping up their calls for regulators to crack down on major corporate mergers during the coronavirus pandemic, a push that House Republican leaders are denouncing as “latent socialism.”
The rift — seen in two letters from the lawmakers obtained or reviewed by POLITICO — comes as the parties feud over major aspects of the federal response to the coronavirus. And they show a deepening split among leaders of the House Judiciary Committee, which is carrying out a yearlong investigation into alleged anti-competitive abuses in Silicon Valley.
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