Headlines for May 18, 2017
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#2PY00)
- DOJ Names Robert Mueller Special Counsel in Russia Investigation
- NYT: Michael Flynn Told Trump Transition Team of Federal Probe
- Reuters: Michael Flynn Had 18 Previously Undisclosed Russia Contacts
- McClatchy: Flynn Executed Turkish Policy Goal as Unregistered Agent
- Rep. Al Green (D-TX) Calls on Congress to Impeach President Trump
- Three House Republicans Raise Possibility of Trump Impeachment
- President Trump Assails Media over Mounting White House Scandals
- Islamophobic Trump Adviser Stephen Miller Pens Trump Speech on Islam
- Chelsea Manning Celebrates "First Steps of Freedom"
- Federal Judge Opens $123 Billion Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Hearings
- Greek Workers Strike Nationwide Amid Latest Push for Austerity
- Brazilian President Temer Reportedly Approved of Hush-Money Payoffs
- Trump Administration Raises Pace of Deportations by 40 Percent
- Radical Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke to Take Homeland Security Post
- Tulsa, Oklahoma: Officer "Not Guilty" in Terence Crutcher Killing
- Texas: Video Shows Officer in Dallas Suburb Tasing Handcuffed Man
- New Orleans Removes Another Confederate Memorial
- New York: Protesters Target Nuclear Power Bailout Plan
- Oscar Lopez Rivera Free After 36 Years in Prison