Acting US attorney Tracy Wilkinson: "The scope of these crimes by North Korean hackers are staggering. They are the crimes of a nation-state willing to stop at nothing to extract revenge and extort money to prop up the regime."
Emotional on-air moment as @brikeilarcnn recounts the terrible human toll the pandemic has taken in the United States.
Of note: FBI and DOJ officials praising help of Secret Service in unraveling this case. Before taking on dignitary protection, @SecretService was originally housed under Treasury b/c it focused on investigating counterfeiting financial crimes.
This is how sniping over race in the newsroom played out pre-Twitter: I found this mid-1990s sports gossip column from the Washington Times which mocked me for an argument I had with another reporter over the lack of diversity in press boxes.
NEW as Garland faces AG confirmation: A spate of assaults on Asian Americans has renewed long-standing criticism that DOJ is vastly undercounting hate crimes, a problem critics say is more acute amid rising white nationalism and deepening racial strife.
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Just saw Marine leave station outside West Wing meaning @potus has left too. Offices empty, Obama photos off walls.
World leaders are walking shoulder to shoulder along the Champs Elysses but Trump arrived separately and isn’t participating in this.
French President Macron: "Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism."
This G-20 family photo on front page of the Japan Times is kind of amazing. Wait for it.
New: Some of Trump’s advisers described him as glum and shell-shocked by his declining popularity. He has struggled to process...believing he was on a glide path to reelection to realizing that he is losing. Via @jdawsey1 et al
“White House officials did not immediately explain how driving up the cost of Mexican goods might stem the flow of migrants. If the tariffs damaged the Mexican economy, more of its citizens would try to cross the border to find work in the United States.”
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