Jerome Corsi—the right-wing conspiracy theorist and Roger Stone associate—filed a lawsuit Sunday accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of blackmailing him to lie about President Trump in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The suit seeks $350 million in damages and was filed six days after Corsi entered a formal complaint with the Justice Department alleging misconduct by Mueller. Corsi, 72, accuses Mueller's office of illegally leaking information from the grand jury investigating Russian election interference. The suit also accuses the special counsel's office of threatening Corsi with prison unless he agreed to falsely testify that he served as a liaison between Julian Assange and Stone. Corsi is known to have sent an email alerting Stone that WikiLeaks planned to release damaging information about emails stolen from John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, two months before WikiLeaks actually did so. He claims he never had any direct knowledge of WikiLeaks’ plans, saying he managed to predict the email dump using his investigative skills.

Europe’s top court has ruled that Britain can cancel Brexit without getting permission from the other 27 EU members. The ruling from the European Court of Justice says the U.K. can decide at any time to call off Brexit if such a move was approved through a “democratic process” such as another referendum, a general election, or a vote in parliament. Should the U.K. decide to cancel Brexit, it would maintain the same opt-outs and benefits it currently has as part of the EU, the ruling states. The landmark judgment comes a day before members of parliament are due to vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal. They are widely expected to reject the terms agreed upon between May and EU leaders. The European Court of Justice said it made the ruling to “clarify the options open to MPs” ahead of the vote. The campaigners who raised the legal case hope their victory will increase the chances of Brexit being called off completely, but the British government insists the U.K. will leave the EU on schedule next March.

The NYPD says it’s reviewing a “troubling” video that shows a group of police officers trying to rip a 1-year-old child from the arms of his mother as she lies on the floor of a social-services office in Brooklyn. The video shows Jazmine Headley, 23, as she clutches her baby to her chest and shouts: “They’re hurting my son! They’re hurting my son!” Other people in the office screamed “Oh my God!” and “Look what they’re doing to her!” while one officer is seen brandishing a stun gun. The NYPD said they were called after social-services officers and staff tried but failed to remove her from the office, citing disorderly conduct. Nyashia Ferguson, who shot the video, said Headley was asked to leave when she sat down on the floor because all of the chairs were full. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson called the video “unacceptable, appalling, and heartbreaking.” Headley was charged with resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child, obstructing governmental administration, and criminal trespass.

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A winter storm that hit the Southeast over the weekend killed at least one motorist, left more than 300,000 customers without power, and forced the cancellation of over 1,000 flights, Reuters reports. A weather warning is still in effect for most of North Carolina, Virginia, and southern West Virginia as at least an additional two inches of snow were expected to fall overnight and into Monday, adding to the foot of snow that fell over the weekend. Around 310,000 people were without power in the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia on Sunday evening. The severe weather also caused over 1,000 flight cancellations at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. An 18-wheeler was found in a river in Kinston, North Carolina, on Sunday morning, WRAL-TV reported, and the driver has not yet been found. Another driver was confirmed to have been killed outside of Charlotte when a tree fell on a car.

In 1974, a Louisiana woman named Joan Feenstra charged that her husband, Harold, molested their daughter. Wait, it gets worse: To defend himself against this charge, Harold hired a lawyer — and to pay for that lawyer, he, unbeknownst to Joan, mortgaged the family’s home. Although she dropped the charge and the couple separated, Joan learned of her husband’s actions two years later when his lawyer, Karl Kirchberg, demanded payment and threatened foreclosure to get it. But, shockingly enough, what Harold did was perfectly legal. Under the Head and Master law still then in effect in some states, including Louisiana, men had final say over all household decisions and jointly owned property. Not for long: Joan filed a lawsuit challenging the Head and Master law as unconstitutional. The case slowly made its way to the Supreme Court, which, following arguments on December 10, 1980, ruled unanimously in Joan’s favor on March 23, 1981. Come 2015, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg used the Court’s ruling in Kirchberg v. Feenstra to argue in favor of same-sex marriage in the historic Obergefell v. Hodges case.

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Former FBI Director James Comey—who calls himself a “semi-employed celebrity” since he was fired by Donald Trump in May 2017—has called on voters to boot President Trump from office in 2020. “All of us should use every breath we have to make sure the lying stops on Jan. 20th, 2021,” Comey told a cheering crowd Sunday night at the 92nd Street Y during an interview with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. Identifying himself as neither a Republican nor a Democrat, Comey threw his avowed nonpartisanship to the winds, telling his audience that  the Democrats “have to win. They have to win.” He said he’s worried that a third-party candidate like Ohio Gov. John Kasich or media mogul Michael Bloomberg could draw enough votes from the Democratic candidate to allow Trump to eke out a victory two years from now. “That’s Donald Trump’s reelection strategy,” he said. Comey claimed, however, that after thinking about it, he has no intention of running for political office himself. “I’m never gonna run,” he vowed.

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Pittsburgh authorities say they are investigating anti-Semitic pamphlets found in several of the city’s neighborhoods—including Squirrel Hill, where 11 members of the Tree of Life synagogue were gunned down less than two months ago in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history. In a statement Sunday, the Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety said an investigation has been launched into the “hate-filled material.” “Pittsburgh is and will remain stronger than hate,” the statement said. It was not immediately clear how many pamphlets had been disseminated, nor how many neighborhoods were affected. Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh CEO Jeff Finklestein told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he’d seen the “anti-Semitic and racist fliers” circulating on Facebook. The pamphlets appeared to be “recruitment information for the Ku Klux Klan,” he said.

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has offered a tearful apology to the family of 22-year-old British tourist Grace Millane, who was murdered during a backpacking trip to the country. A 26-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder. Millane disappeared in Auckland on Dec. 1 and police found a body Sunday. At a news conference Monday, Ardern fought back tears as she described the “overwhelming sense of hurt and shame that this has happened in our country.” The prime minister went on: “On behalf on New Zealand, I want to apologize to Grace’s family... Your daughter should have been safe here, and she wasn’t, and I’m sorry for that.” Declan Millane, Grace’s brother, shared a collection of photographs of his sister online, alongside the lyrics of “You Are My Sunshine.” The University of Lincoln, where Millane graduated this year, paid tribute and said its community was “deeply saddened.”

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Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has been charged with financial misconduct, with Japanese prosecutors accusing him of under-reporting his pay by as much as $44 million over five years. Nissan and another company executive, Greg Kelly, have also been charged. Ghosn was ousted as the automaker’s chairman and Kelly lost his representative director role following their arrests in November—they both remain on Nissan’s board pending a shareholders’ meeting. If Ghosn is convicted, the charges could mean up to 10 years in prison and a fine of as much as $89,000. “Nissan takes this situation extremely seriously,” the company said in a statement. “Making false disclosures in annual securities reports greatly harms the integrity of Nissan’s public disclosures in the securities markets, and the company expresses its deepest regret.” Kelly, 62, is suspected of having collaborated with Ghosn—he said he is innocent of the charges. Ghosn has not yet commented but previously denied the accusations.

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