WHAT'S BREWING
BIDEN SNAPS AT VOTER: 'YOU'RE A DAMN LIAR' Joe Biden apparently lost his temper during an intense exchange with a voter in Iowa after the man accused the former vice president of being too old for the Oval Office and of “selling access” to the U.S. president during his time in the Obama administration. [HuffPost]
IMMIGRANTS GROUP: BUTTIGIEG MUST RETURN ICE-LINKED DONATIONS A coalition of four immigrant rights groups urged 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to return more than $50,000 in donations from McKinsey & Co. employees amid reports that the consulting firm helped the Trump administration carry out its hard-line deportation policies. [HuffPost]
TRUMP KEEPS BUTTING INTO SENATE RACES The efforts by Trump and his top allies to handpick candidates in New Hampshire, Kansas and most recently Georgia, for example, have ruffled feathers with national and local GOP officials who have their own ideas about who should run for the upper chamber. [HuffPost]
THINGS AREN'T LOOKING GREAT FOR THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT It’s bad enough that Congress let the Violence Against Women Act lapse in February. But 10 months later, legislation to renew the landmark 1994 law has hit a wall in the Senate, where Republicans aren’t even united behind their own bill. [HuffPost]
KINDERGARTENERS REPRESENT AT PAL'S ADOPTION HEARING They were squirmy and noisy and not paying attention all the time, but what judge couldn’t be charmed by an entire kindergarten class invited by one of their own for his final adoption hearing? [HuffPost]
'I GOT INSEMINATED IN A BURGER KING BATHROOM' Most people heading in for a late-night Whopper at the Kankakee, Illinois, Burger King would have been shocked to know that a lesbian was meeting her sperm donor inside the restaurant, but there I was outside the men’s restroom, waiting for a paper cup full of semen. [HuffPost] |