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BANGKOK — Just days before his official coronation, Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn on Wednesday married the deputy head of his personal guard force and gave her the title Queen Suthida. The surprise announcement was carried in the Royal Gazette, and footage from Wednesday’s wedding ceremony was later shown on the nightly Royal News segment aired on all Thai television channels. Vajiralongkorn, 66, also known by the title King Rama X,…

CLOSE Tensions between DOJ leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report. (May 1) AP, AP WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump praised Attorney General William Barr’s performance during a four-hour long Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying “he did a fantastic job” and dismissing calls for his resignation as…

CLOSE Tensions between DOJ leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report. (May 1) AP, AP WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump praised Attorney General William Barr’s performance during a four-hour long Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying “he did a fantastic job” and dismissing calls for his resignation as…

CLOSE Tensions between DOJ leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report. (May 1) AP, AP WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump praised Attorney General William Barr’s performance during a four-hour long Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying “he did a fantastic job” and dismissing calls for his resignation as…

Charlotte, N.C. — Details are emerging about a gunman accused of opening fire in a University of North Carolina-Charlotte classroom during the last day of classes Tuesday. Police say Trystan Andrew Terrell, armed with a handgun that was purchased legally, killed two people and wounded four others at the school before campus police disarmed and arrested him, authorities said. “I just went into a classroom and shot the guys,” Terrell told reporters…

Media captionTear gas and water cannon hit Venezuela protesters on Wednesday Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has called for an escalating series of strikes to force President Nicolás Maduro to relinquish power. Mr Guaidó urged public employees to act on Thursday, saying the stoppages would lead to a general strike. A woman was killed in clashes between protesters and security forces in Caracas on Wednesday, reports say. Mr Maduro meanwhile…

“At the end of the day, Congress’s remedies here are legislation and impeachment,” Mr. Vladeck said. But each has limitations, and even if Democrats are successful in ultimately getting ahold of the evidence and testimony they seek, Mr. Trump’s actions could slow their investigations. Mr. Vladeck said the delay would depend on the rulings of the judge overseeing the case, but he noted that if it goes through an appeals…

A video of a badly beaten 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy on his mother’s cellphone helped crack the investigation into his killing, according to court documents. The video on JoAnn Cunningham’s phone, taken more than a month before Andrew “AJ” Freund’s death, showed the boy had severe bruising on his face and body, and was berated for urinating in his bed, the documents alleged. And his mother allegedly searched online for…

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President Trump’s approval rating reached its highest level since April 2017 in a new CNN poll released Wednesday. The poll found 43% approved of the way Trump is handling his job as president. The new tally is one point lower than his 44% approval rating two years ago. Those who approve strongly of the way Trump is handling his job hit an all-time high of 35% in the CNN poll….

Video Second day of violent protests in Venezuela Government forces loyal to President Nicolas Maduro clash with protesters who back Juan Guaido; Steve Harrigan reports from Caracas. Protesters and military forces clashed for the second day in Venezuela on Wednesday as both the country’s disputed president, Nicolas Maduro, and opposition leader, Juan Guaido, vied for power. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Caracas as part of a rebellion that has so…

The two students who were killed in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have been identified as 19-year-old Ellis “Reed” Parlier and 21-year-old Riley Howell. Police on Wednesday hailed Howell as a hero for having the courage to fight the gunman.  Howell “took the fight to the assailant” and “took the assailant off his feet,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Chief of Police Kerr Putney said at a news conference….

WASHINGTON — Robert Mueller objected to Attorney General William Barr‘s characterization of the principal findings of the Russia investigation and asked the attorney general on multiple occasions to release the special counsel’s prepared summaries of the report. Mueller communicated his objections to Barr in a letter on March 27, three days after the attorney general disclosed the special counsel’s conclusions in a summary letter clearing President Donald Trump of having obstructed the investigation into Russian interference…

WASHINGTON — Robert Mueller objected to Attorney General William Barr‘s characterization of the principal findings of the Russia investigation and asked the attorney general on multiple occasions to release the special counsel’s prepared summaries of the report. Mueller communicated his objections to Barr in a letter on March 27, three days after the attorney general disclosed the special counsel’s conclusions in a summary letter clearing President Donald Trump of having obstructed the investigation into Russian interference…

WASHINGTON — Robert Mueller objected to Attorney General William Barr‘s characterization of the principal findings of the Russia investigation and asked the attorney general on multiple occasions to release the special counsel’s prepared summaries of the report. Mueller communicated his objections to Barr in a letter on March 27, three days after the attorney general disclosed the special counsel’s conclusions in a summary letter clearing President Donald Trump of having obstructed the investigation into Russian interference…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived at Southwark Crown Court in central London Wednesday raising a defiant fist in front of cameras, before being sentenced to 50 weeks behind bars for jumping bail in 2012. Assange skipped bail and stayed at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he was wanted on sexual assault allegations, which he has denied. He was arrested at the embassy in mid-April….

Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for the “largest march” in the country’s history, as Venezuelans braced for a new round of dueling demonstrations on Wednesday. Thousands took to the streets as demonstrators clashed with pro-government forces Tuesday, resulting in dozens of injuries, after Guaidó announced what he called the “definitive phase” of an operation to oust President Nicolás Maduro. The opposition leader, who has declared himself interim president, appeared…

President Trump would like the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low to help the economy grow faster and help him win reelection. He also thinks underqualified would-be flunkies such as former Godfather’s Pizza impresario Herman Cain and right-wing economics pundit Stephen Moore are the ones to help him do it, floating both of them for open seats on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Keeping interest rates low is…

Jeffrey A. Baker, chief of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Police & Public Safety agency, said swift intervention by authorities prevented a shooting on campus from claiming more lives. (Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images) Susan Svrluga Nick Anderson May 1 at 2:00 PM CHARLOTTE — The two people fatally shot at the University of North Carolina campus here were identified Wednesday as students of the public university. UNC Charlotte officials…

Attorney General William Barr faces tough new questions about his response to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Judiciary committee members want to know why Mueller told the attorney general he was frustrated with Barr’s original summary of the report. In a letter, Mueller told Barr his message to Congress “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of Mueller’s views on obstruction of…