10 things you need to know today – May 1st 2017
1. Trump: ‘Illegal Immigration Down by Unprecedented 73%’
Speaking at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday President Donald Trump discussed the severe decline in illegal immigration under his presidency. – READ MORE
2. DNC Lawyer Admits They Weren’t Required to be Impartial Between Clinton, Sanders
“We could have—and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That’s not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right.” – READ MORE
3. Could Steve Bannon be the next president of the Heritage Foundation?
In what has become a chaotic few days for the Heritage Foundation, perhaps the most influential conservative policy center in America, rumors are now spreading that President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, could become the think tank’s next president. – READ MORE
4. Kim Jong Un Threatens To Turn US Nuclear Sub Into An ‘Underwater Ghost’
“The moment the USS Michigan tries to budge even a little, it will be doomed to face the miserable fate of becoming an underwater ghost without being able to come to the surface,” North Korea’s major propaganda outlet Uriminzokkiri warned. – READ MORE
5. Bruce Springsteen: ‘I Was a Stone-Cold Draft Dodger’
“I had some friends, very close friends of mine… guys who came home in wheelchairs and, then, I didn’t go. I was a stone-cold draft dodger,” the New Jersey rocker said at a Tribeca Film Festival conversation with Tom Hanks at the Beacon Theatre in New York Friday. – READ MORE
6. WATCH: Delta Pilot Hits Passenger During Fight at Atlanta Airport
A video has emerged of a Delta Air Lines pilot smacking a passenger who was fighting with another passenger at the Atlanta airport. – READ MORE
7. Yale College Republicans Taunt Grad Student ‘Hunger Strikers’ With Barbecue, Corn and Baked Beans
A conservative Yale University student group hosted a barbecue on Friday several feet away from a self-styled graduate student union participating in a “hunger strike” to protest the university administration. – READ MORE
8. America Is Hitting ISIS So Hard We May Be Running Out of Bombs
During a Senate hearing, United States Pacific Commander Admiral Harry Harris agreed with the president and said that “ISIS is a clear threat that must be defeated.” He testified that “it’s clear” United States military operations in the Middle East continue to deny ISIS from gaining territory. – READ MORE
9. Congress agrees on $1 trillion deal to fund government until October 1
Top Capitol Hill negotiators reached a hard-won agreement on a huge $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund the day-to-day operations of virtually every federal agency through September, aides said Sunday night. – READ MORE
10. Tokyo’s subways shut down briefly after North Korean missile test
Tokyo’s subway system briefly shut down Saturday as a safety precaution after North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile in defiance of a US push for tougher global sanctions. – READ MORE