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Protesters are demanding he resign after text messages between Mr Rosselló and his team were leaked on Saturday. The messages contained sexist and homophobic comments including references to singer Ricky Martin's sexuality. Mr Rosselló has refused to step down. Protesters say they have had enough of corruption on the island. They have also criticised the recovery efforts following Hurricane Maria in 2017. Two former top government officials from Mr Rosselló's administration were among a group arrested last week and charged with conspiracy and fraud involving millions of dollars in federal funding. Large crowds have gathered in San Juan for the past five days chanting "Ricky, resign!" On several days, police were seen firing tear gas at protesters in the capital. What is the text message scandal about? The text messages, obtained by Puerto Rico's Centre for Investigative Journalism,  span some 900 pages . They were from a group chat that included t...

Marc Ravalomanana, président national du Tiako i Madagasikara (TIM), a été sollicité par les membres de son bureau politique et ses partisans à se porter candidat à la mairie d’Antananarivo. C’est ce qui a notamment marqué la cérémonie de clôture du Congrès national du parti qui s’est déroulé durant deux jours, vendredi et samedi dans l’enceinte du Magro à Tanjombato. L’ancien président de la République, et ancien maire d’Antananarivo est ainsi appelé à succéder à sa propre femme à la tête de la Commune urbaine d’Antananarivo. Lors de la conférence de presse à l’issue de ce congrès, Marc Ravalomanana n’a pas clairement indiqué sa réelle intention. «  Bien sûr que je réponds à tous les critères nécessaires pour devenir maire ou président vu que ce sont des postes que j’ai déjà occupé mais ce que vous devriez savoir, philosophe-t-il, c’est qu’on n’a pas besoin d’être président de la République pour développer un pays  ». Visiblement, Marc Ravalomanana n’est pas prêt à prend...

obert Mueller’s report  makes the stirring claim that “a fundamental principle of our government” is that no person, not even the president, “is above the law.” But the special counsel’s ultimate legacy may well be the exact opposite — because of his controversial decision not to say whether Trump committed criminal obstruction of justice. “We concluded that we would not reach a determination, one way or the other, about whether the president committed a crime,” Mueller  said in his statement Wednesday , reiterating his report’s explanation. It was the punt heard around the world. It may have been the crucial turning point in the saga of the special counsel probe, and perhaps the decision most likely to have ramifications for future presidents. It effectively “removes the president from the scope of generally applicable criminal laws,” Cornell law professor Jens David Ohlin  recently told my colleague Sean Illing . Essentially, Mueller has laid out a model that f...

Exactly six weeks after its release--and one day after Robert Mueller's first press conference on the completion of his investigation--the Mueller Report remains on bestseller lists across the country. The  Washington Post' s version, published with Scriber, is sitting at the top spot of the paperback list, besting George R. R. Martin's  Game of Thrones .  The same version has moved from slot fourteen to ten on the Amazon nonfiction bestseller list, and is sixth on the  New York Times combined paperback and hardcover nonfiction list, as well as first on the  New York Times  paperback nonfiction list. The Skyhorse version is down from first to third on the  Washington Post' s own list. Perhaps most notably, on Amazon's "most read" nonfiction list, the Audible audiobook, which is free, is at slot seventeen, up from nineteen. Although we don't know how much of the report listeners actually engaged with, we know they listened to at least a b...

House Democrats teamed up Thursday to perform a marathon public reading of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly 500-page report, in a spectacle that underscored the growing tensions with the Justice Department over access to the complete cache of Russia probe documents. House Judiciary Committee Vice Chairwoman Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., led the effort  from the House Rules Committee Room, starting on Page 1 at noon. “This #LawlessPresident does not want the American people to know what is inside the #MuellerReport. Tune in now as we begin to read the entire report, cover to cover, live,” Scanlon tweeted as the reading got started. Scanlon told The Washington Post earlier this week that the reading would take up to 14 hours, and the recording would be made into an audiobook. The congresswoman was joined by other House Democrats who are vocal Trump critics, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler; House Financial Services Committee Chairw...

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to recommend that the House hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Robert S. Mueller III’s unredacted report, hours after President Trump asserted executive privilege to shield the full report and underlying evidence from Congress. The committee’s 24-to-16 contempt vote, taken after hours of debate over the future of American democracy, was the first official House action to punish a government official in the standoff over the Mueller report. The Justice Department denounced the move as unnecessary and intended to stoke a fight. After the vote, the Judiciary Committee chairman, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, swatted away questions about possible impeachment, but added, “We are now in a constitutional crisis.” The contempt vote raised the stakes in the battle over evidence and witnesses as Democrats investigate Mr. Trump over behavior detailed by Mr. Mueller, th...