UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi has pulled Michael Jackson’s music and dance moves from her floor routine following the release of HBO's documentary “Leaving Neverland.”

Ohashi’s perfect-10 routine went viral earlier this year, earning praise from 2020 candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and others. But she decided to change the music following the documentary, which details child molestation allegations against the dead pop star.

“The goal of my routine is pure joy, and after the documentary, not everyone was feeling that way, and you can never discredit someone's feelings,” she told ESPN.

Ohashi debuted her new routine over the weekend, which features music from only female artists, including Beyoncé and Tina Turner, whose music was in the gymnast’s old routine.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/435577-ucla-gymnast-katelyn-ohashi-pulls-michael-jackson-music-from

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors announce charges against @MichaelAvenatti, alleging he tried to extort Nike, threatening to release damaging about the company, if Nike didn't agree to pay millions to him and a client.

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According to the complaint filed in federal court, Avenatti told Nike attorneys by phone last week if his demands were not met, "I'll go take ten billion dollars off your client's market cap ... I'm not f*cking around."

https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/1110226277972262912

NEW: SDNY is charging Michael Avenatti for "attempting to extract more than $20M in payments from a publicly traded company by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial & reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met."

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1110225166901100545

.@StaceyAbrams says Barr’s summary of the Mueller report is like ‘having your brother summarize your report card to your parents’

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1110195382749786118

Considering that the president began using the phrase “no collusion” prior to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller — his first tweet on the matter was May 8, 2017, the day before firing FBI Director James Comey — it’s quite appropriate that he’d celebrate the release of the Mueller report summary by repeating the slogan as a victory call. As a fan of both political mantras and a notorious sore winner, it appears that Trump intends to play the “no collusion” card well into the 2020 campaign.

According to a senior White House official who spoke with the Washington Post, a “feeling of euphoria” overcame Trump staffers on Sunday, as they celebrated what they interpreted as a clean slate from the Mueller investigation. After a weekend spent in Florida golfing with Kid Rock and Lindsey Graham, Trump sounded thrilled when he spoke to reporters before boarding Air Force One: “After not looking at the other side, where a lot of bad things happened, a lot of horrible things happened, a lot of very bad things happened for our country, it was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. There was no collusion with Russia. There was no obstruction, none whatsoever. It was a complete and total exoneration.”

White House aides and campaign officials also felt the momentum. The Trump campaign put together a video called “Collusion Hoax!” featuring prominent Democrats using the word in interviews as an all-caps “Wrong” stamp comes down over their faces. According to the Washington Post, the Republican National Committee released a set of “talking points” that targeted the cost of the probe, some $50,230 per day for 675 days. (The RNC failed to mention that the Mueller investigation reportedly brought the U.S. Treasury somewhere between $26 and $42 million in seized assets.)

One former White House official told the Post that Democrats have “just handed the Trump campaign the greatest election issue in modern political history, on a silver ­platter.” It’s quite likely that Trump will run with the findings, although Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the investigation explicitly states that “while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him” from the issue of obstruction of justice. Already, that’s a sentence that’s been swept away by Trump and his allies, who are enjoying the political victory present in the first half of the headlines: “Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy, but Stops Short of Exonerating President on Obstruction.”

If the phrase “no collusion” looks like it’s going to last well into 2020, the Trump team’s day-one rush of serotonin could run dry pretty quickly. In order for the president to justify his synthetic claims of exoneration, he may have to support the release of the full report, a document that may not be as friendly to him as Bill Barr’s SparkNotes version is. As former federal prosecutor Ken White writes in the Atlantic:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/report-trumps-2020-run-will-be-the-no-collusion-campaign.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1

Mary Bowser was a servant for Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond. No one suspected she was feeding vital information to the Union.



In early 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis became a very paranoid man.

His army was struggling against the Union, which was getting mysteriously better and better at predicting his moves. Davis suspected a mole somewhere in his government, leaking information.

He was right — and wrong.

There was, indeed, a mole. But it was a servant at the Confederate White House in Richmond — a freed slave with a photographic memory who, in addition to caring for his wife’s dresses, slipped the North valuable secrets from Davis’s own desk.

Her name was Mary Bowser. Hers is one of the great but infrequently told spy stories in American history — a shame, say historians and others who write about the Civil War, because it is a tale with an enduring, important lesson.

Bowser used the assumption that she was far less intelligent than her white employers against them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/03/24/freed-slave-became-spy-then-she-took-down-confederate-white-house/?utm_term=.969e0503fb9b&tid=sm_tw

A second Parkland shooting survivor has killed himself, Coral Springs police confirmed on Sunday.

Investigators told the Miami Herald that a current Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student died in “an apparent suicide” on Saturday night.

Police are still investigating.

Though police could not confirm the age of the student, Coral Springs police spokesman Tyler Reik said the student was a juvenile. Sources say the student was a male sophomore. His name has not been released.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article228350134.html

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