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Amb. Nikki Haley warned a crowd at the Turning Point USA high school leadership summit to 'stop owning the libs', cautioning the dangers of social media. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking…

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Opinion editorial Modal Trigger From the left: Dems botching SCOTUS politics Democrats still carping over Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to allow a vote on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in 2016 “need to look in the mirror,” suggests Bloomberg’s Al Hunt. Their party “set the stage for their powerlessness to affect the court choice” by trying to block Neil Gorsuch, “and their reaction just deepens their political anguish.” Recall also that in 2013, Democrats “paved the way for McConnell’s gambit” by changing the rules to allow majority-vote confirmation of court choices. Now they’re “compounding their past miscalculations by making today’s fight almost exclusively about abortion,” hoping to persuade Maine Republican Susan Collins to vote no. But that’s “delusional,” says Hunt: She “will not be the 50th vote against a Trump nominee.” Political scribe: New York’s unions face bleak future The immediate repercussion of the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling that public-sector workers who don’t join a union can’t be forced to pay dues-like fees will be a blow to some unions’ finances. But Crain’s New York’s Greg David says “the real impact will play out over several years.” Private-sector unions may represent more New Yorkers, but “the real strength of organized labor here comes from the public sector, where a little less than 70 percent of employees belong to unions,” twice the national percentage. The key question: “whether the unions will lose members who joined only because they were going to have to pay dues whether they did or not.” The Manhattan Institute’s Daniel DiSalvo predicts union membership in New York will drop by 15 to 30 percent. If true, “union clout in the state will recede dramatically.” Nikki Haley: UN issues ridiculous report on US poverty The United Nations has issued a harshly critical report (based on a single researcher’s trip to just four states) on poverty in America, accusing the US of working to “punish those who are not in employment.” UN Ambassador Nikki Haley at National Review calls it “patently ridiculous” for the UN to spend its resources “studying poverty in the wealthiest country in the world, a country where the vast majority is not in poverty, and where public and private-sector social safety nets are firmly in place to help those who are.” The report even calls for “ ‘decriminaliz[ing] being poor’ (never mind that nowhere in America is it a crime to be poor).” Says Haley: “When the UN wastes American tax dollars, like it did on this unnecessary, politically biased and factually wrong report, we’re going to call it out for the foolishness that it is.” Obama official: Abolishing ICE is not a serious proposal “Abolish ICE” may make for “a good rallying cry on the left,” but former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says demanding abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement “is about as serious as the claim that Mexico’s ‘gonna pay for the wall.’ ” It “provides President Trump with a useful weapon for bludgeoning Democrats politically” — and “a good portion of the American public will listen to him.” Fact is, “the outright abolition of ICE would compromise public safety.” Politically, calls to do so can only damage “any remaining prospect of bipartisan immigration reform.” This, he says, “is one of the things Americans hate about Washington: that politics has become the ends, not the means.” Economist: People are returning to the labor force Nine years after the end of the Great Recession, observes Evan Kraft at The Hill, “the US economy has achieved an unemployment rate comparable to the boom period of the late 1990s.” Better still, “some 600,000 people rejoined the labor market last month actively looking for work, a sign that jobs are indeed out there, and people are motivated to look for them.” This recovery “is broad-based, with employment growing in almost all sectors of the economy.” And the increase in the labor force “confirms suspicions that we have not reached full employment yet.” Moreover, this helps explain the slow growth of wages: “If there still are people out there who answer help wanted ads, employers do not feel so much pressure to raise wages just to keep their businesses producing at the desired level.” — Compiled by Eric Fettmann

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that his Republican colleagues support legislation to end the practice of separating families at the border, adding that a bill “would need to be a narrow agreement to fix the problem we all agree needs to be fixed.” Joe Hagin, the White House deputy chief of staff for operations who led the planning for Trump’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has resigned. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the U.S. will withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council. Voters in the nation’s capital are heading to the polls for the D.C. primary election, where the mayor, attorney general, and several lawmakers are up for reelection. Polls close at 8 p.m. Today on The Atlantic A Troll Succeeds: Reports about children being separated from their parents at the border have prompted online outrage and even protests. That’s exactly what Stephen Miller wants. (McKay Coppins) How Did the GOP Get Here? The Happiness Gap: A new mental-health study found that as rich Americans have gotten happier since the 1990s, low-income Americans saw decreases in positive feelings and life satisfaction. (Russell Berman) Snapshot What We’re Reading What Are the Facts? : The president and top administration officials say that U.S. laws require them to separate immigrant families illegally crossing the border.

The United States announced Tuesday it was leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name.” It was the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international institution. Haley, Trump’s envoy to the U.N., said the U.S. had given the human rights body “opportunity after opportunity” to make changes. She lambasted the council for “its chronic bias against Israel” and lamented the fact that its membership includes accused human rights abusers such as China, Cuba, Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She had been threatening the pull-out since last year unless the council made changes advocated by the U.S. “Regrettably, it is now clear that our call for reform was not heeded,” Haley said. Opposition to the decision from human rights advocates was swift. The move could reinforce the perception that the Trump administration is seeking to advance Israel’s agenda on the world stage, just as it prepares to unveil its long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan despite Palestinian outrage over the embassy relocation. Israel is the only country in the world whose rights record comes up for discussion at every council session, under “Item 7” on the agenda. The United States’ current term on the council ends next year. A full pullout by the U.S. would leave the council without one of its traditional defenders of human rights. At the rights council, the United States has recently been the most unabashed critic of rights abuses in China — whose growing economic and diplomatic clout has chastened some other would-be critics, rights advocates say.

Washington (CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down one day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable." "Human rights abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council," said Haley, listing US grievances with the body. "The world's most inhumane regimes continue to escape its scrutiny, and the council continues politicizing scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in its ranks." Membership on the council gives countries like the United States a voice in important debates over human rights atrocities, but the council's critics, including Haley, say abusers use their membership to guarantee their own impunity. The move was immediately condemned by a dozen charitable groups, who wrote to Pompeo to say they were "deeply disappointed with the Administration's decision to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the premier intergovernmental human rights body at the global level." "This decision is counterproductive to American national security and foreign policy interests and will make it more difficult to advance human rights priorities and aid victims of abuse around the world," they added. US withdrawal from the council follows efforts by Haley and the US delegation to implement reforms, including more stringent membership criteria and the ability to remove members with egregious human rights records. "When a so-called Human Rights Council cannot bring itself to address the massive abuses in Venezuela and Iran, and it welcomes the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new member, the council ceases to be worthy of its name," said Haley. Haley said the United States will continue to promote human rights outside of the council and would consider rejoining it in the future if reforms are made.

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-Written by Taylor Hosking (@Taylor__Hosking), Lena Felton (@lenakfelton), and Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey) Today in 5 Lines Virginia Senator Mark Warner announced his support for President Trump’s pick for CIA director, Gina Haspel, after she sent him a letter clarifying that, in hindsight, the agency’s “enhanced interrogation program is not one the CIA should have undertaken.” Haspel now likely has enough votes to be confirmed for the position. The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting to discuss the recent violence in Gaza. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said she believes Israel exercised “restraint” in Monday’s clashes with protesters, adding that the unrest was not caused by the relocation of the U.S. embassy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lifted a hiring freeze put in place by his predecessor at the State Department, Rex Tillerson, allowing it to fill various key positions. The Trump administration is reportedly considering using military bases to house migrant children. The Obama administration also used bases to shelter children during the 2014 child-migrant crisis. The Races We’re Watching Voters in Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, and Pennsylvania will select nominees for House, Senate, and gubernatorial races in their states’ primary elections. We’ll be monitoring several races in Pennsylvania, where the state Supreme Court replaced a Republican gerrymander with a new congressional map that is much more favorable to Democrats. Drip, Drip, Drip: Bill Clinton was able to slow the flow of leaks coming out of his White House in his second year in office, but those methods won’t necessarily work for Trump. (David A. Graham).

Nikki Haley's "I don't get confused" retort becomes the phrase of the moment. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.