Yet another Democrat is poised to jump into the 2020 pool.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has decided she will run for president in 2020, KCBS Radio reported Thursday. No official announcement has been made, but this report claims she will unveil her plans at a rally "on or around" Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan 21.
There's some conflicting information about this aspect of the report, though, with both Politico and The New York Times reporting that Harris' announcement isn't set for Martin Luther King Day weekend. Still, it certainly sounds like Harris has made up her mind about
Harris, who was elected to the Senate in 2016 after previously serving as California's attorney general, had said she would make her 2020 decision "over the holiday" and would do so "with my family," Politico reported. Harris said in a Wednesday interview with CNN that she would make her decision "soon."
A December CNN poll found Harris polling slightly ahead of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who also plans to run in 2020, although both earned less than five percent of Democratic respondents' support. Brendan Morrow
About 170 migrants are missing and feared dead after two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean this week.
Three survivors of one wreck rescued by an Italian naval helicopter on Friday said they'd been on a ship with about 120 people which began sinking after leaving Libya Thursday. A 2-month-old baby was among the passengers. Another 53 people who sailed from Morocco are also missing, though at least one person from that boat was rescued.
"We cannot turn a blind eye to the high numbers of people dying on Europe's doorstep," said a statement from the United Nations' refugee agency. "No effort should be spared, or prevented, from saving lives in distress at sea." Bonnie Kristian
Local authorities by Saturday evening had revised their estimate of deaths in a Friday explosion at a Mexican fuel pipeline to 73, with another 74 people injured in the blast and more still missing.
The death toll was initially put at 21 but quickly rose. Casualties are high because a crowd of hundreds of villagers had gathered in hopes of collecting free gasoline after the pipeline was punctured by fuel thieves. Gas stations in the area have been rationing gasoline because of fuel shortages, and word of the spill from the pipeline spread quickly.
"I trust in the people, and I know that with these painful, regrettable lessons, the people will also distance themselves from these practices" of fuel theft, said Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who visited the site of the tragedy Saturday. Bonnie Kristian
When BuzzFeed News approached Peter Carr, spokesman for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, for comment on Thursday's explosive report, Carr was not told the full scope of what BuzzFeed planned to publish, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
Emails from BuzzFeed reporters say they have "a story coming stating that Michael Cohen was directed by President Trump himself to lie to Congress about his negotiations related to the Trump Moscow project." The emails do not mention reporting that Mueller's office had collected document evidence and a confession from Cohen. Carr's denial of the BuzzFeed story the next day was delayed by the special counsel's office's efforts to independently verify BuzzFeed's claims, the Post reports.
BuzzFeed again stood by its reporting in a second statement Saturday. "As we've re-confirmed our reporting, we've seen no indication that any specific aspect of our story is inaccurate," the statement said. "We remain confident in what we've reported, and will share more as we are able."
Read the full Washington Post story here. Bonnie Kristian
