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  filed a federal lawsuit late Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One in an attempt to block the financial institutions from complying with congressional subpoenas. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, comes after House Intelligence Committee Chairman it was reported that Deutsche Bank has started turning over Trump’s financial documents to the New York state attorney general’s office in response to a subpoena.

But if Washington is the Hollywood of anything, then the insufferably tedious White House Correspondents’ Association dinner held every year is, truly, the Oscars of Washington. Every spring, frumpy, ink-stained wretches squeeze themselves into ridiculously mismatched tuxedos and sequined gowns straining at the seams and — I am not kidding — walk across a plush red carpet to the snapping and flashing of cameras. These people are not known for their good taste.

The mission will involve sending 320 more U.S. troops heading to the southern border to help Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take care of migrants who have crossed the U.S. border. Defense Department officials described the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) request for more aid for migrants as necessary in dealing with the “humanitarian crisis” at the southern border. Aside from helping to feed and care for migrants, the Defense Department mission will also include busing and transporting border crossers in the U.S.

The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove spoke with Murphy in the wake of the newspaper’s publication of a second controversial cartoon that drew critical condemnation from the Jewish community–after a first cartoon, which the paper now admits was antisemitic, was retracted and then subsequently apologized for over the weekend. The newspaper is in a full internal crisis on this matter, as executives and editors have launched a full-scale internal investigation into what happened, who is

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is staffing up as he launches his presidential camapign. Biden has hired Symone Sanders, a prominent African American political strategist, as a senior adviser, and Olympic figure skating legend Michelle Kwan, as a surrogates director. The moves add younger, diverse voices to Biden’s cadre of top advisers, which has been dominated by older white men.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, declaring the ‘‘soul of this nation’’ at stake if President Donald Trump wins re-election. In a video posted on Twitter , Biden focused on the 2017 deadly clash between white supremacists and counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Biden noted Trump’s comments that there were some ‘‘very fine people’’ on both sides of the violent encounter, which left one woman dead. ‘‘We are in the battle for the soul of this nation,’’ Biden said.

A significant chunk of Representative Seth Moulton’s presidential announcement video this week retold the story of his upset victory five years ago over an 18-year incumbent, framing the moment as launching his political career by bucking the establishment. Now, as Moulton travels the country, back home on the North Shore the man he defeated in that race is weighing a rematch. Friends and former aides to John Tierney have been trying to persuade Tierney to run again for the seat that he won in 1996 and eight times thereafter. Some have offered to form a finance committee.

Representative Ayanna Pressley is pushing back against “pundits” who invoked Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a debate over voting rights for those who are incarcerated. Pressley was responding to a flurry of headlines in the last week over Senator Bernie Sanders’ recent comments that people convicted of crimes, even serious ones, should still be allowed to vote while serving their sentences. His comments were in response to a question from an audience member during a CNN town hall Monday.