HARRIS PROPOSES HEALTH PLAN AHEAD OF DEMS’ DEBATES
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris released a health care proposal on Monday that sought to bridge the Democratic Party’s disparate factions. Instead, she drew criticism from rivals across the political spectrum. Progressives took issue with the presidential candidate for stopping short of the full-scale health care overhaul embodied by the “Medicare for All” legislation. Her more moderate rivals, meanwhile, said she was trying to have it all without taking a firm position on one of the most animating issues in the primary. The onslaught offered a preview of the Democrat-on-Democrat fighting that will likely unfold over two nights of presidential debates that begin on Tuesday. It left Harris back in the uncomfortable spot she’s been for months: explaining herself on health care.
Trump, Sharpton trade jabs
WASHINGTON — After a weekend of attacks on Baltimore area Rep. Elijah Cummings, President Donald Trump expanded his attacks Monday to include a Cummings defender the Rev. Al Sharpton, who held a press conference in Baltimore to condemn the president. “Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score,” Trump tweeted, adding the civil rights activist and MSNBC host “Hates Whites & Cops!” Sharpton tweeted back, saying, “I do make trouble for bigots.”
57 inmates killed in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — At least 57 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil Monday with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to prison officials.
China defends Hong Kong policing
BEIJING — China blamed Western forces and defended police conduct after Hong Kong endured another weekend of violent clashes. Some “irresponsible people” in the West have applied “strange logic” that made them sympathetic and tolerant to “violent crimes” but critical of the police’s “due diligence,” a Chinese government spokesman said Monday.