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Sri Lanka, Impeachment, Earth Day: Your Monday Evening Briefing

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Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest.
1. The news from Sri Lanka got worse.
The death toll in Sunday’s coordinated suicide attacks at Roman Catholic churches and hotels rose to nearly 300 and the number of injured to 500. “Why kill the innocents?” the grandmother of an 11-year-old victim said, weeping.
A colossal security failure emerged. A foreign intelligence agency recently gave Sri Lankan security officials detailed information about a possible threat to churches by National Thowheeth Jama’ath, the group suspected in Sunday’s attacks. Bitter political infighting may have kept the warning from being shared, and acted upon.
Sri Lankan officials said the group had to have had help from “an international network,” and some suspicion fell on the Islamic State.
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2. The White House Easter Egg Roll had an unfestive side. President Trump fielded reporters’ questions about possible impeachment and possible unruly advisers (“Nobody disobeys my orders”) before briefing a child about the construction of a wall at the southwestern border.
The crush of asylum seekers has overwhelmed detention centers, so immigration authorities are renting space inside existing jails, fast-tracking the deportations and releasing as many migrants as possible to make room.
If there were to be a crisis of some kind in the Caribbean, the authorities have even considered housing migrant children atthe American detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which has a dormitory facility that has been used in the past to hold asylum seekers.
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3. House Democrats are convening today, for their first meeting since the release of the special counsel’s report last Thursday.
The meeting — at which impeachment will almost certainly be debated — will be by conference call, because the lawmakers are scattered around the country for their spring recess.

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