What we’re reading: Cohen sues Trump

We’re back and we’re reading everything from “Fox News” to the “Washington Post.” We’re trying to help you keep up with the rapid pace of politics and everyday news. Today, we’ve got a lot of White House and President Trump-related things, with Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort and Bill Shine all making headlines.

Cohen sues Trump Organization

According
to the Associated
Press, Michael Cohen filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organization.

The president’s former lawyer claimed the Trump Organization did not pay his legal bills like they promised. Cohen said he is owed at least $1.9 million.

Cohen’s
lawsuit said the Trump Organization had stopped paying his legal bills after he
started cooperating with federal prosecutors in the Russia investigation.

The Trump
Organization has not yet commented on the lawsuit.

Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months
in prison

President
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to almost
four years in prison after he was found guilty on eight accounts of bank and
tax fraud, according to Fox
News.

The
conviction made Manafort the first campaign associate of Donald Trump to be
found guilty during the Robert Mueller probe.

The nine months Manafort has already served will be counted toward the sentence, and he was also given a $50,000 fine.

This is not
it, however, for Manafort, as he is still facing prison time from another case
in which he plead guilty to foreign lobbying violations and witness tampering.  It is possible he could be sentenced to 24
years in prison with a $24 million fine for the second case.

Facebook announces plans to block
anti-vaccination content

Facebook
said it is going to start blocking the spread of misinformation about vaccines,
according to CBS
News.

The company
faced a lot of criticism for being a vessel to spread false information about
vaccinations during the measles outbreak in the Pacific Northwest.

Facebook
has said it will start rejecting ads with vaccine misinformation, as well as
cutting down on posts that contain incorrect data.

Additionally,
the tech giant said it will share educational material on vaccinations to users
who have come across false information.

House of Representatives passes
resolution condemning anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim discrimination

On
Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution that condemns
anti-Semite and anti-Muslim hate and intolerance, according to CNN.

The resolution
passed with a 407-23 vote, with all 23 ‘no’ votes coming from Republicans.

Some
Republicans, however, are not happy with the resolution because it did not address
condemning Ilhan Omar, D- Minn., who was criticized recently for making
anti-Semitic comments on Twitter.

Democratic
Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he
wished there was a separate resolution just about anti-Semitism, but at least something
was passed to address hatred and bigotry.

White House Communications Director
Bill Shine resigns

According
to the Washington
Examiner, White House Communications Director Bill Shine has resigned.

President Trump
accepted Shine’s resignation Thursday evening, and Shine will join Trump’s
campaign as a senior adviser.

The
president praised Shine and said he looks forward to working together on the
2020 campaign.

Shine was
the co-president of Fox News before becoming the White House Commutations Director
in July 2018.

Kentucky school districts close during
protests

According
to ABC
News, at least four Kentucky school districts had to close as hundreds of
teachers called in sick to protest public education proposals by the state
legislature.

This is the
third time in the past week that a school district has had to close because of
teachers not going to work.

Kentucky
has joined California, Colorado, and West Virginia as states where public
school teachers have gone on massive strikes.

In all cases, the teachers say there is not enough money going to support public education.

That’s all we have for today.