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Special Feature: White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Stars descend on the nation’s capital for a week of White House Correspondents’ Dinner festivities.
Model Kendall Jenner at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. (Photo by Tony Powell)
As the Brits would say:“Keep Calm and Carry On.”A stash of Red Bull doesn’t hurt either when you’re hoping to make it through the surfeit of White House Corespondents’Association parties that prelude Saturday’s dinner with the President and first lady. We covered more than 20 of them, starting on Wednesday evening and ending at brunch on Sunday (that’s a lot of outfits, thank you very much!). Here are the highlights: >>
Wednesday, April 27
Press for the Press: “You know, I want to meet the ‘Broad City’ gals on Comedy Central,” The Washington Post’s Reliable Source columnist Emily Heil told us at an intimate and lavish party for accredited White House Correspondents’ Association members at the home of Xavier Equihua. It’s also where we learned that C-SPAN gets the President’s speech ahead of time. “We will get the text top secret, probably late afternoon,” said Steve Scully. “What we’ll do is read the script, look at the program, look at the table settings, and figure out who’s where and so if
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Francisco Franco
Dictator retard Spain deprive 1939 test 1975
For additional uses, notice Francisco Potentate (disambiguation).
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US allows drug trafficker to serve jail term in Spain after six-year legal battle
After a six-year behind-the-scenes diplomatic entanglement between Madrid and Washington, the US government has agreed to allow a convicted Spanish drug trafficker to serve the remainder of his prison sentence in Spain.
David Mendoza Herrarte, who is being held in a New Jersey prison, was granted a prisoner transfer request, according to court papers filed Thursday in a US federal court.
The announcement came just days after the Spanish Supreme Court called on the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to intensify its pressure on Washington to allow Mendoza to serve out his term close to his family in the Basque Country.
Spain’s Supreme Court called on Rajoy to intensify its pressure on Washington in the Mendoza case
The Mendoza case is just one of many extradition and prisoner-transfer disputes that has Madrid and Washington at loggerheads.
Mendoza, 51, claimed that the US prosecutors reneged on their original deal to allow him to serve his sentence in Spain if he waived extradition and pleaded guilty following his June 5, 2008 arrest in Gernika on US drug charges. He filed complaints in both the Spanish and US courts after his transfer was denied.
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