10 things you need to know today: April 18, 2019

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1. Barr to hold news conference ahead of Mueller report release

Attorney General William Barr has scheduled a 9:30 a.m. Thursday news conference to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election meddling. Barr is expected to release a redacted version of the report to Congress later in the morning. White House lawyers have had several conversations with Justice Department officials about the conclusions made in Mueller's report, giving President Trump's legal team the opportunity to come up with a rebuttal on such questions as whether Trump obstructed justice, people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times. Congressional Democrats criticized Barr's plans. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Barr had "taken unprecedented steps to spin Mueller's nearly two-year investigation" to protect Trump.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.