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THE THEME OF THE DAY
Who benefits from the reform of the rental price brake, which the Federal Ministry of Justice of Katarina Barley (SPD) has brought through the Cabinet today?
Already in the past week, experts of the CDU-led Federal Ministry of Economics expressed skeptical whether the new rules really help against rising rents - of course, much to the displeasure of the responsible SPD Minister Barley.
Fact is: The rental price brake, introduced in 2015 against Mietexzesse, so far hardly affects. You also know that in Barley's Ministry. And the fact is too: For rent, many Germans would like to live only transitional. Most dream of home, recently showed a survey.
The renewed law contains stricter rules: new information obligations for landlords, less burdens on tenants during renovations - and the right of tenants to withhold unwarranted increases themselves. The magic limit is: local rent plus ten percent.
But: There are quite a few exceptions. And where and for which apartments the brake applies is up to the municipalities. The changes are explained by my colleague Michael Kröger.
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THE QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Well, it is true that no one has ever done better work as President than I. So much I can tell you, so that's ... And many people find that, know what's going on, and you'll get that in the course see the years. "
Donald Trump in a telephone conversation with Watergate reporter Bob Woodward. He ran hundreds of interviews for his new book ("Fear") about the US president. He talked to Trump himself afterwards. Here you can read excerpts of the absurd conversation - arranged by our correspondent Mark Pitzke
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US President Donald Trump
NEWS
What you need to know today
- The suspects in the Skripal case are supposed to be Russian agents. This was announced by British Prime Minister Theresa May in the parliament in London. Previously, the police had published mug shots. The details.
- Manfred Weber (CSU) wants to compete in the 2019 European elections as the leading candidate of the European People's Party (EPP). The Vice-President of the CSU is the first candidate for the succession of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
- Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has expressed in a government statement on the riots in Chemnitz . He called for the fight against extreme right-wing tendencies, but also criticized the report: "There was no mob, there was no hunt, and there were no pogroms in this city." Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) defended earlier statements. These were "very clear hatred" and the "persecution of innocent people".
OPINION
Most talked about comments, interviews, essays
Stupid or unable? Donald Trump is on the level of a fifth grader, a US minister said. That's hope, finds our columnist Harald Schmidt. Here is the video.
THE MIRROR
STORIES
The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
Miss Schneider in the interrogation: SPIEGEL documentary Hauke Janssen dug deep in the archive while working on a special issue about Romy Schneider and found a tape with a 59-year-old interview from the year '59, led by the then 29-year-old editor Günter Gaus with the only 20-year-old actress. Read this interview gem here.
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Romy Schneider
"Every time it was a torture": For people like Vanessa Knapp, it is a pain to repeatedly testify in court about their sexual abuse - often over years. Does it have to be that way? Asks my colleague Ann-Katrin Müller in her report about the woman who was abused many times as a child by her stepfather.
MY EVENING
The recommendation for your closing time
Black Power infiltrates racist pack: Ron Stallworth, a black US policeman, sneaked into the Ku Klux Klan in 1978. At official meetings of the racists, a Jewish colleague doubled him. "BlacKkKlansman" is a film with a political message, which means: Who wants to beat racists in white cowls, needs cunning, hardness - and humor.
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Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) in "BlacKkKlansman", with activist Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier)
The real cop Ron Stallworth, who served as a model for the film, has our US correspondent Marc Pitzke presented. The criticism to "BlacKkKlansman" comes from Andreas Borcholte.
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Maria Stöhr and Christoph Titz from the Daily Team
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