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-Republican campaign donor/family company CEO set to he confirmed by Senate

-Elaine Chao asked about self dealing by House Oversight Committee

-Mitch McConnell predicts Dems will chicken out on Defense spending bill

-GAO: Ten percent of airport and airline service workers reported physical assaults by passengers

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-Trump threatens Iran to help Saudi campaign of atrocities in Yemen

-Fifty thousand UAW workers out on strike, with healthcare at heart of fight

-Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy as state officials reject settlement in push for more damages

-New Kavanaugh sexual assault reporting leads to impeachment calls from every Dem candidate but Biden

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-Trump using Cold War II money for Border Wall, Pelosi laments

-Low bar cleared: House Speaker not criticizing Judiciary Committee move toward impeachment investigation

-Sen. Schatz offers, but then withdraws amendment withholding US aid to Brazil over Bolsonaro’s butchering of the Amazon

-Bolton’s departure may mean softening of US toward Iran, but Trump hints at ramping up goonishness in Venezuela

-US officials accuse Israel of spying on the White House, admit there will be no consequences

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-Trump admin cracking down on flavored e-cigs

-Deadline tomorrow for Justice Department to invoke state secrets over name in lawsuit against Saudi government over 9/11 attacks

-Right to work dweebs, GOP congressman introduce annual bill against “union violence”

-White House and Commerce Department attack on NOAA to be investigated; bigoted attacks on Bahamians seeking refuge must also be probed

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-Durbin holding off on attacking the White House for siphoning wall money, scared of angering Senate GOP

-More than one in ten Americans remain in poverty by the government’s own flattering measure, at the end of economic expansion

-Start telling people to smell their damn food -- GAO urges Department of Agriculture to change labels to cut down on food waste

-It’s unclear to what extent President Trump approves of the mortgage finance privatization push by his own cabinet

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-Pentagon deploys psychologist to monitor “behavioral drift” leading to detainee abuse

-House Judiciary Chairman finally makes moves, cautiously, amid sketchiness with Trump property in Scotland

-The War on Vaping: FDA warns Juul against advertising practices downplaying nicotine

-Warren backs Jessica Cisneros, challenger to Trump-friendly incumbent House Democrat Henry Cuellar. Sanders’ “Our Revolution” weighing endorsement

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-Hannah Gais explains her recent investigation exposing far-right attempts to penetrate Washington, featuring an ex-Daily Caller guy

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-Trauma caused by migrant family child separation detailed by HHS Inspector General

-Banking regulators propose loosening rules for “less than well capitalized banks”

-FTC slaps YouTube on the wrist for child privacy law violations, limiting executive criminal liability

-The FBI, which needs absolutely zero new authorities to go after whte nationalists if they wanted to, is spying on groups at the border protesting Trump immigration policies

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-VP in Ireland, drooling over “trade” opportunities if Johnson crashes the UK out of the EU without a deal (though the PM just lost his parliamentary majority)

-Journalists who keep defending far-right grifters poised to be smeared by them with the help of the Trump campaign

-Department of Labor guy resigns after Bloomberg digs up antisemitic Facebook posts. He says they were jokes. He may have enjoyed them too much, plus he’s a Christian fundamentalist activist, so fuck him.

-EPA hits BP with miniscule $71k fine for 60,000 gallon Iowa oil spill

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Journalist Eoin Higgins is on to discuss the state of the Democratic Primary and we both agree it's going to come down to a fight at the convention.

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