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-Interior Secretary to resign in new year amid mounting ethics investigations, incoming Dem House majority

-Trump administration announces review of “Pain in the Disability Determination Process” months after proposing $72 billion in budget cuts to disability benefits

-Student debt has doubled since the Great Recession, is now at $1.5 trillion

-Inspector General audit of ICE: witnesses and leads ignored in 10 percent of agent misconduct cases reviewed

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-For the first time in history, upper chamber declares US engaged in unauthorized war

-Pelosi hails Farm Bill passage, failing to note it hurts her own caucus’ efforts to stop Saudi-led slaughter in Yemen

-FCC to review rules preventing Fox, NBC, ABC and CBS from merging

-GAO warns that “private corporations obtaining resources” could threaten US

-Mulvaney’s last proposal as CFPB head: use the agency to help the financial industry test products on consumers

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-Senate Majority Leader trying to gum up vote to stop Saudi slaughter

-GOP postpones rare minimum wage hearing due to homophobic blog posts by witness

-Report suppressed by Mulvaney CFPB showed Wells Fargo pumping fees out of students

-US cocaine eradication efforts in Colombia aren’t working at all: GAO

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-CBP head denies establishment of new child migrant detention centers at Senate hearing

-Trump gets into on-camera argument about government shutdown with Schumer and Pelosi

-Final Farm Bill released: no new food stamp work requirements, admin will look at rulemaking to humiliate poor people

-Report reveals Zinke attacks on public data as Koch Bros. hack installed as Interior FOIA officer

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-House Oversight says company’s greed to blame for data breach impacting 148 million Americans

-Kavanaugh, SCOTUS deny conservatives chance to erode abortion rights

-Watchdog report pokes holes in Dodd-Frank mechanism designed to prevent bank bailouts

-Native American healthcare programs woefully underfunded

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-President’s shady corporate structure to be exposed in DC hotel litigation

-Facebook execs have linked third party access to data and profits, UK parliamentary investigation reveals

-US Fish and Wildlife Service whistleblower fund short $13 million (!!!)

-CFPB enforcement actions down 75 percent under Mulvaney - The Washington Post.

-Justin Roczniak walks through his entrancing left-wing talks set to Cities Skylines

-Also, a link to Justin’s Medium piece mentioned in the interview about the Hyperloop: https://medium.com/@donoteat/you-yes-you-cannot-afford-to-ride-the-hyperloop-27e214d45cdf and his Patreon.

-Ammon Bundy...innocent?

-Two Garbage Can nominations that truly belong together: Jamie Kirchick & Hillary Clinton

-Administration accuses Iran of aiding Al-Qaida in Yemen, despite AP reporting on Saudi-AQ ties

-EPA faces FOIA lawsuit for emails between Andrew Wheeler and his old fossil fuel lobbying firm

-Gina Haspel gives secretive briefing on Khashoggi killing, does nothing to quell anger over Bin Salman

-FTC allows Northrop Grumman to acquire solid rocket motor competitor for $7.8 billion

-Majority of US child laborers who die on the job worked on farms, GAO says

-Occupational injuries suffered by kids in agriculture likely underestimated by BLS

-George HW Bush death delays government shutdown by three weeks

-SCOTUS won’t hear challenge of regulatory exemptions granted to build up border wall

-Another buyer for Tribune: Nexstar steps up to acquire local broadcaster after Sinclair mega-deal falls through

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-German firm raided on Panama Papers money laundering claims

-Stock down five percent on news; US regulators have considered bank “troubled” since May

-Trump administration trying to peddle subprime insurance products in ongoing bid to undermine Obamacare

-Can’t believe he caved! Jeff Flake backs down off blocking nominee in deference to an absent colleague. Flake threatened to stop nominees unless Mueller protection bill passes

-Group of House Dems refusing to take corporate PAC money now has 36 members