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Good Tuesday morning! Here's what Nick Reed covers this hour:

First son Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner made more visits to both the Obama White House and then-Vice President Biden’s official residence than previously known. Eric Schwerin dropped in at the executive mansion and the Naval Observatory in Washington on at least 36 occasions in total between 2009 and 2016.

The Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform reports 19 of Missouri’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing, half of them immediately, due to their financial circumstances.