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October 2, 2019 - Scott Anderson | Allison Stanger | Hassan Hassan

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Arrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale | The Optics of Trump on Trial in New York; a President Off His Pedestal Defending Sleazy Criminal Behavior | A Positive Case For America's Next Economy
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A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the South
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October 2, 2019 - Scott Anderson | Allison Stanger | Hassan Hassan

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