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Trump appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services have worked to alter CDC COVID-19 reports so they would be more politically beneficial to the president, according to Politico. HHS communications aides, led by Trump-appointed spokesman Michael Caputo — a former Trump campaign official and Roger Stone associate with no medical or scientific background — reportedly demanded the right to review and change weekly scientific reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at times complaining that the reports would undermine President Trump’s rosy public pronouncements about the coronavirus.

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The west coast is on fire. Alistener suggested this website: https://mightyfirebreaker.com/

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The book is: “Electoral Bait and Switch: How the Electoral College Hurts American Voters and What Can Be Done About It” by Bill Petrocelli.

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A top aide to Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a politically sensitive investigation into the origins of the federal investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, has resigned from the Justice Department amid mounting pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies to publish results from the probe before the November election.

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Starting in 2024, Best Picture nominees must feature women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people or people with disabilities in prominent roles both in front of and behind the camera. The Academy created four representation categories that will gauge the level of diversity in a film’s cast, its production crew, its marketing team and the opportunities it provides young filmmakers. To qualify, a movie must satisfy two of the four categories.

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Yesterday. President Donald Trump unveiled a new list of potential Supreme Court nominees, a bluntly political move designed to keep conservatives from abandoning him, just as he used his first list in 2016 to entice conservatives to join him.

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Hackers with ties to Russia, China and Iran are attempting to snoop on people and groups involved with the US 2020 presidential election, Microsoft says.

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The air quality in California is very bad. What are you doing to breathe?

You can check your air quality at Airnow.gov

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