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Trump is reportedly NOT HAPPY with Mick Mulvaney after the acting White House Chief Of Staff tells reporters HELL YEAH Trump held back aid to Ukraine as quid pro quo.

Meanwhile, fighting erupts in Kurdish towns in Syria hours after Trump celebrates his so-called “ceasefire” deal with Turkey.

And lastly, researchers detail how slashing the Pentagon’s $750 billion budget could pay for Medicare for All and create a progressive foreign policy American’s actually want.

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New York City approved a sweeping $8 billion plan to close the troubled Rikers Island jail and replace it with four smaller jails by 2026.

The New York Times reports that America’s three largest opiod distributors, as well as two manufacturers, are in intense negotiations to settle thousands of cases worth $50 billion before a trial set to begin on Monday.

From the Guardian; street violence escalated in Barcelona, Spain, late on Wednesday, as protesters set cars on fire and threw acid at police officers in a third night of unrest following the imprisonment this week of nine pro-independence leader.

Elizabeth Warren says Facebook is actively helping Donald Trump spread lies and misinformation for profit after CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company's stance on not fact-checking political advertisements. Zuckerberg told the Washington Post Thursday that he will continue to defended Facebook's decision to allow politicians to post misleading advertisements, saying, “it’s something we have to live with.”

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Elijah Cummings, the long-serving Democratic congressman and civil rights advocate who was deeply involved in Trump’s impeachment inquiry, has passed away at the age of 68.

Meanwhile, Energy Secretary Rick Perry tells the Wall Street Journal that Trump directed HIM to call Rudy Giuliani about Ukraine.

And lastly, demanding dignified pay and benefits, 25,000 Chicago public school teachers plan to go on strike today.

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CNN reports that Elizabeth Warren's campaign is studying a range of options for paying for "Medicare for All," leaving open the possibility that the presidential candidate may ultimately diverge from Sen. Bernie Sanders on how his sweeping health care plan -- which Warren has endorsed -- would be paid for.

The Washington Post; Mike McKinley, a former senior adviser for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, reportedly told impeachment investigators Wednesday that he quit his job at the State Department because of “what appears to be the utilization of our ambassadors overseas to advance domestic political objectives.”

The month-long strike of United Auto Workers that brought General Motors’ domestic factories to a standstill could be ending. UAW has said a new agreement offers a four-year contract and “represents major gains” for the 49,000 hourly workers on the picket line. UAW will likely continue to strike until the deal is officially signed.

And Joe Biden is bleeding cash, folks. Politico reports that Biden spent almost $2 million more than his presidential campaign raised in the third quarter, a predicament caused by sluggish fundraising coupled with the expenses of maintaining a big payroll and a nationwide operation — one that included luxury expenses such as swank hotel stays at the Westin and The W, and nearly $1 million for private jets.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib are reportedly set endorse Bernie Sanders for president in New York on Saturday.

Meanwhile, CNN and the New York Times completely skip the topic of climate change during last night’s Democratic debate, asking the candidates a question about Ellen and George W. Bush instead.

And lastly, Former GOP congressman Pete Sessions is subpoenaed for his connections to the White House’s Ukraine mess.

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A new ProPublic investigation has identified a staggering 281 lobbyists who’ve worked in the Trump Administration since 2016. That’s one lobbyist for every 14 political appointees, and four times more than Obama had appointed six years into office.

CNN Reports that Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will not hold a full House vote for now to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, a step Republicans and Trump’s defenders have demanded.

A new Georgetown Battleground Poll finds 56% of voters have an unfavorable view of President Trump, as opposed to 42% with a favorable view of him.If the election were held today, voters would pick the Democratic candidate over Trump by margin of 50% to 42%. Voters also say that President Trump should be impeached and sent to the Senate for a trial by a 51% to 46% margin.

And also from ProPublica, an investigation into Trump’s never-before-seen tax documents show Trump businesses made themselves appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials. One expert tells ProPublica that the differing numbers are “versions of fraud.”

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A witness tells Congress that John Bolton wanted White House lawyers alerted to Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian efforts, reportedly calling it a “drug deal.”

Meanwhile, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting a series of confidential dinners with leading conservative politicians and pundits.

And lastly, Target cuts their workers’ hours after vowing to raise the minimum wage to $15-an-hour by 2020.

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Donald Trump has declared he will sanction Turkey, a NATO ally of the U.S., for its attack on the Kurdish people in northeast Syria — an attack that took place after Trump greenlit the assault by withdrawing American personnel from the area on October 7th.

A major study by Pediatrics medical journal finds that the rate of reported suicide attempts by black American teens spiked between 1991 and 2017 - - even as the rate for teens in other racial and ethnic groups fell.

A Kentucky judge on Monday issued a temporary injunction restoring around 175,000 Kentucky voters classified as "inactive." An Oct. 10 lawsuit filed by the Kentucky Democratic Party argued that when the Kentucky Board of Elections put as many as 200,000 voters on an inactive list, it infringed on their right to vote,

And a spoiler alert for tonight’s Democratic debate in Ohio: All the candidates will have the same opinions about Medicare for All as they had at the last debate.

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An edited video of Donald Trump murdering his political opponents in a church is shown at a pro-Trump conference attended by Don Jr. and Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Meanwhile, U.S. troops withdraw from northern Syria and ISIS supporters escape as the predictably bloody Turkish invasion moves forward.

And lastly, nearly 400 scientists endorse a civil disobedience campaign aiming to force governments to tackle climate change right now.

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About 3,500 Mack Trucks employees went on strike Saturday night for the first time in 35 years. The strike notice went up after negotiations dragged on for 10 days past a key deadline.

An Investigation by the AP has found that the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy has created horrific situation where deported immigrant parents can lose custody of their children to American foster parents without even knowing it.

China State Construction Engineering Corp., a company owned by the Chinese government, was awarded a contract to work on the development of a Trump golf club in Dubai. The $19.6 million contract is the latest in a series of deals between Trump’s family business and China’s government.

A new CBS News poll across 18 early primary and caucus states finds Elizabeth Warren leading the Democratic field with 31%, followed by Joe Biden at 25%, Bernie Sanders at 17%. As for individual states, Warren has increased her lead over the pack in New Hampshire and pulled even with Biden and Sanders in Iowa.

And lastly, a report from the Hill claims Joe Biden’s team is actually planning on losing Iowa, New Hampshire AND Nevada. The Hill claims Biden will instead focus on winning South Carolina and attempt to claw his way to a brokered convention.

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A new report claims at least four national security officials raised concerns about Trump before AND after his July 25 call with the Ukrainian president

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that Rudy Giuliani had lunch with his indicted Ukraine fixers at a Trump hotel Wednesday, hours before they were arrested by the Feds.

And lastly, climate change is happening right now, folks, as over 2.5 million people in California prepare to lose their power in order to prevent wildfires.

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House Democrats on Wednesday subpoenaed Energy Secretary Rick Perry as part of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. House Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings and Eliot Engel sent a letter to Perry, demanding key documents by Oct. 18th.

Attorney General William Barr reportedly met with media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday night, The New York Times reports. The Trump official and the Fox News owner reportedly met at Murdoch’s home in New York. Staffers for Barr and Murdoch declined to comment on the meeting.

For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year.

Around 5,100 truck drivers lost their jobs in August as the trucking 'bloodbath' rages on.

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A new report claims Trump urged then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help drop the DOJ’s case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who just happened to be one of Rudy Giuliani’s clients.

Meanwhile, a former Trump adviser claims China has already handed over the intelligence on Hunter Biden that trump publicly asked for.

And lastly, Turkey accused of deliberately targeting Syrian civilian areas in Trump’s-sanctioned military assault on the Kurds.

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Wisconsin congressman Mark Pocan is threatening to withhold Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's salary as part of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. According to The Hill, Pocan sent a letter to Pompeo on Tuesday that contended Congress could block his pay because the administration is preventing testimony from Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union.

A new Fox News poll finds 51% of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, while another 4% want him impeached but not removed.

And lastly from The Intercept; Morgan Harper, the 36-year-old progressive running for Congress in Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District raised a remarkable $323,000 during the first quarter of her campaign, setting her up for a potent primary challenge from the Left to 69-year-old Rep. Joyce Beatty, a four-term incumbent. Harper’s campaign has raised the fourth-largest amount of money among any first-time congressional primary challenger in the initial quarter of their campaign, according to data provided by Data for Progress.

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Nancy Pelosi dismisses Trump’s refusal to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, telling the President, “You are not above the law.”

Meanwhile, a new report claims that a White House official who listened-in on Trump's Ukraine call was “visibly shaken” by what they heard the president say.

And lastly, Montgomery Alabama elects the first black mayor in its 200-year history.

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The AP reports that thousands of indigenous protesters have converged on Ecuador’s capital after anti-government demonstrations and clashes prompted the president to move his besieged administration out of Quito.Violence has persisted since last week when President Lenín Moreno’s decision to cut subsidies led to a sharp increase in fuel prices.

After returning from his visit to the cardiologist Bernie Sanders told a crowd of reporters that he is preparing to change the nature of his campaign. Sanders said he plans to scale back his travel and the number of events he participates in.

A day after President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria, Turkey on Tuesday said it is moving ahead with military operations in the country targeting Kurdish forces.The Syrian Democratic Forces reported on Twitter that Turkey had begun shelling an SDF post in a border city, but said none of its forces were injured and that it had not responded to the unprovoked attack.

And, heralded as the first of its kind in Europe, a proposed constitutional amendment in Sweden seeks to enshrine the rights of Nature to ensure that creatures, fona, and features of the natural world are protected from exploitation and abuse by endowing them with legal status previously reserved only for humans and select animals.Common Dreams dot org reports that the change to Swedish law will mirror that of other countries around the world but, if passed, would set a new precedent in Europe.

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House Democrats consider a rare precaution to hide the Ukraine whislteblower’s identity from Trump’s Republican allies.

Meanwhile, an anonymous intelligence official claims Trump got out-negotiated bigly by the Turkish President over U.S. troops pulling out of Syria

And lastly, the United Stated blacklists 28 companies that are helping China detain hundred of thousands of Muslims in concentration camps.

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The Washington Post reports that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has violated a court order to stop collecting on the debts of Corinthian College students. Attorneys for former students of the defunct for-profit chain are asking a federal court to hold DeVos in contempt for illegally pursuing student debts in violation of a standing court order.

A new Washington Post poll finds that, by a margin of 58% to 38%, Americans say Democrats were correct to begin an impeachment inquiry into Trump.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in two of the term’s most closely watched cases over whether federal civil rights law protects LGBT people from job discrimination.

The cases Tuesday are the court’s first on LGBT rights since Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement and replacement by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. A decision is expected by early summer 2020, amid the presidential election campaign.

And Trump’s 2020 campaign is threatening to sue Minneapolis for trying to force the campaign to pay $530,000 for security at an upcoming rally at the Target Center Arena.

The StarTribune reports Minneapolis officials told the Target Center it would have to cover the costs, but the arena then allegedly tried to pass the bill on to Trump’s team and said they wouldn’t be able to use the site unless they coughed up.

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Attorneys say they now represent multiple whistleblowers, one with first-hand knowledge about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s leader.

Meanwhile, Trump pulls troops from the Syrian border, clearing the way for a Turkish assault on Kurdish fighters who allied with U.S. forces to defeat ISIS.

And lastly, Trump tries to distract from impeachment talk by banning immigrant visas for anyone who can’t afford private health insurance.

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The New York Times reports that last year, for the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower total tax rate than any other income group. That’s a sharp change from the 1950s and 1960s, when the wealthy paid vastly higher tax rates than the middle class or poor.

More Trump allies are being accused of corruption in Ukraine. The Associated Press reports that a circle of businessmen and Republican donors used connections to Rudy Giuliani and Trump to install new management at the top of Ukraine’s enormous state gas company and steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies.

Former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res told CNN that she thinks President Trump may resign rather than face possible removal from office by impeachment. Said Res: “My gut is that he’ll leave office, he’ll resign. Or make some kind of a deal. He does a lot of things to save face.”

Politico Reports that the impeachment fight against Trump is quickly surpassing the reach of the presidential impeachment battles under Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, swallowing even larger swaths of the federal government. According to Politico, the whistleblower complaint and the resulting investigative sprawl are making the probe harder for Trump and his White House to stamp out, with Democrats gaining new avenues to uncover damaging details that contradict Trump.