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For only the fourth time in the history of the United States, Congress has voted to impeach a sitting president.

Meanwhile, after an 11-day strike, Chicago teachers reach a deal with Mayor Lightfoot.

And lastly, Trump announces he’s leaving New York so he can avoid paying taxes as a resident of Palm Beach, Florida.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that a pension fund covering about 90,000 coal workers and their families is on the brink of insolvency while hundreds of these miners also face losing medical benefits.

North Dakota state environmental regulators on Thursday announced that nearly 400,000 gallons of crude oil had leaked out of the controversial Keystone pipeline, covering about 22,000 square feet of wetlands.

HuffPo is reporting that Democratic groups have launched a blitz of voting rights lawsuits in three states this week; a sign of how aggressive the party intends to be in challenging voting restrictions ahead of the 2020 elections.

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House democrats ask John Bolton to testify at Trump’s impeachment inquiry, but his lawyer says he won’t do it willingly.

Meanwhile, thanks to Trump, 4 million US children don’t have health insurance as coverage declines for a second year in a row.

And lastly, the sweeping protests in Chile force the country’s right-wing president to cancels its upcoming APEC world leaders summit.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the social network will no longer run any political advertising from candidates or about particular issues.

Politico reports Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters.

The Seattle Times is reporting that Joe Biden will attend a fundraiser co-hosted by Amazon’s top lawyer as the former VP’s polling and fundraising continue to fade in the Democratic presidential primary.

And lastly, Juul, the leading US e-cigarette manufacturer, sent to market 1 million contaminated mint-flavored nicotine pods earlier this year. This according to a new lawsuit filed against Juul by a former executive there.

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The White House official who listened to Trump’s Ukraine call says the White House’s transcript was doctored to omit key details.

Meanwhile, a new CNN poll has Bernie Sanders edging out Elizabeth Warren for the lead in the New Hampshire primary.

And lastly, Missouri’s state health director testifies that he kept a spreadsheet to track Planned Parenthood patients’ menstrual periods.

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The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to formally recognize and denounce the systematic killing of about 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide under the Ottoman Empire, now modern day Turkey.

A new Selzer & Company poll finds just 51% of all suburban voters now say they would definitely vote for a candidate other than Donald Trump. 88% of suburban women said they would definitely vote in the 2020 presidential election, ten points higher than voters overall.

Nature dot com reports that sea level projections for the year 2050 show that land currently home to 300 million people will fall below the elevation of an average annual coastal flood.

And lastly, climate change activist Greta Thunberg was awarded the 2019 Nordic Council Environment Prize, but she won't be accepting it. Thunberg said on Instagram on Tuesday that she received the award but declined to accept it because "the climate movement does not need any more awards."

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A top White House official who heard Trump’s Ukraine call is set to offer damning testimony to Impeachment investigators.

Meanwhile, the fate of Missouri’s only remaining abortion clinic will be decided this week

And lastly, Bernie Sanders says the nearly $4 billion in annual US military aid to Israel should be leveraged to help improve the lives of Palestinians instead.

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Iraqi security forces opened fire, killing 18 people and wounding hundreds in the holy city of Karbala on Tuesday in one of the worst attacks since the country was engulfed by protests this month.

North Carolina can’t use its current maps for its 2020 congressional elections, a panel of judges ruled Monday, saying the Republican-drawn maps are unfair to many voters.The legislature must now redraw the state’s 13 U.S. House districts for the second time in three years.

The New York Times reports that homelessness in New York Public Schools has reached a record high of nearly 15,000 students, That means one out of every 10 New York City students lived in temporary housing during the last school year.

And Politico is reporting that the Republican Party of Florida has cancelled its biggest annual fundraiser because of lackluster interest from donors. Planners were having difficulty selling table sponsorships to the Statesman’s Dinner, and couldn’t land a keynote speaker for the dinner, which was scheduled for Nov. 9 in Orlando.

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Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of troops from Syria reportedly disrupted this weekend’s military strike in Syria that killed the leader of the Islamic State.

Meanwhile, as wildfires rage across California, governor Gavin Newsom floats a plan for Warren Buffet to take over the state’s bankrupt utility giant, Pacific Gas & Electric.

And lastly, a right-wing revenge porn smear campaign forces freshmen Congresswoman Kaite Hill to resign from Congress.

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More than one million people took to streets in the Chilean capital of Santiago on Friday afternoon, uniting in a call for huge social and political change in the country.The demonstration is believed to be the largest in decades, drawing comparisons to historic marches in 1988 against the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib endorsed Bernie Sanders for president at a rally in Detroit on Sunday night. Tlaib joins Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ihan Omar in backing the Vermont independent.

Donald Trump was greeted with loud boos from from the crowd during game 5 of the World Series on Sunday. Trump was shown on the Nationals Park jumbotron and immediately met with sustained jeers from the sold-out crowd.

John Conyers, the longest-serving African American member of Congress, has died at 90 years old. Conyers represented the Detroit area for over 50 years before he resigned in 2017 due to claims of sexual harassment from former employees.

And lastly, a series of federal court settlements this week will provide the BlackJewel coal miners—who blocked train tracks in Kentucky for nearly two months this summer to protest against unpaid —with over $5 million in back pay.

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Another White House official is expected to testify next week and corroborate a top US diplomat's account that Trump pressed Ukraine on publicly investigating Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, the ACLU says over 1,500 more migrant families were separated at the US border than the Trump administration had previously reported.

And lastly, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is held in contempt for violating a court order to stop collecting loan payments on Corinthian College students.

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Tulsi Gabbard announced late Thursday night that she will not seek another term in the House of Representatives. In a video posted to Twitter, Gabbard said she would instead focus on her campaign for president in the 2020 election.

An attorney for the South Bend Common Council told The Young Turks he may subpoena Mayor Pete Buttigieg next week to testify about police issues including Buttigieg’s demotion of Darryl Boykins, the city’s first black police chief.

Bernie Sanders released a plan Thursday that aims to legalize marijuana nationally and use the $50 billion from the tax revenue to boost business creation and economic development in areas disproportionately hit by current drug laws.

And the Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Justin Walker, a former clerk for Brett Kavanaugh, to a lifetime seat in federal court, even though the American Bar Association gave him a rare rating of “not qualified.” Walker is at least the fourth confirmed judge chosen by Trump to receive the “not qualified” rating.

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Republican lawmakers attempt to storm the House’s secure impeachment room, breaking House rules in the process.

Meanwhile, one of Rudy Giuliani’s indicted henchmen ties his case to Trump by raising Executive Privilege in Federal Court.

And lastly, new data finds that air pollution in the United States is getting worse after years of improvement and could be killing thousands of people.

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The Washington Post reports that House Democrats are preparing to move their largely private impeachment inquiry onto a more public stage as soon as mid-November. Among the witnesses Democrats hope to question in open session is former Trump national security adviser John Bolton.

An internal memo on cybersecurity, obtained by Axios, warns that the White House is at risk to be electronically compromised once again after at least a dozen top officials resigned or were pushed out of a cybersecurity mission that was established under Barack Obama to protect the White House from Russian hacking and other threats.

CBS News reports that Seema Verma, the head of the agency that oversees the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, refused to tell a Democratic-led House committee how many people would lose insurance if the law is struck down and avoided giving and specifics about a possible contingency plan.

And Minnesota Republican Danielle Stella, who is campaigning to take Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s House, has a warrant out for her arrest after she failed to appear for a court hearing on Tuesday morning over charges that she had attempted to shoplift a few thousand dollars’ worth of items from a local Target store.

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Acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor delivers a stunning 9-hour testimony before Congress that confirms there was indeed a quid pro quo demand during Trump’s now infamous call with Ukraine’s president

Meanwhile, buoyed by the youth vote, Bernie Sanders is back in the number two spot in a new national 2020 poll.

And lastly, the death toll in Chile rises to 15 as protesters demand reforms for a fifth straight day.

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Focus groups conducted by Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 campaign over the summer found that being gay was “a barrier” for black South Carolina Democratic primary voters, particularly for the men —some of whom, McClatchy reports, seemed “deeply uncomfortable even discussing it.”

The British Parliament voted to reject the government’s timetable for the passage of the bill that would implement Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, The Guardian reports.

The Trump administration has announced a controversial new plan to divert water to California farmers. The move is opposed by federal biologists who say the plan will drive endangered salmon closer to extinction and cause further harm to the Sacramento River ecosystem.

And from the Intercept; Bernie Sanders told the Intercept Tuesday that if elected president in 2020 he’d refuse to to use the repressive, century-old Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s been secretly advising Pete Buttigieg with his 2020 presidential campaign.

Meanwhile, Chile ’s trade unions call for a general strike in support of the country’s massive student-led uprising .

And lastly, one of California’s largest cities wants to turn the privately-owned Pacific Gas & Electric company into a giant customer-owned utility.

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Bernie Sanders lashed out Monday at critics of fellow 2020 presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard including Hillary Clinton, after Clinton and others suggested that Gabbard is a "foreign asset" for Russia amid reports that Moscow's online bots and trolls are supporting her campaign. In a tweet, Sanders called such accusations "outrageous," pointing to Gabbard's background as a military veteran.

A new CNN poll finds 50% of Americans say Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office, a new high in the poll and the first time that support for impeachment and removal has significantly outpaced opposition.

CBC News is projecting that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party will form a minority government in Canada and Trudeau will serve another term as prime minister.

And according to the annual Global Wealth Report, the millionaires of the world, who account for just 0.9 percent of the global population, now own nearly half of the planet's $361 trillion in wealth while the bottom 56 percent of the population owns just 1.8 percent.

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Bowing to pressure, Trump drops his totally corrupt plan to hold the upcoming G7 summit at his own Miami golf resort.

Meanwhile, the military returns to the streets of Chile for the first time in decades as mass protests intensify around the country.

And lastly, with 26,000 in attendance at packed New York rally, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez officially endorses Bernie Sanders for president.

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Two House Democrats on Friday urged federal agencies to investigate possible insider trading by Donald Trump or members of his administration after a Vanity Fair story detailed several immensely profitable stock market bets that appeared suspiciously timed around Trump's actions or statements.

The National Journal reports that new polling and fundraising reports show key GOP senators in political trouble, giving Democrats a good shot to win back control of the upper chamber. Q3 fundraising reports show four Republican senators were out-raised by their Democratic competitors, including three that hail from key battleground states, including Susan Collins of Maine, who has the second worst job approval rating for a sitting senator in the in the country.

An often vandalized memorial sign marking Emmett Till's death that was riddled with bullet holes earlier this year was rededicated Saturday -- this time protected by bulletproof glass and surrounded by security cameras.

And lastly, as Parliament met in London Saturday morning and voted to force a Brexit delay, as a mass of anti-Brexit protesters marched in the city’s streets demanding citizens be given a second chance at deciding whether to leave the European Union. Organizers of the effort told the New York Times they expected more than a million demonstrators, which would make it one of the largest protests Britain has ever had.