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October 15th, 2019
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

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.

And our QUICKER QUICKIES HEADLINES:

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.