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October 24th, 2019
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

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.

And our QUICKER QUICKIES HEADLINES:

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.