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TOP NEWS

• Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected. Days later, the president announced that he was replacing acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire with Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and an aggressively vocal Trump supporter.

• Roger Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison.

• Google is fighting to block investigators from gaining access to documents regarding their advertising practices.

• Iran is set to face a new round of fresh sanctions to their already battered economy.

• Secretary of State Pompeo said the Taliban would sign a peace deal by the end of this month.

• South Korea is feared to be the next hotspot for coronavirus transmissions.

THE ELECTION

• Black and Latino voters in Nevada, S.Carolina face an all-white tier of candidates.

• Bottom tier candidates are low on cash.

• Bloomberg’s immense spending gets him 30,000 online ads a minute, and a whole lot more

THE COMMENT

“She stopped talking about being a fighter and just fought,” said Diane Asadorian Masters, a Boston-based media consultant who worked on Warren’s 2012 Senate race and supports her presidential bid. "I think being the good girl who didn't attack was not a natural fit."

"Look, this is crunch time," Rep. Joaquin Castro, who has endorsed Warren, said after Wednesday's debate. "And Elizabeth Warren is elevating her game."

THE STRANGEST

• A small town in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu is home to hundreds of pairs of twins, in a phenomenon that no-one has really been able to explain.

THE AV ROOM

• WILL FERRELL ON HOT ONES

• MUPPET MOVIE CAMERA TEST (1979)

• JAPANESE HISTORIAN ON FIRST CONTACT WITH EUROPEANS