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TOP NEWS
The House Judiciary Committee continues their debate on articles of impeachment today.
Britain holds a general election today to cast votes for members of Parliament. Health care and Brexit are the major issues at stake. The Guardian has rolling coverage.
The House passed a bill to give troops a pay raise and to make Space Force the sixth branch of the military. They failed to pass measures to rein in the president’s war powers. The also secured paid family leave for more than two million federal workers.
Harvey Weinstein reached a settlement deal with most of his sexual abuse accusers. In the proposed deal, he won’t paid the settlement personally and will not have to admit wrongdoing.
THE ELECTION
THE COMMENT
“The basic assumption was that corruption is an Afghan problem and we are the solution,” Barnett Rubin, a former senior State Department adviser and a New York University professor, told government interviewers. “But there is one indispensable ingredient for corruption — money — and we were the ones who had the money.”
THE STRANGEST
THE AV ROOM