Stranger Than Fiction

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TOP NEWS

• Vulnerable House Democrats in districts won by Trump in 2016 are willing to risk their jobs to vote for impeachment. They feel the evidence is too overwhelming to ignore.

• Boeing is pausing 737 Max production in light of safety issues.

• The Sackler family withdrew over $10 billion from their company Purdue Pharma and hid it in family trusts as the opioid crisis unfolded.

• Mormons were misled by their church about a $100 billion fund which was built by donation from members who thought it would go to charity.

• Trump’s former national security advisor Mike Flynn will be sentenced in January.

• U.S. housing starts in November were higher than expected, with permits at a 12.5 year high.

• Former Pakistan President Musharraf sentenced to death for high treason

THE ELECTION

• Democrats are in dissent over all-white frontrunners

• How Biden, Warren and Sanders approach gun control

• Is Buttigieg the next Macron?

THE COMMENT

“What the president did was wrong,” said Representative Ben McAdams of Utah, whose district skews Republican by 13 percentage points. “His actions warrant accountability. I cannot turn a blind eye, thereby condoning this president and future presidents, Republican or Democrat, to do the same.”

THE STRANGEST

• A woman who had more than $2,000 stolen from her bank account will not be reimbursed because she kept the PINs to her credit cards on a note in her wallet.

THE AV ROOM

• WHAT IS A PHOTOCOPIER?

• THE SONG IN EVERY MUSICAL THAT NOBODY LIKES

• CLEARING SNOW REMOTELY