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At least 3 reportedly dead, multiple injured in shooting at California food festival

www.washingtonpost.com - By Allyson Chiu and Allyson Chiu Reporter with the Morning Mix team Email Bio Follow Meagan Flynn Meagan Flynn Morning Mix reporter Email Bio Follow July 29 at 12:08 AM At least three people are dead…

Trump impeachment inquiry has begun, Founders would say 'finally'

www.usatoday.com - Don’t let anybody fool you: We are engaged in an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s “high crimes and misdemeanors,” to quote the Constitution. The inquiry began on Friday, July 26. No …

Buried Bombshell: Fox News Poll Shows Only 45 Percent of Americans Oppose Impeachment

www.mediaite.com - As Democrats inch slightly closer to impeaching President Donald Trump, a new Fox News poll shows that Americans who impose impeachment are distinctly in the minority. Trump lashed out at Fox News’ h…

Of Two Minds - Why Is What Was Once Affordable to Many Now Only Affordable to the Wealthy?

www.oftwominds.com - With these speculative and risk management skills accessible only to the wealthy, no wonder only the wealthy have gained purchasing power in the 21st century. Let's start with an excerpt from a recen…

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving office after clashing with Trump on national security

www.cnbc.com - Coats had previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Germany during former President George W. Bush's administration, and as a U.S. senator representing Indiana. He was confirmed as Trump's Director…

The man reportedly taking over as head of national intelligence is a Trump cheerleader

www.motherjones.com - In the coming days, Dan Coats is expected to announce his resignation from his post as the director of national intelligence—a job that involves pulling together information from all of the nation’s …

Johnson told no-deal Brexit will crush domestic policy plans

www.theguardian.com - Boris Johnson’s ambitious domestic agenda would be crushed by the pressing needs of the emergency that would follow a no-deal Brexit, a new report by a Whitehall thinktank has concluded. The Institut…

While the planet burns, Ohio's coal industry gets a bailout | Leah C Stokes

www.theguardian.com - Bowing to the interests of a few deep-pocketed utilities, Ohio has enacted a controversial new law, dubbed HB 6, subsidizing dirty, decades-old coal plants and gutting the state’s clean energy progra…

Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade

apnews.com - MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly 1,400 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detenti…

'People are dying': how the climate crisis has sparked an exodus to the US

www.theguardian.com - At sunrise, the misty fields around the village of Guior are already dotted with men, women and children sowing maize after an overnight rainstorm. After several years of drought, the downpour brough…

“The Girls Were Just So Young”: The Horrors of Epstein’s Private Island

www.vanityfair.com - Ever since billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6 on charges of sex trafficking, the media have been scrambling to make sense of what happened on Little St. James, his 70-acre private isl…

Opinion | Don’t get complacent. Things really are that bad under Trump.

www.washingtonpost.com - By Fred Hiatt Fred Hiatt Editorial page editor and columnist, overseeing The Washington Post Opinions section. Email Bio Follow Editorial page editor July 28 at 6:42 PM The economy is humming. We’re …

The Bolsonaro Government’s Aggressive Response Shows Why Our Reporting on the Secret Brazil Archive Is So Vital

theintercept.com - When news emerged this week that the Federal Police had arrested four people accused of hacking the Telegram accounts of various Brazilian officials and providing some of that content to The Intercep…

If you die via asteroid, this is how it will happen

www.vox.com - The chances of dying via an asteroid impact are very, very small. Asteroids that pose an existential threat to life on Earth only strike once every 500,000 years or more. Even the 140-meter-wide aste…

America’s packaged food supply is ultra-processed

news.northwestern.edu - Americans are over-exposed to products that are high in calories, saturated fat, sugar and salt, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study that reports the United States packaged food supply and…

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