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Monday, July 25th, 2022 Jul 25, 2022

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Today's headlines: Steve Bannon was found guilty in court on 2 counts of contempt of congress for his refusal to comply with a subpoena and appear before the House committee. 24 Secret Service officers have all retained private counsel in regards to the January 6th Hearings, while a husband of a Colorado woman who has been missing for more than two years pleaded guilty last Thursday to casting her mail-in ballot for Trump. Then, California governor Gavin Newsom signed a new gun control bill on Friday while Madison Cawthorn illegally spent over 200 thousand dollars of donor money. Finally, a dutch reforestation company which aims to offset carbon emissions started what has become a thirty-five thousand acre forest fire in Spain.

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Friday, July 22nd, 2022 Jul 22, 2022

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Today's headlines: The biggest takeaways from last night’s January 6th hearing, which focused on how Trump did not only *fail* tell the mob to go home after 4pm - he *chose* not to. Then, the department of homeland security is conducting a criminal probe into the deleted texts by the secret service, and President Biden tested positive for covid yesterday. Health officials in New York reported its first case of polio in almost a decade yesterday, the DHS under the Trump administration had used mobile location data on a much larger scale than was previously known, and it was revealed that the Trump administration spent years trying to add a citizenship question to the census. Finally, the House of Representatives voted on a bill that would protect access to birth control.

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Thursday, July 21st, 2022 Jul 21, 2022

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Today's headlines: A bipartisan group of senators announced yesterday that they have reached agreement on 2 potential bills meant to strengthen the administration of elections, while the Defense of Marriage Act was passed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to testify before the Fulton County grand Jury on August 9th, Donald Trump is still trying to get the 2020 election decertified, and Kremlin Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian state media yesterday that Russia’s ambitions extend further south into Ukraine. Finally, the EU proposed plans for all member states to reduce gas consumption by 15 percent until Spring, and more than 100 million households in the US are currently under heat warnings.

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Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 Jul 20, 2022

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Today's headlines: Secret Service cannot recover texts between January 5th and 6th for the January 6th Hearing Committee. Then, news out of the DOJ, and The House of Representatives voted on Monday over the question of whether Finland and Sweden should be able to join NATO. The UK hit an all time record high temperature of over 104 degrees yesterday, with the country experiencing a huge surge in fires due to the heat wave. An Indiana doctor who helped perform an abortion for a 10 year old girl in Ohio who became pregnant after being raped, has filed a claim against the Indiana Attorney General for his comments in the wake of the incident. Finally, more than a dozen members of congress were arrested yesterday at an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court, and the House of Representatives passed a bill codifying same sex and interracial marriage yesterday.

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Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 Jul 19, 2022

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Today's headlines: Extensive reporting from the New York Times post Roe reversal paints a dire picture of women whose lives were put at extreme risk due to doctors’ refusal to act, for fear of being prosecuted. In similar news, the Idaho Republican Party voted on their platform over the weekend and rejected a proposal to add language that would allow abortions to save the life of the mother. Then, the Republican candidate for the governor of New York is facing claims that he submitted fake signatures to get an additional line on the ballot in the November election, and Dr. Fauci announced yesterday that he plans to retire by the end of 2025. Finally, Yesterday was the first day of Steve Bannon’s trial for his failure to comply with subpoenas from the House January 6th committee, and Bennie Thompson is asking the DOJ to investigate the ex-governor of Mississippi.

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Monday, July 18th, 2022 Jul 18, 2022

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Today's headlines: A special committee in the Texas state House released a comprehensive 77-page report about the police response to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde. Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of senators has agreed to a series of provisions to reform the Electoral Count Act, while the UAE has detained the American lawyer who had previously represented Jamal Khashoggi. Senator Joe Manchin has backed out yet again on negotiations for a democratic budget package, and a small town library in Vinton, Iowa has closed due to what they said was harassment by conservative residents over the display of LGBTQ books and staff. Finally, Betsy DeVos stated at a conservative education summit yesterday that she believes the Department of education should not exist.

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NY Times: Report on Uvalde Shooting Finds ‘Systemic Failures’ in Police Response

NBC: Senators are close to releasing a bill to stop candidates from stealing elections

US News: UAE Detains U.S. Lawyer for Khashoggi on Money Laundering Charges

NPR: Biden urges Democrats to pass slim health care bill after Manchin nixes climate action

Yahoo! News: Iowa Library Shuttered After Anti-LGBTQ+ Sentiments Flare

Axios: Betsy DeVos calls for abolishing the Department of Education

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Friday, July 15th, 2022 Jul 15, 2022

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Today's headlines: Texas attorney general Ken Paxton is suing the Biden Administration over the recent reminder that federal law requires emergency medical treatment supersede any state restrictions on abortion, while a mile long procession of 52 school buses drove to Ted Cruz’s house in Houston. Meanwhile, Europe is currently undergoing a severe heat wave, the euro and the dollar are worth the same amount for the first time in two decades, and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced that he will resign. Finally, President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid held a 1-on-1 where they declared that they would not allow Iran to become a nuclear power, and Donald Trump’s ex wife Ivana Trump, has passed away at the age of 73.

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Thursday July 14th, 2022 Jul 14, 2022

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Today's headlines: June inflation numbers are out, and prices have jumped 9.1 percent over the last 12 months. Democrats in Congress have introduced legislation to protect interstate travel for abortion, while the department of health has reminded pharmacies that they cannot stop patients from accessing prescribed medication in states with abortion bans. Finally, the justice department announced that they are establishing a Reproductive Rights Task Force, and a formerly unseen video taken from inside the Robb Elementary School in uvalde Texas has been released.

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Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 Jul 13, 2022

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Today's headlines: News from yesterday’s January 6th hearing, which focused on showing how Trump and his advisors were directing the specific actions of extremist groups before and during the insurrection. The second half of the hearing involved testimony from 2 live witnesses, who represented the average voters and violent extremists that Trump relied upon. Finally, A federal judge has refused Steve Bannon’s request to delay his criminal trial to October for his contempt of congress charges, and a judge in Georgia has ordered Senator Lindsey Graham to testify in front of a grand jury.

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Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 Jul 12, 2022

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Today's headlines: The next long awaited January 6th hearing is today. The Biden Administration has issued a directive to hospitals stating that they must provide abortion services if the life of a mother is at risk, and there’s a new covid variant on the loose. Finally, the Uber whistleblower who released over 124 thousand private company documents has been identified as Mark McGann, and Texas’s state power grid operator is warning residents to conserve electricity as temperatures are hitting 100 degrees across the state.

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