News Dump

Kentucky Democrats say state "improperly" deactivated 150,000 voters weeks before election - Kentucky officials have listed more than 150,000 voters as "inactive" just weeks before key state elections
https://www.salon.com/2019/09/17/kentucky-democrats-say-state-improperly-deactivated-150000-voters-weeks-before-election/

Over 100 Migrant Mothers And Children Sue Trump Administration Over Asylum Ban
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/migrant-mothers-children-suing-trump-asylum-ban_n_5d819313e4b0957256ada9d6

The whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-communications-with-foreign-leader-are-part-of-whistleblower-complaint-that-spurred-standoff-between-spy-chief-and-congress-former-officials-say/2019/09/18/df651aa2-da60-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html

Swiss to vote on banning factory farming - Voters will have the final say on a people’s initiative aimed at outlawing large-scale livestock production in Switzerland
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/animal-rights_swiss-to-vote-on-banning-factory-farming/45233958

Covering up the corruption: GOP tries to block probe of Mike Pence's Ireland trip Mike Pence spent $600,000 on limousine rides so he could stay at Trump's resort in Ireland. Republicans don't care
https://www.salon.com/2019/09/18/covering-up-the-corruption-gop-tries-to-block-probe-of-mike-pences-ireland-trip/

White House Fires Homeland Security Dept.’s General Counsel | The White House on Tuesday fired John Mitnick, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, after months of shake-up at an agency responsible for carrying out President Trump’s immigration agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/us/politics/john-mitnick-homeland-security.html

Lewandowski: I have no obligation to be truthful to the media
CNN: I love it, does 8am work? COMING UP: Former Trump campaign manager @CLewandowski_ LIVE on @CNN's @NewDay at 8amET on yesterday's contentious hearing and impeachment.
https://twitter.com/javimorgado/status/1174278781051293697

Trump is claiming homelessness in major cities is "a phenomena that just started two years ago" and naturally Democrats are to blame.
https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/trump-america-s-homeless-are-living-on-our-best-highways-our-best-streets-69203013539

Republican Sen. Mike Folmer, 63, was charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography, and criminal use of a communication facility after law enforcement found images of child pornography on Folmer’s cellphone when they executed a search warrant at his Lebanon home.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/17/pennsylvania-state-sen-mike-folmer-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/

Prominent Democratic donor and LGBTQ political activist Ed Buck was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house, with prosecutors calling him a violent sexual predator who preys on men struggling with addiction and homelessness. Buck was charged with one count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Buck is accused of injecting a 37-year-old man, who overdosed but survived, with methamphetamine on Sept. 11.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-17/ed-buck-arrested-charged-with-drug-house

The University of California system has just divested from fossil fuels. That's $80 billion, from what is the biggest and arguably best public system in the world. | We believe hanging on to fossil fuel assets is a financial risk. That’s why we will have made our $13.4-billion endowment “fossil free” as of the end of this month, and why our $70-billion pension will soon be that way as well.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-16/divestment-fossil-fuel-university-of-california-climate-change

Two computers stolen from Atlanta polling site contain statewide voter data
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/461872-two-computers-stolen-from-atlanta-polling-site-contain-statewide-voter

Trump wall raids 127 military construction projects, mocks the Constitution
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/09/17/trump-wall-raids-military-mocks-constitution-editorials-debates/2355703001/

New Mexico Puts Forward Bold Plan to Make College Free for Everyone in the State
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/new-mexico-plan-public-college-university-free-tuition-everyone.html

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, led by acting director Joseph Maguire, has refused to comply with a deadline to hand over a whistleblower complaint to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that had been deemed by the intelligence community inspector general to be "credible and urgent."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/politics/adam-schiff-dni-joseph-maguire-whistleblower-complaint-response/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/politics/adam-schiff-national-intelligence-director-subpoena-cnntv/index.html

Company managing public service loan forgiveness refuses to testify before House panel | The large student loan servicing company under fire for its management of the federal public service loan forgiveness program is declining to testify Thursday at a House subcommittee’s oversight hearing about the program. James H. Steeley, the president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Rep. Bobby Scott, the chairman of the House education committee, that he was turning down Scott’s invitation to testify at an oversight hearing. | The hearing is meant to examine the Trump administration’s implementation of the public service loan forgiveness program, which has been rejecting the vast majority of borrowers who apply.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/17/student-loan-company-refuses-to-testify-1500740

HD-128 Democrat outraises Briscoe Cain after Beto endorsement - Reform Austin
https://www.reformaustin.org/2019/09/17/hd-128-democrat-outraises-briscoe-cain-after-beto-endorsement/

“Please save your praise. We don’t want it,” Swedish Climate Activist Greta Thunberg told the USA Senate Climate Change Task Force. “Don’t invite us here to tell us how inspiring we are without doing anything about it because it doesn’t lead to anything.”
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/dont-tell-us-how-inspiring-we-are-take-action-against-climate-change-greta-thunberg-tells-us-congress/article29447037.ece

Beto O'Rourke Tours Skid Row During SoCal Visit
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/09/17/beto-orourke-skid-row-socal-visit/



One reason of Likud losing voters in Israel’s periphery might be the Ethiopian voters. Blue and White has 2 Ethiopian politicians on their list and they’ve received more votes than last time in cities with larger Ethiopian population.
https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1174277107926622208

Comparing between the last elections to yesterday’s elections
Kiryat Malachi:
Likud gone from 50% to 38%
Blue and White: 6% to 18%
Ramat Elyahu:
Likud gone from 53% to 43%
Blue and White from 15% to 24%
Kiryat Moshe:
Likud gone from 53% to 42%
Blue and White from 13% to 28%
https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1174278462393192449

And of course there’s the protests this year of the Ethiopian community, making it clear that they will not be ignored
https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1174278696515059715

Greta Thunberg Honored With Amnesty's Top Award Days Before Global Climate Strikes: "What I'm telling you to do now is to act. Because no one is too small to make a difference. I'm urging all of you to take part in the global climate strikes on September 20th and September 27th."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/17/there-awakening-going-greta-thunberg-honored-amnestys-top-award-days-global-climate

Indiana police department allows people to pay off parking tickets by donating to animal shelter
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/indiana-police-department-allows-people-to-pay-off-parking-tickets-by-donating-to-animal-shelter-152915700.html

The problem with homelessness isn’t that it’s inconvenient for Donald Trump and his wealthy friends. It’s that there are people in the same country as Donald Trump and his wealthy friends who are forced to live on the street.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1174108001193644033

This is classic Trump. He’s going to terrorize homeless Americans because he thinks they can’t fight back. They deserve shelter. They deserve affordable housing. They deserve mental health care. And most of all they deserve dignity.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1174090025350434816

The Trump administration’s new slaughterhouse rules is bad news for animals and consumers
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/18/20869186/trump-administrations-slaughterhouse-rules-usda-pigs

California prepares court action against Trump's move on tailpipe emissions
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/461973-california-preps-for-legal-battle-as-trump-moves-to-strip-state

Trump vows to protect non-American, non-citizen, foreign real estate investors from American citizens the foreign investors don't loke
https://us.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics/trump-homeless-california-real-estate-investors/index.html

Reminder: CNN Books Lewandowski Hours After He Said He Has ‘No Obligation’ To Be Honest With Media
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/corey-lewandowski-cnn-media

Donald Trump's Border Wall Could See 16,000 Years of History Destroyed, National Park Service Report Warns
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-border-wall-archaeological-sites-risk-arizona-1459926

DNI Refuses To Comply With House Subpoena For Whistleblower Complaint
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/dni-refuses-to-comply-with-house-subpoena-for-whistleblower-complaint

New Documents Show Pentagon Spent At Least $184,000 in U.S. Taxpayer Funds at President Trump’s Turnberry Resort
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/new-documents-show-pentagon-spent-at-least-184000-in-us-taxpayer-funds-at

Corey Lewandowski: The Mueller report was very clear. There was no collusion… no obstruction.
Alisyn Camerota: That's not what the Mueller report said.
Corey: It absolutely says that.
Alisyn: Did you read the Mueller report?
Corey: No, I never did.

To be clear: We will buy back every single assault weapon. We‘ll also license every gun & do a background check on every buyer. That’s what the American people want—and deserve. The only thing stopping us from ending this epidemic is you & your cowardice. Do the right thing.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1174314797799591936

Friedell] Curry, in response to KD saying GSW's motion offense "only works to a certain point": "Well I don't care what plays we ran. We won two championships... We all wanna play iso-ball at the end of the day in some way, shape or form. But I'd rather have some championships, too."
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27642127/curry-commits-olympics-plan

Boris Johnson confronted by angry father on hospital visit: 'The NHS has been destroyed' - The man, whose child was being treated at Whipps Cross University Hospital in north-east London, told the prime minister: "The NHS has been destroyed ... and now you come here for a press opportunity."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-hospital-nhs-brexit-parent-whipps-cross-university-london-a9110161.html

When candidates say, "At least Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are pretending to be interested," shit, that is not enough. Neither is poll-testing your message. Gun violence is a life or death issue—and we have to represent the bold ideas of people all over the country.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1173363089103888386

Duterte Says He Ordered a Politician Killed; a Spokesman Says He Misspoke
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/world/asia/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-assassination.html

Eli Manning on moving to the bench: "There’s no other option than just to handle it and support my teammates and support the Giants. I knew there was a possibility. I said I’d handle it and support Daniel and be a good teammate." True professional.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1174369558532100105?s=21

Thursday, Sept. 19. Times below are Central time zone.
- 8 AM: Beto will make his introductory posts on this subreddit and the /r/IAmA subreddit. This is in preparation for his AMAs. You can add your comments to the posts when they go up. On our sub, we will make it the top post (of course!).
- 10 AM - 10:45 AM: Beto will answer questions on his post in the /r/IAmA subreddit.
- 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM: Beto will answer questions on his post in this subreddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Beto2020/comments/d604dm/help_us_get_the_word_out_tell_your_friends_tell/
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA

Saudi Arabia Owns the 45th Floor of Trump Tower, and It Shows
https://truthout.org/articles/saudi-arabia-owns-the-45th-floor-of-trump-tower-and-it-shows/

Omar asks Twitter what it's doing in response to Trump spreading 'lies that put my life at risk'
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/461948-omar-asks-what-twitter-is-doing-in-response-to-trump-spreading-lies-that

Police said Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez admitted that he drove nearly an hour in 2017 to meet a 13-year-old girl and tried to have sex with her, according to a criminal complaint released today. After a failed attempt, Vazquez, then 26, left to go to a game, per the complaint.
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1174354182440198144

Vázquez was arrested on September 17, 2019, on charges of computer pornography, specifically alleging that he solicited a child and provided obscene material to minors, regarding an alleged sexual relationship he had with a 13-year-old from Lee County, Florida.[33] Hours later, Vázquez was charged with statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors and indecent assault of a person less than 16 years old related to a separate incident in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.[34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_V%C3%A1zquez#Personal_life
https://www.wtae.com/article/pirates-closer-felipe-vazquez-arrested/29089187
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/09/17/pirates-all-star-closer-felipe-vazquez-arrested-on-charges-of-solicitation-of-a-child/

Federal Reserve makes modest interest rate cut, prompting immediate Trump rebuke
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/18/federal-reserve-cuts-interest-rates-quarter-point-counter-trumps-trade-war/

Wyden, Merkley Back Bill to Stop Use of Taxpayer Dollars at Trump Properties
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-merkley-back-bill-to-stop-use-of-taxpayer-dollars-at-trump-properties

Today, the @NRA sent out a petition calling on supporters to "tell Beto no" to a mandatory buyback program. But the @NRA doesn't represent the American people—and today, we can prove it. Sign our petition calling for a buyback of every AR-15: https://act.betoorourke.com/signup/social-signup-assaultweaponsbuyback-august?source=social-organic-tweet-20190918
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1174397231807336448

The majority of the country supports background checks, licensing, red flag laws, and yes, a mandatory assault weapons buyback. The party is with us, the country is with us. Now it’s time for Democrats to lead.
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1174367669694455809


When kids go back to school, they have plenty to worry about. They shouldn’t also have to wonder if they’re going to make it home. We need to buy back all of these assault weapons. Warning: It’s graphic, but this is an important video from @sandyhook.
Sandy Hook Promise
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1174342140635295748

The Amazon is burning. Farms are underwater. The Bahamas was hit by a historic hurricane. And yet—as CA fights to end climate change, Trump is doing everything he can to stop them from doing so. His ignorance and malice know no bounds. And our future is at risk because of it.
(in reference to Repblicans illegagally revoking California's supreme-court upheld right to set strict auto pollution rules)
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1174325648594100227

Money from Formula 1 funding new race track a few miles from Syrian jail where 13,000 executed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/14/formula-one-funding-new-racing-track-miles-jail-13000-executed/

This is my first time back along the border in San Diego since the new replacement barriers have gone in. There is now an 18-foot “primary” barrier (completed this spring) and crews are now putting in 30-foot “secondary” fence. The visual effect of the new contours is striking.
https://twitter.com/NickMiroff/status/1174438140263555072

It was billed by Donald Trump as an “incredible” way to tour his golf resorts in the UK and Ireland, with well-heeled guests being whizzed back and forth across the Irish Sea and all around Scotland while revelling in the kind of opulence to which the US president has long been accustomed. But Mr Trump’s bold vision of bolstering business at three of his loss making courses by exporting one of his luxury helicopters across the Atlantic to woo wealthy golfers has failed to take off. | The director of such company said he never flew with the ‘TRUMP’ name visible, reasoning that it would have turned off potential customers.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/donald-trump-s-luxury-helicopter-charter-plans-fail-to-take-off-1-5006867

GOOD. CBS and WarnerMedia drop all e-cigarette ads, including those from Juul.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/18/cbs-warnermedia-drop-all-e-cigarette-advertising-including-juul.html

Trump on Wednesday morning announced in a tweet he was promoting his top hostage recovery negotiator, Robert O’Brien, to be his fourth national security adviser amid ongoing global tensions with Iran, China and North Korea. The announcement comes just days after Trump tweeted about the departure of John Bolton, a hawk who was often at odds with the president and some of his closest advisers.
https://news.yahoo.com/pick-for-new-national-security-advisor-enjoys-a-good-relationship-with-trump-210834137.html

“For the first time since World War II, the U.S. government is turning away thousands of asylum seekers regardless of their need for refuge.”
https://apnews.com/767291ca52f2423992590dbae0e62a8a

An E&E News investigation found EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson has played an unusually active role in the agency's environmental enforcement process, often to the benefit of corporate polluters. | Last December, Indiana regulators announced that EPA declined to pursue the case against MGPI. Meanwhile, two other Obama-era cases Jackson intervened in remain unresolved. And a $700,000 fine against an Oklahoma refinery disappeared after the chief of staff got involved in the matter. Jackson's previously unreported role as an enforcement fixer for friends and allies — pieced together from internal agency records, enforcement documents, company financial filings and interviews — makes some former career EPA enforcement staffers question whether Jackson is abusing his powerful position to benefit favored companies and lobbyists.
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061135015

On Wednesday, a government watchdog determined that Patton violated a law barring federal executive branch employees from engaging in political activities using their titles while on duty or in a federal building. Patton’s offense? A series of Twitter “likes” between December 2017 and April 2018 from her official HUD account. | “Liking tweets that advocate for or against partisan political candidates, originate from a political party, or include pictures of campaign material constitutes political activity for purposes of the Hatch Act,” wrote Erica S. Hamrick, deputy chief of the Hatch Act Unit of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, in a letter to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the organization that brought the complaints against Patton. In addition, the Office of Special Counsel determined that Patton violated the Hatch Act when she posed in her HUD office for a photo that accompanied a New York magazine article about her new role. In the photo, Patton was seated with her hands clasped atop her desk. Perched on a bookcase above her head was a red USA hat that turned out to be an “official USA 45th presidential hat” sold on the Trump/Pence campaign website. The special counsel’s office found that neither Patton nor the HUD ethics counsel realized the campaign was selling the hat until after the allegations came to light. Patton has removed the hat from her office. The special counsel’s office concluded that while Patton violated the law by “unwittingly displaying a campaign hat in her office and ‘liking’ partisan political tweets on her official Twitter account,” it would not pursue any disciplinary action.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/18/trump-hud-appointees-twitter-likes-violated-federal-law-she-will-not-be-punished/

Beto O'Rourke is organizing a 5-state campaign "to activate the country’s next wave of gun safety advocates" ahead of the Giffords/March for Our Lives presidential forum on Oct. 2, Axios has learned.
https://www.axios.com/beto-orourke-plans-5-state-gun-safety-campaign-8d11b664-6beb-498b-82b4-a53c42603342.html

My friend #CokieRoberts was many things: journalist, author, broadcaster, wife, mother, friend, mentor, trailblazer. She was also, for decades, one of the most well known Catholics in the public square. An interview on that aspect of her remarkable life:
https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1174315621330407424
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2014/11/18/cokie-roberts-catholic-woman-public-square

Sometimes even the highest skyscraper needs an inspection. This video shows the operation conducted by Andy Veall and his team in 2015 at 829.8 m (2,722 ft) over Dubai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0sX9ArivpI
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1174216239616577536

YEP: A group of Arizona "Democrats" are demonstrating why President Donald Trump will more than likely be a two-term president. | Sinema won because she's a centrist | The problem is, that’s not what the people who decided last year’s Senate race – the ones who quite likely will decide next year’s presidential race – want. Sinema won last year because she ran as a centrist, one who could appeal to moderates who are sick to death of the long-running, never-ending trench war between the Republican and Democratic parties. She won GOP-rich Maricopa County, as moderates saw in Sinema someone who would abandon the fox holes and go in search of that rare earth called middle ground. | But she also has voted against Trump’s positions 81% percent of the time this year, according to the FiveThirtyEight Trump Tracker. In June, she voted yes on a bill to provide $4.5 billion in emergency humanitarian aid to migrants on the U.S- Mexico border. In March, she voted to block Trump from declaring a national emergency in order to divert funds on the border wall. | Democrats seem determined to hurtle left, right over the cliff.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2019/09/18/kyrsten-sinema-censure-progressive-democrats-why-trump-win-again/2365979001/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/kyrsten-sinema/

Demographic shifts, progressive organizing efforts and Trump's potential weakness in Arizona appear to be providing Democrats in 2020 with their best shot at capturing the state since Bill Clinton won it more than two decades ago. BUT "LEFTISTS" ATTACKING YOUR OWN EXCELLENT DEMOCRATIC SENATE REPRESENATIVE Kyrsten Sinema WILL ENSURE TRUMP+REPUBLICANS WIN.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/18/arizona-2020-trump-poll-1500744

Joe Kennedy plans to formally announce Saturday that he is launching a primary challenge to Sen. Ed Markey, an audacious political move that could open fissures within the Democratic Party. Kennedy told Markey of his decision today.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/18/joe-kennedy-formally-announce-run-for-senate/YGYTqnr197ahCYtQupxwqM/story.html?event=event12

For the second day in a row, the New York Fed injected billions of dollars into the market
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/business/ny-fed-overnight-lending-rescue/index.html

House Intel Chair Schiff announces closed briefing tomorrow on the handling of the whistleblower complaint with the IC IG and an OPEN hearing Sept 26th with Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire
https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1174447827109515266

The Acting Director of National Intelligence will testify publicly before the House Intel committee on Sept 26 in relation to the whistleblower complaint received by ODNI. The Intel community inspector general will testify in closed session tomorrow, per @RepAdamSchiff
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1174447709736058883
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEx56puXUAIaXrs.jpg

Disputing Trump Claims, Japan Says No Evidence Iran Was Behind Saudi Attack: Japanese defense minister Taro Kono."We believe the Houthis carried out the attack based on the statement claiming responsibility."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/18/disputing-trump-claims-japan-says-no-evidence-iran-was-behind-saudi-attack

Odell Beckham Jr. on Eli Manning getting benched: "He's a brother of mine. There's nothing but love"
https://twitter.com/MaryKayCabot/status/1174398167640621057

Trump just asked the Supreme Court to let him fire the CFPB’s head. The implications are enormous.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/18/20872236/trump-justice-department-supreme-court-cfpb-unitary-executive

74% of Dems support mandatory buybacks. #DemsForBuyBacks
https://twitter.com/susiedrapes/status/1174439900755705856?s=21

Beto is set to participate in the LGBTQ CNN Town Hall at 10pm E.T. Oct 10
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics/cnn-lgbtq-town-hall/index.html

Trump’s top negotiator for Afghanistan will hold a briefing for the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, the panel said on Wednesday, after the committee subpoenaed him in frustration at his refusal to meet with its members. | The committee said it had been frustrated for some time over the administration’s failure to allow briefings by Khalilzad. Khalilzad has briefed lawmakers in the Senate, which is controlled by Trump’s fellow Republicans, but had declined three requests to appear before the committee in the Democratic-controlled House. 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-khalilzad/u-s-house-committee-reaches-deal-for-testimony-by-trump-afghan-envoy-idUSKBN1W332O

Trump raised $15 million in California in one day. That should worry Democrats.
https://news.yahoo.com/2020-vision-wednesday-trump-raised-15-million-in-california-in-one-day-why-that-should-worry-democrats-131034820.html

The Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating where Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs obtained the drugs that were in his system at the time of his July 1 death in Southlake, Texas, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told Outside the Lines Wednesday. An autopsy released Aug. 30 found evidence of fentanyl, oxycodone and ethanol in Skaggs' system. The fentanyl drew the attention of federal investigators, the sources said. One senior DEA official said the agency typically gets involved in fentanyl cases in an effort to track down the source of the drug. Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, has been linked to a number of high-profile drug-related deaths, including musicians Prince, Tom Petty and Mac Miller.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27647263/sources-dea-probing-how-skaggs-obtained-drugs

Case in point why Dems are split on impeachment. Swing-district Rep. Rose: “It is not helpful for Dems to speak about Corey Lewandowski. It is helpful for Dems to speak about bold measures in infrastructure, health care…ways in which we can help people.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/462086-democrats-bicker-over-strategy-on-impeachment

Asked about the mass shooting in El Paso when a gunman targeted Latinos, most Hispanics at a Trump rally near Albuquerque simply shrugged. They also don't consider themselves Hispanic. They consider themselves white Europeans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/us/latino-hispanics-for-trump.html