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James Risen | Senate Acquittal Gave Trump a Blank Check. With Roger Stone’s Sentencing, the President’s Crime Syndicate Is Cashing In.

James Risen, The Intercept
Risen writes: "Donald Trump has finally found his new Roy Cohn. That crooked fixer’s name is William Barr."
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Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, plans to travel to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, in coming days. (photo: Doug Mills/NYT)

Trump Contradicts Past Denials, Admits Sending Giuliani to Ukraine
Tom Porter, Business Insider
Porter writes: "President Donald Trump on Thursday casually cast aside one of the central claims of his impeachment defense by openly admitting to sending his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to hunt for dirt on the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden."
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Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

AG Barr Privately Ordered Re-Examination of Michael Flynn's Case, in Another Case of Possible Political Interference at DOJ
Evan Perez, David Shortell and Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Excerpt: "Attorney General William Barr is ordering a re-examination of several high-profile cases, including that of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, US officials briefed on the matter say, in a move that could bring fresh scrutiny of the political motives behind actions at the Justice Department."
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Abandoned homes in Detroit. (photos: AP)

Detroit Overtaxed Residents by $600M, Causing Foreclosure Crisis. Residents Are Now Fighting Back.
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "In Detroit, a showdown between progressive lawmakers and the city is taking on racist housing policies that robbed African Americans in Detroit of their homes and widened the racial wealth gap."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders Will Be Good for American Economy, Top Economist Says After Goldman Sachs Attack
Oliver O'Connell, The Independent
O'Connell writes: “‘Bernie Sanders’ economic policies would be good for the American economy, according to a new book by a renowned economist."
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A truck sits parked at railway tracks during a protest near Belleville, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday. Demonstrators have been disrupting railroads and other infrastructure across Canada for more than a week to protest the planned Coastal GasLink pipeline. (photo: Getty Images)

Canadian Pipeline Protest Forces Closure of Major Rail Link
Scott Neuman, NPR
Neuman writes: "An indigenous-led anti-pipeline protest has shut down a vital cross-continent rail line in Canada, disrupting freight and passenger service and costing millions of dollars in lost revenue, officials say."
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Mandy Gunasekara had left the EPA a year ago to start what she called a “pro-Trump nonprofit” in her home state of Mississippi. (photo: Mandy Gunasekara)

She Pushed Trump to Exit the Paris Climate Agreement. She’s Returning to EPA as Chief of Staff.
Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Mandy Gunasekara, who pressed for President Trump to exit the Paris climate agreement as the Environmental Protection Agency’s top air-policy adviser, is poised to return to the agency as its next chief of staff, according to two individuals briefed on the matter."

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After joining the EPA in March 2017, Gunasekara oversaw the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation on an acting basis for nearly eight months under then-Administrator Scott Pruitt. Trained as a lawyer, she played a key role in working to scale back federal rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution, including replacing the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and federal gas-mileage standards.

The EPA’s chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, is stepping down later this month to work as the top lobbyist for the National Mining Association. The two individuals briefed on Gunasekara’s hiring spoke on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not been publicly announced.

The group she subsequently founded, Energy 45, does not disclose its donors. Gunasekara has written op-eds for newspapers such as USA Today and appeared on television networks such as Fox News, aiming to serve as a counterweight to critics of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle environmental safeguards.

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