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Rex Tillerson Secretly Meets With House Foreign Affairs Committee to Talk Trump 
Rex Tillerson. (photo: Getty)
Erin Banco, The Daily Beast
Banco writes: "Rex Tillerson spoke with the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs committee on Tuesday in a lengthy session that, an aide said, touched on his time working in the Trump administration, the frictions he had with the president's son-in-law, and efforts to tackle issues like Russian interference in the 2016 election."
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Capitol building. (photo: Matthew Kahn)
Capitol building. (photo: Matthew Kahn)

What Powers Does a Formal Impeachment Inquiry Give the House?
Molly E. Reynolds and Margaret Taylor, Lawfare
Excerpt: "As the confrontation escalates between the House of Representatives and the White House over the production of documents, the appearance of witnesses and compliance with congressional subpoenas, so too have calls for Democrats to initiate impeachment proceedings."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Getty)
Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Getty)

Popularity of Socialism Spiking in US, With 43 Percent Now Saying It Would Be Good for the Country
Ewan Palmer, Newsweek
Palmer writes: "The Gallup survey of a 1,024 adults found that 43 percent of Americans believed that some sort of socialism would be good for the country compared, while 51 percent who said it would by bad."
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Secret IRS legal memo undercuts Mnuchin on Trump tax returns. (photo: Getty)
Secret IRS legal memo undercuts Mnuchin on Trump tax returns. (photo: Getty)

Secret IRS Memo Destroys Trump's Tax Return Excuses
Sophie Weiner, Splinter
Weiner writes: "A confidential memo written by the IRS last year says that the agency must immediately turn over Trump's tax returns to Congress if they are requested, unless the president invokes executive privilege, according to a new report from the Washington Post."
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People waiting to cross the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge into the United States. (photo: Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times)
People waiting to cross the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge into the United States. (photo: Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times)

Jennifer Harbury: Deaths of Guatemalan Children at Border Have Roots in Decades of US-Backed Genocide
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Five Guatemalan children have died after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol since December. We look at the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the border and its ties to decades of bloody U.S. intervention in Latin America with human rights attorney Jennifer Harbury."
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Salman al-Odah, Awad al-Qarni and Ali al-Omari are all set to be executed after Ramadan. (photo: Twitter)
Salman al-Odah, Awad al-Qarni and Ali al-Omari are all set to be executed after Ramadan. (photo: Twitter)

Saudi Arabia to Execute Three Prominent Moderate Scholars After Ramadan
David Hearst, Middle East Eye
Hearst writes: "Three prominent moderate Saudi Sunni scholars held on multiple charges of 'terrorism' will be sentenced to death and executed shortly after Ramadan."
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The Hunter power plant in Castle Dale, Utah, which burns an estimated 4.5 million tons of coal a year. (photo: Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)
The Hunter power plant in Castle Dale, Utah, which burns an estimated 4.5 million tons of coal a year. (photo: Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)

EPA Plans to Get Thousands of Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math
Lisa Friedman, The New York Times
Friedman writes: "The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule."
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