Marc Ash | The FBI Kavanaugh "Investigation" Is a Joke and the Democrats Know It





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Marc Ash | The FBI Kavanaugh "Investigation" Is a Joke and the Democrats Know It 
Judge Brett Kavanaugh turns contentious during a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing to hear evidence that he sexually assaulted then Christine Blasey in 1982. (photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "Jeff Flake's mildly courageous acquiescence to demands by protesters and Democrats to slow down the Kavanaugh march induced euphoria on the left on Friday. It may have been premature."
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Bernie Sanders. (photo: Antonella Crescimbeni)
Bernie Sanders. (photo: Antonella Crescimbeni)

Bernie Sanders: FBI Must Determine if Kavanaugh Told the Truth Under Oath
Mary Papenfuss, Reader Supported News
Papenfuss writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) has called on Judiciary Committee head Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to direct the FBI to determine if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was truthful under oath in his testimony before the panel."
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The Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
The Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

After Budget Cuts, the IRS's Work Against Tax Cheats Is Facing "Collapse"
Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel, ProPublica
Excerpt: "Audits and criminal referrals are down sharply since Congress cut the tax agency's budget and management changed priorities." 

A Chris McDaniel campaign yard sign for the Senate race in Pearl, Miss. (photo: Cleve Wootson/WP)
A Chris McDaniel campaign yard sign for the Senate race in Pearl, Miss. (photo: Cleve Wootson/WP)

In Mississippi Senate Race, an African American Democrat Faces a Republican Using a Confederate Symbol
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post
Wootson writes: "Republican Chris McDaniel, a conservative fond of provocative statements, has made yard signs that boast the 'stainless banner' - the second flag of the Confederate States of America."
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OxyContin medication on a pharmacy shelf in Provo, Utah. (photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
OxyContin medication on a pharmacy shelf in Provo, Utah. (photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

'They're Drug Dealers in Armani Suits': Executives Draw Focus Amid US Epidemic
Chris McGreal, Guardian UK
McGreal writes: "As the pharmaceutical industry fights off a flood of lawsuits, there's an increased call to investigate the roles of executives pushing opioid painkillers."
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Search and rescue workers evacuate an earthquake and tsunami survivor trapped in a collapsed restaurant in Palu, Central Sulawesi. (photo: Antara Foto/Muhammad Adimaja/Reuters)
Search and rescue workers evacuate an earthquake and tsunami survivor trapped in a collapsed restaurant in Palu, Central Sulawesi. (photo: Antara Foto/Muhammad Adimaja/Reuters)

Indonesia Plans Mass Burials for Quake and Tsunami Victims as Death Toll Rises
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Rescuers in the Indonesia island of Sulawesi are racing against the clock to save those still trapped in the rubble, as volunteers buried bodies in a mass grave following an earthquake and tsunami disaster."
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An array of solar panels are seen in Oakland, California, U.S. on December 4, 2016. (photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
An array of solar panels are seen in Oakland, California, U.S. on December 4, 2016. (photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

Citizens Put Renewable Energy on This Year's Ballots
Jessica Kutz, Grist
Kutz writes: "With the GOP controlling the executive branch and Congress, that means state-level ballot initiatives are one of the few tools progressives have left to advance their own energy agendas."
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