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The Environmental Protection Agency has finally admitted that fracking contaminates drinking water resources in its widely anticipated final report on the practice.

The majority of the ballots were already in by October 31, the day the union's federally mandated Independent Investigations Officer recommended charges against Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall, who until recently seemed to be 75-year-old Hoffa's heir apparent. Hall was charged with obstructing a corruption investigation by destroying thousands of documents and emails.

Friedman has also referred to the recognition of Jerusalem as “the indisputable capital of the Jewish people” as a holy battle, one that will be won by those who acknowledge Jerusalem as being “the holy capital of the Jewish people—and only the Jewish people”.

Across battlegrounds, Democrats blame HQ's stubborn commitment to a one-size-fits-all strategy.

What’s happening in North Carolina is not politics as usual. It is an extraordinarily disturbing legislative coup, a flagrant effort to maintain one-party rule by rejecting democratic norms and revoking the will of the voters.

Jay Caspian Kang, a noted Korean American journalist, warns the precarious position of minority journalists is under new assault as the mainstream media makes its adjustments to the Trump election. He argues the mainstream media that has already begun the hiring of pro-Trump voices, will soon be jettisoning the “identity politics writers,” it hired only a few years ago. It is time, Kang says, for progressive minority writers to “start building their own shit.”

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