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NBC News
From September 3: The deadline recently passed for candidates to qualify for the next Democratic presidential debate and only 10 made it, narrowing the largest field in history to a more manageable size. Gone, for now at least, are the two-night debates of June and July, since everyone can fit on one stage, one night, for next month's debate in Houston. The only real suspense came in the form of billionaire Tom Steyer, who fell one poll short of qualifying even after spending nearly $12 million on advertising to boost his campaign.
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Environmental Protection Agency
From November 4: EPA’s proposed Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) includes a suite of actions to reduce lead exposure in drinking water where it is needed the most. The proposed rule will identify the most at-risk communities and ensure systems have plans in place to rapidly respond by taking actions to reduce elevated levels of lead in drinking water.
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Buzzfeed News
From July 22: During his 2013 State of the Union address, the first of his second term, then-president Barack Obama proposed something shocking. “Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour,” he said. “We should be able to get that done.” Around the same time, former senator Tom Harkin of Iowa went even further and proposed raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. But progressives wanted more.
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The Hill
From September 30: Republican senators scrambling to protect President Trump from a formal impeachment inquiry are attacking the credibility of the whistleblower who filed a complaint. GOP lawmakers are asserting the whistleblower did not have firsthand knowledge of the actions detailed in the complaint and question whether the person had a political agenda.
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Bloomberg
From July 29: Capital gains taxes are the price of making a good investment. They’re levied on profitable stock trades and real estate deals but also can apply to sales of businesses, pieces of art, collectible cars, gold and other assets. President Donald Trump’s administration is looking at ways to reduce capital gains tax bills for investors, while Democrats seeking to challenge him in 2020 have put a tax increase on the table.
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The Hill
From July 29: The race for the Democratic presidential nomination enters a new phase, with candidates desperate to make an impact in a second round of debates. The debates, which take place in Detroit, offer a last chance for some candidates to break out of the lower tiers in the field. Among the top candidates, the verbal punches will fly thick and fast as the big names vie for an advantage at the last big event before the campaign quietens down for much of August.
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The Wall Street Journal
From November 11: The U.S. collected a record $7 billion in import tariffs in September, fresh figures show, as new duties kicked in on apparel, tools, electronics and other consumer goods from China. Tariff revenue jumped 9% from August and was up more than 59% from August 2018. The revenue is a bounty for the U.S. Treasury, but is an increasing burden on the American businesses that import Chinese products — and their customers.
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The Hill
From October 7: Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, recently released a sweeping labor proposal that aims to bolster worker protections and make it easier for unions to assert their rights. Warren's plan calls for a variety of policies that would build on the progressive lawmaker's work in the Senate. The release of the 14-page plan comes a day before her scheduled participation in a Service Employees International Union forum with other 2020 presidential candidates.
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Bloomberg
From October 14: The hottest topic in global financial markets is whether the world economy is heading for recession, but defining such a slump is easier said than done. The marker for most developed economies is two successive quarters of contracting gross domestic product. In the U.S., it’s the lagging decision of a panel of academics formed by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Washington Examiner
From December 12: President Trump said he had directed the Environmental Protection Agency to consider loosening water efficiency standards for toilets and other bathroom appliances.
"We have a situation where we're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms," Trump said Friday.
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