POLITICS: Recently, it was revealed that the Justice Dept is prepping to announce the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as early as next week. You read that right. Quick refresher: for years, the Russia investigation has been all anyone can talk about. Part of the country thinks Prez Trump and his team colluded with Russia...and part of the country strongly disagrees. Now, it looks like Americans will finally get the answers they’ve been looking for. Breath, bated. In other news, Oakland teachers are feeling trendy. Today, they’re expected to go on strike for a 12% increase in pay over the next few years. Stay tuned.
USA: Everyone is talking about Jussie Smollett. He’s the ‘Empire’ actor - who’s both African American and gay - who alleged he was attacked by two men yelling “racial and homophobic slurs” at him a few weeks ago. Police opened up an investigation...and started pointing fingers at Smollett for apparently staging the attack. Now, Smollett’s officially a suspect and faces a felony charge for allegedly filing a false police report. Meanwhile, it was just discovered that a Coast Guard officer arrested last week was planning on conducting a mass killing. The self-described white supremacist reportedly had 15 guns - along with a hit list including Democratic politicians and journalists from CNN and MSNBC. Not a typo.
WORLD: Yesterday, it was revealed that the White House was planning on creating a committee to look into whether climate change is a national security threat. It’d potentially be led by a guy who said “demonization” of carbon dioxide is like the treatment of Jews under Adolf Hitler. Raising concerns about whether the committee would be biased. This comes after US intel chiefs listed climate change as a threat to the US. Speaking of which, at least 78 people were killed after a historic district of Bangladesh was hit with a massive fire. Not yet clear what started the fire.
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