Sunday, July 1, 2018

Evening Edition: Emails reveal close ties between top EPA officials and those they regulate

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Emails reveal close ties between top EPA officials and those they regulate
Littered among tens of thousands of emails that have surfaced in recent weeks are dozens of requests for regulatory relief by industry players. Many have been granted. On some occasions, agency officials pushed back on the idea that they would automatically grant industry requests.
GOP Sen. Susan Collins says she won't support Supreme Court pick who shows 'hostility to Roe v. Wade'
The lawmaker from Maine is a key swing vote on the next justice, and she said the court has established abortion as a constitutional right. Collins has met with President Trump to discuss potential nominees to succeed Anthony Kennedy and said she urged Trump to expand the list.
 
Trump says he won't sign NAFTA deal until after midterms even as Canada starts tariffs on U.S. products
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, the president seemed to indicate there won't be an end soon to the trade battle brewing between the United States and its neighbors.
 
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World Cup 2018 | Live Coverage
Russia stuns Spain to advance to quarterfinals
The host country was the lowest-ranked team in the field of 32. It defeated the powerhouse Spaniards, 4-3 in penalty kicks, after regulation and 30 minutes of added time ended in a 1-1 draw.
 
After ICE raid, a 12-year-old U.S. citizen is living without parents
Even as President Trump and his administration promise to reunite families separated at the U.S. border, a similar crisis continues unabated within the country's interior, where children are separated from their undocumented parents with little scrutiny and increasing frequency.
 
John Bolton: No one should have 'a case of the vapors' over U.S.-Russia summit
The national security adviser defended President Trump's decision to meet with Vladimir Putin as a way to get beyond the "political noise" that has consumed Washington over the investigation into Russian election interference.
 
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Roseanne Barr wants to apologize to Valerie Jarrett but doesn't have 'the right words'
The comedian has been in damage-control mode ever since ABC canceled her show after she sent out a tweet comparing Barack Obama's former presidential adviser to an ape.
 
Perspective
I fell out of touch with a friend from the Capital Gazette. Now I've lost him forever.
Veteran columnist Rob Hiaasen, with whom the author was office neighbors years earlier, was one of five employees killed in a newsroom shooting last week.
 
Mexicans head to polls to choose a new president as relations with U.S. grow unusually fraught
Populist politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has had a commanding lead in polls, riding a wave of anger about government corruption and record-breaking drug war violence.
 
 
Refugees among nine 9 injured in attack at Idaho apartment complex, police say
The suspect is a 30-year-old man who was a "temporary resident at the apartment complex . . . until he was asked to leave on Friday," police said.
 
How alcohol got an iron grip on country music — and shows no signs of letting go
From classic drinking songs to singer-branded rum, alcohol has long been intertwined with the genre. And every artist — even those who don't drink — knows the power of relating to audiences through drinking, even if it's in appearance only.
 
'Star-Spangled Banner' in church Sunday? Christians debating God and country anew.
Criticisms of July 4 church events have grown louder in recent years.
 
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