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•Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will not approve roughly $100 billion in additional budget cuts for the coming fiscal year demanded by the House Freedom Caucus. 

•Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas filed his annual disclosure form and detailed three recent luxury trips paid for by conservative billionaire donors.

•“Is This All There Is?”; pundit-at-large Stephen Macaulay comments on Republican candidates, except ex-President Trump, at the first GOP presidential debate last month.

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•Biden visits India for the Group of 20 economic summit. Russia and China are not attending. 

•Trump administration trade advisor Peter Navarro has been found guilty in federal court on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress.

•Hunter Biden faces a federal indictment before the end of the month.

•Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s makes an unannounced visit to Ukraine.

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