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Tuesday, December 10

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COUNTDOWN: ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT LOOM House Democrats are expected to unveil two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning ― one focused on abuse of power and another related to obstruction of Congress. [HuffPost]

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WATCHDOG: NO ANTI-TRUMP FBI PLOT There’s no documentary evidence that the FBI’s decision to open an investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia in 2016 was influenced by political bias, according to a Justice Department inspector general report. But the report says FBI attorneys didn't properly vet applications to monitor the communications of former campaign official Carter Page. [HuffPost]

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14 FEARED DEAD AFTER VOLCANO ERUPTION  Search and rescue operations have found no one alive after a volcano erupted on New Zealand's White Island on Monday afternoon. Six people have been confirmed dead, and eight others are missing. Authorities say they don't believe anyone survived. [HuffPost]

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ACCUSED PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHOOTER INDICTED A federal grand jury has returned a 68-count indictment against Robert Dear, the man accused of shooting and killing three people and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2015. [HuffPost]

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THE VOLCKER REIGN Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who died Sunday at the age of 92, served three presidents in the Treasury Department, and oversaw an international commission to compensate Jewish families fleeced by Swiss banks during and after the Holocaust. Under “the Volcker Rule,” banks were barred from trading securities for their own profit. HuffPost's Zach Carter explores his complicated legacy. [HuffPost]

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PETE FRATES, ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE FOUNDER, DIES Pete Frates, who spearheaded the viral ice bucket challenge to support those facing Lou Gehrig’s disease, died after his own yearslong battle with the illness on Monday. He was 34. [HuffPost]

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NORTH KOREA CALLS TRUMP 'ERRATIC' OLD MAN North Korea insulted Trump again, calling him a “heedless and erratic old man” after he tweeted that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wouldn’t want to abandon a special relationship between the two leaders and affect the American presidential election by resuming hostile acts. [AP]

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IVANKA WAS FRIENDS WITH MAN BEHIND TRUMP DOSSIER  Ivanka Trump was once friendly with Christopher Steele, the former British spy behind the dossier full of reports alleging ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign. [HuffPost]

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INDIA PROTESTS ERUPT OVER CITIZENSHIP BILL Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered a controversial bill in parliament that would give citizenship to non-Muslim minorities from three neighboring countries. [Reuters]

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PENSACOLA SHOOTER SENT ANTI-U.S. TWEETS The Saudi gunman who killed three people at the Pensacola naval base had apparently gone on Twitter shortly before the shooting to blast U.S. support of Israel and accuse America of being anti-Muslim, a U.S. official said. The FBI confirmed it is operating on the assumption the attack was an act of terrorism. [AP]

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IS MARK RUFFALO A GOOD ACTIVIST? Over the years, Mark Ruffalo has traveled the country denouncing oil pipelines and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. Last month, he testified in Congress on the need for regulation of toxic polyfluoroalkyl substances known as PFAS. But Water Defense, the nonprofit Ruffalo founded in 2010, has quietly folded without explanation. [HuffPost]

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INVESTIGATING UNSOLVED U.S. MURDERS CHANGED MY LIFE I did not come to rural Oklahoma to find the remains of 16-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible. I did not come to find out who shot Ashley’s parents before setting fire to their home back in 1999 (that arrest last year had nothing to do with me). I came because I was haunted by a case. [HuffPost]

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