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Puerto Rico declares bankruptcy. $123 billion in debt compared to Detroit's $18 billion. $74 billion in bond debt and $49 billion in pension debt. First territory to declare bankruptcy and largest government bankruptcy in history of U.S.

Rand Paul: "Budget deal should be renamed Status Quo Protection Act."

FBI Director James Comey calls Wikileaks intelligence porn...echoes CIA Director Mike Pompeo's attacks on Julian Assange.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduces Federal cannabis decriminalization bill.

Trump flip flops on five core issues in one week:

1. Chinese currency manipulation.

2. Fed bubble finance and not reappointing Yellen. 3.Export-Import Bank subsidies to Boeing and GE.

4. NATO’s obsolescence.

5. Intervening on both sides of Syrian and Afghanistan civil wars.

Bill O'Reilly finally fired.

Assemblyman Miguel Santiago of LA's Assembly bill to raise standard of proof in cops lying cases

from "more likely than not" to "clear and convincing".

Marc Koller was a Bernie supporter, fan of the progressive agenda who is going to run for US Congress in 2018 as a Oregon Progressive Party candidate. We look at why he is running and what the issues are. "We need candidates who are not indebted to the corporate interests."

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presents Don Fraser and his lecture 'Jefferson, Hamilton, and the Birth of Party Politics in America.' Part 2 of 2.

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presents Don Fraser and his lecture 'Jefferson, Hamilton, and the Birth of Party Politics in America.' Part 1 of 2.

Richard Fields, Phillip Larrea, John Cameron

Susan Rice allegedly "unmasked" Trump mentions in intelligence surveillance records.

The Gorsuch nomination and the Democratic filibuster.

Real border wall losers - ranchers, homeowners and taxpayers through exercise of eminent domain.

DHS Secretary John Kelly says airport searches of cell phones will continue.

Yale School of Medicine Professor Gordon Shepard says drinking wine gives brain a workout, engaging brain more than music or solving math equations. But you must swallow.