| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, January 30MIDWEST BLASTED BY ARCTIC FREEZE A blast of Arctic air powered by the polar vortex brought dangerous temperatures to a wide swath of the United States, from the Dakotas through Maine. The Midwest was hit hardest, with temperatures plunging below zero. By nightfall, the mercury was hovering at 0 in Chicago, 7 in Detroit and minus 21 in Minneapolis. [Reuters] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]LATINOS TARGETED BY GOP VOTER FRAUD PROBE A Republican-led effort to investigate the validity of nearly 100,000 voter registrations in Texas will likely hit Latinos hardest. And that’s precisely the point, says Domingo García, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens. [HuffPost]KAMALA HARRIS UNDERSTANDS WHAT ‘MEDICARE FOR ALL’ ACTUALLY MEANS Two big questions for Democrats who support “Medicare for All” are whether they understand how such a system would actually work ― and whether they really support what is arguably its most sweeping and controversial feature. When it comes to Kamala Harris, the answer to both questions appears to be yes. [HuffPost]STEVE KING STILL PUSHING BIGOTED SITE Weeks after claiming to denounce racism and bigotry, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is still using his official government website to direct constituents to a white nationalist blog that regularly publishes the work of vile racists, anti-Semites, and Nazi sympathizers. [HuffPost]TRUMP HAD SECRET PUTIN SIT-DOWN AT G20 Trump sat down with Vladimir Putin for several minutes of conversation at the end of an evening event at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November, with no translator or note-taker from the U.S. side to record the dialogue. [Vox]ANIMAL CRUELTY COULD BECOME FEDERAL OFFENSE Lawmakers are trying to strengthen animal cruelty laws by making some of the most extreme acts a federal offense. The measure targets people who intentionally crush, burn, drown, suffocate, impale or sexually exploit animals or otherwise subject them to serious bodily harm. [HuffPost] MOTHER DIES FALLING IN NYC SUBWAY A 22-year-old mother died Monday after she fell down the stairs at a New York City subway station while carrying a stroller with her baby in it. [HuffPost]ANTI-VAXXERS SPARK STATE OF EMERGENCY A growing measles outbreak in Washington state led the governor to declare a state of emergency on Friday. Now, 35 cases have been confirmed — and anti-vax parents are likely to blame. [HuffPost]ABRAMS TO DELIVER SOTU REBUTTAL Former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams will deliver the Democratic Party’s response to the State of the Union address. [HuffPost]ADDITIONAL CHARGES FOR SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING SUSPECT A federal grand jury has pinned 19 additional charges on Robert Bowers, the man accused of murdering 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in October. [HuffPost]NATIONAL SECURITY CHIEFS: TRUMP IS WRONG Trump has declared that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, touted the defeat of ISIS, mocked the effects of climate change and railed against the Iran nuclear deal as "defective at its core." But senior intelligence officials in Trump’s administration said that many of the president's claims related to national security are false. [CNN]TRUMP LIES ABOUT OBAMA TO WHITE HOUSE VISITORS Trump enjoys giving impromptu talks to White House visitors — and on one occasion falsely claimed that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, watched sports from the private dining room off the Oval Office. “He just sat in here and watched basketball all day,” Trump said. [HuffPost]
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