| No Images? Click here  Friday, February 1BOOKER ANNOUNCES 2020 RUN Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is running for president. The junior senator from New Jersey announced his bid in a video on Twitter this morning, joining what’s likely to be a crowded Democratic primary. “Together, we will channel our common pain back into our common purpose. Together, America, we will rise,” he said. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]TRUMP: WALL GETTING DONE WITHOUT CONGRESS President Donald Trump said he would go forward with plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border unilaterally after growing frustrated with Congress. Speaking to The New York Times, he said: “I’ll continue to build the wall, and we’ll get the wall finished.” [HuffPost]HUGE FENTANYL SEIZURE AT BORDER Border agents in Arizona made the largest seizure of fentanyl in the agency’s history, officials said. More than 250 pounds of the deadly drug in pill form worth $3.5 million was found hidden in the floor compartment of a driver’s truck at a border checkpoint. [HuffPost]TRUMP SAYS LIVE TESTIMONY OF INTEL CHIEFS ‘MISQUOTED’ Trump claimed his top intelligence officials told him their Senate testimony was “totally misquoted” — even though it aired live on TV. [HuffPost]AT LEAST 21 DEAD IN RECORD-BREAKING FREEZE Tens of millions of Americans are braving Arctic-like temperatures as low as minus 56 degrees that paralyzed the U.S. Midwest on Thursday and were blamed for at least 21 deaths. [Reuters]GOP MOVES TO UNDO MEDICAID EXPANSION VOTE On Election Day, a majority of Utah voters approved a ballot initiative to expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 150,000 low-income adults. Now the Republican-led state legislature is trying to undo it. [HuffPost] DEMS PLAN TRUMP TAX RETURNS HEARING The secrecy of Trump’s tax returns will be the subject of a hearing next week, Democrats in the House of Representatives announced. [HuffPost]GABBARD TOOK DONATIONS FROM ARMS MANUFACTURER Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is pitching herself as Democrats’ top anti-war voice in her bid for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. But as a member of Congress, she accepted donations of more than $100,000 from the country’s biggest producers of bombs, planes and weapons systems. [HuffPost]TEXAS OUTS HUNDREDS OF CATHOLIC ABUSERS Catholic leaders in Texas identified 286 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children, one of the largest collections of names to be released since the grand jury report in Pennsylvania last year. [AP]SCOTT NOT BUDGING ON FARR NOMINATION Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who last year defied his party to derail a federal judgeship for Thomas Farr, is resisting pressure from fellow conservatives to change his mind. [HuffPost]DEMS WANT KUSHNER'S CLEARANCE REVOKED Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Donald Beyer (D-Va.) have written a letter calling on acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to revoke Jared Kushner’s security clearance. [HuffPost]BROCKOVICH ‘SOUNDS ALARM’ OVER TRUMP Environmental and consumer activist Erin Brockovich said it was time to “sound the alarm” as the Trump administration considers halting regulation of two toxic chemicals that are contaminating the tap water of millions of Americans. [HuffPost]
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