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Monday, July 22, 2019

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., addresses the NAACP convention, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Deal sealed on federal budget, ensuring no shutdown, default

President Donald Trump and congressional leaders announced late Monday they had struck a critical debt and budget agreement. The deal amounts to an against-the-odds victory for Washington pragmatists seeking to avoid politically dangerous tumult over the possibility of a government shutdown or first-ever federal default.
In a late-morning tweet, President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on freshman lawmakers known as ‘the Squad.”

Trump accuses four minority congresswomen of being 'very Racist' and 'not very smart'

In a late-morning tweet, the president escalated his attacks on freshman lawmakers known as 'the Squad."
Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission and others over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people. The proposed settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, if approved by the federal district court Northern District of Georgia, will provide up to $425 million in monetary relief to consumers, a $100 million civil money penalty, and other relief.

Equifax to pay up to $700 million to settle government investigations into 2017 security breach

A series of state and federal investigations show a massive 2017 data breach left more than 147 million Americans' names, Social Security numbers, credit-card details and other sensitive information exposed.
Thousands of Puerto Ricans gather Monday for what many are expecting to be one of the biggest protests ever seen in the U.S. territory, with irate islanders pledging to drive Gov. Ricardo Rossello from office, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island’s finance.

Thousands take to the streets in Puerto Rico to demand governor's resignation

Embattled Puerto Rican leader Ricardo Rosselló has refused to resign after more than a week of growing protests.
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, Amy McGrath speaks to supporters in Richmond, Ky. Democratic candidates in some key states in the 2020 race aren’t going along as some in the party’s presidential field takes a liberal turn. Among the latest discordant voice is Amy McGrath of Kentucky, a Marine running against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston, File)
In key Senate races, Democrats buck leftward tilt on issues
Democratic candidates in some key Senate races in 2020 aren't going along as some candidates in the party's presidential field take a liberal turn
Volvo said its own “investigations have identified that in very rare cases the plastic engine intake manifold may melt and deform.”
Volvo Cars recalls 507,000 vehicles as probe finds fire risk
Volvo said its own "investigations have identified that in very rare cases the plastic engine intake manifold may melt and deform."
India moon mission set to launch a week after it was aborted
India is ready to launch a rocket to the far side of the moon a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem
A hospital said a woman's heart surgery went well. Then she bled to death, lawsuit claims.
The family of Donnamay Brockbank has sued the hospital and the doctors overseeing the botched surgery on multiple claims of negligence.
Israeli forces destroy a building in a Palestinian village of Sur Baher, east Jerusalem, Monday, July 22, 2019. Israeli work crews have begun demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes in an east Jerusalem neighborhood. Monday's demolitions cap a years-long legal battle over the buildings, which straddle the city and the occupied West Bank. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli crews demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem
Israeli work crews begin demolitions of dozens of Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, center, reacts with his team as they look at the election results at his party's headquarters after a parliamentary election in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, July 21, 2019. Zelenskiy's party took the largest share of votes in the country's snap parliamentary election, an exit poll showed Sunday. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian leader's party heading for parliamentary majority
Ukrainian president's party is heading for an absolute majority in parliament after a snap election, which would hand Volodymyr Zelenskiy a much-anticipated mandate for change
Police use tear gas at a group of young men who were trying to block the first LGBT pride parade in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok, Poland, on Saturday, July 20, 2019. (AP Photo)
Poland's politicians condemn aggression against LGBT march
Poland's politicians are condemning violence against the first LGBT rights parade through an eastern city
In this June 10, 2019 photo, Salvadoran teen migrant Milagro de Jesus Henriquez Ayala carries her newborn son Alexander, as she boards Rev. Albert Rivera's car, outside the Tijuana General Hospital in Mexico. Rev. Rivera organized a protest and got human rights officials involved when the hospital initially denied her father access to her after she gave birth. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)
Teen mom, newborn eye new life from Tijuana migrant shelter
Newborn of 16-year-old Salvadoran girl starts life at migrant shelter in Tijuana; teen mom says crowded facility better than life she left behind in violence-plagued El Salvador
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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