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August 17 - 21, 2020
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Steve Bannon Charged With Fraud: The former advisor and campaign manager to President Trump has been charged with fraud for a fundraising scheme that collected over $25M for the "We Build the Wall" campaign. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed that Mr. Bannon, who had control of $1M of the fundraised money, used hundreds of thousands of dollars for personal expenses. The campaign pledged to use all of the funds raised to pay for President Trump's proposed border wall. Mr. Bannon has pleaded not guilty. (official DOJ statement)

Aleksei Navalny, the most prominent political and social critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, remains in a coma in a Russian hospital after falling ill on a flight from Siberia on Thursday. His advisors claim he was poisoned by pro-Kremlin forces in the cup of tea he drank i…