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• What Do You Do When Your Senior Mother Starts Boozing and Cruising?

  18-05-2018 23:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I (30's, F) live with my mother where I help to pay bills, make repairs, and do chores in addition to my own expenses. Last year we had to put my father in a nursing home. He will never get better. While she is torn with grief over this—which I and others have repeatedly told her was impossible to avoid given my father's deteriorating condition and state of mind—she also seems to be in a relationship with a man she works with. (She's asked m
  
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• Supreme Court is asked to review gas-tax exemption on Yakama reservation

  18-05-2018 23:43
  The U.S. Solicitor General has recommended the nation’s highest court consider whether Yakama tribal members are exempt from state gas taxes on the reservation.
  
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• Charges: Abuse left Auburn girl, 7, eating garbage, drinking from toilets

  18-05-2018 23:35
  After Audrey and Roderick Grey were questioned by police in January about the injuries spotted on their 8-year-old daughter at her Auburn school, they admitted that Roderick Grey, her stepfather, had beaten her with a belt about four to five times in recent days, police reports say.
  
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• Team Hurricane Explores the Harsh Realities of Being a Teen in Neon Vibrant Color

  18-05-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew Wright
  In Team Hurricane, eight teenage girls use a youth center as the launchpad for what could very well be eventual world domination. Director Annika Berg’s shot-out-of-a-cannon debut impressively delineates between the different characters without ever slowing down, while also curating an absolute riot of colors and seemingly random imagery. (Even the subtitles have a neon Otter Pop glow.) A sensitive, funny (an increasingly awkward sex-ed sequence is particularly sharp), and
  
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• California state bar investigating Avenatti’s Tully dealings, according to letter

  18-05-2018 23:26
  Michael Avenatti is known as Stormy Daniels’ attorney and an adversary to Donald Trump, but his coffee-chain business has raised concerns.
  
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• California bar investigating attorney Avenatti’s dealings involving Tully’s, letter says

  18-05-2018 23:26
  Michael Avenatti is known as Stormy Daniels’ attorney and an adversary to Donald Trump, but his coffee-chain business has raised concerns.
  
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• I Miss You When I See You Is a Story of Love, Obsession, and Secrets

  18-05-2018 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy Fennessy
  In a story that is constantly mutating, director Simon Chung mines the territory between gay and straight, love and obsession. After 10 years apart, one friend travels to Australia to catch up with the other. If Jamie has moved on with his life, Kevin had a breakdown from which he is still recovering. From out of the blue, he relocates to Hong Kong where he insinuates himself into Jamie’s life—staying at his apartment, working at his tutorial center, and hanging out
  
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• Tri-City nuclear plant shuts down unexpectedly in Washington state

  18-05-2018 22:58
  The Tri-City Herald reported the Columbia Generating Station’s systems detected a problem having to do with electrical distribution and automatically shut down the plant at 6:51 a.m. Authorities said there is no risk to the public.
  
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• What Donald Glover's "This Is America" Video Tells Us About the First Major Post-Parkland Shooting

  18-05-2018 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede From Donald Glover's "This Is America"The most complicated moment in Donald Glover's video for "This Is America" happens after he emerges from a door next to a black choir that's feeling the spirit, clapping hands, and singing "Get your money, black man, get your money, black man." At first, Glover engages with the choir, but then he loses interest and despondent. Someone tosses him an AK-47, and he quickly turns, mows down the choir, hands the weapon to a bowing boy, and walks
  
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• Mystery Solved! Here's Who's Behind the Anonymous "City Council: Make It Better" Ad Campaign

  18-05-2018 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  And here's an idea, Seattle City Council members: strengthen this city's online ad transparency laws.by Eli SandersThe Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce quietly funded this online pressure campaign amid the city's roiling homelessness and head tax debate.
  That was fast! Earlier today, I told Stranger readers about a mysterious online ad campaign aimed at influencing the debate over Seattle's homelessness crisis.
  The campaign—which involved Facebook ads, a slick web site, and ads on
  
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• Woman accused of killing wife hit with new charge for hammer attack

  18-05-2018 22:25
  The 27-year-old woman accused of killing her wife in Redmond and trying to cover up her tracks is now charged with attacking a former roommate with a hammer in Seattle.
  
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• Lawsuit accuses Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley of sexual harassment

  18-05-2018 22:22
  A former bandmate of Dave Matthews Band member Boyd Tinsley claims the violinist sexually harassed him for years. A lawsuit has been filed in King County Superior Court.
  
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• Analysis of Driver Pay Argues It's Time to Stop Talking About Uber as the Future of Work

  18-05-2018 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  How much are drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber actually making?by Heidi Groover"In our assessment, in any conference on the future of work, Uber and the gig economy deserve at most a workshop, not a plenary." nycshooter/getty
  Another new study attempts to answer a perennial question about the gig economy: How much are drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber actually making?
  In Seattle and elsewhere, policy makers have heard very different accounts from drivers about whether they're able to
  
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• The Humor, Heartache, and Haphazard Family of Road Trip Drama Suleiman Mountain

  18-05-2018 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk
  The patriarch in road-trip drama Suleiman Mountain is a moodily charming con man with a gambling problem that drives him and his dysfunctional family through the Kyrgyzstan countryside as much as the Soviet-era truck they all call home. The matriarch is a religious woman who’s a swindler by marriage, earnest by trade, and shares her husband with a younger, pregnant second wife full of resentment about his divided attention and her situation. The former is willing to do anyt
  
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• Investigators use DNA, genealogy database to ID suspect in 1987 double homicide

  18-05-2018 21:58
  William Earl Talbott II, 55, of SeaTac, was arrested as he was leaving his Seattle workplace. According to investigators, he is suspected of raping and killing a 19-year-old British Columbia woman in 1987, and detectives are working to tie him to the death of the woman's boyfriend.
  
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• A New Stowell Italian Restaurant, a New Cake Shop, and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: May 18, 2018 Edition

  18-05-2018 21:34 via thestranger.com
  Plus the end of Seattle Beer Week, a new food truck from a Chopped champion, and more delicious happenings.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, Angela and Ethan Stowell opened their biggest restaurant yet, an Italian spot called Cortina downtown. Read on to learn about that and more, like a new Taiwanese dessert shop with salted cheese tea in the International District, the new food truck from a Chopped champion and Michelin-starred chef, the grand opening of a cake shop with a cult followin
  
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• Blindspotting Is a Timely, Explosive, Poetic, and Provocative Comedy-Drama from Hamilton's Daveed Diggs

  18-05-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Carl Spence
  It took winning a Tony Award for his dual roles as the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical phenomenon Hamilton for Daveed Diggs to get his long-gestating dream project to the big screen. It was worth the wait. Blindspotting is timely, explosive, poetic, and provocative. In rapidly gentrifying Oakland, Collin (Diggs) is trying to survive his last three days of probation when the slightest infraction will send him back to jail. He is also trying to make things w
  
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• Federal officials investigating practices of Warren Buffett’s mobile-home business

  18-05-2018 21:29
  The federal government is investigating Clayton Homes, the mobile-home business in Warren Buffett’s empire that was the subject of a news investigation into its lending to low-income and minority buyers.
  
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• Dead Pigs Offers Social Commentary on Modern China, a Few Musical Numbers, and a Side of Pork

  18-05-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  by Andrew Wright
  A river full of mysteriously expired pork serves as the fulcrum for Dead Pigs, a series of loosely connected stories about getting by in modern China. Also, there’s a musical number or two. Chinese American director Cathy Yan’s debut is a daffy polyglot of a movie, quick-drawing between various moods and styles with zero hesitation. The film is very entertaining, with a wicked sense of humor—watch out for those end credits—and a downright hilarious perfor
  
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• It's a Daredevil Romance in Belgian Film, Racer and the Jailbird

  18-05-2018 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Andrew Wright ©2017, SAVAGE FILMS - STONE ANGELS
  She races cars. He pulls heists. You can’t get much more high concept than that. Flemish director Michaël Roskam (Bullhead) has never exactly been a model of restraint, but in Racer and the Jailbird he goes for broke, with a propulsive first half that culminates in a wonderfully garish act of highway robbery. More’s the bummer then that the second hour slows way down, transforming into a maudlin prison movie that largely s
  
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• Sweet Country Is a Stunning Western Set Against the Backdrop of Australia's Brutal Colonization

  18-05-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A must-see film screening this weekend at SIFF.by Charles Mudede
  Sweet Country does not fuck around. It gets right to it: the brutal colonization of Australia. Set in the 1920s in the outback of the Northern Territory, the film is about a black man, his black wife, and their black daughter, and the family’s religious instructor, a white man. It’s not paradise, but they manage to get along. One day, an alcoholic and rock-hard racist ex-soldier shows up and makes the black man work for
  
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• Let's Watch This Xenophobic Lawyer Awkwardly Run Away from Reporters

  18-05-2018 19:45 via thestranger.com
  Lolby Rich SmithWhat’s particularly troubling is that Aaron Schlossberg is an educated NYC attorney. The white lady who called the police on a black family for having a barbecue got her PhD at Stanford. Education apparently does not confer the most basic humanity. pic.twitter.com/sxSmuvOkrG
  — Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) May 16, 2018
  On Wednesday, a lawyer named Aaron Schlossberg was caught on camera at a Fresh Kitchen deli insulting workers for speaking Spanish to customers and threate
  
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• After months under wraps, Space Needle begins big reveal of remodel and all that new glass

  18-05-2018 19:31
  The temporary screen that was wrapping the Space Needle has been removed to reveal the first phase of the $100 million renovation that the Seattle icon is undergoing. The 20-foot tall screen, which was attached to a work platform suspended beneath the Needle's top house, was installed in September to provide a weatherproof environment for workers.
  
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• Washington state’s new chief for special education targets low graduation and college-going rates

  18-05-2018 19:30
  During the 10 months that Glenna Gallo has been guiding special education in Washington, one of the things that’s surprised her most is the silence. As she travels the state, holding public meetings and talking with advocates, public comment periods often pass without a single speaker. No one shares their experience, or asks a question. […]
  
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• Guest Editorial: We Need Safe Consumption Sites. Take it From Someone in the Music Industry.

  18-05-2018 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  We’ve lost too many artists, fans, and friends to overdose deaths that were preventable.by Megan JasperThe author Sarah Cass
  When I first moved to Seattle in 1989 it seemed like everyone knew someone who had experienced an overdose; it was fairly common. Over the years, I watched our music community suffer as we grieved the loss of yet another wildly talented musician or a fixture in our scene whose life ended too soon. These losses happened at such an alarming frequency and still, with ea
  
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• Seattle Art Fair Announces Its Exhibitors for the 2018 Fair

  18-05-2018 19:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleThe 2017 fair, above. The 2018 Seattle Art Fair takes place August 2-5 at CenturyLink Field Event Center.
  The 2018 Seattle Art Fair will boast a diverse roster of local, national, and international galleries representing 34 cities from 10 countries, including 23 international galleries, according to details made available to the press less than 24 hours ago.Galleries include "returning international stalwarts such as David Zwirner, Gagosian, Galerie Lelong & Co., and
  
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• Have You Seen This Facebook Ad About Seattle's Homelessness Crisis?

  18-05-2018 19:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Stranger readers, let's see if we can figure it out who's behind this ad campaign.by Eli SandersThis Facebook ad is part of an online campaign to influence Seattle residents and their elected city council members. But who's behind the ad campaign? Help us try to figure it out. Screenshot by Stranger reader
  Recently, a 58-year-old white homeowner who lives in North Seattle noticed the above ad in his Facebook feed. He's a regular voter and he resides in Seattle City Council Member Mike O'Brien's
  
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• University asks anti-illegal-immigrant group to change its O

  18-05-2018 18:19
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The University of Oregon wants the politically conservative group Oregonians for Immigration Reform to stop using a green O logo on its website. Though the logo is not identical to the one associated with the Ducks — it’s skinnier and has a fir tree in the middle — the university has […]
  
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• Nordstrom sinks as sales miss hits department-store optimism

  18-05-2018 18:00
  (Bloomberg) -- Sluggish sales at Nordstrom Inc. underscore why members of the founding family wanted to take the company private in the first place.
  With unseasonable temperatures crimping demand for apparel in the first quarter, comparable sales missed analysts’ estimates. The closely watched measure rose 0.6 percent, the department store chain said Thursday after the markets closed. Analysts were expecting an increase of 1 percent, according to Consensus Metrix.
  The results sent the shar
  
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• Podcast: A look behind the politics and policy of Seattle’s head tax

  18-05-2018 17:19
  In the latest Seattle Times politics podcast, a look at the backstory and repercussions of Seattle's new "head tax" on larger businesses.
  
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• Boy hit by motorcyclist after getting off school bus in Lake Stevens

  18-05-2018 17:17
  An elementary school student was hit by a motorcycle after getting off his school bus in Lake Stevens Thursday afternoon. It happened around 4:00 p.m. near 99th Ave. NE and 27th St. NE.
  
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• Really?! Fog thwarts reveal of Space Needle’s glass-paneled observation deck

  18-05-2018 17:15
  The public should be able to get a look at the Space Needle's most expensive renovation since it was built, a remodel that's been hidden beneath a massive tarp since last year.
  
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• Slog AM: Multiple Fatalities Reported In Texas High School Shooting, Ballard Rape Case Centered In Homelessness Debate

  18-05-2018 17:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Ukraine's stolen dolphin army, HPV and HIV aren't the same thing, SDOT is strugglingby Nathalie Graham Getty
  BREAKING NEWS: Breaking: There has reportedly been a shooting at Santa Fe High School near Houston this morning. Witnesses are telling local media a gunman entered and started firing.
  — NPR (@NPR) May 18, 2018A gunman allegedly opened fire at a Santa Fe, TX high school as classes started Friday morning. The school was put on lockdown.
  Students evacuated from high school in Sante Fe,
  
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• Texas school shooting kills 10, deadliest since Parkland

  18-05-2018 15:37
  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A 17-year-old armed with a shotgun and a pistol opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. It was the nation’s deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control. More […]
  
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• Sheriff says up to 10 killed in Texas high school shooting

  18-05-2018 15:37
  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — At least one gunman opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing eight to 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said he could not be precise about the number of deaths at Santa Fe High School, which went on lockdown around 8 […]
  
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• Gunman opens fire in Texas high school, killing 10 people

  18-05-2018 15:37
  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A gunman carrying a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. It was the nation’s deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control. More on […]
  
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• This Safeco concessions-stand worker is homeless, and he’s not the only one

  18-05-2018 15:00
  If you’ve bought a hot dog or a beer at Safeco or CenturyLink Field, the person at the stand may have been homeless.
  
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• Seattle’s transportation department struggles with rising costs, unkept promises

  18-05-2018 15:00
  SDOT says it can’t deliver on promises made by its massive 2015 construction levy, called Move Seattle. The department also is dealing with an over-budget and on-hold streetcar project.
  
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• Seattle has spent $258,752.78 so far, gets partial win in 1 Sawant suit

  18-05-2018 15:00
  The city notches partial victory in its defense of two defamation lawsuits against City Councilmember Kshama Sawant. A judge threw out a portion of the lawsuit by landlord Carl Haglund. Outside counsel costs so far in that defense? $258,752.78.
  
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• Remembering Chris Cornell: The quiet cook at Ray’s Boathouse who became a rock god

  18-05-2018 15:00
  On the anniversary of Chris Cornell's death, his former co-workers at Ray's Boathouse remember those formative years together during the Seattle institution's heyday.
  
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• Here we go again: I-5 lane closures will snarl traffic all weekend

  18-05-2018 15:00
  Drivers will face stop-and-go conditions for maybe 12 miles entering Seattle this weekend, as crews repair two lanes of the 53-year-old Interstate 5.
  
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• Here we go again: I-5, Highway 2 lane closures will snarl traffic all weekend

  18-05-2018 15:00
  Drivers will face stop-and-go conditions for maybe 12 miles entering Seattle this weekend, as crews repair two lanes of the 53-year-old Interstate 5.
  
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• Astronaut Scott Kelly completed 5,440 orbits around Earth — now he’s coming to Seattle

  18-05-2018 15:00
  "Space is our future," says astronaut Scott Kelly. And he would know; he spent 340 consecutive days at the International Space Station in 2015 and 2016. His book, "Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery," which will bring him to Seattle's McCaw Hall May 23.
  
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• ‘Epic takedown’: Bill Gates draws laughs at Trump’s expense

  18-05-2018 12:02
  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recounted stories from past meetings with President Donald Trump, according to footage aired on MSNBC.
  
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• Bill Gates draws laughs at Trump’s expense, says president confused HIV with HPV

  18-05-2018 12:02
  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recounted stories from past meetings with President Donald Trump, according to footage aired on MSNBC.
  
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• Light coats of gritty ash fall near erupting Hawaii volcano

  18-05-2018 08:08
  VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — Authorities handed out ash around 2,000 masks for protection as people living near Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano braced for pulverized rock, glass and crystal to rain down on them after an explosive eruption at the peak’s summit. Lindsey Magnani, her fiance Elroy Rodrigues and their two children picked up masks for their […]
  
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• ‘It smelled like sulfur:’ Ash falls near Hawaii volcano

  18-05-2018 08:08
  VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii residents covered their faces with masks after a volcano menacing the Big Island for weeks exploded, sending a mixture of pulverized rock, glass and crystal into the air in its strongest eruption of sandlike ash in days. Today marks 38th anniversary of Mount St. Helens eruption Photos from the archive: […]
  
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• Ballard celebrates Norway’s Constitution Day

  18-05-2018 06:46
  Syttende Mai, a celebration of Norway’s Constitution Day, in Ballard is the largest of its kind outside Norway, and it draws hundreds of people. Spectators watch as marching bands, drill teams, classic cars, Vikings, funky floats and Scandinavian flair march down the streets and end their day of activities. The 17th of May celebration has […]
  
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• Trump to deny funds to clinics that refer for abortion

  18-05-2018 06:22
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will resurrect a Reagan-era rule banning federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, or sharing space with abortion providers. The Department of Health and Human Services will announce its proposal Friday, a senior White House official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of the […]
  
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• Trump thrusts abortion fight into crucial midterm elections

  18-05-2018 06:22
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration acted Friday to bar taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, energizing its conservative political base ahead of crucial midterm elections while setting the stage for new legal battles. The Health and Human Services Department sent its proposal to rewrite the rules to the White House, setting […]
  
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