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Status of Puerto Rico infrastructure - it's been 226 days and the island is still 5% without power.

Monday 5/7

NSA drastically increased the number of American calls and texts that it is monitoring over the last year (source).
Giuliani speculates that Cohen may have made other pay-offs on DJT's behalf, also $130,000 is chump change, also DJT repaid Cohen for "other stuff" as well - no mention of why a supposed billionaire needs a loan from his lawyer (source).
Sessions vows to break up immigrant families separating children from their parents (source).
DJT hired an Israeli spy firm to try and dig up dirt on Obama's negotiators of Iran deal (source).
Pro-torture, CIA nominee Gina Haspel tried to quit, but DJT nominated her anyway (source).
2nd Fleet brought back into service to cover North Atlantic (source).
DJT pisses off France (source).
Justice Dept. increasing enforcement of existing gun laws (source).
New Fish & Wildlife Service guideline prohibits employees from telling developers when they need an Endangered Species incidental take permit (source).

Tuesday 5/8

DJT withdraws from Iran deal and plans to resume sanctions. To quote Reuters "raising the risk of conflict in the Middle East, upsetting European allies and casting uncertainty over global oil supplies" which about sums it up. Iran to potentially keep deal with remaining signatories (source, on EU keeping deal).
Senate Intelligence Committee releases report documenting Russian attacks on election computer systems in 20 states, does not believe the attacks were successful in actually changing any vote tallies (source).
Cohen received $500,000 from Russians (source 1, source 2).
OPM proposes cuts to Federal workers retirement benefits (source).
White House proposes eliminating Children's Health Insurance Program contingency fund (source).
The above is part of a group of proposed budget cuts that totally up to 1% of what the GOP tax cut cost (source).
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed asks that he be allowed to share information about CIA nominee Gina Haspel (source).
A look at the payments to and from Cohen made public so far (source).

Wednesday 5/9

DJT threatens to pull press credentials of anyone that writes negative news about him or his administration (source).
North Korea releases American prisoners (source).
Haspel refuses to condemn torture (source).
Congress moves forward with banking deregulation plans (source).
NASA cancels Carbon Monitoring System that tracks greenhouse gases (source).
Review of immigrants status under the Temporary Protected Status program (source).
Russian-linked company that paid Cohen also behind a bunch of alt-right websites (source).

Thursday 5/10

Net Neutrality officially ends June 11th (source).
Lawsuit against warrantless border searches of phones and laptops moves forward (source).
U.S. resumes sanctions against Iran (source).
U.S. - North Korea summit set for June 12 (source).
Israel and Iran begin fighting each other in Syria (source).
DeVos to allow religious schools to receive Federal funding (source).
Bolton disbands Global Health Security team (source).
Bolton pushing to eliminate White House cybersecurity position (source).
White House official derides McCain's opinions "because he's dying anyway" - keeping it classy (source)
DJT drops plan for Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices (source).