The Daily Populous

Monday September 30th, 2019 day edition

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wrote Trump, who added without providing evidence, “I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason.”.

Schiff did not say whether he plans to subpoena that information.

The intelligence committee has reached an agreement with the whistleblower to appear before the panel, Schiff told ABC’s “This Week.”

Trump has defended his phone call with Zelenskiy and called the whistleblower a “political hack.”.

“I have zero problems with this phone call,” Senator Lindsey Graham told the CBS program “Face the Nation.”.

Lawmakers are working out logistics to protect the whistleblower’s identity and get security clearance for lawyers who represent the whistleblower.

A person close to the whistleblower said on Sunday many issues remained to be worked out. »

Mississippi police officers fatally shot a man in a wrong-door raid. The city says he had no constitutional rights because he was an undocumented immigrant.

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The city of Southaven, Mississippi, argued in a legal brief that a man who was fatally shot by police in 2017 had no constitutional protections because he was an undocumented immigrant.

Ismael Lopez was killed in 2017 after Southaven officers arrived at the wrong door to execute a warrant.

Two years ago, police officers arrived at a Mississippi home in the middle of the night to execute a warrant. »

New psychology research links conservative music, but not rebellious music, to maladaptive personality traits

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But the study did uncover some modest links between certain entertainment media preferences and problematic tendencies such as negative emotionality and psychoticism.

The researchers caution, however, that maladaptive traits and entertainment interests are not linked strongly enough to diagnose people based simply on the music and movies they like.

Conservative music such as country and gospel, along with faith-based movie genres, “were linked to traits that capture neurotic, hostile, and eccentric tendencies,” Blagov said. »

Trump demands to meet whistleblower, warns of 'Big Consequences'

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Then Schiff made up what I actually said by lying to Congress," Trump said in a series of tweets.

The impeachment inquiry marks a significant turning point in the Trump era, with the vast majority of House Democrats now backing the proceedings.

Even if the lower chamber does decide to impeach Trump, the GOP-controlled Senate is likely not to convict Trump of any wrongdoing. »

We Reported on a Nonprofit Hospital System That Sues Poor Patients. It Just Freed Thousands From Debt. — ProPublica

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A court administrator estimated a backlog of about 4,500 Methodist notices waiting to be entered into the court’s system.

From July 30 through Tuesday, the court had logged more than 2,300 notices submitted by the hospital system that wiped away patients’ debts.

Barrett said she received a call nearly two weeks ago from an administrator who said the hospital had reviewed her records. »