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WASHINGTON—Ordinarily, Kumbar Nambiar, a young Yale grad, would be spending his Mondays off before relief pitching for the rest of the week for the Lansing Lugnuts, a Detroit Tigers minor league baseball farm club in outstate Michigan. Not on July 17, though.
WASHINGTON—Movie moguls curry favor with Congress via exclusive showings for lawmakers and staff, promoted by the Motion Picture Association of America, complete with drinks and hors d’oeuvres. But had attendees at the exclusive showing of Barbie looked out MPAA’s glass windows in D.C.
WASHINGTON—Spoiler alert! Corporate chieftains and big givers, all but one of them nameless, thanks to federal rules, are poised to spoil next year’s election and the effort to defeat the menace of Republican right-winger and fascist favorite Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON—Trump and his inner circle are not at all shy about saying he will move to assume the role of a dictator should he be elected in 2024. Back in 1973, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
DETROIT—With 340,000 Teamsters heading for a strike their UPS bosses are forcing on them, the union picked up support from the Service Employees and from two long and strong political backers of workers, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.