A new report by the Washington Post has revealed that Hillary Clinton paid in part for a scandalous dossier on President Donald Trump’s alleged campaign ties to Russia. In 2016 a lawyer working for the Clinton campaign paid for said services from a Washington company, Fusion GPS. Fusion’s investigations had until that point been primarily funded by a rival Republican who as yet remains anonymous.

Not to be outdone by his former rival, President Trump faced major opposition in Congress on Wednesday as another senator called it quits while railing against him. Senator Jeff Flake delivered a 17-minute speech warning of a “reckless presidency”. Announcing his resignation, Flake stated that he “will not be complicit or silent”.

China’s Communist Party is set to reveal a new ruling council. President Xi Jinping will naturally remain chief for another five-year term. Jinping has had his named engraved in the country’s Constitution, the only such leader to have the honour aside from Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Jinping, in other words, isn’t going anywhere. Just 10 women have been elected to the Central Committee, out of 204.

A major donor company to the Trump campaign has received a $300-million contract to restore power in Puerto Rico. Whitefish Energy Holdings, a tiny Montana company, won the contract and promptly drew defensive statements from Puerto Rico and Whitefish itself, with the latter effectively the only company that actually met the contract’s requirements.

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