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The House Oversight Committee is investigating allegations that a foreign government and a trade association booked large blocks of rooms at President Trump’s hotels without actually using them. “We’re looking at near raw bribery,” said committee member Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.). “It’s an obvious attempt to curry favor with him.”
Politico.com

Seventy percent of the 132,823 guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico from 2009 to 2018 originated in the U.S. Most of those firearms were purchased legally at gun shows or stores by “straw purchasers” who passed them on to cartels or middlemen. The entire country of Mexico has only one legal gun store.
Los Angeles Times

The average nine-inning Major League Baseball game lasted a record 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 35 seconds this season despite efforts to make games shorter. In 2005, the average game lasted 2 hours and 46 minutes.
Los Angeles Times

Nearly 1,700 Roman Catholic priests and other clergy members the church considers to have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living without supervision by religious authorities or law enforcement. More than 160 still work or volunteer in churches; about 190 have professional licenses to work in fields like education, medicine, and counseling where they have access to children.
Associated Press