5 Stories In The News That Got Totally Lost In This Weeks Memo Frenzy

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All week, cable news outlets churned out anxious, wall-to-wall coverage of the Nunes memo, fretting over a number of questions: What does it contain? Will President Donald Trump block it? Will it impact the Russia investigation? Why doesn’t the intelligence community want it out? Will there be fallout? What if this is all a massive letdown?

Hosts paused their tortured inquiries on scant few occasions ― mainly to acknowledge Trump’s first State of the Union and that a train full of Republicans hit a truck. And yet, after a full week of memo-related chyrons, the thing itself was kind of a snooze.

You’d be forgiven for missing some other important stories in the news this week. Here are five that might have flown under the radar:

1. The Senate voted down a new abortion regulation.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5-stories-in-the-news-that-got-totally-lost-in-this-weeks-memo-frenzy_us_5a75cf90e4b01ce33eb3277b?

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1. Good article - but they left out: Trump is still flouting the law and the will of the vast majority

of Americans by not imposing sanctions on Russia.