The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Maria Butina would get drunk and brag about her ties to Russian intelligence, former classmates say
   
• Trump is lying more, and he knows exactly what he’s doing
   
• Ex-FEMA personnel chief accused of harassing women, hiring frat buddies and randos he met in bars 
   
• The post-Janus fight that could reshape Oregon 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• “This is not how I gave them my son”: 46 days in immigration detention leave lasting toll
   
• Will Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bring socialism to the Democratic Party?
   
• Trump nominee was the architect of a legal strategy that could bankrupt unions post-Janus. 
   
• Indictments reveal deep Russian infiltrationinto U.S. election infrastructure. 
   
• The cockfighting raid that up-ended a small town
   

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The tunnel that could break New York 
   
• Kids struggle to survive on their own after ICE takes their parents.
   
• The Army is turfing immigrants serving honorably on their path to citizenship.  
   
• Driver’s license suspensions are modern-day debtor’s prison.
   
• CalOSHA opens a third probe of Tesla’s car factory. 

Sidney’s Picks: 

• Video shows immigrant kids arriving at NYC foster facility without parents.
   
• Immigrant children forcibly drugged in detention, lawsuit alleges.
   
• “Es un avion!” A 3-year-old takes the stand in immigration court.
   
• Tech workers push back against their employers’ collaboration with ICE. 
   
• Wilbur Ross, Vladimir Putin, and the Bank of Cypress