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The Week In News, In Verse

It's been a whirlwind week in Washington, D.C., with news about Syria, the Russia investigation and Scott Pruitt's spending at the EPA. NPR's Scott Simon sums it all up, with a poem.
From top row left to right: Rob Rosenstein, Stormy Daniels, Scott Pruitt. Bottom row left to right: John Bolton, Mark Zuckerberg and President Donald Trump.

How do you keep up on all the news?

I think many Americans ask that of each other these days. There's BREAKING NEWS every few minutes that seems to leave all previous BREAKING NEWS stories behind.

News of a in Syria is soon superseded by news of a of a long-time Trump attorney who may have figured into other stories that have been BREAKING NEWS.

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