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A leadership dispute at the CFPB, the deadly attack in Egypt, the legacy of John Wayne, and more
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Regulatory Controversy: Two would-be acting directors showed up for work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday morning. The agency’s deputy director, Leandra English, has filed a lawsuit arguing that President Trump does not have the right to install Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, in the post. Meanwhile, as the Justice Department attempts to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, Trump’s continued Twitter attacks on the news network are casting the government’s motives in a sinister light.

last Friday in an attack on a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, where worshippers were targeted by a bomb during prayers and then shooters attacked the of attempting to demonstrate its strength with extreme violence against those it deems heretical, including Sufi Muslims, with whom the mosque is affiliated. However, Sufism is not so heterodox as its detractors—and many of its Western admirers—assume, and the aftermath of the attack has about Sufi beliefs.

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