“Some people have figured out, you know, it would be a lot cheaper to spend a few hundred mil just buying the presidency instead of paying that 2% wealth tax,” the 2020 candidate said in the new ad. Source

A 1930s law exempts hourly movie house employees from protections given to other low-wage workers. Source

During the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing on Wednesday, constitutional law scholar Pamela Karlan criticized President Trump’s phrasing during his July 25 call with the Ukrainian president. Karlan said that when Mr. Trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky to “do us a favor, though,” he was using the “royal we.” “Only kings say ‘us’ when they mean ‘me,'” she said. Source

A small but growing number of companies offer security deposit insurance, which is marketed as a cheaper way to move into a new apartment. Cincinnati wants to make those policies a mandatory option for renters. Source

Can the newly merged ViacomCBS work the second time around? Investors hope the streaming revolution can make it so. Source

Retail employees have a higher rate of injury and illness than factory and construction workers, federal data show. Source

On this week’s episode of “Where Did You Get This Number?”, Anthony and reporter LaCrai Mitchell take listeners to the 2020 presidential race in South Carolina. Source

After much discussion over bribery at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing, Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina Law School testified that bribery is defined by Congress, not the courts. Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-LA) asked the witnesses to comment on testimony from another witness, Jonathan Turley, a CBS News legal analyst and George Washington University law professor, who asserted that using public office for personal gain is a “viable impeachable offense.” After all three remaining witnesses affirmed Turley’s statement, Gerhardt said, “Much talk has been made here about the term bribery … It’s your job, it’s the House’s job, to define bribery, not the courts. You follow your judgement on that.” Source

Antonio Banderas, Lupita Nyong’o, Joe Pesci and Laura Dern earn acting honors from critics group. Source

Congressman Steve Chabot argued against a “party-line impeachment” during the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing on Wednesday. “‘We must not overturn an election and impeach a president without an overwhelming consensus of the American people,'” the Republican from Ohio said, quoting the committee’s Democratic chairman, Jerry Nadler, during the impeachment of President Clinton. “… Well, what you said should never happen … is exactly what you’re doing now.” Source