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The FBI Inspector General report on the Clinton email investigation.

Donald Trump is wrong. My client Peter Strzok is a patriot, not a 'sick loser.'

Donald Trump is attacking Peter Strzok, the FBI and the Justice Department to pre-emptively discredit the results of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

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Protest in Los Angeles on June 14, 2018.

Separating families at the border isn't new. We've been doing it for centuries.
Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their parents in the last six weeks. But this is hardly a new practice in the United States.

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J.D. Gordon: I am learning what it is like to be caught up in the Russia witch hunt
The principles of the Salem witch hunts still apply today. Despite slim evidence, Donald Trump's team has already been found guilty in public.

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A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol

News media finally calls out Trump on his lies. It took children in cages to make it happen.
Outrage over family separations at the border is growing. The media's slow evolution toward straight talk won't solve every problem, but it's a start.

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A critical cartoon of Donald Trump could get you fired in America
In Paris they used bullets. In Pittsburgh they used bureaucrats. In Paris, they did it for the prophet. In Pittsburgh, they did it for the president.

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A woman weeps during mass at Galilee Baptist Church held in the wake of the shooting at the Art All Night Festival in Trenton, NJ early Sunday, June 17, 2018.

Another mass shooting in America this week. But still no action from government.
After 22 people are injured at a New Jersey arts festival, people on both sides of the nation's gun debate are left to wonder what the answer is.

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Yoga is about inner peace, not infighting over petty preferences and appropriation charges
Common debates around yoga are irrelevant if you look into what the practice was founded on. The principles of yoga are openness and rest, not anger.

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Courts are still throwing poor people in jail for failing to pay a debt. Never mind that Congress abolished debtors' prisons in 1833. Or that every state followed with its own ban.

Poverty's not a crime. Don't throw debtors in jail.
Judges are being used as debt collection tools, and prosecutors are 'renting out' their powers to collect on bounced checks: Our view