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Brynn Anderson / AP The Incendiary Roy Moore
Why is everyone describing the hard-right jurist and Alabama Republican Senate candidate as a “firebrand”?
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The ‘Dark Underbelly’ of College Basketball
Coaches at four top universities took bribes to push student-athletes toward specific managers and financial advisers, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Kamil Krzaczynski / Reuters America's Uneven Crime Spike
Violence in a few major cities drove the national murder rate higher in 2016, according to new FBI statistics.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Trump's Newest Travel Ban
The administration enacted new restrictions on foreign travel on Sunday as key parts of its previous order expired.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Republican Donors Are Helping Cover Trump's Legal Bills
Amidst aggressive fundraising to support his reelection, the wealthiest president in American history is tapping the Republican National Committee and his campaign to pay Russia-related lawyer fees.
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Win McNamee / Getty Images Five Questions About the Manafort Investigation
CNN and The New York Times on Monday shed new light on the federal investigation into the former Trump campaign chairman, but some aspects of the probe remain mysterious.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Federal Court Blocks Trump's Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities
A judge in Illinois temporarily put the initiative on hold while legal proceedings continue.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Images The Bruising Experience of Testifying Before a Grand Jury
Veterans of the Whitewater and Valerie Plame scandals recall what it was like—and offer advice to Team Trump.
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Gemma Handy / Getty Images When Escaping a Hurricane Means Risking Jail
A Florida sheriff department's plan to check warrants at shelters could risk lives among evacuees and first responders alike.
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Frank Wolfe / Wikimedia Commons Thurgood Marshall’s Patient but Relentless War
50 years after the first black Supreme Court justice was confirmed, his fight for racial equality still resonates.
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Paul Philippoteaux / Wikimedia Commons What Trump's Generation Learned About the Civil War
History textbooks used in New York City during the president’s childhood called the Klan “patriotic,” and downplayed the role of slavery in “the War Between the States.”
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Scott Olson / Getty Images President Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Trump picked the notorious Arizona lawman for his first-ever act of presidential absolution.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Will Congress Remove Confederate Statues From the Capitol?
After Charlottesville, Democratic lawmakers have called for their expulsion, but Republicans haven’t joined in.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Statues of Unliberty
Eight Confederate leaders are honored with sculptures in the halls of Congress.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'We Must Reject Hate'
Democratic and Republican leaders broadly rejected the violence at a major white-nationalist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Informally Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency
Once the proper paperwork is drawn up, the president’s unexpected and off-the-cuff announcement will free up disaster funding for cities and states dealing with the epidemic.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Mueller Closes In on Manafort
The special counsel’s team executed a search warrant on the former Trump campaign chair’s home.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Senate Overwhelmingly Confirms Christopher Wray as FBI Director
The new chief starts his job with a bipartisan mandate to preserve the bureau’s independence from the White House.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Trains His Sights on Mueller's Investigation
The president’s lawyers are looking at multiple ways to undermine or curtail the Russia inquiry, including his issuing pardons.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Why Trump Probably Hasn't Spooked the Justice Department
It seems to be business as usual for top federal law-enforcement officials one day after receiving harsh criticism from the president.
