John Paul Stevens on the Worst Decision of His 34 Years on the Supreme Court
John Paul Stevens turned 99 years old in April, but the former Supreme Court justice isn't stepping back from the public eye just yet. In his new memoir The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years, which comes out Tuesday and runs more than 500 pages, Stevens writes about matters both personal and political.
6m May 14, 2019
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Recovering ‘Comfortably’ After Hip Surgery
(ATLANTA) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter broke his hip Monday at his Georgia home, underwent successful surgery and was recovering comfortably, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said. Carter was on his way to go turkey hunting, the spokeswoman, Deanna Congileo, said in a statement. She said that he was treated in Americus, Georgia, near his home in Plains, and t...
1m May 14, 2019
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President Trump Pledges Not to Use Stolen Information in 2020 Re-election Campaign
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is pledging not to use information stolen by foreign adversaries in his 2020 reelection campaign. And he's insisting he didn't use any in 2016, even though he did. Trump told reporters Monday as he met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that he "would certainly agree to that." He says: "I don't need it. All I need is the ...
1m May 14, 2019
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Sweden Is Reopening the Rape Case Against WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
(STOCKHOLM) — Swedish prosecutors said Monday they are reopening a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a month after he was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, told a news conference in Stockholm that "there is still a probable cause to suspect that Assange committed a rape." ...
3m May 13, 2019
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Commercial Pilot Arrested at a Kentucky Airport for a 2015 Triple Murder
A pilot on a scheduled PSA Airlines flight from Louisville, Ky., to Charlotte, NC was arrested before take off on Saturday, and indicted on a 2015 triple murder. Christian Richard Martin, a pilot for the American Airlines subsidiary, was arrested early Saturday morning at the Louisville International Airport and indicted by a grand jury for the murders of Calvin and Pam...
3m May 13, 2019
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White House Economic Advisor Contradicts President Trump on Who Actually Pays for the Tariffs on China
White House Chief Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow seemed to contradict President Donald Trump on Sunday, admitting that Trump's increasing tariffs on Chinese goods will put an economic burden on American consumers and businesses. Kudlow sat for an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday where he said that both the U.S. and China will suffer consequences from the t...
3m May 13, 2019
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Why Can’t Trump Cut a Deal With Chinese Leaders? Because They’re Too Much Alike
Donald Trump has wanted to negotiate with the Chinese for years. In his 2011 book, "Time to Get Tough," he argued that American politicians were "to put it succinctly, stupid," and that his experiences working with Chinese executives in real estate would give him an advantage. "I know the Chinese, and understand and respect the Chinese," he wrote. But as a Friday dea...
6m May 13, 2019
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When the U.S. Wanted to Hide Nukes in Arctic Ice Tunnels
As far as these things go, Camp Century was a pretty good cover. It was nominally designed as an underground military research station, located about 150 miles east of the American air base at Thule, Greenland. The stated purpose of Camp Century was to improve the American defense capability in the Arctic — to develop better survival and transportation techniques, and to o...
8m May 13, 2019
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The Society’s Sean Berdy on Deaf Representation, Teen Activism and His Buzzy New Netflix Drama
There are plenty of despicable characters in The Society, Netflix's new apocalyptic teen drama that imagines a present-day, Lord of the Flies-inspired crisis in a small New England town. But Sam, a deaf teenager played by Sean Berdy, is not one of them: after the town’s parents disappear, he acts as a steady moral center as the community around him descends into ruthlessne...
7m May 13, 2019
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Amy Poehler’s Wine Country Is Faintly Nutty, and a Bit on the Dry Side
Middle-aged women are funny--to themselves as well as to everybody else--and no one knows it better than they do. Plus, there are few enough roles out there for middle-aged women actors, funny or otherwise. So Wine Country, directed by Amy Poehler for Netflix and featuring a cast made up of former Saturday Night Live alumnae, should be the ideal Venn-diagram center of thos...
3m May 13, 2019
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What The Woman Who Helped America Have Better Sex Has to Say to Millennials
The sex therapist, 90, on living with history, her advice for millennials and the new documentary about her life, Ask Dr. Ruth. You were born in Germany and lived in Switzerland, Jerusalem and Paris before moving to the U.S. What was it like to revisit some of these places from your past while making this Hulu documentary? I was very careful where I took the document...
4m May 13, 2019
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Review: Ciara Is Criminally Underrated. Her New Album Should Change That
It's been 15 years since the singer Ciara erupted onto the scene, making her mark with breathy vocals and limber dancing. The rapper Lil Jon declared her the "first lady of Crunk&B" for her dominance over the grooving, bass-heavy pop-R&B style that was popular in the mid-aughts.
5m May 13, 2019
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Turkey's President Has Called For a 'ReDo' of Istanbul's Mayoral Election. Here's Why It Matters
What Happened This Week: A little over a month ago, Turkey held local elections. For the first time in more than twenty years, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost the mayoralty of Istanbul, the city where Erdogan himself once presided as mayor. Erdogan took the loss hard and refused to accept the results. Earlier...
6m May 13, 2019
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Column: Why You Shouldn’t Love Your Kids More Than Your Partner
Parents' love for their children can make them do peculiar things. Like staying up until 1 a.m. gluing glitter on a second-grade class project. Or driving 40 miles to deliver a single soccer cleat. Or, perhaps, bribing their teenagers' way into a fancy college. But one of the weirdest things parents do is love their children more than their partners. Before you call chi...
4m May 13, 2019
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Why Rihanna’s New Luxury Fashion Line Is Such a Groundbreaking Moment for Fashion
Rihanna confirmed on Friday the launch of her much-rumored new luxury fashion brand in partnership with LVMH Moët Hennessy (LVMH), the largest luxury goods conglomerate in the world. The new deal makes Rihanna the first woman of color to lead an LVMH label, and cements her position amongst the fashion industry's biggest names.
6m May 11, 2019
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One Day I’ll Tell My Children About My Mother’s Death. Until Then, I’ll Show Them How She Lived
When Marisa Bardach Ramel was 17, her mother Sally Bardach was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The pair decided to write a book together about their experiences as they faced down the encroaching reality of saying goodbye. Seventeen years following Sally's death in 2002, the mother-daughter book, told in chapters that alternate between their perspectives, is bein...
5m May 11, 2019
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An Exiled Chinese Novelist Rips Apart Xi Jinping and His ‘China Dream’
Ma Jian, the exiled Chinese novelist, knows better than most the desire for freedom in a country where democracy is a dream and censorship is the norm. His debut, the 1987 short-story collection Stick Out Your Tongue, highlighted the brutal Chinese occupation of Tibet. The government condemned the book as "spiritual pollution" and permanently banned Ma's books from the cou...
2m May 11, 2019
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Tuca & Bertie Creator Lisa Hanawalt Makes Shows About Animals. But at Their Core, They're Deeply Human
Fans of BoJack Horseman, who love their cartoons whimsical, full of puns and served with a side of depression, have cartoonist-designer-producer Lisa Hanawalt to thank. And in a happy turn of events for those viewers, Hanawalt has created a new show, this one delving into the lives of two thirty-something anthropomorphic birds.
7m May 11, 2019
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U.S. and China Trade Talks Wrap Up With No Deal After President Trump Increases Tariffs
(Bloomberg) — U.S. and Chinese officials wrapped up high-level trade talks on Friday, lacking a deal yet avoiding a breakdown in negotiations even after President Donald Trump boosted tariffs on $200 billion in goods from China and threatened to impose more. Trump described the two days of talks as “candid and constructive,” and said that negotiations will continue “i...
3m May 11, 2019
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Joe Biden Has Been Campaigning Like He’s the Nominee. But Is He as Electable?
Joe Biden has been campaigning like he's already won the Democratic nomination. In his first few forays in early-voting states, the former vice president has talked past his Democratic primary opponents and aimed squarely at the up-for-grabs voters in swing state communities about President Donald Trump. “Folks, the fact is, we cannot let this administration win agai...
5m May 11, 2019
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A New Study Claims Facebook Is Unknowingly Generating Terror Content
A new study released on Thursday shows that terrorist groups are active on Facebook and the social media company may be unwittingly generating terrorist content. A five-month study by the National Whistleblowers Center analyzed the pages of 3,000 members that had connections to terrorist organizations, and found that ISIS and al-Qaeda are openly networking on the platfo...
2m May 10, 2019
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The Thai Beach Featured in the Movie The Beach Will Be Closed Until 2021
The beach made famous by the film The Beach will remain closed until 2021 to recover from an overflow of tourists which damaged its coral reefs. The idyllic Maya Bay on the island of Phi Phi Leh shut its doors to visitors temporarily in June last year. National park officials said it would re-open in a few months, but officials have decided to ban tourists until 2021 to...
1m May 10, 2019
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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik Has a Plan to Get More Republican Women Elected
Representative Elise Stefanik can pinpoint the moment that crystallized the issue for her: It was the week after the midterm elections, and the newly elected members of the House of Representatives lined up for a photo. Representing the Democratic side of the aisle were more than 30 women. On the GOP side were two--Carol Miller of West Virginia and Young Kim of California....
8m May 10, 2019
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These Are Our 5 Favorite Podcast Apps Right Now
So, you’ve finally decided to get on board and check out some podcasts. Congratulations! You’re in for a treat, if only thanks to the sheer number of shows available to you — there are over 600,000 to choose from. But before you start scrolling through the endless sea of audio, you’ll need to find the right app to listen to all that content.
6m May 10, 2019
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Trump Abandoned a Nuclear Deal a Year Ago. The U.S. and Iran Are Now on a Collision Course
The White House’s long-running dispute with Iran is approaching a perilous crossroads one year after President Donald Trump walked away from the multilateral nuclear deal. The Administration’s increasing pressure on Tehran has resulted in an unpredictable and tense standoff with potentially serious implications. The two nations’ leaders say they don’t want conflict, but...
9m May 10, 2019
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The Economy Is Doing Well. That May Lead Trump to Escalate His Trade Fight With China
Few presidents have bragged as much about the stock market as Donald Trump. From the early days of his Administration, Trump has sought to boost Wall Street and take credit for any gains in the Dow. Now, as the President considers what would be his most significant escalation in trade tensions with China, experts say that he may be emboldened by the strength of the stoc...
5m May 10, 2019
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‘A Better Ally Didn’t Exist.’ Jen Hatmaker Remembers the Generosity of Rachel Held Evans
There is a wilderness space in which misfits who flummox the Christian status quo gather. That wilderness has lost a hero--one who challenged the hierarchy behind the city walls, the patriarchy under the steeples. She insisted women, people of color, the LGBTQ community and the poor were the real elders of the church. A better ally didn't exist. She was Rachel Held Evans, ...
1m May 10, 2019
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Can the World’s Largest Democracy Endure Another 5 Years of a Modi Government?
Of the great democracies to fall to populism, India was the first. In 2014, Narendra Modi, then the longtime chief minister of the western state of Gujarat and leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was elected to power by the greatest mandate the country had seen in 30 years. India until then had been ruled primarily by one party--the Congress, t...
24m May 10, 2019
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A Smackdown in the Kennedy Clan Summons Up the History of Presidents and Vaccines
Family quarrels are usually private things—unless of course, the family is famous. A public spat among boldface names broke out on May 8, when three members of the Kennedy clan published a piece on Politico declaring that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—son of Bobby Kennedy—has been "tragically wrong" in his years-long crusade against vaccines, a crusade that seems especially ir...
8m May 10, 2019
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Is Jon Snow’s Royal Claim on Game of Thrones Really Stronger ‘Because He’s a Man’? Here’s What Real Succession Rules Say
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones. As the final season of Game of Thrones moves toward its conclusion, who'll end up on the Iron Throne is not yet clear — but one thing is. It's now obvious that Lord Varys would now like to see Jon Snow rule. In the season's fourth episode, "The Last of the Starks," Varys made his case to Tyrion that, despite t...
7m May 10, 2019
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Trump Nominates Patrick Shanahan to Run the Military After Historic Delay
It took 125 days, but President Donald Trump finally nominated Patrick Shanahan to be the next Secretary of Defense. Shanahan, 56, was the leading contender to become Defense Secretary since James Mattis stepped down from the job on Dec. 31. The former Boeing Co. executive has the dubious distinction of being the longest serving “Acting Defense Secretary” in the nation’...
4m May 10, 2019
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TIME Readers Think This Is the Strongest Character in the Marvel Universe
TIME recently challenged fans of the Marvel Universe to determine who they thought would triumph in a grand confrontation between 40 of the top heroes and villains in the gargantuan Avengers franchise, whose latest installment is Avengers: Endgame. Using a round-robin system of one-on-one face-offs, this age-old thought experiment eventually parsed down the comics pantheon...
3m May 09, 2019
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How Peter Mayhew Taught Joonas Suotamo to Play Chewbacca at ‘Wookiee Boot Camp’
For people to remember something, it needs to be unique. Peter Mayhew, who died April 30 at 74, made Chewbacca unique just by being real — even though Chewie happens to live in space in a fantastical world. Even though the character easily loses his temper, at his core is the warmth, loyalty and friendship that Peter brought to Star Wars. That's the mixture of shades we se...
3m May 09, 2019
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A Venezuelan Opposition Figure Has Been Arrested After Taking Part in a Failed Uprising
The vice president of Venezuela's opposition-run parliament was arrested by secret police in Caracas on Wednesday, the first arrest in an apparent crackdown on opposition leaders involved in a failed revolt against Nicolás Maduro last week. Edgar Zambrano reportedly refused to get out of his car when it was approached by intelligence agents. The car was towed, with him ...
2m May 09, 2019
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Anger and Sadness — But Little Surprise — as Colorado Suffers Another School Shooting
Coni Sanders knows as well as anyone that her state has seen more than its share of gun-related tragedies. Her father, Dave Sanders, was the teacher killed during the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. “I don’t know what it is about Colorado,” she says. The state has seen a number of attacks in the 20 years since Columbine.
4m May 09, 2019
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Democrats Are No Longer Afraid of a Trillion-Dollar Price Tag. Here’s Why
When the Obama Administration set out to design a stimulus to stop the economy from a freefall in 2009, word came back from Republican and Democratic moderates in Congress that it couldn't exceed $800 billion. That didn't stop many of its conservative critics from decrying the plan as a "trillion-dollar stimulus." But as Democratic contenders gear up for the 2020 pri...
7m May 09, 2019
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Royal Baby Archie Has a Different Last Name Than His Father, Prince Harry. Here’s Why
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry announced the name of their baby boy, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, just two days after Meghan Markle gave birth. The news of the baby's last name differs somewhat in comparison to other young royals like Prince George because Archie will carry the royal family's last name—Mountbatten-Windsor. As Prince Harry's first-bor...
5m May 09, 2019
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Column: I Visited Eve Ensler to Talk About Her Sexual Abuse. I Got a Therapy Session Instead
This isn't a Psychologist's Office. It's a cavernous Manhattan loft, the kind with an elevator that opens directly into the apartment. But my conversation with its resident, famed feminist Eve Ensler, feels suspiciously like a therapy session. And I'm the patient. I should have seen this coming. Ensler, 65, has always been the probing sort: She made her name interviewin...
10m May 09, 2019
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Royal Baby Archie May Not Have a Royal Title, After All. Here’s Why That’s Not Surprising
Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, born Monday, May 6, is entitled to be the Earl of Dumbarton. But when Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex finally announced the royal baby's name on Wednesday, there was no honorary title in sight. Archie, who was first introduced to the public Wednesday, is technically supposed to take on his father's earldom,...
5m May 09, 2019
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Family Members Condemn His ‘Tragically Wrong’ Vaccine Views
Family members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have slammed his stance against vaccines, calling his views "tragically wrong" in a new op-ed. "We love Bobby. He is one of the great champions of the environment," two of Kennedy's siblings, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Joseph P. Kennedy II, and niece Maeve Kennedy McKean wrote in Politico. "We stand behind him in his ongoing fi...
3m May 09, 2019
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Trump Admits to Massive Tax Write Offs, Calling It ‘Sport’
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged taking massive tax write offs for real estate losses topping $1 billion from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, calling it "sport" among developers like himself during that period. Trump was reacting to a New York Times report Tuesday that his businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994.
2m May 09, 2019
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Journalists' Release in Myanmar Is a Victory for Press Freedom. But the War on Truth Isn't Over
The two figures were first spotted by a photographer who arrived early on the scene, with a telephoto lens through the gates of a Yangon prison on May 7. One man’s signature thick-rimmed glasses confirmed it: The award-winning Reuters journalists whose arrest had become a global cause were finally free. In the 511 days since their arrest, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 2...
6m May 09, 2019
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‘Aasia Is Out.’ Christian Woman Acquitted of Blasphemy Leaves Pakistan for Canada
A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan has left for Canada to be reunited with her daughters, Pakistani officials and others involved in the case said Wednesday. Aasia Bibi was convicted of blasphemy in 2009 after a quarrel with a fellow farmworker. The Supreme Court overturned her conviction last year, and she had b...
4m May 08, 2019
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Iran Threatens Return to Nuclear Enrichment as U.S. Sanctions Bite
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran threatened Wednesday to resume higher enrichment of uranium in 60 days if world powers fail to negotiate new terms for its 2015 nuclear deal a year after President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, raising tensions as a U.S. aircraft carrier and a bomber wing deploy to confront unspecified threats from Tehran.
5m May 08, 2019
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Are Sleeping Pills Safe? Here’s What Research Says
According to the latest numbers, roughly 9 million Americans — 4% of U.S. adults — use prescription sleep aids, or medications that can help with insomnia and other sleep issues. And now, some of the most popular prescription sleep drugs must carry stronger safety warnings.
5m May 08, 2019
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Google’s Biggest Event of the Year Just Started. Here Are the 4 Biggest Announcements So Far
Google on Tuesday kicked off the first day of its 2019 I/O developer conference with a keynote highlighting the company’s latest projects and products, as well as its accessibility initiatives powered by machine learning. Those more ambitious projects, like developing speech recognition software for people with speech impediments and using machine learning to detect di...
4m May 08, 2019
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What the Strike Ahead of Uber’s IPO Exposes About American Inequality
The instant Uber shares start trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, lots of people and groups are going to make millions—and in some cases billions—of dollars. They include Travis Kalanick, the company’s co-founder and ex-CEO, who owns 117 million shares of Uber, the venture capitalist Matt Cohler, who has 150 million shares, and the government of Saudi Arabia, wh...
9m May 08, 2019
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U.S. Stock Market Falls After President Trump Threatens to Increase Tariffs on China
U.S. equities fell by the most since March as investors remained on edge over President Donald Trump’s threat to increase tariffs on billions of dollars of imports from China. Oil dropped and the yen strengthened. The benchmark S&P 500 staged a late-session recovery to close off the lows for a second consecutive day. Still, all 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Av...
4m May 08, 2019
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Democrats want to hold William Barr in contempt of Congress. Will he face any consequences?
House Democrats are ready to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress after the Department of Justice failed to deliver an unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
5m May 08, 2019
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1 Student Dead, 7 Wounded After Shooting at Colorado K-12 School
One student was killed and seven others injured in a shooting at a K-12 school south of Denver, Colo. on Tuesday. Two shooters, both male students at the school, are in custody after a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter school in Highlands Ranch, Colo., according to Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock. One of the shooters is an adult and the other is ...
3m May 08, 2019
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