When Taliban fighters swept across Afghanistan in a little over a week and entered the capital city of Kabul on August 15, 2021, they surprised the US media, the Biden White House, and the military. Desperate to get out of the country, those who had worke ...[
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Pence would have declared Trump the winner with more Electoral College votes after the seven states were thrown out, at 232 votes to 222. Anticipating "howls" from Democrats protesting the overturning of the election, the memo proposes, Pence would instea ...[
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The retreat of Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh belies public claims that they are still in Afghanistan. ...[
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Media watchdogs suggest that some basic level of responsibility to the public should be required to keep a broadcast license ...[
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Two years of fearmongering over criminal justice reform led to a humanitarian crisis at the notorious New York City jails. ...[
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Horrifying videos emerged Monday of Border Patrol agents on horseback cracking their whips at migrants and chasing, grabbing and nearly trampling Haitians seeking asylum at the border, sparking outrage and scrutiny from immigration advocates and progressi ...[
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Simple mitigation measures like wearing masks as recommended by the CDC could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. ...[
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"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" ...[
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"If Biden is successful in enacting a bold Build Back Better package, he will cement his place in history. Future historians will explain that Biden effectively built on Roosevelt's legacy in important and ambitious ways." ...[
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Vigilantes urged to sue abortion providers are really state actors engaged in unconstitutional conduct, the DOJ says. ...[
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Gesturing at some of his supporters already gathered and shouting outside the White House, Trump asked, "Well, what if these people say you do?
When Pence demurred again, Trump mused, "wouldn't it almost be cool to have that power?"
As Rauchway points out ...[
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