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Even though President Trump held a movie premiere for his wife’s new film there last week, he said the state of the building was “actually sort of dangerous.” [...]
The Justice Department did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows. [...]
The change comes as the federal government has provided accounts of fatal shootings that have sometimes conflicted with local officials and witness videos. [...]
The state’s House of Delegates passed a new map that would be likely to eliminate Maryland’s lone remaining Republican seat in the U.S. House, but the State Senate may well block the measure. [...]
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In this interview, international relations scholar Stephen Zunes and Middle East historian Lawrence Davidson help to unpack the Iranian protests and explain their relevance within the context of U.S. and [...]
You have to give Donald Trump some credit. He was making plenty of money selling pardons, ripping off Venezuela’s oil, and selling seats on his “Board of Peace,” but all [...]
Reform vs reinvention: what’s next? The legal theories in laws give multiple explanations and define laws in different ways according to their own time and social norms. International law is [...]