Politics

Outrage is Boiling Over the Outcome of New Probes Into the Police Shooting of a 12-year-old. Here Are 6 Takeaways.

Almost a year after the boy was shot by a Cleveland police officer, key questions remain.

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One State Finally Cracked Down on Deceptive Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers

But will it work?

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Prosecutors Dealt a Setback in Trial of Rand Paul Aides

A judge dismisses charges against a key Rand Paul ally.

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Shock Jock Who Wants to Be Trump's Top Medical Researcher Once Told a Caller to "Get AIDS and Die"

Donald Trump says it would be "great" if Michael Savage headed the National Institutes of Health.

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Outrage is Boiling Over the Outcome of New Probes Into the Police Shooting of a 12-year-old. Here Are 6 Takeaways.

Almost a year after the boy was shot by a Cleveland police officer, key questions remain.

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One State Finally Cracked Down on Deceptive Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers

But will it work?

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Prosecutors Dealt a Setback in Trial of Rand Paul Aides

A judge dismisses charges against a key Rand Paul ally.

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Shock Jock Who Wants to Be Trump's Top Medical Researcher Once Told a Caller to "Get AIDS and Die"

Donald Trump says it would be "great" if Michael Savage headed the National Institutes of Health.

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LATEST

6 Years Ago, New York Banned the Shackling of Pregnant Inmates. So Why Are These Women Still Being Restrained?

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Why No One Really Knows a Better Way to Train Cops

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One State Finally Cracked Down on Deceptive Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers

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Bernie Sanders

Here's What Bernie Sanders Is Like as a Debater

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Outrage is Boiling Over the Outcome of New Probes Into the Police Shooting of a 12-year-old. Here Are 6 Takeaways.

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Prosecutors Dealt a Setback in Trial of Rand Paul Aides

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Shock Jock Who Wants to Be Trump's Top Medical Researcher Once Told a Caller to "Get AIDS and Die"

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Congressional Republicans Are in Total Chaos

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Sen. Ted Cruz addresses supporters in Kalamazoo, Mich. on Oct. 5, 2015.

Ted Cruz Thinks He Has a Brilliant Strategy to Win the GOP Nomination

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Bernie Sanders Endorses Obama's Push to Protect Your Retirement. Where's Hillary?

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Jim Webb

Is Jim Webb Really Running for President? An Investigation.

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Smoking Will Kill 1 in 3 Young Men in China

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House Tea Partiers to the World: Burn, Baby, Burn.

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The Not-So-Great Moments of One of the Guys Still Running for Speaker

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The Pharma Jerk We All Hated Last Month Still Hasn’t Dropped the Price of That Drug

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Ben Carson Links Gun Control to Hitler's Rise

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The Race for House Speaker Has Republicans "Audibly Crying"

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Oklahoma Discovers It Used the Wrong Drug to Execute an Inmate

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Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush Would Not Reauthorize the Voting Rights Act

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Here's What Happened When Ben Carson Was Actually Confronted by a Dangerous Gunman

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The NRA Is Losing Its Grip on Power

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Here’s What’s Missing From the Stats on Campus Rape

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Hillary Clinton Changes Her Mind on One of Obama's Top Priorities

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CHARTS

Here’s What’s Missing From the Stats on Campus Rape

This Chart Shows How the "Unequal States of America" Compares to the World

VIDEO

How Cops, Shrinks, and FBI Agents Are Scrambling To Stop the Next Gun Rampage

Elizabeth Warren Just Showed Democrats How to Talk About Race in America

INTERACTIVES

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Here Are 3 Gun Control Proposals That Republicans Actually Support

Puerto Rico Crisis Goes From Bad to Worse

MAPS

Stop Looking Just at Europe. There's a Migration Crisis Everywhere.

This Map Shows Who Wants to Move to Your Country

LONGREADS

The Early Warning Signs That Could Stop the Next Shooting Rampage

America's Most Notorious Coal Baron Goes on Trial This Week. Here's the Epic Tale of His Rise and Fall.

PHOTO ESSAYS

Haunting Photos of the Risky Search for Mexico’s Disappeared
A girl with burns is treated at a hospital.

The Human Cost of Saudi Arabia's Air War in Yemen, in Photos

Photo Essays + Slideshows

Houston We Have a Photo – 8,400, to Be Exact

Thousands of behind-the-scenes NASA images have been put on Flickr

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These Striking Photos Will Change the Way You Look at Coal Country

Photographer Stacy Kranitz documents life in this often misrepresented part of America.

Refugees climb though a barbed wire fence at the Hungary border.

21 Photos That Capture the Heartbreak of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

"These people are at risk," says photographer David Maurice Smith. "We have to humanize them."

These Photos Will Make You Want to Quit Your Job and Ride a Mustang From Mexico to Canada

Or at least live it through these guys.

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