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Janet Cooksey, center, is Quintonio Legrier's mother.

Neighbors and Family Recount Chilling Details in Chicago Police Shooting

Who is telling the truth about the deaths of Quintonio Legrier and Bettie Jones?

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Donald Trump Has Bad News for the GOP Establishment

He's just getting started.

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A Grand Jury Just Decided Not to Indict the Cop Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice

Surveillance video showed that Officer Timothy Loehmann shot Rice almost immediately after arriving on the scene.

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Jeb Abandons Jeb!

Even the former Florida governor has given up on his brand.

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Janet Cooksey, center, is Quintonio Legrier's mother.

Neighbors and Family Recount Chilling Details in Chicago Police Shooting

Who is telling the truth about the deaths of Quintonio Legrier and Bettie Jones?

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Donald Trump Has Bad News for the GOP Establishment

He's just getting started.

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A Grand Jury Just Decided Not to Indict the Cop Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice

Surveillance video showed that Officer Timothy Loehmann shot Rice almost immediately after arriving on the scene.

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Jeb Abandons Jeb!

Even the former Florida governor has given up on his brand.

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Janet Cooksey, center, is Quintonio Legrier's mother.

Neighbors and Family Recount Chilling Details in Chicago Police Shooting

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Deadly Missouri Flooding Forces Town Evacuations as Water Continues to Rise

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Meet "Sledgehammer Shannon," the Lawyer Who Is Uber’s Worst Nightmare

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This Year, States Took the War on Uteruses to the Next Level

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Donald Trump Has Bad News for the GOP Establishment

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Planned Parenthood protest

Why Planned Parenthood Had an Even Worse Year Than You Think

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Here Is Every Crazy, Insane, Terrible, Genius, Infuriating Thing Donald Trump Did This Year

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This Chart Shows America Has a Unique Problem With Gun Violence

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A Grand Jury Just Decided Not to Indict the Cop Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice

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Kentucky's New Governor Wastes No Time in Revoking Ex-Felons' Right to Vote

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Elizabeth Warren

Newt Gingrich Says Elizabeth Warren’s Signature Program Is "Dictatorial." Here's What It's Really Done.

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The Top MoJo Longreads of 2015

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The NBA Just Joined the Gun Control Fight With This Moving Video

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Was New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Drunk at Rowdy Hotel Party?

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Jeb Abandons Jeb!

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Why Donald Trump Loves Vladimir Putin

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The Pentagon Says It Has Killed 20,000 ISIS Fighters—and Just 6 Civilians

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Surprise! Donald Trump's Tax Plan Helps Donald Trump

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It's 2015 and a Woman Is Being Charged With Attempted Murder for Using a Coat Hanger for an Abortion

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Donald Trump and Jeb Bush

That Time When Donald Trump Said Jeb Bush Would Make a Great President

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Scott Walker Corruption Case Threatens to Implicate Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices

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Teachers Are About to Get the Data They Need to Educate Your Kids, Experts Say

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The Feds Can't Control Illegal Campaign Spending. But Maybe These Guys Can.

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CHARTS

This Chart Shows America Has a Unique Problem With Gun Violence

These Maps Show Where Rents Are Going Up and Incomes Are Going Down

VIDEO

This Is the Most Damning and Acccurate Summary of This Week's GOP Debate We've Seen So Far

This Video Shows How Republican Candidates Talk About Women

INTERACTIVES

Assault weapons on sheet

Here Are 3 Gun Control Proposals That Republicans Actually Support

Puerto Rico Crisis Goes From Bad to Worse

MAPS

Campus Protests Are Spreading Like Wildfire

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

LONGREADS

Meet "Sledgehammer Shannon," the Lawyer Who Is Uber’s Worst Nightmare

The Top MoJo Longreads of 2015

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.

Chester family

Black Deaths Matter

Why is it so hard for families of color to get justice when a loved one is murdered?

Looking for polar bears with binoculars

Stark Photos of the World's Last Legal Polar Bear Hunt

Only indigenous peoples may hunt the world's remaining polar bears. Could that soon come to an end?

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