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Pentagon Won’t Prosecute Troops Involved in Deadly Strike on Afghan Doctors Without Borders Hospital

The military's report reveals new details about the attack.

—Sara Rathod and AJ Vicens

President Obama's Plan to Make America Smarter About Guns

Technology aimed at improving safety for cops and private gun owners gets a push from the White House.

—Josh Harkinson

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The Supreme Court Just Made Government Hacking Much Easier

But few people are paying attention.

—Max J. Rosenthal

Chaos at California’s GOP Convention

Protesters swarm. Donald Trump hops a wall to get in.

—Josh Harkinson

Pentagon Won’t Prosecute Troops Involved in Deadly Strike on Afghan Doctors Without Borders Hospital

The military's report reveals new details about the attack.

—Sara Rathod and AJ Vicens

President Obama's Plan to Make America Smarter About Guns

Technology aimed at improving safety for cops and private gun owners gets a push from the White House.

—Josh Harkinson

hacking

The Supreme Court Just Made Government Hacking Much Easier

But few people are paying attention.

—Max J. Rosenthal

Chaos at California’s GOP Convention

Protesters swarm. Donald Trump hops a wall to get in.

—Josh Harkinson

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Pentagon Won’t Prosecute Troops Involved in Deadly Strike on Afghan Doctors Without Borders Hospital

—Sara Rathod and AJ Vicens

hacking

The Supreme Court Just Made Government Hacking Much Easier

—Max J. Rosenthal

A Week of Slaughter in Aleppo Also Destroyed One Of Its Hospitals

—Bryan Schatz

Chaos at California’s GOP Convention

—Josh Harkinson

President Obama's Plan to Make America Smarter About Guns

—Josh Harkinson

Teenagers Are Having Fewer Kids—Here's Why

—Nina Liss-Schultz

GOP Insider Trent Lott Tried to Broker a Kasich-Rubio Ticket to Thwart Donald Trump

Don Blankenship

America's Most Notorious Coal Baron Is Going to Prison. But He Still Haunts West Virginia Politics.

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Why the People Picking California's Tomatoes Can't Afford to Eat Them

Here's Why Oral Rape is Not Rape in Oklahoma

—Samantha Michaels

women in combat

Congressional Committee Says We Should Draft Women

—Max J. Rosenthal

Donald Trump's Ground Game Is Much Better Than We Thought

Hunger Strike in San Francisco Puts a Spotlight on Police Brutality

Carly Fiorina

Here's How Unprecedented Carly Fiorina's Nomination Would Be

Bernie Sanders Is Laying Off Hundreds of Campaign Staffers

Carly Fiorina

8 Stories Ted Cruz Should Probably Have Read Before Picking Carly Fiorina

—Hannah Levintova

Donald Trump

Here Are the Many Ways Trump's Big Foreign Policy Speech Made No Damn Sense

—Max J. Rosenthal

Ted Cruz Will Announce Carly Fiorina as His Running Mate, According to Reports

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison

—Stephanie Mencimer

GOP Leaders Are Preparing to Submit to Donald Trump

David Trone

This Guy Had the Worst Idea for How to Spend $13 Million

Donald Trump Celebrates Five-State Sweep: "I Consider Myself the Presumptive Nominee"

Chris Van Hollen

A Win for the Democratic Establishment in Much-Watched Senate Primary

—Patrick Caldwell

CHARTS

This Might Be a Better Way to Track Police Shootings

3 Troubling Ways the Charter School Boom Is Like the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

VIDEO

We Dare You to Not Break Down Watching Prince's Tribute to Freddie Gray

Disturbing Video Shows Cop Body-Slamming 12-Year-Old Girl at School

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Donald Trump and Mitt Romney

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The 2016 Presidential Primary Delegate Tracker

3 Anger-Inducing Charts About Kids and Prison

LONGREADS

"They Had Created This Remarkable System for Taking Every Last Dime From Their Customers"

The World Bank Is Supposed to Help the Poor. So Why Is it Bankrolling Oligarchs?

PHOTO ESSAYS

Photos From Around The World Capture the Outpouring of Support After the Brussels Attack

25 Years Later: Photos From the First Time We Invaded Iraq

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