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Glenn Greenwald fills in for Jeremy Scahill, and we take a deep dive into the origins and evolution of the Trump-Russia story.

The 1947 National Security Act requires the secretary of defense to be “appointed from civilian life.” Congress has only made one exception, ever -- for George C. Marshall.

Prison inmates in Texas and other states have called for strikes against forced labor and are demanding better living conditions and health care.

After 16 years of fighting, Angela Garcia took a plea deal in the arson death of her children. Did prosecutors know their case was fatally flawed?

The royal family of the United States takes some heat as the fate of American health care hangs on a few votes.

Private prisons have been declared a huge stock market winner in Trump’s victory. As his policies come into focus, a look back at one of the incidents that prompted the Justice Department’s resolve to cut ties with the industry.

In "Another Day in the Death of America," author Gary Young explores the gun violence that takes the lives of seven children every day.

After decades of study, the EPA was finally ready to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide linked to autism and ADHD. Then Trump was elected president.

The U.S. government says Flaviu Georgescu was an arms dealer who wanted to sell weapons to terrorists. So why did he call the CIA to tell the agency what he was doing?

Tennie White's work as an activist forced big corporations to clean up the messes they made in African-American communities. So the EPA put her in jail.