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For a country where few people remember what happened before last week’s verdict in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard case, Thursday night’s hearing provided a gut-punch reminder of the violence of the insurrection.
Iran made the latest move of noncompliance, but the path to war was paved by the United States’ withdrawal from the agreement.
A court upheld Jessica Reznicek’s excessive sentence for vandalism aimed at stopping the Dakota Access pipeline.
It’s time to publish graphic images of school shootings and other acts of violence. But change won’t come from that alone.
The Labor Party's victory offers a blueprint for diminishing the global influence of the Fox News founder.
After Uvalde, there’s still no gun control on the horizon. We can start by regulating hyper-destructive expanding ammunition then.
It should not take an event so devastating to break the spell of policing mythology about what cops do — and what they don't.
Parents awaiting word on their kids were asked by police to provide DNA samples to help identify the children.
“I hated having the power to kill someone,” my father once told me about carrying a gun. But many, many Americans seem to love it.
Why the Murdochs should become the next Sacklers.
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