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Billions in ads and lobbying are aimed at keeping fossil fuels flowing.
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Experts feared the pandemic would mean an uptick in Islamic State violence as attention and resources shifted away from combatting extremism. But it largely didn't materialize.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein will retire in 2024, bringing a groundbreaking career to a close.
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Many Americans, many of them Republicans, seek leaders who would violate basic principles of democracy.
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The big airlines keep failing consumers. Why isn’t the transportation secretary doing more to protect them?
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Constitutional sheriffs have roots in a white supremacist, antisemitic right-wing movement from the 1970s that believed as part of its conspiratorial ideology that the county sheriff held the ultimate government authority in the United States.
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Public awareness is increasing. But police killings have not significantly declined.