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In different ways, the reputations of the royal family, the British government and President Trump have each been tarnished by the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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After allowing a stopgap spending bill to move forward earlier this year, Democrats are under intense pressure not to do so again.
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House Republicans extended a maneuver they engineered earlier in the year that effectively strips Congress of the power to disapprove of President Trump's tariffs.
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We speak to Bishop William J. Barber II about conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk's killing and the right-wing weaponization of his death. Barber says outrage over political violence should also extend beyond Kirk's assassination, to what he refers to as the political violence of policy, including the hundreds around the world who die of poverty, war and disease every day. "You cannot claim that you believe in a god or Christ of love and justice and mercy and grace and truth, and then you push policies that prey on the very persons, in the very communities, that the Scriptures, that the example of Jesus and the prophet tells us we should not only pray for, but we should also be lifting up and helping up and protecting."
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Six Republican-led states have now pledged National Guard troops to the Trump administration's takeover of Washington, D.C., where it has assumed control of policing under the claim of tackling crime. Along with the D.C. National Guard that Trump already controlled, this brings the total number of troops in the streets of the capital to more than 2,000. The federal takeover comes even as violent crime in the capital is at a 30-year low — numbers the Trump administration now disputes, with the Justice Department launching an investigation into whether those crime statistics were manipulated by city officials.
"What we're seeing is lawlessness, but it's all coming from the White House," says community activist Keya Chatterjee, the executive director of the group Free DC.
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