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- Gina Haspel Confirmed as CIA Director, Despite Her Record on Torture
- Trump Says North Korea’s Kim Jong-un Could Suffer Same Fate as Gaddafi
- Trump to Cut Funds to Women’s Clinics, Reinstitute Abortion Gag Rule
- House Farm Bill Would End Food Assistance to Over 2 Million People
- Senate Intel Committee Republicans Cite Russian Interference in 2016
- China Denies Trump Admin Claims of $200 Billion Trade Deal
- Egypt to Reopen Gaza Border Crossing Until End of Ramadan
- Congo: WHO Warns of “Urban Ebola” as Virus Spreads to Mbandaka City
- Colombia Orders Thousands to Evacuate Amid Fears that Dam May Burst
- In Reversal, NASA Administrator Says Humans Cause Climate Change
- Republican Rep. Mo Brooks Blames Coastal Erosion for Rising Seas
- New York Court Greenlights Summer Zervos Defamation Suit Against Trump
- Fox News Names Longtime Roger Ailes Protégé Suzanne Scott as CEO
- Hawaii: Geologists Warn Worst Could be Yet to Come as Kilauea Erupts
- New York: Calls Grow for Disbarment of Lawyer Filmed in Racist Tirade
- Trump on North Korean Threats to Cancel Summit: “We’ll See”
- U.N. Human Rights Council to Review Israel’s Massacre in Gaza
- Under Trump, Refugee Admissions to U.S. at Lowest Level in Decades
- President Trump Calls Undocumented Immigrants “Animals”
- DHS Sought Negative Info on Haitians Ahead of Canceling Protections
- Senate Approves Bill to Restore Net Neutrality Rules
- Trump Financial Disclosure Reveals Stormy Daniels Payment
- WHO Ships Experimental Vaccine to Congo as Ebola Outbreak Kills 23
- Chile: Thousands March Against Campus Sexual Violence
- Michigan State to Settle Larry Nassar Sexual Abuse Lawsuit for $500M
- EPA Chief Pruitt & White House Sought to Block Chemical Release Study
- Whistleblower Says Steve Bannon Sought to Suppress Black Vote
- CIA Cites Hacker Joshua Schulte as Suspect in WikiLeaks Release
- North Carolina: Thousands of Teachers March for School Funding
- Brooklyn Man Exonerated 27 Years After Murder Conviction
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