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How Trump is reshaping one of the country’s most liberal courts

By Gretchen Frazee

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Nation Aug 20

Experts reject Trump’s call for mental hospitals to fight gun violence

By Courtney Vinopal

Segment Aug 20

Meet the CIA’s disguise artists who helped Cold War spies disappear

Segment Aug 20

In Common’s new memoir about healing, ‘love can be an action’

Arts Aug 15

WATCH: We asked Common to freestyle about facts. Here’s what happened

By Joshua Barajas

Arts Aug 19

Why this description of the Chinese-American experience resonates with Celeste Ng

By Elizabeth Flock

World Aug 20

How a Japan-South Korea dispute could threaten this U.S. intelligence pact

By Bryan Wood

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CEOs are saying they need to be more socially minded. Will anything change?

Gazans suffer life-shattering injuries when border protests turn violent

By Jane Ferguson

U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Morristown municipal airport en route to Washington after a weekend in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 4, 2019. Trump has appointed seven people to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has long been known as a left-leaning court. Photo by Yuri Gripas/Reuters

How Trump is reshaping one of the country’s most liberal courts

By Gretchen Frazee

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WATCH: Trump acknowledges China polices may mean U.S. economic pain

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