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• Jeff Sessions wants stricter enforcement of drug crimes. People of color will suffer.
• Donald Trump just issued a threat to James Comey "before he starts leaking to the press"
• EPA adviser who quit in protest says Trump admin. has subcommittee on "firing line"
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• New Orleans Confederate monument of Jefferson Davis taken down
• Critics are tearing into Donald Trump's new "election integrity" task force
• Acting FBI director says White House is wrong, Comey had "broad support" within the FBI
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• Report: Comey asked for more money for the Trump-Russia investigation days before firing
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions to double down on prosecuting drug crimes
• Betsy DeVos was greeted with a "huge chorus" of boos during her speech at Bethune-Cookman
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• Anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 57% in 2016, new report says
• Progressive Moon Jae-in elected president of South Korea
• JTrump administration seeks evidence of crimes committed by Haitians in the US
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• Obama warned Trump not to hire Michael Flynn, report says
• Celebrities like Nicki Minaj can't even make a dent in the student debt crisis
• Scientists figured out how to convert polluted air into clean energy
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• Architects to block Trump Tower in Chicago with Orwellian flying pigs
• Trayvon Martin's family to receive the pilot's degree the slain teen dreamed of earning
• Twitter users share their pre-existing conditions after GOP vote to repeal Obamacare
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• GOP's health care bill passes in the House, heads to the Senate
• 3 key takeaways from Trump's religious freedom executive order
• Prince Philip to retire from handling royal engagements
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• 3 key takeaways from James Comey's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
• Shooting at North Lake College in Texas leaves two dead, including suspect.
• Rex Tillerson finally addresses the department he runs, clears up nothing.
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• Trump just called for a "good" government shutdown. Here's what that would look like.
• Merkel pushes Putin to stop LGBTQ killings in Chechnya.
• Jimmy Kimmel makes tearful plea for Obamacare after near death of newborn son.
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• These photos show the massive May Day protests happening across the country.
• Fox News co-president Bill Shine has been ousted.
• Trump nixes Michelle Obama's "Let Girls Learn" program.
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