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Aug 19 2019
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There could have been three more mass shootings if these men weren't stopped, authorities say
Authorities this weekend announced they had foiled three potential mass shootings after arresting three men in different states who expressed interest in or threatened to carry them out.
All three cases were brought to authorities' attention thanks to tips from the public.
Here's what we know about them.
Police say he had the motivation and the ammunition
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CNN (Online News)Sep 05 2020
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Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
To have a job without a workplace, you must build an office of the mind. Structure, routine, focus, socialization, networking, stress relief—their creation is almost entirely up to you, alone in a spare bedroom or on your couch, where your laptop might vie for attention at any given moment with your pets or kids. If the coffeepot runs dry, there is no one to blame but yourself.
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The AtlanticMar 29 2018
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IG investigating FBI abuses of FISA in Trump campaign surveillance
The Justice Department’s inspector general said Wednesday that he is investigating whether the FBI overstepped its bounds when it conducted secret surveillance of a Trump campaign figure in 2016 and 2017, and whether the FBI bungled its handling of the anti-Trump “Steele dossier.”
Washington TimesJun 02 2017
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Reinstate Travel Ban
The Justice Department seeks stays of two orders that have blocked the U.S. from shutting the door on citizens of six Muslim-majority nations and refugees.
HuffPostMar 28 2018
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Sessions and Kushner Square Off, and Prisoners Hang in the Balance
In the final months of the Obama administration, the Justice Department announced a new approach to preparing prisoners for life beyond their cells. Officials created a prison school system, pledged money for technology training and promised to help prevent former inmates from returning to prison.
New York Times (News)Aug 20 2019
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A $25B US counter-drug smuggling operation quietly thrives far south of the border
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Smugglers flying small cocaine-packed airplanes toward the United States from South and Central America might make it to Mexico thinking they went undetected by American forces staked out in international waters trying to interdict them.
But once on the ground in Mexico, from where they hope to smuggle their contraband into the United States, those tiny planes
Washington ExaminerMar 11 2020
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Hospitals’ Free Speech Argument on Prices Draws Wary Response
The legal fight over the Trump administration rule requiring hospitals to publicly list their prices and the discounts they give insurance companies is testing the bounds of free speech protections.
Health-care industry groups and two private hospitals are using the First Amendment to try and block the Department of Health and Human Services rule before it takes effect in January 2021.
BloombergMay 12 2019
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Booker hits Warren over proposal to break up tech giants
Cory Booker swatted at his Senate colleague and fellow 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren for her call to break up some of the country’s most powerful technology companies — bashing the proposal as not befitting a president and sounding “more like a Donald Trump thing to say.”
In an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl that aired Sunday on “This Week,“ the New Jersey Democrat
PoliticoMar 27 2018
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California sues Trump administration over addition of citizenship question to census
The state of California sued the Trump administration Monday night, arguing that the decision to add a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census violates the U.S. Constitution. The state’s attorney general acted just after the Commerce Department announced the change in a late-night release.
Washington PostDec 03 2020
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Trump escalates baseless attacks on election with 46-minute video rant
Escalating his attack on democracy from within the White House, President Trump on Wednesday distributed an astonishing 46-minute video rant filled with baseless allegations of voter fraud and outright falsehoods in which he declared the nation’s election system “under coordinated assault and siege” and argued that it was “statistically impossible” for him to have lost to President-elect Joe
Washington Post