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Trump's Title X rule, like state abortion restrictions, targets poor women

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18 attorneys general support challenge of Trump rule expanding rapid deportations

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Trump joked about trading Puerto Rico for Greenland. Puerto Ricans are joking back.

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Key Mueller cooperator Gates testifies in trial of former Obama White House counsel

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Trump scraps efforts to cut foreign aid

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Trump team reassigns Northeast asylum officers to work on border cases

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A lawmaker shamed him for leaving a 74-cent tip. Now, he may sue.

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El Paso mass shooting forcing Texas to face gun culture, racism toward Latinos

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Missing head chef of a renowned NYC restaurant found dead

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Priest allegedly stole church money for personal travel, Grindr dates

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Feds subpoena employees at jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself

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Saudi judge rules U.S. mother too Western to raise daughter

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U.K. risks becoming U.S.'s 'junior partner' after Brexit, France's Macron warns

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South Korea scraps intelligence-sharing pact with Japan as feud between U.S. allies heats up

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White House is wrong to dismiss yield curve inversion, economists say

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Trump attacks Ford for not supporting his rollback of Obama-era climate change protections

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Bulletproof backpacks wouldn't have saved anyone in recent shootings

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Walmart will reopen El Paso store where gunman killed 22 people

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Facebook bans Epoch Times ads after huge pro-Trump buy

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Fox News dropped as sponsor by largest Latino journalists' organization

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A U.S. citizen was put in jail because of his Latino name and skin color, lawsuit says

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Journey to power: The history of black voters, 1976 to 2020

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