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National Security

Trump's firing of Esper raises concerns about national security during Trump's final days in office

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Immigration

Lawyers can't find the parents of 666 migrant children separated by Trump administration

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Business News

Judge orders Trump administration to reveal PPP loan data it sought to obscure

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2020 Election

The Russians have no need to spread misinformation. Trump and his allies are doing it for them

Investigations

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Donald Trump

Defense Secretary Esper plans to help Congress draft legislation to strip bases of Confederate names

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Military

Afghan security forces, civilians face surge in attacks, U.S. watchdog says

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Security

Military acknowledges taking cyber action against Russia, Iran prior to election

2020 Election

Trump lashes out after FBI announces investigation of Biden bus incident

U.S. news

Hate crime against Black couple jolts beach town known for tolerance

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2020 Election

Lawyers for Trump: These lawyers remade the Supreme Court. Now they're fighting to limit voting.

They're the same activists who have pushed the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary to the right.

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Immigration

Lawyers say deportees to Cameroon would be flying on 'death planes'

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2020 Election

Iran spreading election propaganda and targeting U.S. state voter rolls, officials say

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2020 Election

Here's what happened when NBC News tried to investigate the alleged Hunter Biden emails

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Justice Department

U.S. charges Afghan man with kidnapping former NYT reporter

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U.S. news

FBI arrests five in U.S. accused of trying to coerce political dissenters to return to China

Justice Department

Con man and fake spy who once worked for DEA, DHS gets seven years in prison

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Health news

Iran's Covid death toll may be four times the government's official tally, says top doctor

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Elections

More than 1 million mail-in ballots may be rejected, say experts

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Crime & Courts

3 accused of making, shipping firearms are facing federal weapons charges

U.S. news

Trump admin dismantles 'firewall' for editorial independence at U.S.-funded outlets

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Coronavirus

Large corporate landlords have filed 10,000 eviction actions in five states since September

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Coronavirus

'Toxic': CDC staffers say morale inside the agency has plummeted during the pandemic

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U.S. news

Legal limbo: Hundreds of Louisville protesters still waiting to learn their fate months after arrest

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Immigration

Is the Trump administration really 'working very hard' to reunite migrant parents and children?

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National Security

Trump admin considers branding Amnesty International, other human rights groups as 'anti-Semitic'

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2020 Election

Trump admin has known for weeks that Iran, Russia hacked local governments, say officials

U.S. news

Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein accuser's account of Prince Andrew tryst is 'ludicrous'

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2020 Election

Cybersecurity company finds hacker selling info on 186 million U.S. voters

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Elections

Rudy Giuliani gives alleged Hunter Biden hard drive to Delaware authorities