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The urgency of the moment has trained a spotlight on Sebastian Gorka, the White House counterterrorism adviser tasked with drafting a blueprint for fighting homegrown and international threats.

Not one, not two, but three federal circuit courts of appeal covered themselves in glory this week. The Fifth Circuit is here to erode the separation of church and state, the Eleventh showed up to reward Florida’s bad behavior, and the D.C. Circuit is gonna let Trump do whatever Trump wants to do.

Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.

Given the current U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and Latin America, it's time to examine our country’s history of meddling in the Dominican Republic. April 1965 saw one of the largest acts of U.S. meddling—and it is mostly forgotten, except by historians.

On Friday, the Department of Justice announced that it is not only going to once again seek the death penalty, but that it will also bring back barbaric ways to kill death row inmates, including the use of firing squads, electric chairs, and gas chambers.

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