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Trump Will Force Asylum-Seekers to Wait in Mexico

Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday announced that asylum-seekers who arrive at the US-Mexico border will be forced to wait in Mexico while their cases are decided, a process that can take years. The plan is the most aggressive step yet in the…

17 Great Fiction Reads to Take Your Mind off Trump

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Between your pinging cellphone, America’s bitter politics, and the orange one’s deranged tweeting habit, you would be forgiven for wanting to divorce yourself from reality for a while. So, at the end of this very long year, we have just the answer you need: Xanax.…

After Voters Passed Progressive Ballot Initiatives, GOP Legislatures Are Trying to Kill Future Ones

Demonstrators at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing protest the lame-duck legislative session.Dale G.Young/Detroit News/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last month, voters in Michigan overwhelmingly approved ballot initiatives to enact automatic and Election Day registration, create an independent redistricting commission to prevent gerrymandering, and legalize recreational marijuana. It was a…

Facebook Just Got Hit With a Massive Lawsuit. It Could Cost the Company Billions.

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. DC Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social-media giant of “unfair and deceptive” practices that violated consumer privacy and led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The first lawsuit of its kind in the United States, the…