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He’s Running as a Hero of the Opioid Epidemic. Here’s the Catch.

Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ/ZUMA; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid calls to “drain the swamp” and “reinvent” Washington, Patrick Morrisey—the West Virginia Republican running for US Senate—often brags that no one has done more than he has to address the state’s devastating opioid epidemic.  Since first working on opioid issues in 2013,…

Obama’s Homeland Security Chief Just Waded Into the “Abolish ICE” Fight

Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last few weeks, fueled by Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary upset in New York and and a frenzy of damning stories about the Trump administration’s immigration policies, calls to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency…