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America’s Police Chiefs Call BS on Arming Teachers

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. J. Thomas Manger, police chief of Montgomery County, Maryland, testifies at a 2009 hearing on Capitol Hill. Manuel Balce/APIn the roughly three weeks since a deranged 19-year-old shot up a Florida high school, leaving 17 people dead, President Donald Trump has been peddling a favorite…

The Real Reason Pizza Hut Just Rolled Out the Extra-Cheesy

Cheesy enough for you?Courtesy of Pizza Hut Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember “stuffed-crust” pizza? Donald Trump likely does. In this Pizza Hut ad from the 1990s, the future president demonstrates the “crust-first” method: Cramming more cheese into products is a hoary and enduring fast-food tactic. Just last month, Pizza…

Mueller Reportedly Has Evidence Blackwater Founder Tried to Set Up a Trump-Putin Back Channel

Blackwater founder Erik Prince arrives for a closed meeting with members of the House Intelligence Committee last November.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last April, the Washington Post reported that Blackwater founder Erik Prince had a secret meeting with a Russian close to Vladimir Putin to establish back channel communications between the Kremlin and…

Quote of the Day: Lies and the Lying Liars

Henning Kaiser/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From California governor Jerry Brown, commenting on the claim that California prevents sheriffs from cooperating with immigration authorities: Look, we know the Trump administration is full of liars. That’s pretty much all the answer anyone needs these days to anything the…

Florida Lawmakers Approve Gun Restrictions In Response to Parkland Shooting

20 protesters participate in a die-In rotunda of the Florida Capitol to call for gun restrictions.Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, Florida lawmakers approved a package of gun restrictions and school safety measures, defying the National Rifle Association and creating new regulations in response to the deadly Valentine’s…