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No, Mass Shooters Do Not Target “Gun Free Zones”

Screen shot from White House video Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A day after President Donald Trump convened a remarkable meeting to discuss gun regulations with members of Congress at the White House, he gave the gathering a mixed scorecard. “Many ideas, some good & some not so good, emerged…

Mueller’s Indictment of 13 Russians Strikes Fear Into the Trump White House

Andrew Harnik/AP; Dmitri Lovesky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the ongoing investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller issued an astounding 37-page indictment charging 13 Russians in a broad conspiracy to sabotage America’s 2016 elections. By Saturday, President Donald Trump and White House officials responded by tripling down…

Republicans Are Poised to Release the Controversial Nunes Memo

mikolajn, adamkaz/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted late Monday to release a four-page memo by GOP staffers spearheaded by Rep. Devin Nunes, the committee’s chairman, that has become a cause célèbre among President Trump’s defenders. The vote means the memo can become public as soon…

Does Donald Trump Want to Be Dictator of the United States?

The Republican National Convention in July 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It began the day he was sworn in, with his vow to end “American carnage”—a direct echo of his autocratic pronouncement when accepting the Republican nomination that “I alone can fix it.” Donald Trump has chipped away at…