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    Mar 28

    📰 top U.S. and world headlines 🎙️ in-depth interviews 🌐 web exclusives 📥 delivered straight to your inbox Sign up for our Daily Digest:

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  2. 19 minutes ago

    Iraq Combat Veteran: Pardon of War Criminals Sends Disturbing Message to U.S. Military and Rest of the World

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  3. 39 minutes ago

    How Voter Suppression & Gerrymandering Cleared the Path for Unprecedented Abortion Bans

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  4. 56 minutes ago

    Ari Berman: GOP Docs Prove Census Citizenship Question Is About Preserving White Political Power

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  5. 3 hours ago

    "The idea of once we enter into a war our job is to go kill anything that moves … is blatantly false," says Iraq War veteran . "It demonstrates a real disturbing lack of understanding of how to deal with civilians and noncombatants in the battlefield… It's deplorable."

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  6. 3 hours ago

    Trump "has chosen really the worst possible options of anyone to pardon and [Navy SEAL Edward] Gallagher probably being the most egregious," says . "Among the things that he is accused of are shooting a child, shooting an old man, murdering a 15-year-old noncombatant."

    Iraq vet Waitman Wade Beorn: Trump is wrong to pardon war criminals
    Waitman Wade Beorn, historian and Iraq war veteran, says he is alarmed by Trump' interest in pardoning U.S. military members accused or convicted of war crimes.
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  7. 3 hours ago

    "Abortion is not an act of eugenics," says , whose book on eugenics was cited by Justice Thomas in an anti-choice opinion. He adds that while eugenics is defined by government control, abortion is a woman's "personal decision about what she wants to do with her life."

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    Justice Clarence Thomas's "history isn't right and there is a real ideological agenda behind how he's using the history," says journalist and lawyer , who says Thomas misinterpreted his book on eugenics in the 20th century to support strict abortion legislation.

    Adam Cohen says Clarence Thomas misused his book on eugenics
    Adam Cohen, author of a book on the history of the eugenics movement, says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas cited his book improperly in an opinion linking abortion to eugenics.
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  9. 3 hours ago

    "People don't want blanket bans on abortion, even in places like Missouri and Ohio," says , author of "Give Us the Ballot." "We're seeing these laws passed because Republican politicians are insulating themselves from the will of the voters through gerrymandering."

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  10. 3 hours ago

    "This is startling smoking gun evidence," says of GOP strategist Thomas Hofeller's recently found notes about adding a citizenship question to the census. "It clearly shows this question was added to benefit the Republican party, particularly white Republicans."

    Journalist Ari Berman on the Trump admin's citizenship census question
    Ari Berman of Mother Jones says newly revealed documents are "black and white" proof of the political motivations behind the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the census.
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  11. 4 hours ago

    Also — We're joined by veteran and historian Waitman Wade Beorn (), who says President Trump is wrong to want to pardon American military members convicted or accused of war crimes. Watch 8-9AM ET:

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  12. 4 hours ago

    Then: In a legal opinion last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas linked abortion to eugenics, citing a book by — but Cohen says Thomas misrepresented his work. He joins us in studio to discuss. Watch 8-9AM ET:

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    TODAY — Last week, documents surfaced that revealed a late GOP gerrymandering strategist's involvement in the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the census. joins us to discuss. Watch 8-9AM ET:

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  14. 7 hours ago

    Scott Warren Provided Food & Water to Migrants in the Arizona Desert — Now He Faces Up to 20 Years in Prison

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  15. 10 hours ago

    Journalist Paul Mason says the Brexit Party’s success in recent EU elections highlights the failure of the Conservative and Labour parties

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  16. 13 hours ago

    .: "There is no left opposition to speak of [in Israel]. And the Palestinian Israelis are being totally marginalized and excluded. And the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are only on the receiving end of what happens."

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  17. 15 hours ago

    Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee, says "there is no left opposition to speak of" in Israel today. "And the Palestinian Israelis are being totally marginalized and excluded."

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  18. 17 hours ago

    Historian Kate Clifford Larson says the Trump administration's resistance to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman "is rooted in misogyny and racism."

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  19. 20 hours ago

    "When we see the charges that have been added now ... most of them really relate to activities that any investigative journalist is conducting every day," says . "So, it’s really a reason for concern for press freedom around the world."

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  20. 22 hours ago

    Alexa Kolbi-Molinas of the ACLU stresses that the bans currently threatening reproductive health are "going to be blocked" in lower courts. She adds, "Abortion remains legal in all 50 states."

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  21. 24 hours ago

    Historian Kate Clifford Larson rebukes the Trump administration over its resistance to replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, saying, "It’s time that a woman is on our currency."

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