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A video of a group of white teenagers taunting a Native American man at Friday’s Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, DC, sent shockwaves across social media as it went viral Saturday afternoon.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Two years ago today, before a crowd of debatable size, President Donald Trump stood on the steps of the Capitol to take the oath of office that would make him the 45th President of the United States.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

This afternoon, President Donald Trump is expected to propose an deal that would exchange $5.7 billion in border wall funding for his support of the BRIDGE Act, which would extend protections to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and give temporary protective status for refugees.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Outside Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School in Los Angeles on Friday, students hauled their backpacks past teachers encouraging drivers to honk their horns in support.
On a muddy lawn next to a tent with a table filled with Popeyes’s Chicken for breakfast, Sharonne Hapuarachy, a longtime English teacher, shouted updates to her colleagues into a megaphone.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Jason Van Dyke, the white former Chicago police officer who was convicted of second-degree murder in October for killing black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014, has been sentenced to 81 months, or nearly seven years, in prison.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A group of tech consumer groups and racial justice organizations released an aggressive new proposal on Thursday, calling on the federal government to create an entirely new federal agency tasked with data privacy protection.

Two Senate committees investigating Russian efforts to influence US politics through the National Rifle Association are led by GOP senators who have long received campaign support and donations from the gun group and its leaders.

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At the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, a team of about a half-dozen technicians analyzes pictures down to their pixels, trying to determine if the faces, hands, clothes or cars of suspects match images collected by investigators from cameras at crime scenes.

During a lame-duck session in December, Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled state legislature sparked protests and outrage when it passed a series of bills that stripped power from newly elected Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and made it harder for Wisconsinites to vote, including by limiting early voting to two weeks.

President Donald Trump responded to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recommendation to reschedule his State of the Union address until after the government has reopened, claiming in a letter on Thursday that he has postponed Pelosi’s upcoming travel to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan—foreign visits he derisively referred to as “public relations” events.