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Resistance-Fantasy Twitter Is Speculating Wildly About Mueller’s Report, Having a Blast

Fox News Declares Total Victory for Trump, Doesn’t Need to Read the Report

Why Barr Will Probably Withhold Some of Mueller’s Findings

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Some Music Theorists Are Furious About the Bach Google Doodle

How to Stop People From Seeing if You’ve Opened Their Emails

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This Book Epitomizes Nauseating White House Palace Intrigue

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U.S.-Backed Forces Destroy ISIS’s Last Stronghold in Syria

Bonkers Presidential Election Features Two Candidates With the Same Name

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Why Anti-LGBTQ Activists Are Obsessed With “Gender Ideology”

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Tremont Waters Gives LSU March Madness’ First Victory Shower–Worthy Win

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ICE Releases “Dreamer” Flight Attendant Locked Up for Six Weeks After Mexico Flight

George Conway Calls Trump “Incompetent,” “Stupid” in Tweetstorm

FEMA Put 2.3 Million Victims of Wildfires, Hurricanes at Risk of Identity Theft

People’s Vote March: The Best Signs From the Huge Anti-Brexit March in London

Tremont Waters Gives LSU March Madness’ First Victory Shower–Worthy Win

A List of Trump Figures Who Apparently Won’t Be Indicted by Robert Mueller

With His Pick for Ambassador to Mexico, Trump Shows How Little He Cares About the Country

Trump’s North Korea Strategy Is an Incoherent Mess

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Tremont Waters Gives LSU March Madness’ First Victory Shower–Worthy Win

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The Problem With San Francisco’s Proposal to Ban Vaping

Is Our Love of Warm Weather Causing Us to Shrug Off Global Warming?

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What Good Are Facts if We Only Use Them as Clubs to Hurt Other People?

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FEMA Put 2.3 Million Victims of Wildfires, Hurricanes at Risk of Identity Theft

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