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How 2 Ex-Mormon Gay Dads Built Their Family of 5 Some love stories feel like they’re written by the universe itself—and Jake and Sean’s is one of them. Known affectionately to their followers as

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A $40 Injection Could Rewrite the Future of HIV Prevention Imagine being able to protect yourself from HIV with just two shots a year—no daily pill reminders, no stigma-inducing medicine bottles in your cabinet, just

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Charlie Kirk's group chases anti-fascism professor out of the country A history professor is abruptly leaving the U.S. after a conservative group founded by the late Charlie Kirk singled him out for persecution, according to a report on Wednesday. Mark Bray, who has tau...

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Trump administration defends nationwide rapid deportations at appeals hearing • Ohio Capital Journal Judges on a federal appeals court panel seemed skeptical that the Trump administration's expanded use of a fast-track deportation procedure didn’t violate the due-process rights of immigrants during…

Judges on a federal appeals court panel seemed skeptical that the Trump administration's expanded use of a fast-track deportation procedure didn’t violate the due-process rights of immigrants during oral arguments Monday ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/07/r...

‘War is a business’: the Colombian mercenaries training Sudan’s child fighters to ‘go and get killed’ A soldier of fortune tells of lucrative contracts, the siege of El Fasher and training child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

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Resident assistants at Temple vote to unionize Resident assistants and peer mentors asked the university's leadership to recognize their union last year. Now, they've voted to join OPEIU Local 153.

Resident assistants and peer mentors at Temple University have voted to unionize, joining a wave of student-worker organizing on local college and university campuses.

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

UPDATE from UKRAINE: Basements, Bombs, and Bravery Guest article by Ken Harbaugh – reporting from Ukraine

UPDATE from UKRAINE: Basements, Bombs, and Bravery
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Flying to the end of the shutdown Friends,

Flying to the end of the shutdown
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Five takeaways from Pam Bondi's tense, partisan Senate testimony Nerves were raw in a hearing that covered much ground, and saw Trump's attorney general go on the attack.

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"One Battle After Another" Is What Happens When Art Refuses to Kneel Conservatives call Anderson’s film “irresponsible” because it dares to show what happens when power turns its guns on the powerless...

"One Battle After Another" Is What Happens When Art Refuses to Kneel
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Chilling.

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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AP: Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories.

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

The Justice Department has brought in two AUSAs from out of state to work the Comey prosecution: Tyler Lemons and Gabriel Diaz. Both are detailed from the U.S. Attorney's office in North Carolina.

The hearing was rife with warning signs for prosecutors. The judge set a faster-than-requested trial, despite millions of pages of discovery. He emphasized he would not let DOJ drag out the case with disputes over classified evidence
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NEWS: James Comey pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that followed President Trump’s demand to prosecute.

The judge set a Jan. 5 trial date — but Comey is expected to try to kill the case before it starts, including by disqualifying Lindsey Halligan

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JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Michael Ben'Ary, the fired top national security prosecutor, writes in a letter to his now-former colleagues that DOJ policies are "making American citizens less safe."https://tinyurl.com/3kh7jb9n

BREAKING:

The Supreme Court just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.

The decision means that her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

Breaking:

The state of Illinois has filed a lawsuit to block the Trump admin from deploying federalized National Guard troops on the streets of Chicago.

"The Trump administration's illegal actions already have subjected and are subjecting Illinois to serious and irreparable harm."

The Supreme Court has rejected Laura Loomer's bid to sue social media for banning her.

Top prosecutor is rejecting Trump pressure to charge New York AG A key federal prosecutor in Virginia, where James Comey was indicted, is resisting bringing charges against Letitia James.

Breaking MSNBC:

A top prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues she plans to decline to seek charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James — resisting intense pressure from Trump, according to two people familiar with her discussions. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump doesn't rule out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell:

"I mean, I'd have to speak to the DOJ. I'll look at it."

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

A new draft Trump memo argues that furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown.
 
Those who represent federal workers or advocate on their behalf say the White House is misreading the clear intent of the law.

Sen. Dick Durbin: "Our nation's top law enforcement agency has become a shield for the President and his political allies when they engage in misconduct."

"The Attorney General has systematically weaponized our nation's leading law enforcement agency to protect President Trump and his allies."