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Jack Smith, special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice, and former President Donald Trump.

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As a former AG, I believe Jack Smith had little choice but to indict Trump

Obama’s right. Racism is still America’s ‘fault line’

‘No Hard Feelings’ is a sex worker romcom that won’t admit it

My ride aboard the Titan submersible was thrilling. But catastrophe was never far from my mind

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court gave my wife and me a wedding gift

The Supreme Court can’t afford to sustain another self-inflicted wound

A cautionary tale about the original martyr of White working-class Americans

A year since Supreme Court’s abortion ruling, there’s a real human cost

SE Cupp: The hypocrisy of censuring Adam Schiff

Global Views

Young demonstrators hold placards during a 'Fridays for climate' protest against climate change in Athens on May 24, 2019 as part of a global youth campaign ahead of the EU elections. (Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP) (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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If a 16-year-old can drive, work, pay taxes – why can’t they vote?

US President Joe Biden (L) talks with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the opening of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 15, 2022. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Biden is taking a calculated risk on India’s Modi

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with war correspondents at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia June 13, 2023. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

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What Putin’s awkward meeting with Russia’s war bloggers reveals

FILE - The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema speaks during their picket against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill at the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa on April 4, 2023. Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad, it was announced Monday, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

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Uganda’s death sentence for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ is outrageous. Here’s the smart way to fight it

The Russian Ministry of Defense released video showing Russian forces rolling their armored vehicles up to the northeastern edge of Kyiv.

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How Russia’s military has improved since last year — and how it’s still vulnerable

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 11, 2022 shows US President Joe Biden (L) addresses the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate from the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, in Washington, DC on June 17, 2022 and China's President Xi Jinping (R) speaks after walking with members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, to meet the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022. - President Joe Biden will urge Chinese leader Xi Jinping to restrain North Korea's "worst tendencies" and tell him that Pyongyang's arms build-up will prompt an "enhanced" US military presence in Asia, a senior official said November 12, 2022.
In a December 14, 2022 meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit, Biden will tell Xi that China has "an interest in playing a constructive role in restraining North Korea's worst tendencies," National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN and Noel CELIS / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN,NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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This is bigger than just the US and China

PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 14: Piled up rubbish bags are left on the street in front of to Eiffel Tower, during the garbage collectors' strike on March 14, 2023 in Paris, France. On the ninth day of the garbage collectors' strike against the pension reform, garbage cans are piling up in Paris, dozens of filled garbage bags are piled up in the middle of the street. On tuesday, the town hall of Paris counted more than 5,600 tons of uncollected waste. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)

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Did Paris’s rats just win the war?

Colombian President Gustavo Petro shared the photo via social media saying "A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive."

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A plane crash, a miracle rescue, and the balm we were all looking for

Leader of Italy's liberal-conservative party Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi speaks during a rally of Italy's far-right League party, conservative Brothers of Italy party and Forza Italia party against the government on October 19, 2019 in Rome. - Italy's strongman Matteo Salvini holds a key rally in Rome on October 19 aimed at re-launching the Italian right and making a power-grab for the capital. Some eight special trains and 400 coaches transported supporters from across the country for the "Italian Pride" demonstration. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Before Trump or Viktor Orban, there was Italy’s Berlusconi

People are evacuated from flooded areas in Kherson, Ukraine on June 7.

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The Ukraine dam disaster demands accountability

Political Op-eds

Hunter Biden leaves after President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 people during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, in July 2022.

Who wins in the Hunter Biden plea deal

History is not on Donald Trump’s side

The Supreme Court honored tribal nations with its decision

Chris Christie goes where his rivals won’t

Trump lost the war of images

Why are so many Republicans running against Trump?

What made Trump’s 31 secret documents so explosive

The real problem with the IRS

Republicans, take a good hard look at where Trump is leading you

Trump’s case is a crucial test for justice in America

The 2024 election is a chance to write a new script

A lesson MAGA hasn’t learned — bonkers threats can’t derail the rule of law

Top issues

TOPSHOT - Taliban fighters escort veiled women marching during a pro-Taliban rally outside the Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul on September 11, 2021.

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Biden’s Afghanistan exit decision looks even worse a year later

A protester holds a placard outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the United States, June 24, 2022.

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I will never live in the marital shadows again

Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, testified on the first panel.

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What kind of justice will Ketanji Brown Jackson be?

Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, listens during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. The top U.S. military leaders yesterday pointed rare criticism at key decisions by Presidents Trump and Biden which they said undermined Afghanistan's military and made it harder for American troops to remain as the nation's government collapsed. Photographer: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Don’t shed any tears for Liz Cheney

The problem Joe Manchin highlighted is crucial for America’s future

How the Biden administration can ensure mask access to all Americans

What 2020’s pro-Trump phony electors means for 2024

Social commentary

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‘Elemental’ hit me hard in my feelings

Arming America’s grandparents is not the solution to our gun violence crisis

The complicated truth about Juneteenth

I was shocked to learn there was a way to save my hair during chemo

Why I flew to Jamaica to take magic mushrooms … on camera

How to honor Black people on Juneteenth

This TV mom changed everything

The fifth Beatle is artificial intelligence

I love my children, but I can’t be their ‘real’ parent

Why I’ll be thinking about Harrison Ford this Father’s Day

The Pennsylvania highway collapse shows how vulnerable our roads are

As a father, I’ll be sure my Black daughters get ‘The Talk’

Ozempic isn’t just a ‘wonder drug.’ It can also be a warning sign

He’s the hottest draft prospect since LeBron James. Here’s what he needs to know to make it in the NBA

How Houston’s homelessness breakthrough could be a national game changer

A bag of fake oxycodone M30 tablets contain fentanyl.

Fentanyl is killing a shocking number of young Americans. What the US can do to respond

Richard Roth and Samira Jafari in New York in June 2022.

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How a coworker’s email saved his life and renewed hers

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The real out-of-control college costs aren’t where you think

Kim Kardashian attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 92nd Oscars at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on February 9, 2020.

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Kim Kardashian doesn’t deserve this

Special projects

Voices of Freedom

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The fiercest fight of the 21st century – to save democracy

I met my dad for the first time when I was 4, and he was behind bars

A moment of desperation with his country’s flag made this pastor go viral

Your rights could be taken away rapidly. I know because it happened to me

Nathan Law: Democracy is not only Hong Kong’s fight

What I learned about freedom from a 2x2 Venezuelan prison cell

I was born in a Chinese ‘reeducation camp.’ I’m watching history repeat itself

Chess champion took on Putin and Trump. Hear why he’s terrified for Americans

Why the Cambodian regime is trying to silence me

Why this judge rejected a bribe from Congress

Fractured States of America

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Welcome to the Fractured States of America

Asheville’s woes are the story of America

Van Jones: We got together on this issue. It could point the way for more

Conservative: She was not a faceless liberal

SE Cupp: A third party could get us out of this mess

John Avlon: Confronting the cult of partisan media

Take a deeper look

Cross-exam with Elie Honig

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in prior to testifying during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to become an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 21, 2022. - The US Senate takes up the historic nomination on Monday of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Republicans would be wise to get behind Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation

DC Circuit Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson

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Potential Supreme Court pick is one of the finest judges I’ve seen

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial April 5, 1961 in Jerusalem. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ahead of Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day May 4, 2005 which this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Nazi's World War II defeat in 1945. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images)

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60 years ago, we saw the face of evil