David Koresh was a man ahead of his time. After the calamitous 1993 fire at Waco, Texas, which saw 76 of Koresh’s followers killed after a long FBI siege, the cult leader turned from a freak and a nobody to a saint of the far right, which saw the tragedy …
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Donald Trump’s political allies are preparing an all-out blitz against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, judge Juan Merchan, and anyone else in the American judicial system who dares cross him. But as his political operation gears up, the former president’s own lawyers are pleading with him to show a modicum …
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There is more than one way to burn a book, Ray Bradbury wrote, and the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Texas House Rep. Steve Toth brandished the equivalent of a butane torch earlier this session when he introduced House Bill 2690, legislation that seeks to …
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G race Gibson-Snyder takes a sip of chai from her reusable mug in the crowded coffee shop. She grew up here in Missoula, she says, “with a love of nature untainted by worry.” Every year on her birthday, her family took her to Yellowstone to hike and backpack. She rafted …
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A federal district court judge in Texas has issued an injunction suspending distribution of mifepristone — a critical component in the two-step abortion pill regimen — nationwide. It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the order, which could make the drug used in most abortions in America unavailable to women …
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The world that produced Montana “Tana” Barronette and his crew was just over the horizon from where I grew up in Baltimore. I was in the county, the white sanctuary just north of the old city line. Sandtown was Black Baltimore, just ten miles southwest as the crow flies, but …
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T his story is part of thePulitzerCenter’s nationwideConnected Coastlinesreporting initiative. ROSINA PHILIPPE EXPERTLY steers a small metal boat through the brackish bayou. It’s a chilly February afternoon in Louisiana, and Philippe, an elder of the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Tribe, is bundled up in a camouflage hoodie. She’s lived here in the Grand …
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North Carolina House Rep. Tricia Cotham stood before a bank of television cameras flanked by a dozen former rivals on Wednesday and announced she was done with the Democrats. “The modern Democratic Party has become unrecognizable to me and to so many others throughout this state and this country,” Cotham …
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After his indictment on 34 felony counts Tuesday, Donald Trump sought out a faithful audience, joining a conference call with Christian supporters who see him as not simply battling a liberal prosecutor, but ensnared in a “demonic situation.” Trump’s longtime religious adviser Paula White Cain, working with an evangelical group …
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For many of Donald Trump‘s supporters, today is a dark day indeed: The president pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts today after being formally arrested in a Manhattan courtroom. But for those in the Qanon conspiracist movement, hope springs eternal, and “The Storm” is always just around the corner. …
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