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 - Supreme Court seems split in case of boy’s death near border
 - Scott Pruitt’s first EPA address: “We can be both pro-energy and jobs and pro-environment”
 - On her sophomore album, Anna Wise paints a nuanced picture of female empowerment
 - University’s solar-powered still improves ancient water cleaning technology
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 - GOP members of Congress meet with protests at town halls
 - Former white supremacists help others leave hate groups
 - Western land war heats up: Major outdoor-industry trade show bails on Utah to protest GOP assault on public land
 - Milo, Donald Trump and the outer limits of hate speech: When does absolute freedom of speech endanger democracy?
 - “You just can’t do it, mathematically”: Experts don’t share President Trump’s rosy predictions for economic growth
 - WATCH: Declassified Pentagon NSA document reveals anti-terror power play
 - WATCH: 5 black actors who should have won Oscars for these roles
 - ‘It saved my life’: Talk of Obamacare repeal worries addicts
 - Conservative forces clash in Trump’s early days
 - Trump’s strategic vision of chaos: Inventing a nonexistent crisis so he can “solve” it
 - WATCH: Seth Meyers makes a trailer for a film destined to win an Oscar
 - President Trump’s hiring freeze is forcing two Army bases to suspend their child-care programs
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 - “Shame on Mitch”: Republican members of Congress are being met by vocal and angry constituents
 - Bill Maher takes credit for Milo Yiannopoulos’ downfall: “You’re welcome”
 - “What universe are these people living in?” Anne Frank Center blasts Sean Spicer for complaints over anti-Semitism whitewash
 - California farmers use floodwater to replenish aquifers
 - Extremism from both sides: What does the research tell us about Islamist extremism and far-right extremism?
 - President Trump’s plan to round up the undocumented will be wonderful for private prisons
 - WATCH: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse tells Salon “fewer than half” of GOP senators think Trump “makes it through his presidency”
 - Republicans finally show their hand on Obamacare repeal: It could be worse but it’s still a total mess
 - Trump’s understaffed Cabinet is being micromanaged by the White House, leading to friction
 - “I grew up with a wall”: Watch a German immigrant’s emotional testimony during Fox News town hall
 - Look Again: The day’s most compelling images from around the globe
 - Stephen Miller admits the new executive order on immigration ban is same as the old
 - Trump campaign staff to White House: The president won’t make embarrassing tweets if he doesn’t read any negative publicity
 - Meet the DNC dark horse: Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is shaking up the race for Democratic chair
 - Federal judge upholds Maryland’s assault rifle ban, calling the guns “weapons of war”
 - Look Again: The day’s most compelling images from around the globe
 - Real fake news: German newspaper retracts bogus story about sexual assault by migrants
 - Paul Krugman blasts Trump’s economic arrogance
 - 7 Earth-size worlds found orbiting star; could hold life
 - Tom Hanks is coming out with short fiction anthology revolving around typewriters
 - Donald Trump is struggling to keep his border wall promise
 - “Milo bills” crop up across the country: Republicans rush to court right-wing troll by protecting offensive speech on campus
 - “That is really bad”: President Trump discovers the horrors African American slaves endured