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Ban on Muslims entering the U.S. “unconstitutional,” said Trump’s reported VP pick Mike Pence in December

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Donald Trump, Mike Pence (AP/David Furst/Michael Conroy/Photo montage by Salon)

How a Trump-Pence presidency would be dangerous for the press

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Israeli troops deploy during an army operation at West Bank village of Salem, May 30, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli military’s new chief rabbi implied soldiers can rape in war, as government lurches to far-right

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Surveillance footage showing Delrawn Small moments after being shot

Police brutality in NYC: Cop investigated in shooting of unarmed dad Delrawn Small

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Chelsea Manning (AP/U.S. Army)

Chelsea Manning attempted suicide but is now “glad to be alive,” legal team confirms

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Palestinians walk through the rubble of their homes in October 2014 in Shuja'iyya, Gaza, after Israel's U.S.-backed bombing (AP/Adel Hana)

“No justice for war crimes victims” 2 years after Gaza war, Amnesty International says

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Ahrar al-Sham fighters in Idlib city in northern Syria, March 20, 2015. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)

U.S.-backed Syrian rebels committing war crimes, torture, abductions; imposing harsh Sharia law: Report

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Protestors in Baton Rouge, La., July 6, 2016. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Before Alton Sterling, Louisiana police killed mentally ill black father Michael Noel — and 37 others since 2015

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Piedmont Park, in Atlanta, Georgia (Wikimedia Commons/Daniel Mayer)

Lingering questions over death of black man found hanging from tree in Atlanta park

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The Rumaila oil field in Basra, Iraq. (Reuters/Atef Hassan)

Email to Clinton: U.S. pressured Iraq to increase oil production “to pay the greatest dividends”

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Police and others gather at the emergency entrance to Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, where several police officers were taken after shootings Thursday, July 7, 2016 (AP/Emily Schmall)

UPDATED: 5 Dallas police officers killed, 6 injured in sniper attack at protest

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Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP)

Chilcot report: British intel warned Iraq war would strengthen al-Qaeda and extremists; Blair invaded anyway

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(AP/Reuters/Jim Young/Hadyn West/Jerome Delay/Photo montage by Salon)

“Not justified”: The biggest findings of Chilcot report, which blasts British role in catastrophic Iraq war

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Chelsea Manning (AP/U.S. Army)

Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning hospitalized after suspected suicide attempt, reports say

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(Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

U.S. claims drones only killed 116 civilians; experts say it’s way more

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Bernie Sanders speaking on the Senate floor against the PROMESA bill on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 (C-SPAN)

WATCH: Sanders blasts “colonial” Puerto Rico bill and Wall Street vulture funds in powerful Senate speech

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Barack Obama signs into law the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, June 30, 2016. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Critics say bipartisan bill signed by Obama imposes “colonial” control board on Puerto Rico, puts “hedge funds ahead of people”

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Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage (AP/Reuters/Matt Dunham/Scott Audette/Kirsty Wigglesworth/Photo montage by Salon)

How neoliberalism fuels the racist xenophobia behind Brexit and Donald Trump

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Paramedics push a stretcher at Turkey's largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, Turkey, June 28, 2016. (Reuters/Osman Orsal)

Turkey’s “double game” on ISIS and support for extremist groups highlighted after horrific Istanbul attack

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A police officer guides people outside Istanbul's Ataturk airport, Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Two explosions have rocked Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing several people and wounding others, Turkey's justice minister and another official said Tuesday. A Turkish official says two attackers have blown themselves up at the airport after police fired at them. The official said the attackers detonated the explosives at the entrance of the international terminal before entering the x-ray security check. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Ataturk airport attack within Turkey. (AP Photo) TURKEY OUT (AP)

“Turkey is at war with itself”: Experts on the Istanbul bombing and Turkey’s policy toward the Islamic State

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A Yemeni man flees a gas station after it was hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Houdieda, Yemen on February 5, 2016 (Reuters/Abduljabbar Zeyad)

Rights groups: Suspend Saudi Arabia from U.N. Human Rights Council over war crimes

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(AP/Seth Wenig)

D.C. enacting $15 minimum wage indexed for inflation, in huge victory for labor rights

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Hillary Clinton; Bill Gates at Harvard University's commencement ceremony, June 7, 2007. (Reuters/Brian Snyder/AP/Michael Dwyer/Photo montage by Salon)

Clinton’s pledge to forgive student debt of entrepreneurs, not average workers, will benefit the elite

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Rebel fighters in Deraa Governorate, Syria, June 19, 2016. (Reuters/Alaa Al-Faqir)

CIA and Saudi weapons for Syrian rebels fueled black market arms trafficking, report says

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