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Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S. officials made list of reporters, lawyers, activists to question at border … KNSD obtained a Customs and Border Protection list of 59 reporters, lawyers and activists for agents to question when they crossed the U.S.-Mexican border.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Subodh Chandra, attorney for the Rice family, provided a statement to a local Fox affiliate.

“It is most unfortunate that the CPPA continues to insist it’s okay for a law-enforcement officer to lie on his employment application —that is, continues to embrace lawlessness in law enforcement,” the statement said. “Until CPPA comprehends its officers are not above the law, none of us are safe. And Tamir? With a police union as lawless as that, the child never stood a chance.”

Reading Time: 5 minutes Fans are convinced they’re secretly “in love.”
Truer words: There can be 100 people in a room, and Lady Gaga will literally only talk about Bradley Cooper.

But because the Star Is Born fandom is a very thirsty place filled with people who want Gaga and Bradley’s onscreen love to be a reality, plenty of fans are wondering if there’s something ~more~ going on between them.

Reading Time: 8 minutes President Trump keeps insisting that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has found “no collusion” between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. But a close read of what we already know about what Mueller’s been doing suggests at the very least, some very questionable things were going on during the campaign.

Mueller’s team has already laid out a startling story in indictments, plea deals, and other court documents that are full of new revelations about the Trump team’s contacts with Russia that year — contacts that have moved from suspicious to downright scandalous.

Reading Time: 2 minutes The more recent uptick in homelessness, however, is a reminder that housing scarcity remains a major problem in America. And yet when it comes to the chronically homeless, you don’t need to fix everything to improve their lives. You don’t even really need new public money. What you need to do is target those resources at the core of the problem — a lack of housing — and deliver the housing, rather than spending twice as much on sporadic legal and medical interventions.

Reading Time: 4 minutes He’s flailing and can’t get anything done.
Today’s national emergency declaration from Donald Trump is an obvious fraud, detectable if nothing else by the reality that various White House and congressional officials have been teasing it as a possibility for months. In a real emergency, you act fast.

In a fake emergency, you act when you’ve decided the political timing is right as part of a larger ass-covering move because you need to back down from an ill-advised congressional fight that, itself, followed from an ill-advised campaign promise.

Reading Time: 2 minutes “An economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations,” Trump said, per his prepared remarks. “If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn’t work that way! We must be united at home to defeat our adversaries abroad.”

Though he said he would cooperate with the Watergate investigation, Nixon argued that the country had other things to worry about that required Washington’s full attention. He resigned from office less than a year later, in August of that year.