Keya Vakil is the deputy political editor at COURIER. He previously worked as a researcher in the film industry and dabbled in the political world.
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4 Black Men Were Found Hanged in 3 Weeks. What Is Happening?
“For African-Americans in America, hanging from a tree is a lynching. Why was this cavalierly dismissed as a suicide and not investigated as a murder?”
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America’s Top Military Official: ‘I Should Not Have Been’ at Trump’s Photo Op
Army Gen. Mark Milley said he was wrong to have accompanied the president on his June 1 walk through Lafayette Square to St. John’s Church, where Trump held a bible aloft in an awkward publicity stunt.
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Trump Tweets Conspiracy Theory About 75-Year-Old Man Assaulted by Police
Hundreds of videos show police escalating violence at protests, yet the president is still trying to blame antifa.
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Trump’s Former Defense Secretary Mattis: The President Is a Threat to Our Country
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.”
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This Is What It Means to Defund the Police
Supporters of the movement point out that many of the reforms enacted in recent years have not ended police brutality.
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Joe Biden Demands Justice for George Floyd, Calls on Americans to Root Out Structural Racism
“The original sin of this country still stains our nation today, and sometimes, we manage to overlook it. We just push forward with a thousand other tasks in our daily life. But it’s always there.”
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The U.S. Has Officially Passed 100,000 Deaths From Coronavirus. The Real Number Is Likely Much Higher.
The current death toll could actually be as high as 125,000 Americans, according to a New York Times analysis.
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Why Truckers Showed Up and Blasted Their Horns At Trump
The protest, organized by trucker Rick Santiago, was held to express truckers’ frustration over shipping rates that they say are so low that they can’t make a living.
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Nearly 1 in 4 Republicans Don’t Want Trump as the Republican Nominee
The new poll comes from Trump’s favorite pollster.
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The Democrats Have a New $3 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill. Here’s What’s In It.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said there’s no “urgency” to pass another bill and that Republicans are “assessing what we’ve done already.”
