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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. On a brilliant mid-October morning, Harold Singletary stood before a teal shroud hanging from a building along one of the most famed architectural stretches
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Many in the Beltway view Donald Trump as the personification of dire political disruption. A recent Atlantic cover even painted the former president in the foreboding hues of a Stephen King novel. However, a series of recent polls suggest that many swing voters may see something else entirely in Trump: the potential for normalcy. View
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is produced in collaboration with The Texas Tribune and Votebeat. Sign up for newsletters from The Texas Tribune and from Votebeat. Reporting Highlights Mistaken Identities: Reporters found at least nine people
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The Spectator magazine has been sold to hedge fund tycoon and GB News’s biggest shareholder Sir Paul Marshall for £100m. The title is one of the UK’s most influential political magazines and counts former prime minister Boris Johnson and ex-chancellor Nigel Lawson as past editors. The transaction decouples it from the search to find new
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Budget hotels could be used to house newly freed prisoners as the government lets offenders out early to ease pressure on the justice system. The government started its operation to end custodial sentences for some prisoners after 40% time served rather than 50% today, with around 1,700 people expected to be let out. Justice Secretary
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Prisoners set to be released early tomorrow have been trawled through in an attempt to not let domestic abusers go, the policing minister said. Tuesday will see about 1,700 prisoners released early to alleviate overcrowded prisons in England and Wales. The government said serious violent criminals, terrorists and domestic abuse perpetrators will not be released
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Sir Keir Starmer warned during the election campaign of the need for “tough decisions”, but carefully avoided setting out where the axe would fall.  Now it’s clear who will be losing out – starting with most pensioners losing winter fuel payments worth up to £300 – unease is bubbling under the surface. Politics live: Number
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Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard are back with their daily guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes. On the day of a big Commons vote on the future of winter fuel payments, Jack and Sam discuss whether this is really the first big test of
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