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Jeff Sessions just reopened the door to deporting 350,000 immigrants whose cases had been closed

Attorney General Sessions’s latest ruling could make the years-long backlog in immigration courts much worse.

8 legal experts on whether Trump’s demand for an investigation into the FBI is legal

Spoiler alert: It’s complicated.

We finally have an Ebola vaccine. And we’re using it in an outbreak.

In a first, the experimental vaccine is being deployed in the DRC to try to stop an outbreak from spreading.

The awesome beauty of Jupiter captured by Juno, in 13 photos

For the past two years, the spacecraft has been taking photos of Jupiter. Here are the best shots.

Stopping Americans for speaking Spanish: the latest evidence that Border Patrol agents have too much power

What a Border Patrol agent did to two US citizens is alarming —and probably legal.

Trump is scrambling to justify his trade concessions to China

Critics say the president may have given up too much too quickly to the Chinese in negotiations.

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