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Ketanji Brown Jackson Stands Firm—and Alone—on Compassionate Release -- Elizabeth Webster and Belén Lowrey-Kinberg

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I Run a Summer Camp. I Can Tell You Right Now That You're Ruining Your Kid's Summer. -- Violet Piper

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TV's Best Comedy Went Out With a Perfect Finale. It Was Years in the Making. -- David Mack

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Trump Is Mocking What's Happening in New Jersey. I Saw It for Myself. Something's Changing. -- Aymann Ismail

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Donald Trump Is Pretending to Be a Knicks Fan for One Reason and One Reason Only -- Luke Winkie

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Rich Juzwiak -- I Thought My New Boyfriend Was the Perfect Man. Then I Found Out What He Was Doing Before We Met.

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Why Was the Chief of Staff for a Leading Republican Senate Candidate on a Group Chat With Famous White Nationalists? The Answer Somehow Makes It Even Worse. Ben Jacobs - His boss is running for a Senate seat. He was on a group chat with Nick Fuentes.

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John Roberts Might Not Know It, But He's Played a Dangerous Game This SCOTUS Term -- Amicus

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Think You're Smarter Than a Slate Senior Writer? Find Out With This Week's News Quiz. -- Ray Hamel

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Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts Remain Strangely Clear-Eyed About One Kind of Racism -- Alexis Romero and Mark Joseph Stern

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