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As President Donald Trump continually works to expand his power through executive actions, one of his recent proposals takes things to the next level. He has suggested he could use the authority of the presidency to perform a federal "takeover" of major cities like New York and Washington, D.C. But ...
James Davidson, a former FBI agent, speaking to The New York Times about FBI Director Kash Patel's reported use of polygraphs to test agents for loyalty. "An FBI employee's loyalty is to the Constitution, not the director," added Davidson.
The right to be judged by a group of your peers is part of the bedrock of the American legal system. But jury trials are controversial, and many democracies worldwide do not rely on them at all. Germany Jury trials were abolished in Germany in 1924, and most cases are tried by a professional judge o...
$118,341: The trading price that bitcoin reached this morning — the first time in its history the cryptocurrency has traded above $118,000. It's a significant ramping-up for bitcoin; it was trading below $80,000 as recently as April. The new price puts the market cap of bitcoin above $2.3 trillion....
President Donald Trump's surprise announcement on Wednesday that the White House planned to levy a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports has sent shockwaves through both countries. But as he made clear, the tariffs aren't borne of economic necessity. Instead, the proposed fees are a vector for political l...
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