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Border czar Tom Homan says 700 immigration officers are leaving Minnesota, and those that remain will get body cameras. Plus, the government publishes three million pages of Epstein files, with victim ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

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Just weeks into the new year, the Trump administration has rolled out a campaign across departments that draws on images and ideas borrowed from right-wing and white nationalist circles. Liz Landers ...