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50 Years Later, the Motive Behind Watergate Remains Clouded

Despite the abundance of transcripts, FBI reports, and memoirs from those involved, we still know more about the cover-up than we do about the infamous political scandal.

Reason · Jun 16, 2022

As West Texas temperatures soar, border agencies say new tools are saving migrants’ lives

VAN HORN, Texas — Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo is haunted by the sight last year of a father clinging to life next to his son who succumbed to the brutal heat in an unforgiving desert.

Tribune News Service · Jun 16, 2022

Chicago police must solve more violent crimes

Clearance rates are a critical way to evaluate police effectiveness and ensure accountability and community trust. And with every crime that goes unsolved, another family is left yearning for answers, for clarity, for reason.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 15, 2022

Herschel Walker caught lying — again

A list of some of Walker's most bizarre and despicable fabrications to date

Salon · Jun 15, 2022

Jonathan Bernstein: Why Trump’s own appointees are setting the record straight

How do presidents get in trouble? Monday’s Jan. 6 committee’s hearing on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election didn’t focus on that general question, but it did demonstrate something familiar to students of the presidency.

Tribune News Service · Jun 15, 2022

Spy agencies' focus on China could snare Chinese Americans

China is the foremost challenge for U.S. national security agencies, a so-called “hard target” that is America’s chief rival for global dominance

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

Harmony Montgomery: FBI remove fridge wrapped in biohazard tape from apartment of missing girl’s father

Youngster disappeared between 28 November and 10 December 2019, but police did not find out she was missing for two years

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

CIA coder who allegedly leaked classified material begins trial

Prosecutors say Joshua Schulte leaked classified information because of workplace dispute; he says he is being framed.

Al Jazeera · Jun 14, 2022

‘The Old Man’: Jeff Bridges spy story swings from amazing action to far-fetched plot and back

The veteran actor does nuanced work as usual, but the FX series takes too many ridiculous turns.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 14, 2022

Woodward and Bernstein didn't bring down a president in Watergate – but the myth that they did lives on

In their dogged reporting of the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the crimes that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in August 1974.

The Conversation · Jun 14, 2022