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Immigration Officials Have Used Google Translate to Vet Refugees
Language experts caution even students against using the service.
Big Banks Are Shifting Mortgages Made Riskier by Climate Change Onto Taxpayers
Researchers hope to spur debate about lending policies for regions increasingly at risk in a warming world.
Union Members Demand a Voice in Presidential Endorsements
Several unions are responding to members' criticisms of how endorsements were made in 2016.
Private Contractor Defends Detention Inspections Deemed “Useless” by ICE Staff
Lawmakers and human rights advocates were shocked by the Nakamoto CEO's testimony on Thursday.
Will This Be the Scandal That Finally Prompts Republicans to Defect From Trump?
If Republicans circle the wagons now, they’re doing so around a stick of lit dynamite.
We Can Save the Planet by Defunding the Pentagon
Billions of Pentagon dollars could be freed for critical climate projects while ending the environmental havoc of war.
Why White Supremacists Love Facebook
Far from deplatforming racists, Facebook is moving toward private groups that will be harder to monitor.
Manufactured Misery at the Tijuana Border Crossing
Only one migrant has been granted asylum since the Migrant Protection Protocols went into effect in January.
The Right-Wing Media Twisted My 2015 Reporting on the Bidens and Ukraine
“It’s strange to see my journalism twisted, perverted and turned into lies," says reporter James Risen.
Over 2,000 Arrested in Egypt in Growing Protests Against Sisi
Thousands took to the streets to demand President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi resign over accusations of corruption.