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Trump's shady former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, is central to the Russia probe -- and he shaped the new administration more than we knew.
Trump businesses are making money off the government while other people make money off of Trump.
An activist holds a sign during a demonstration against the proposed repealing of the Affordable Care Act in New York City, July 29, 2017. (Photo: Albin Lohr-Jones / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images)
Momentum is moving quickly in the Senate to pass the Graham-Cassidy ACA repeal bill. With just one hearing and virtually no debate, senators are working hard behind the scenes to gather the 50 votes needed for a bill that is potentially a bigger threat and more damaging than the previous repeal efforts.
After staging hunger strikes and work stoppages for over three years, detainees at an immigrant jail in Washington State won a victory this week when the state attorney general filed a lawsuit against the private company running the jail for paying detainees to work for as little as $1 a day.
While it's widely known that private schools convert to charter status to take advantage of public dollars, more schools are now heading in the opposite direction. As voucher programs across the country proliferate, shuttered charter schools have begun to privatize in order to stay open with state assistance.
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