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Bernie Sanders Campaign Holds Thousands of House Parties for Supporters

Just days after former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the 20th candidate to join the Democratic presidential race, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont readied what he hoped would be his latest show of force: thousands of house parties across the country. On Saturday, Mr. Sanders’s campaign kicked off its national organizing program with […]

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For U.S. Commandos in the Philippines, a Water Pump Is a New Weapon Against ISIS

PADAS, Philippines — While neither guided bomb nor armored vehicle, a gray oblong water pump sticking out from the brush along a remote dirt road is intended to be just as clear a sign of the United States’ efforts to stop the spread of the Islamic State. It has taken two months, an American Special

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Bernie Sanders Opens Space for Debate on Voting Rights for Incarcerated People

The question was stark: Would you support enfranchising incarcerated people like the Boston Marathon bomber or convicted rapists? The answer Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont gave was starker: Yes. “I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy,” Mr. Sanders said during a town hall-style event on CNN this past week. “Yes, even

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Guantánamo Bay as Nursing Home: Military Envisions Hospice Care as Terrorism Suspects Age

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Nobody has a dementia diagnosis yet, but the first hip and knee replacements are on the horizon. So are wheelchair ramps, sleep apnea breathing masks, grab bars on cell walls and, perhaps, dialysis. Hospice care is on the

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In N.R.A. Power Struggle, Insurgents Seek to Oust Wayne LaPierre

INDIANAPOLIS — Turmoil racking the National Rifle Association is threatening to turn the group’s annual convention into outright civil war, as insurgents maneuver to oust Wayne LaPierre, the foremost voice of the American gun rights movement. The confrontation pits Mr. LaPierre, the organization’s longtime chief executive, against its recently installed president, Oliver L. North, the

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Rosenstein Assails Obama Administration, Comey and Journalists in Defending Handling of Russia Inquiry

WASHINGTON — The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, attacked the Obama administration, former law enforcement officials, the press and his own critics in a fiery speech on Thursday night that he used to defend his handling of the Russia investigation. Mr. Rosenstein, who appointed the special counsel to take over the inquiry after President

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