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We need to give peace a chance. But peace is not what Donald Trump and Kristi Noem have in mind for the blue states and blue ...

A week of immigration sweeps across Southern California has left some communities terrified, with fewer people on the streets ...

A giant orange balloon depicting Donald Trump in a nappy towered over one "No Kings" protest as hundreds of thousands thronged streets across the United States to decry the president's policies.