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Attorney General Barr moves to deny bond hearings for some asylum seekers
Attorney General William Barr has unilaterally moved to keep some asylum seekers in jail indefinitely while their claims are processed.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 49m ListenAttorney General William Barr has unilaterally moved to keep some asylum seekers in jail indefinitely while their claims are processed.
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5 storiesSome asylum seekers may be forced to wait in jail without a bond hearing
Attorney General William Barr has unilaterally moved to keep some asylum seekers in jail indefinitely while their claims are processed.
Read the story7 minWilliam Barr has served as Attorney General before. What his record tells us about his handling of the Mueller report
Attorney General William Barr was sworn in about two months ago. Barr served as Attorney General before, under President George H. W. Bush. In that stint as A.G., he oversaw Robert Mueller’s work for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
Read the story6 minChinese researchers have created a new kind of monkey, with human brain genes
Gene editing experiments raise ethical questions, and gene editing experiments with primates are even more controversial. For instance, what if we make monkeys too similar to humans?
Read the story9 minBeing brave is being vulnerable, says Brene Brown
Vulnerability is hard to talk about. Things like, getting hurt, failing, being rejected, admitting you made a mistake are not exactly top of the to-do list.
Read the story16 minHernando Colón’s lost library catalog has been rediscovered
A massive library catalog filled with summaries of thousands of books from more than 500 years ago, many of which no longer exist, has just surfaced in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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