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Can the feds make a dent in Chicago's violent crime epidemic?
President Trump is "sending the feds" to Chicago. Can 20 new agents help get gun violence under control or is this a political stunt with racial undertones?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenPhoto: National day of protest against police violence, October 22, 2014 at Daley Plaza in Chicago. (Bob Simpson)
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3 storiesLegal implications of Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian lawyer
Donald Trump, Jr., the President's oldest son, has confirmed that he met with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during last year's campaign. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kusher, and campaign manager Paul Manafort confirm they were there, too. The lawyer had promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Trump, Jr.
Read the story7 minPresident Trump and the 'Chicago problem'
The name "Trump" takes up two stories atop a Chicago skyscraper, but the President has singled out the city for concentrated "carnage." As promised, he's "sending in the feds" — 20 more officers of the ATF — to work with local police and the highway patrol—with exclusive focus on shootings.
Read the story43 minMike Pence is secretly courting top GOP donors
During his campaign, candidate Donald Trump attacked his own party's "most generous political donors." Now Vice President Pence is hosting dinners with some of the same people Trump called "puppet masters who manipulate the political process to further their own interests at the expense of working people." That's according to Kenneth P.
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