Congress Takes on Criminal Justice Reform

With Democrats and Republicans now agreed that the war on crime got tougher than it needed to be, senior senators of both parties are proposing reforms in a rare moment of bipartisanship.

Also on the program, the death toll in last month's stampede of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia is now more than a thousand. A Muslim writer — almost killed in the same place during a pilgrimage 12 years ago — now wants other Muslims to join a boycott of Saudi Arabia.

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