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Marc Ash | To Trust or Not to Trust the FBI, a Question 
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Washington DC, 2017. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News 
Ash writes: "While the FBI is quite capable of very professional conduct, the Bureau, its directors, and its agents have also proven equally willing to trample on every civil liberty and right ever invented. Often with lethal consequences." 
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Government Spying on Immigrants in America Is Now Fair Game. What Next? 
Azadeh Shahshahani, Guardian UK 
Shahshahani writes: "Do I now, every time I want to post to social media, have to censor myself with the full knowledge that Big Brother is watching?" 
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Trump Finally Launching $1.5 Trillion Sales Pitch for Infrastructure 
Brianna Gurciullo, Politico 
Gurciullo writes: "The White House is rolling out President Donald Trump's long-awaited infrastructure plan Monday, swinging for the fences with a $1.5 trillion initiative that is light on new federal dollars - but could inspire a wave of toll roads, ease decades-old regulations and permanently change cities' and states' expectations for assistance from Washington." 
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A Second White House Aide Resigns Over Domestic Abuse Allegations 
Jen Kirby, Vox 
Kirby writes: "Speechwriter David Sorensen is stepping down as the Rob Porter fallout is just beginning." 
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'Calls From Home': How One Kentucky Radio Station Connects Inmates and Families 
Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor 
Gass writes: "More than 5,000 men are incarcerated in the six federal and state prisons in the broadcasting range of WMMT. Every week, for almost 20 years, the station has produced a show called "Calls From Home" that broadcasts recorded messages from the inmates' friends and family members." 
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Selling Guns in the Shadow of the Vegas Massacre 
Kevin Maurer, The Daily Beast 
Maurer writes: "Just three miles from the Mandalay Bay, the gun industry gathered for its biggest show of the year." 
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Who Killed This Benevolent Man Who Saved So Many Rhinos and Elephants? A New Lead. 
Margot Kiser, The Daily Beast 
Kiser writes: "The possibility that Esmond Bradley Martin was killed as a tactic in an attempted land grab has come to light." 
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