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When Donald Trump says he expects this presidential election (the one he looks increasingly likely to lose) will be “rigged,” he’s not just throwing out an empty phrase: The Republican is actually dog-whistling to a deeply paranoid subset of his supporters. Paranoia is nothing new in American politics, but some in the current paranoiac generation—weaned […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An 18-year-old Charlotte, N.C., college student who was ejected from Thursday’s Donald Trump rally says he went from avid backer to disillusioned opponent after Trump’s security accused him of being a known protester. Jake Anantha, who registered as a Republican and cast his first primary vote for Trump, was wearing a Trump

President Obama has refused so far to survey the Louisiana flood disaster, but he did let state and local officials know that he’s watching to make sure they don’t engage in racial discrimination. In a 16-page guidance issued Tuesday, the Obama administration, led by the Justice Department, warned Louisiana recipients of federal disaster assistance against

Donald Trump’s first television ad of the general election campaign plays up the themes of immigration and national security and says in contrast to Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump can be counted on for “change that makes America safe again.” “In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans,” a narrator says in the 30-second

DETROIT — In a decision that favored religious freedom over transgender rights in the workplace, a federal judge ruled Thursday that a metro Detroit funeral home did not discriminate against an employee when it fired her for transitioning from a man into a woman. That’s because transgender individuals are not a protected class under federal

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Speaking at his first campaign rally after shaking up his top campaign staff, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called for “law and order” and said he would “put the American people first again” at the Charlotte Convention Center on Thursday. “We need law and order, and without it, we have nothing,” said

BALTIMORE — The City of Baltimore terminated its contract with an attorney Thursday after learning he was accused of having neo-Nazi ties. The Rawlings-Blake administration said it had fired Glen Keith Allen, 65, a contract employee who had worked on complex litigation for the city since February. The city began investigating Allen’s background after the

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will phase out its use of corporate-run prisons, after concluding the experiment in privatization failed to reduce costs or improve quality, officials said Thursday. At their height, in 2013, privately operated facilities incarcerated nearly 30,000 inmates, or about 15 percent of the federal prison population. But a recent inspector general’s