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Heather K. Gerken, a voting rights scholar and former dean of Yale Law School, plans to intensify its emphasis on democracy as it girds for attacks from the Trump administration.

There was no structural damage to the building, they said, as investigators pursued two suspects.

As redistricting efforts spread across the country, an Indiana state senator said he isn’t sure how he will vote on a plan that President Trump supports.

At one grocery store in Massachusetts, SNAP recipients faced growing fears, dwindling funds and lighter shopping carts.

Two people were seen running from the building afterward, the school said. No injuries were reported, the school police said.

The move deepened the idea that a Vietnam-era law, which says congressionally unauthorized deployments into “hostilities” must end after 60 days, does not apply to airstrike campaigns.

Many corporate interests that have donated to the president’s pet project have business before his administration.

Judges on Friday ordered the federal government to continue providing food assistance during the shutdown. But benefits will still most likely be interrupted.

The president attended a Halloween party Friday and called attention to the marble renovation of a White House bathroom.