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How might Trump ‘drain the swamp’?

Donald Trump has unveiled a plan to fix “broken” Washington, a move that he has likened to draining a swamp. What’s his plan? The businessman-turned-politician has long cast himself as an outsider who can bring much-needed change to a dysfunctional and corrupt federal government. Here […]

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The battle for Mosul, explained

In June 2014, ISIS stunned the world by seizing Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city. It was touted as proof that this group was a new kind of terrorist threat — one that could take and hold territory. Shortly afterward, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his […]