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Chilling Photos Capture Police Shooting Man, Fueling Anger in Kenya

The protests and police shooting on Tuesday came nearly a year after demonstrations against President William Ruto of Kenya convulsed the country.

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Protests in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday were set off by word of the death of Albert Ojwang, a blogger who died in police custody on June 8.

Former Interpol Official Detained for Role in ‘Big Carousel’ of Corruption

The official led a powerful and highly sensitive commission at Interpol’s headquarters in Lyon, France.

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The Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France.

A Tree Trimmer’s Front-Row Seat to Trump’s Impromptu Iran Remarks

Any other president might have discussed a potential Iran strike in an Oval Office address or in a formal news conference. Mr. Trump did it while hanging with a crew of guys at a job site.

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President Donald Trump talks to the media as his new flag pole is being installed on Wednesday. Christopher Tattersall stood on the right of the frame in the orange shirt.

ICE Imposes New Rules on Congressional Visits

The policy specifies that ICE field offices are not subject to an existing law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”

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Four Democratic representatives were denied access on Wednesday to an immigration processing facility in suburban Chicago where they believed immigrants were being held for days without access to lawyers.

‘Little Lobbyists’ Urge Senators to Oppose Trump’s Bill Cutting Medicaid

Children with disabilities and their parents who rely on the health insurance program took to Capitol Hill this week to warn that the proposed reductions could be ‘devastating.’

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Members of the Little Lobbyists walk through the halls before meetings with senators in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington on Tuesday.

In Crisis With Iran, U.S. Military Officials Focus on Strait of Hormuz

Pentagon officials are trying to prepare for all of the ways Iran could retaliate, as President Trump hints at what he might do.

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy ships in the Persian Gulf last April.

French Lawmaker Says He Was Denied Entry Into the United States

Pouria Amirshahi, a leftist member of Parliament, hopes that the decision will be reversed so that he can travel to meet lawmakers to understand life under President Trump.

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Pouria Amirshahi, a member of the Green party, in the National Assembly in Paris in February.
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