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On The Gist, Mike calls foul on the mashup terms used to describe big weather events, such as the latest: bombogenesis.
In the interview, police shootings regularly make headlines, but what does the big picture look like? Sam Sinyangwe is a data analyst at Mapping Police Violence, an organization that recently looked at all 1,129 cases in which a person died at the hands of the police in 2017. And yes, there is a racial disparity.
In the Spiel, the barbs traded between President Trump and Steve Bannon truly are the stuff of Shakespeare.
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