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Liz Johnstone

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Director for data and election experiences @nbcnews. Formerly: News director, politics @NYTimes
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These Aleppo children played 'war.' Syria's real war killed them

These Aleppo children played 'war.' Syria's real war killed them

NBC News — Ali Abuljud's children ran through the archways of Aleppo, toy guns in hand. They took pretend shots at each other across the courtyards. One child poked at his brother's back with a plastic rifle. "Come on and walk with us," he said, leading his brother away to a fake jail.
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What we know - and what we don't - about Trump's taxes

What we know - and what we don't - about Trump's taxes

NBC News — The issue of Donald Trump's taxes was back in the spotlight Sunday after the New York Times published a report based on documents it said were Donald Trump's 1995 income tax returns.
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Trump's foundation wrote many checks on path to nomination

Trump's foundation wrote many checks on path to nomination

NBC News — In the years leading up to his presidential bid, Donald Trump's charitable foundation donated generously to several conservative nonprofits that would later help raise his stature within the movement.
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Donald Trump: 'It's Possible' a Muslim Judge Would Be Biased

Donald Trump: 'It's Possible' a Muslim Judge Would Be Biased

NBC News — Donald Trump stirred more outrage over the weekend by standing by claims that a judge's Mexican heritage means he can't render a fair verdict against him and suggesting a Muslim judge might also be biased. The presumptive Republican nominee has attacked U.S.
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Trump campaign manager: Immigrant deportation force 'to be determined'

Trump campaign manager: Immigrant deportation force 'to be determined'

NBC News — Donald Trump's new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, on Sunday said that the creation of a "deportation force" for undocumented immigrants under a Trump administration was "to be determined." Throughout the Republican primary, Trump supported the forcible removal of the some 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to live in the United States.
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RNC's Reince Priebus on Trump Controversies: 'People Just Don't Care'

RNC's Reince Priebus on Trump Controversies: 'People Just Don't Care'

NBC News — Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus defended Donald Trump on several morning shows Sunday, saying that campaign traditions don't apply to the presumptive GOP nominee. Trump came under fire last week for refusing calls to release his tax returns, despite having indicated he was open to releasing the returns earlier in the campaign season.
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What Is Donald Trump's Position on Libya?

What Is Donald Trump's Position on Libya?

NBC News — Donald Trump on Sunday tried to square how he can now attack Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for the American-led coalition's intervention in Libya that led to the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi while previously expressing support for the intervention on a humanitarian basis. In doing so, however, Trump contradicted the position he'd taken throughout the primaries.
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Homecoming in Bloom

Homecoming in Bloom

dmagazine.com — There is a football game, sure. And a dance (ugh). But the tradition in Texas isn't complete without a $120 plastic flower. This is a mum: a maternal figure. This is a mum: a widely grown flower with close-clustered petals. This is a mum: carefully constructed layers of craft material given to a girl by a boy on the occasion of a high school homecoming football game, in Texas. Varying lengths, colors, and thicknesses of ribbon-fat, thin, curling, wire-are sandwiched and stapled in an inverted fan between circles of white cardboard. Two names are spelled out vertically down one of these ribbons, in sparkly stick-on letters.
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The Dune Sea of West Texas

The Dune Sea of West Texas

dmagazine.com — No one knows exactly why the ever-shifting Monahans sandhills exist-or why some people can't stay away from them. It's hard to fathom nearly 4,000 acres of sculpted sand until you're ankle-deep in it. The way the fading light bounces off the endless waves of beige is both lovely and hazardous. You might experience some sort of deep revelation that lasts approximately long enough to realize that you probably need more sunscreen. How all this sand piled up in Monahans, Texas, is a little bit of a geological mystery. How I, possessor of Scottish skin and an allergy to unfamiliar bathrooms, got here is easier.
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How Charrería is More Than a Rodeo

How Charrería is More Than a Rodeo

dmagazine.com — There is no eight-second rule. The men ride until the bull stops bucking, and they do it with style. On a hot Saturday in May, as a blue midday sky bleeds like oil paint onto a palette of burnt orange dirt, charros take turns racing their horses down a narrow chute of a stadium in Alvarado, a small town on Interstate 35W, 50 miles southwest of Dallas. Each charro chases a steer, reaching for its tail, sending dust swirling into the air, where it mixes with ranchera blaring from a set of overdriven speakers.
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Trump Get Endorsement From The New York Observer - Son-in-Law's Newspaper

Trump Get Endorsement From The New York Observer - Son-in-Law's Newspaper

NBC News — The New York Observer, the Manhattan weekly owned by Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump's husband, announced its endorsement in the Republican presidential primary Tuesday. If you guessed that the name of the candidate the paper endorsed rhymes with "Ronald Mump," you would be correct. This appears to be Trump's first and only real newspaper endorsement.
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Meet the Republicans Opposing GOP Nominee Donald Trump

Meet the Republicans Opposing GOP Nominee Donald Trump

NBC News — Donald Trump's march to the Republican nomination has forced a crisis in the party. Opposition to the billionaire front-runner began boiling over in February when Trump's initial refusal to denounce former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke in an interview led a growing list of GOP elected officials and top strategists to step forward and declare their opposition to Trump's candidacy.
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