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Texas troopers are in more and more lethal car chases

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A RED CAR weaves in and out of traffic on a highway in El Paso, Texas. It’s June 2022 and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers are in hot pursuit. They are chasing someone they suspect of smuggling migrants across the southern border. The high-speed pursuit, which reaches 100mph (160kph), eventually runs parallel to the border wall. As the troopers drive closer they seem to hit the car. It flips and lands upside down. One passenger flies through a window; the others crawl out. The DPS radio traffic is mostly unintelligible except for one word. “Shit.”

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Checks and Balance newsletter: Of God and MAGA

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Charlotte Howard, our executive editor and New York bureau chief, unpacks the blurring of church and state among Donald Trump’s circle

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The Hudson is now so clean that everyone can eat from it

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Battery sashimi, anyone?

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is a lethality-maxxing wasps’ nest

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America’s armed forces are supremely capable and roiled by infighting

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