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Bannon’s Testimony: President Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has reportedly agreed to be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The news comes just a day after Bannon stonewalled questioners on the House Intelligence Committee, suggesting that Mueller’s investigation of the 2016 election is making more progress than Congress’s. Bannon, like his populist U.K. counterpart, Nigel Farage, has rapidly fallen from political influence—but that’s not to say that both couldn’t make a comeback.

A new report finds that more than half of the killings linked to extremism in the U.S. last year were underscoring the serious risk posed by far-right hate groups’ new visibility. And a two-year investigation has identified the first-known American member of

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