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Crime and Politics: Rick Gates, who served as an aide to President Trump in the White House and on his campaign, has agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and lying to the FBI. Gates is the third former member of Trump’s team to admit committing a felony. His guilty plea casts further doubt on the president’s judgment and puts pressure on Paul Manafort, Gates’s former business partner and Trump’s former campaign chair. Elsewhere, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens has been charged with felony invasion of privacy connected with a 2015 extramarital affair. Here’s the story of his rapid rise and fall.

The president that has characterized his presidency. Trump also called for bringing back institutional mental health care. While that plan is unlikely to solve the problem of mass shootings, here’s why some experts think it

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