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Paul Manafort’s financial-crimes trial begins. Plus a miner’s new hope for the coal industry, a mother’s difficult choice, and more.
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Manafort inThe financial-crimes trial of Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign, is underway. Although it’s the first trial to come out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of election interference, And in a broader sense, this trial isn’t just about Manafort. Instead, writes Franklin Foer, “it’s an occasion for the United States to awaken from its collective slumber about ” Here’s how prosecutors

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