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Who is Heidi Cruz? Plus one senator’s proposal to give cash to lower-income families, a federal clergy-abuse investigation, and more
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Church and State: The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating multiple Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. While state-level law enforcement has prosecuted priests accused of sex crimes, the federal government generally hasn’t been involved in these cases. The moral and legal stakes of the clergy sex-abuse crisis continue to grow.

California Senator Kamala Harris has a plan— the Middle Class Act—to give lower-income families up to $500 in cash each month. Harris is towards a presidential run in 2020.

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