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What colleges say to justify legacy admissions. Plus: the “army” of whistle-blowers inside the Trump administration, two more relative unknowns join the 2020 race, and more
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For decades, tipsters have cooperated with Congress’s House Oversight Committee to report wrongdoing within the U.S. government— Earlier this week, Tricia Newbold stirred up a media storm when she revealed to the committee that senior Trump administration officials granted security clearances

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