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A Month Since Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s Plea

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Calls for Mercy and Compassion Continue It’s been just over a month since Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde stepped up to her pulpit for the National Prayer Service, looked directly at President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, and issued a direct, earnest plea. “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared,” she said. “Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage…

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How J. Edgar Hoover Went From Hero to Villain

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Five decades after his death, J. Edgar Hoover still haunts the FBI. His nearly 48-year reign as its director, from 1924 to 1972, has come to symbolize the dangers of a stealth domestic police-and-intelligence agency in an open society. Hoover is widely seen today as an autocrat who used secret surveillance and other illegal means to control politicians and infiltrate and disrupt domestic political groups in the service of his conservative worldview. No operation confirms this verdict more vividly than the FBI’s wide-ranging electronic surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.,…

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