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First, if you’re looking for a gripping long read this weekend, I recommend “I don’t want to shoot you, brother,” by ProPublica’s Joe Sexton. It’s a surprising and important tale about a police shooting.

The latest Russia plea. When I sat down this summer with Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, he wanted to make one overriding point: People weren’t paying enough attention to the suspicious ties between the Trump businesses and Russia.

People are starting to pay more attention now.

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