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1. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Laura Meckler, Jeremy Roebuck, The Washington Post

   Wyoming governor decries ‘aggressive’ behavior of federal election monitors (opens the original)

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   The governor of Wyoming voiced concern this week about “aggressive” and “irregular” conduct by election monitors sent by the Justice Department during the state’s primary election. A local elections official also voiced profound concerns about the monitors’ behavior, which she said went beyond their purview, including a request to examine voting machines. President Donald Trump and some of his allies have fixated on these machines, asserting without evidence that they are unreliable,

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2. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Laura Meckler, The Washington Post

   Inside school investigations frozen under Trump: Racial slurs, sexual harassment and more (opens the original)

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   By the time Black History Month arrived at Chesaning Middle School in central Michigan in 2024, the only Black girl in the fifth grade had already endured a string of racial slurs. On the bus, she was called a “monkey,” she said. Students hurled the n-word at her and said her skin was “burnt like a piece of chicken.” Then, apparently inspired by a February lesson about slavery, a White boy asked her, “Hey slave, where are your tools so you can get back to working?” School officials t

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