Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons and other top stories.

• Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

  

  Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates instructed Justice Department officials Thursday to end its use of private prisons. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced the decision on Thursday in a memo that instructs officials to either decline to renew the contract..

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• These protesters wanted to humiliate 'Emperor' Trump. So they took ...

  

  A nude statue of Donald Trump attracted onlookers as soon as it was unveiled in New York City’s Union Square on Thursday morning. Similar statues were placed in four other U.S. cities. (Courtesy of Jason Goodrich) For much of the past year, Donald Trump proved uniquely untouchable, a political force of such mind-boggling invulnerability that he even bragged about attracting voters after hypothetically shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. Hoping to strip away the Teflon Don’s legendary confidenc..

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• Bolivia's president opens 'anti-imperialist' military school

  

  - Bolivian President Evo Morales opened a military school on Wednesday, to counter what he calls 'imperial oppression'. ()

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• Ryan Lochte: A champion swimmer caught in a riptide of self ...

  

  RIO DE JANEIRO — Ryan Lochte is the dumbest bell that ever rang. The 32-year-old swimmer is so landlocked in juvenility that he pulled an all-nighter with guys young enough to call him uncle. His story to NBC’s Billy “what-are-you-wearing” Bush had the quality of a kid exaggerating the size of a fish, and notice how he was the hero of every detail. That was always the most dubious, implausible part. There is a special category of obnoxious American “bro” that Lochte represents, in his T-shirt..

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• Zika now suspected from mosquitoes in Miami Beach

  

  A Miami-Dade County mosquito control worker sprays around a home in the Wynwood area of Miami on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. The CDC has issued a new advisory that says pregnant women should not travel a Zika-stricken part of Miami, and pregnant women who live there should take steps to prevent mosquito bites and sexual spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) Health officials in Florida have identified a possible new area of Zika transmission involving several cases in Miami Beach, said officia..

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• I don't need air conditioning, and neither do you

  

  (Washington Post illustration; iStock) It’s time to come out of the closet. Or, more precisely, the sweat lodge. My family lives without air conditioning, except for one antique, semi-comatose window unit that “cools” the bedroom to approximately the same temperature as Dallas at dusk. Our house in Philadelphia was built in the 1920s, when people were tough and resourceful. For most of the year, the house is cool and pleasant, as long as there isn’t a mash-up of continuously scorching days..

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