Obamacare Repeal Bill Heads to President, Pittsburgh Decriminalizes Marijuana, Chicago Law Department Under Review: A.M. Links
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White House/Instagram Will the president's proposed executive actions on guns pass constitutional muster? (And can you trust those tears he shed on TV yesterday?)
- Did North Korea really test a hydrogen bomb Tuesday? Nobody knows!
- Pittsburgh Philadelphia has quietly decriminalized marijuana possession. Meanwhile, Washington, D.C., has been going back and forth about private pot clubs.
- A juror from Making a Murderer subject Steven Avery's murder trial said she only voted to convict Avery out of fear for personal safety.
- President Obama plans to veto a bill that Congressional Republicans have spent more than five years trying to pass.
- A Wheaton College professor has been placed on administrative leave for saying Christians and Muslims worship the same god.
- It's not just Chicago police who are under review but the city's law department, too.
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