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Daniel Luzer

news editor

Daniel Luzer -- News Editor. Daniel previously worked as the Web editor at the Washington Monthly and as an editorial fellow at Mother Jones. His work has appeared at Mother Jones, Salon, Pacific Standard, the Washington Monthly and Columbia Journalism Review.

(It's pronounced Loot-zer.)

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Approximate fraction of state legislators who run unopposed.
Former federal prosecutor Steven Levin, referring to how FBI agent Matthew Lowry repeatedly stole heroin from evidence bags for personal use, leading prosecutors to dismiss charges against 28 defendants.
The increase in heroin-related deaths in Loudoun County, Va., since 2012.
Vice President Biden, telling a crowd that he believes Washington, D.C., should be granted statehood.
Amount of time a schizophrenic inmate in North Carolina was held in solitary confinement before dying of thirst last March.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, voicing his opposition to so-called “no-go zones” where countries supposedly cede control of certain areas to autonomous Muslim immigrants. Fox News recently issued several corrections after a guest’s assertion that “no-go zones” exist in Britain and France. There is no designation of such places in either country.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, when asked in a radio interview about his failure to earn a college degree. The governor left Marquette University in his senior year to take a job.
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Number of U.S. states that observe a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and a Robert E. Lee holiday on the same day.
Justices will consider four cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, consolidated and heard together.
Since 2008, thousands of local and state police agencies have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under a civil asset forfeiture program at the Justice Department called Equitable Sharing.