The firings are part of a rolling barrage of retribution aimed at those who worked on the two federal prosecutions of President Trump. The F.B.I. building in Washington, D.C. The firings came hours ...

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When Mark Lehner was a teenager in the late 1960s, his parents introduced him to the writings of the famed clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. During one of his trances, Cayce, who died in 1945, saw that ...