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Fishkill, N.Y.: It was another bad week for conspiracy theorists, as the much-anticipated Durham report blew up in their faces. The report concluded that the FBI did not generate a politically motivated investigation to “get” Trump over his ties to Russia. In short, Trump’s whining about a “deep state” conspiracy to get him was diversionary nonsense. If only Trump’s conspiracy-loving gang could ever be humbled by facts, the Durham report should have added to their embarrassment.

Robert Luna takes charge of the LA Sheriffs Department amid concerns about crime, deputy gangs, and poor jail conditions. Can he turn the department around?

The deaths come as the county faces scrutiny in court for its chronically poor jail conditions and its reliance on cash bail to keep people behind bars.

Seaside Heights, N.J.: Bullet holes from strafing still scar the buildings at Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu, a haunting testimony of the events that occurred 80 years ago today, a grim reminder of the “Day of Infamy” and the horrors of global war.

Camden, N.J.: Charles Camosy’s guest op-ed (“Biden’s HHS vs. abortion common ground,” Nov. 30), an unofficial amicus brief supporting the return of the right to regulate abortion to the states (like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is trying to do), is either fatuous or disingenuous.

Windham, N.H.: In 1951, three-quarters of the United States ratified the 22nd Amendment via Article V convention, imposing term limits on the office of the American presidency after the corrosive effect on our democracy from an executive with wartime powers run amok in Franklin Delano Roosevelt.