Rachel Wagner

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Justice department says it rescinded 13 layoff notices issued in September for agency known as ‘America’s peacemaker’

President Donald Trump's administration is reversing course on firing nearly every employee at a 1960s-era agency within the U.S. Department of Justice known as "America's peacemaker" that is tasked with quelling racial and ethnic tensions in U.S.

With more than 1,000 protests this weekend amid heightened tensions over two recent shootings by federal immigration enforcement agents, this might have seemed like a good opportunity for the Justice Department to deploy its "peacemaking" unit that