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What You Need To Know About Europe’s Heartbreaking Refugee Crisis
Nina Wolpow
Sep 2, 2015
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Sep 01 2015
Nina Wolpow
Sep 1, 2015
World News
71 People Found Dead In Abandoned Truck Were Most Likely Refugees
Nina Wolpow
Aug 28, 2015
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 28 2015
Andy Parker, father of the 24-year-old news anchor murdered on live TV on Wednesday, vowed to make gun control reform his “mission in life.” He
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 27 2015
SHUT DOWN: A federal judge has put a ban on heart-stopping execution drugs in Mississippi, where wrongly convicted people like Michelle Byrom have spent ye
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 26 2015
Eight years after Sophie Lancaster was murdered for dressing in goth style, her parents say the fight for tolerance for “alternative subcultures̶
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Six Facts About China’s Stock-Market Crash You Need To Know...
More Chinese people have been investing in the economy than ever before. And, generally speaking, that is a good thing. Economists credit the growth of Chi
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 25 2015
North Korea and South Korea are making plans to get friendlier. They're starting with a deal to end their “semi-state of war” and cut back
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Nina Wolpow
World News
Gay Syrian Refugee Implores World Leaders To Take Action Against ...
“I am a refugee and I am gay,” Subhi Nahas declared before the United Nations Security Council on Monday. Nahas had come to New York City from
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Nina Wolpow
New York
The Most Instagrammed Ice Cream In New York City
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
Update: Jared Fogle Expected To Plead Guilty, Fired From Subway
UPDATE: Subway has officially severed ties with Jared Fogle, according to a tweet from the company. The announcement comes hot off the heels of reports on
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Nina Wolpow
World News
What It’s Like To Be Gay In Israel
Several days after a man allegedly stabbed six people at the Jerusalem Pride Parade on July 30, two men walked hand in hand down Jaffa Road, a main thoroug
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 14 2015
An 11-year-old girl gave birth to a child in Paraguay. She was denied an abortion. (The New York Times) A Guantánamo Bay prisoner is on the verge of
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
When Will Obama Release A Man Who Has Spent Eight Years On A Hung...
Human-rights advocates and attorneys are pushing President Obama to release a man who has lost more than half his body weight during an eight-year hunger s
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Nina Wolpow
World News
Death Toll In China Explosion Now At 50 People
This a developing story. Refinery29 will update our reporting as we learn more. Updated on August 13 at 10:00 a.m.: Here is what Tianjian looked like befor
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 13 2015
Two enormous explosions set the Chinese city of Tianjin ablaze. (Refinery29) Lebanese Hezbollah and opposing rebel fighters are under a two-day truce in Sy
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 12 2015
A Mississippi couple was arrested before boarding a flight overseas for allegedly attempting to join ISIS. (The Wall Street Journal) Look up at the sky ton
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 11 2015
The one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death turned violent. (Refinery29) The U.S. Consulate in Istanbul is closed after attacks. (BBC) #EPAfail:
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The Mass Grave In Texas No One Talks About
Maria Albertina Iraheta Guardado was desperate. Her home country of Honduras, the second-poorest nation in Central America, had recently experienced a mili
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 08 2015
North Korea created its own time zone to protest “wicked Japanese imperialists.” (BBC) Isabelle Prime, a French woman helped captive in Yemen f
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
Women’s Rights In Iran: Two Steps Back, One Step Forward
Earlier this month, Refinery29 released a video series called “Tehran Unveiled,” which seeks to inspire women all over the globe by introducing
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 07 2015
Donald Trump said something super-offensive about Rosie O'Donnell last night — here's what she had to say. (Refinery29) Memories of Hiroshi
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
Devastated Families Of Malaysian Airliner Victims Struggle With N...
As investigators continue to analyze debris found on the island of Réunion, the families who lost their loved ones on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
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Nina Wolpow
World News
Champion Deep Diver Feared Dead After Disappearing Near Ibiza
One of the greatest heroes of women's sports is missing: Russian deep-diving champion Natalia Molchanova. Molchanova, 53, disappeared on Sunday while
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
Wing Confirmed To Be From Flight 370, Authorities Investigate New...
Updated on August 6 at 11:55 a.m.: French authorities are investigating more debris that washed up on the island of Réunion, where the wing said to
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 06 2015
A gunman with an ax opened fire at a screening of Mad Max: Fury Road outside Nashville. He was subsequently killed by police. (Reuters) President Obama say
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 05 2015
India took down 857 pornography sites an activist/lawyer called “worse than Hitler, worse than AIDS.” (The New York Times) Legionnaires' d
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Nina Wolpow
World News
Women Who Changed The World — That You’ve Never Heard Of
Women have always been excluded from history, and that has got to stop, Kassidy Brown and Allison Rapson, co-founders of the media company We Are the XX, b
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 04 2015
We are not at war with Syria, just training to fight ISIL, the Pentagon says. (Al Jazeera) Meet President Obama's “Clean Power Plan.” (USA
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Aug 01 2015
Dylann Roof, the alleged Charleston church shooter, wants to plead guilty. (Al Jazeera) Beijing will become the first city to host the Summer and the Winte
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