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Who Is The New Leader Of The Taliban?
Nina Wolpow
Jul 31, 2015
World News
Zimbabwe Wants Lion-Killing Dentist Extradited
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Jul 31, 2015
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Jul 31 2015
Nina Wolpow
Jul 31, 2015
Politics
India To Allow Abortion For 14-Year-Old Rape Victim
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of India will allow a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and impregnated by a doctor to have an abortion, t
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Jul 30 2015
The Voting Rights Act was passed 50 years ago this month. Ever since, a largely Republican faction has been fighting to destroy it. (The New York Times Mag
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World News
How Could Zimbabwe Let Someone Kill Cecil The Lion?
After Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer paid $50,000 to kill, skin, and behead Cecil, a protected African lion living in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park
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8 Things You Need To Know This AM — Jul 29 2015
The son of Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya's late longtime dictator, was sentenced to death for his role in the violent suppression of Libya's Arab Spr
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World News
This Syrian Couple Got Married In The Rubble Of Their Church
Fadi and Rana fell in love while working for the United Nations Refugee Agency. On July 12, they returned to their hometown of Homs, Syria, a city north of
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
Who Is In Donald Trump’s Wolfpack?
Donald Trump believes he is at the helm of a movement. “This is more than me,” he said via telephone on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
Poll: Most Americans Believe Race Relations Are Bad Right Now
More than 50% of white and Black people in the United States believe that race relations are generally bad right now, according to a New York Times/CBS New
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Nina Wolpow
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ISIL Keeps FBI Director Awake At Night
The director of the FBI believes that the Islamic State group — known by its acronyms ISIL or ISIS — is now a bigger threat to the United State
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Nina Wolpow
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New Video Of Sandra Bland’s Arrest Will Shock You
Newly released video of the arrest of Sandra Bland shows an officer standing outside her car, threatening her with a Taser and shouting, “I will ligh
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
Is Trump Actually Leading The Pack Of GOP Presidential Contenders?
Over the past weekend, Donald Trump said one of the most tone-deaf, offensive things about military veterans possibly ever by a politician. Then early this
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
The Vast, Diverse Group Of People Donald Trump Has Pissed Off
At a speech in Iowa this weekend, Donald Trump called quintessential war hero Sen. John McCain “not a war hero,” because McCain was a prisoner
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Nina Wolpow
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How To Play Nice At The Nail Salon
When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill today to protect nail-salon workers, he made sure that their clients heard him loud and clear, too. ̶
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Nina Wolpow
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Movie Theater Killer Convicted of Murder, Eligible for Death Penalty
James Eagan Holmes, the man who walked into a packed Aurora, CO, showing of The Dark Knight Rises and massacred 12 people, wounding 70 more, has been found
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Nina Wolpow
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Obama Won’t Take Away Cosby’s Medal Of Freedom
“There's no precedent for revoking a medal. We don't have that mechanism,” President Obama said today during a press conference on th
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Nina Wolpow
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Black Children Most Likely To Be Poor
Black children in the United States were almost four times more likely to live in poverty than their Hispanic, white, and Asian counterparts in 2013. A new
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Work & Money
Walmart Denies Health Insurance To Same-Sex Wife Battling Ovarian...
Walmart is facing a class-action suit for denying health insurance to the cancer-stricken wife of a female employee. Though Jacqueline Cote and Diana ̶
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Nina Wolpow
New York
No Job After Graduation? Brooklyn Law School Promises To Pay Stud...
Karla Cabral has wanted to become a lawyer ever since she was a little girl. Inspired by her heroine Minerva Mirabal, a Dominican attorney who was murdered
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
The U.S. And Iran Finally Have a Deal
At long last Iran and the major world powers, led by the United States, reached a deal forcing Iran to halt its production of nuclear weapons. The agreemen
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Nina Wolpow
Work & Money
Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Uber, Wall Street In First Economic ...
Hillary Clinton outlined her economic platform on Monday, taking aim both at big banks on Wall Street and the “gig economy” created by companie
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Nina Wolpow
New York
Why NYC’s Foster Care System is Failing Children
New York City's foster care system has failed to protect and find stable homes for the thousands of children in its care, alleges a class action lawsu
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You Go, Girls! Women’s Soccer Champs Parade Through NYC
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Politics
The Confederate Flag IS DOWN
Update: As of 10 a.m. this morning, the Confederate flag has been removed from South Carolina capitol grounds. Update: Governor Nikki Haley has signed the
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Nina Wolpow
World News
Why Memory Banda Wouldn’t Marry At 13
When the women in Memory Banda's Malawian community told her she had become a woman, she told them something else: She would not go to a sex-initiatio
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
The U.N. Fell Short On Helping Women
A critical push for universal progress, launched by the United Nations in 2000, has reached an official close. On Monday, the U.N. released its report on t
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Nina Wolpow
New York
Happy Birthday To The World’s Oldest Person!
Today, the oldest person in the entire world is turning 116. Born in 1899 — that is, the 19th century — Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn is b
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
The U.S. Is Champion Of The World
The United States women kicked the soccer ball right through the glass ceiling last night, smashing Japan 5-2 to become the World Cup champions. In case yo
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Nina Wolpow
Politics
Bree Newsome Speaks Out About Daring Flagpole Climb
Bree Newsome, the woman who dared to climb the South Carolina capitol flagpole and remove the Confederate flag, spoke out on television for the first time
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Nina Wolpow
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