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A lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her three decades ago, says her client wants to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee — just not on Monday, when Republ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2018
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Another milestone in America’s retreat from global leadership passed on Monday when the Trump Administration announced that it will cap refugee admissions next year at 30,000, by far the lowest ceiling since the present programme was established in 1...
DATE: Sep 20, 2018
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The totalitarianism of the 21st century is being pioneered in a vast but remote region of western China inaccessible to most outsiders and subject to a media blackout by China’s Communist authorities. In Xinjiang province, twice the size of Germany, ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2018
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Colleges that have banned hard alcohol say the step has helped to combat some of the most pernicious effects of campus drinking.
They report less consumption, fewer alcohol-induced medical transports, hospitalisations and arrests, as well as a decrea...
DATE: Sep 11, 2018
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The crisis involving migrants fleeing violence in Central America, seeking sanctuary in the United States and overwhelming American immigration courts is real.
The Obama Administration was flummoxed by it when the numbers of women and unaccompanied ...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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A common refrain in the comments of New York Times readers about the obituary of Dovey Johnson Roundtree was astonishment that they never had heard about the inspiring life of this accomplished District of Columbia lawyer and pioneer of civil rights....
DATE: May 28, 2018
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The FBI’s investigation last autumn into corruption and fraud in men’s college basketball cannot really be called a wake-up call. Not when the problems — big money, flouted rules, sham classes and never any consequences for wrongdoing — had been so o...
DATE: May 16, 2018
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Pavel Durov is a reclusive online innovator who has repeatedly come up against the powers that be in Russia. In earlier years, on the social media platform VKontakte, he stood fast against demands from the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, ...
DATE: May 03, 2018
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Nicaragua is a volcanic nation, geologically and politically. Forty years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a series of popular eruptions shook the entrenched regime of Anastasio Somoza, who fell from power on July 19, 1979.
Today, one of the revolutio...
DATE: Apr 26, 2018
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The gap between the policies pursued by Donald Trump’s administration and what the President says when he is outside the range of a teleprompter continues to be disconcertingly wide. At a rally in Ohio last Thursday, Trump suddenly blurted that he mi...
DATE: Apr 02, 2018
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