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Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are intensifying fundraising and warning of more unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases after announcing it would quit the federal family planning program in a dispute with the Trump administration over abortion.
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Two prominent researchers are quitting MIT’s Media Lab over revelations that the famed technology research hub and its director took money from Jeffrey Epstein after he’d served time for sex offenses involving girls and young women. -
A Texas death row inmate who argued that his conviction was based on junk science was executed Wednesday for the abduction, rape and killing of a suburban Houston community college student more than 20 years ago.
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The notion that a United States president could question the loyalty of Jewish voters, or that a U.S. lawmaker could publicly hold forth about the Jewish state as a rogue nation antithetical to American values, had remained confined to the nightmares of Israel’s most apprehensive leaders.
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Russia changed its policy on extinguishing remote forest fires four years ago. Now the Kremlin is considering changing the way it fights fires.
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The Peace Plan for a Safer America plan calls on 2020 presidential candidates to tackle the issue as “a national public health emergency.”
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The United States’ foreign policy and national security establishment is being roiled again by resignations, reports of partisan intimidation and looming cuts in foreign aid.
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A military spokesman for the Iran-backed Houthis said in a statement that their air defenses downed a U.S. MQ-9 drone over the city of Dhamar.
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Jair Bolsonaro said that nonprofits whose budgets have been cut may be setting fires “to draw attention against me, against the government of Brazil.”
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President Trump appeared open to gun sales restrictions following three mass shootings.
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Illegitimacy only emboldens the followers of a charismatic leader. It worked for Epstein and it’s working for autocrats around the globe.
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When I came to the U.S. from China as a student, my thinking had been shaped by Chinese propaganda.
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Turkey plans to censor Netflix and other media services to block images of drug use, nudity and other material considered immoral. But free speech advocates say the real target of the rules is political criticism that has all but disappeared from traditional media.
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The death toll has risen in a Kabul suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State, as a U.S. envoy prepares to resume talks with the Taliban.
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China says a staffer at the British consulate in Hong Kong has been given 15 days of administrative detention in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
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Trump announced his decision by tweet after Denmark’s prime minister dismissed the notion of selling Greenland to the U.S. as “an absurd discussion.”
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Migrants are contracting chicken pox in a crowded Tijuana shelter. About five people have to remain in quarantine and 73 people have other illnesses.
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When a ransomware attack hit Keene, Texas, no one noticed.
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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte assailed Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for setting in motion a “dizzying spiral of political and financial instability” by essentially pulling the plug on the government.
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The court rejected Cardinal George Pell’s appeal of the unanimous verdicts a jury issued in December finding Pope Francis’ former finance minister guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in 1996 and 1997.
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The notion that a United States president could question the loyalty of Jewish voters, or that a U.S. lawmaker could publicly hold forth about the Jewish state as a rogue nation antithetical to American values, had remained confined to the nightmares of Israel’s most apprehensive leaders.
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Russia changed its policy on extinguishing remote forest fires four years ago. Now the Kremlin is considering changing the way it fights fires.
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Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are intensifying fundraising and warning of more unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases after announcing it would quit the federal family planning program in a dispute with the Trump administration over abortion.
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A 15-year-old student killed two classmates and hit a dozen others with gunfire Tuesday, methodically firing a handgun inside a crowded atrium at his rural Kentucky high school, authorities said.
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Germany, one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal, will shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years to meet its international commitments in the fight against climate change, a government commission said Saturday.
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Fifty years later, the Manson “family” murders remain seared into the collective memory of Los Angeles. The question, which persists to this day, is why?
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Charles Manson and his “family” committed heinous crimes across Los Angeles in 1969. Here is a timeline of what led up to the murders and the aftermath.
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Followers of Charles Manson were tied to the deaths of nine people in the summer of 1969.
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