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Mar 23, 2019
Helicopters were being used to evacuate some of the vessel's 1,300 passengers after its crew issued a mayday call on Saturday amid engine problems, high seas and strong winds.
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Mar 23, 2019
As the floodwaters from Cyclone Idai have started to recede, the death toll has begun to rise dramatically across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
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Mar 23, 2019
NPR's Scott Simon talks about the Mueller Report with EmptyWheel.net's Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist covering national security and civil liberties.
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Mar 23, 2019
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the Virginia Republican about the Russia investigation.
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Mar 23, 2019
The Delaware Democrat speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference.
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Mar 23, 2019
It can be frustrating when viewers try to figure out which service has what they want to watch — Netflix, Prime, Hulu? It's about to get worse as more streaming services launch this year.
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Mar 23, 2019
There are lots of legal ways that wealthy students get into America's top schools.
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Mar 23, 2019
A contrast agent doesn't make you feel better or treat what's ailing you. But by making CT scans clearer, contrast might be crucial in helping your doctor make the right diagnosis.
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Mar 23, 2019
The Democratic National Committee wants to avoid a crush of candidates in TV debates during the presidential primaries. So it set a qualifying threshold: 65,000 donors spread across 20 states.
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Mar 23, 2019
Democrats have long said the results of the special counsel's investigation into the Russian attack on the 2016 presidential election should be fully transparent. Now, some Republicans say they agree.
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Mar 23, 2019
Law enforcement officials, prosecutors and members of Congress are expected to keep up inquiries into the president's campaign, inauguration, business and other topics.
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Mar 22, 2019
A jury of seven men and five women, including three black jurors, found the former officer not guilty of murder in a racially charged case.
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Mar 22, 2019
The bond market flashed an ominous warning Friday, as the yield on long-term government debt dipped below that of short-term bills. That unusual situation often signals a recession on the horizon.
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Mar 22, 2019
The bond market flashed an ominous warning Friday, as the yield on long-term government debt dipped below that of short-term bills. That unusual situation often signals a recession on the horizon.
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Mar 22, 2019
Officials say the new blaze was extinguished after about an hour. Amid a week of environmental mishaps, the Texas attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging violations of that state's clean air laws.
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Mar 22, 2019
Attorney General Dana Nessel reached a settlement with the ACLU. It requires agencies not to discriminate against gay people who want to adopt or foster children referred by the state.
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Mar 22, 2019
A new report says students who received media literacy training were 18 percent better at identifying false reports than students without the lessons. Girls gained more knowledge than boys.
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Mar 22, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller has completed his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It is unclear how much of the report will become public.
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Mar 22, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller has been working for nearly two years to uncover how Russia attacked the 2016 presidential election and whether anyone in the U.S. was involved.
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Mar 22, 2019
In May 2017, the special counsel's office took over an FBI probe into Russian election interference that already had been underway for nearly a near. The report about that work is now ready.
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Mar 22, 2019
Mueller is not recommending any more indictments, a senior Justice Department official said. Members of Congress in both parties are calling for the report to be released.
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Mar 22, 2019
Polls suggest that's what the majority of the public wants. It's become a hot issue for Democratic presidential candidates. But experts say inertia is likely to win out.
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Mar 22, 2019
The event is touted as a way to connect to past traditions in Kyrgyzstan — and perhaps boost the tourism industry.
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Mar 22, 2019
Opponents of decriminalization say the multi-billion-dollar industry exploits sex workers. But activists and academics say legalization would protect workers and benefit public health.
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Mar 22, 2019
Police say they have arrested a 17-year-old male for allegedly making threats targeting specific ethnic groups at Virginia's Charlottesville High School.
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Mar 22, 2019
Moore, a conservative commentator and former Trump campaign adviser, has joined the president in criticizing the central bank. "The Fed is sucking the oxygen out of the economy," Moore has said.
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Mar 22, 2019
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced Friday that ISIS' territorial caliphate has been eliminated in Syria. Even so, its threats remain.
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Mar 22, 2019
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who ousted an elected government in 2014, is seeking to remain in power. But many analysts say the military has sought to silence opposition voices.
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Mar 22, 2019
While Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be dominating the policy debate, there is little evidence that voters are rewarding politicians who flesh out their plans over others with strong personal brands.
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Mar 22, 2019
The president signed an executive order on Thursday conditioning research grants on "compliance with the First Amendment."
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Mar 22, 2019
A week after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, friends and family have been gathering for funerals and to listen to the Muslim call to prayer.
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Mar 22, 2019
The President said he was ordering the Treasury Department to withdraw "additional large scale sanctions" against North Korea on the same day Pyongyang quit a liaison office with South Korea.
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Mar 22, 2019
The North's withdrawal from a key office to improve relations with South Korea was abrupt, and will likely strain ties between the neighboring countries.
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Mar 22, 2019
Several states require doctors who perform medical abortions to tell their patients the procedure can be "reversed" with progesterone. There's an absence of evidence to support that contention.
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Mar 22, 2019
About 14,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan. U.S. representatives have been negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban and President Trump has said he wants to cut down the U.S. presence there.
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Mar 22, 2019
European Union leaders gave the country two different deadlines, depending on whether U.K. lawmakers can agree on a path forward. One deadline is in two months; the other in two weeks.
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Mar 22, 2019
European Union leaders gave the country two different deadlines, depending on whether U.K. lawmakers can agree on a path forward. One deadline is in two months; the other in two weeks.
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Mar 22, 2019
Rep. Abigail Spanberger's bipartisan credentials were a central issue for voters at a recent town hall. The freshman lawmaker beat a Republican incumbent in an ideologically diverse Virginia district.
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Mar 22, 2019
The Trump administration wants to increase transparency in prescription drug pricing. But health economists say the administration's call to tie prices to what other nations pay might work better.
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Mar 21, 2019
The information was held in a readable format within the company's internal data storage systems. Facebook says it "found no evidence to date" of abuse.
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Mar 21, 2019
The island nation, still reeling from last Friday's attacks, heard a message of healing amid plans to change gun laws in hopes of preventing future attacks.
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Mar 21, 2019
In a tweeted announcement, the Commander in Chief appeared to overturn decades of U.S. policy just ahead of Israeli elections
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Mar 21, 2019
The Justice Department says Cesar Sayoc "rained terror" by mailing 16 bombs to 13 targets. The explosive devices were sent in the days before last fall's midterm elections.
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Mar 21, 2019
Three possible factors account for the surge of migrants at the border: economics, social media, and the Trump administration's own tougher immigration policies.
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Mar 21, 2019
Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is investigating alleged violations of federal records laws. Jared Kushner's lawyer disputes some of Cummings' assertions about what he told the committee.
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Mar 21, 2019
Think a "Donald Trump for America PAC, "Boomers for Beto PAC" or "Come on Kamala PAC" that actually doesn't help the intended candidate at all, but could be used to line the pockets of its founders.
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Mar 21, 2019
Pregnant women in prison face difficult circumstances, and data on their pregnancies has been scarce. New research lays the groundwork for addressing this neglected public health issue.
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Mar 21, 2019
Black students at San Francisco State College walked out in a protest that led to the rise of ethnic studies departments at colleges and universities around the country.
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Mar 21, 2019
A former top executive for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. tells NPR he left his job because of relentlessly harsh depictions of Muslims and immigrants in Murdoch's media properties, especially Fox News.
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Mar 21, 2019
From Presidents Ulysses Grant to Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton and Trump, a number of independent investigators have looked into allegations too hot for normal processes.
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Mar 21, 2019
Postpartum depression hits low-income women especially hard. Will a promising new drug, Zulresso, become affordable and accessible enough to help them?
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Mar 21, 2019
Those service members who have escaped amount to less than 1 percent of the Venezuelan military, but they now pledge allegiance to Juan Guaidó as their country's president.
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Mar 21, 2019
A Wisconsin county judge ruled Thursday that laws passed in December by Republicans during a lame-duck session to limit the power of incoming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers are unconstitutional.
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Mar 21, 2019
New Yorker journalist Ed Caesar discusses Arron Banks, the British businessman who funded the most extreme end of the pro-Brexit "Leave" campaign — possibly with help from Russia.
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Mar 21, 2019
"I simply want a large number to slap in the government's face," said Margaret Anne Georgiadou, the petition's organizer. And then came the deluge.
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Mar 21, 2019
More than 400 people have been killed from the storm and subsequent flooding across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
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Mar 21, 2019
More than 400 people have been killed from the storm and subsequent flooding across Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi.
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Mar 21, 2019
Iraq's health ministry says 55 people, including many children, are confirmed dead, after the capsize of a boat carrying revelers celebrating the Nowruz holiday.
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Mar 21, 2019
The casualties included many children, as a vessel carrying Nowruz holiday revelers capsized in the Tigris River. Authorities said the boat appeared not to have had life vests on board.
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Mar 21, 2019
Studies on the genetics of human diseases have focused largely on people of European descent. Researchers say this lack of diversity is bad science, and exacerbates health inequities.
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Mar 21, 2019
Patrick Shanahan spent 30 years as a Boeing executive before joining the Defense Department as deputy secretary. The inspector general will examine whether Shanahan improperly promoted Boeing.
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Mar 21, 2019
Across the country, young people are proudly sharing their side hustles and main gigs, from baking wedding cakes to growing ginger to laying tile.
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Mar 21, 2019
A decade ago, one university started putting pronouns on course rosters. Today, it's not alone.
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Mar 21, 2019
The protesters have been detained since demonstrations against the government of President Ortega began last spring.
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Mar 21, 2019
Millennials are drinking less, spurring beverage companies to create alternatives to traditional cocktails — using herbs, spices, citrus and veggies to craft unique flavors for non-alcoholic drinks.
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Mar 21, 2019
Describing what he called a kidnapping, Guaido said weapons had been planted at Roberto Marrero's house and that he should be freed immediately.
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Mar 21, 2019
Describing what he called a kidnapping, Guaidó said weapons had been planted at Roberto Marrero's house and that he should be freed immediately.
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Mar 21, 2019
Historic flooding in the Midwest has caused unprecedented damages and led to at least three deaths.
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Mar 21, 2019
Tamara Lanier, the descendant of an enslaved man known as Renty, is suing Harvard for damages. She wants the university to return the photos of her ancestor.
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Mar 21, 2019
After learning how parents in the Canadian Arctic address a child's misbehavior, I changed my tactics when my toddler would slap my face in anger.
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Mar 21, 2019
Since Holocaust survivors are getting older and their stories are fading away, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is putting curators in regions where survivors live to preserve their memories.
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Mar 21, 2019
A newly created bipartisan House committee is examining ways to change both the culture and the law-making structure on Capitol Hill.
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Mar 21, 2019
"The condition of the jail is such that it does not comply with constitutional standards," Nowata County Sheriff Terry Sue Barnett told reporters after tendering her resignation.
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Mar 21, 2019
Overdose deaths involving fentanyl are rising — up 113 percent on average each year from 2013 to 2016. Dealers are adding cheap fentanyl to the illicit drug supply, and some users get it accidentally.
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Mar 21, 2019
Overdose deaths involving fentanyl are rising — up 113 percent on average each year from 2013 to 2016. Dealers are adding cheap fentanyl to the illicit drug supply, and some users get it accidentally.
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Mar 20, 2019
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that the government will ban "military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles," to avert "the kind of horror and attack that we saw on Friday."
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Mar 20, 2019
The move is an apparent return by the government to the practice President Trump has called "catch and release" and promised to end when he was a presidential candidate.
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Mar 20, 2019
The novelists, poets and playwrights won Wednesday partly for their work so far, but also for the promise they've shown. If previous winners are an indication, it's a promise they're likely to keep.
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Mar 20, 2019
The European Council President said a delay of three months is possible. But U.K. lawmakers would have to approve terms of separation that May has already unsuccessfully proposed to them.
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Mar 20, 2019
The president again complained about the late Arizona senator during an Ohio speech, even criticizing the McCain family for not showing gratitude to the president over the late senator's funeral.
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Mar 20, 2019
Two high-profile plane crashes. The grounding of its best-selling jetliner. How did Boeing get here, and how can it recover from this crisis of confidence?
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Mar 20, 2019
In a Mississippi death-penalty case, the justices were skeptical of the way the state picked and dismissed black jurors and appeared ready not to uphold the conviction.
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Mar 20, 2019
Civil rights and faith leaders are demanding a meeting with the FBI director. The message: time to prioritize white nationalist violence.
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Mar 20, 2019
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday and signaled that no more rate hikes may be necessary this year amid signs of economic slowing.
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Mar 20, 2019
The president told reporters "let people see" special counsel Robert Mueller's report as he again denied any collusion with Russia prior to his election in 2016.
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Mar 20, 2019
Charities are trying to help with what a Red Cross staffer calls "the worst humanitarian crisis in Mozambique's history." Zimbabwe and Malawi were also struck.
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Mar 20, 2019
Increasing the size of the Supreme Court and scrapping the Electoral College are two of the latest provocative proposals sweeping the 2020 Democratic field.
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Mar 20, 2019
For years, AdSense contracts gave Google a wide range of control, including how its rivals' search ads would appear — and their size, color and font, the EU says.
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Mar 20, 2019
The prime minister visited a school that lost two current students and one former student in the Christchurch mosque shootings last week.
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Mar 20, 2019
"There's really no common sense attached when able-bodied people approach disabled people." says activist Imani Barbarin, who started the hashtag.
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Mar 20, 2019
Judges in The Hague upheld the Bosnian Serb leader's conviction in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that claimed the lives of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
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Mar 20, 2019
Judges in The Hague upheld the Bosnian Serb leader's conviction in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that claimed the lives of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
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Mar 20, 2019
Afghanistan ranks extremely low on the World Happiness Report, released for World Happiness Day on March 20. But that doesn't mean it is a place devoid of happiness.
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Mar 20, 2019
Afghanistan ranks extremely low on the World Happiness Report, released for World Happiness Day on March 20. But that doesn't mean it is a place devoid of happiness.
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Mar 20, 2019
Avalanche forecasters in Colorado say it's going to be a bad year. They're predicting the highest danger level for snow slides since they began forecasting in 1973.
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Mar 20, 2019
The depth of Margaret Leslie Davis' research on the tome's history cannot be understated — her writing is straightforward and, at times, heartbreaking, but outstanding reporting lies at the core.
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Mar 20, 2019
A new report by Amnesty International alleges that the U.S. killed at least 14 people in five different airstrikes in Somalia. The U.S. says it has never killed or injured a civilian.
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Mar 20, 2019
Barry Lopez's new book is a biography and a portrait of some of the world's most delicate places, but at heart it's a contemplation of the belief that the way forward is compassionately, and together.
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Mar 20, 2019
The U.K.'s National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler family — owners of the company that makes OxyContin — say they're concerned that allegations of profiteering could overshadow the gift.
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Mar 20, 2019
The political chaos surrounding Brexit could have been avoided had Theresa May simply followed President Trump's advice, his son wrote in an op-ed.
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