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After scattered protests started last month, Iranians revolted en masse. The security forces cracked down, and the death toll has now reached 5,200.
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;Resize=(620)) Democrats demanded that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and increasing tensions in a city already shaken by another shooting death weeks earlier.
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Alex Honnold, who climbed a 1,667-foot-tall skyscraper in Taiwan on Sunday, is one of a dozen or so known skyscraper climbers worldwide.
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She was known for her lavish parties and her marriage to one of the richest men in San Francisco. After he left her, she found a new purpose: visiting world leaders to plead for peace.
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Amid an internet blackout, Iran is blaming outside "agents" and "terrorists" for the death toll. Says one rights lawyer, such "denial and distortion" has been heard before.
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The ouster of Gen. Zhang Youxia, who was second only to Xi Jinping in the military hierarchy, marks "the total annihilation of the high command," one analyst said.
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