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Palestinians inspect the damage and debris a day after an operation by Israeli special forces in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 9, 2024.

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The rescue of Israeli hostages is unquestioned good. The loss of Palestinian life should be unquestioned tragedy

Why Hunter Biden should have just pleaded guilty

It doesn’t get more awkward than it did for Biden

Is AI the solution to stop the next school shooter?

This Louisiana bill threatens the sanctity of the Ten Commandments

Astonishing about-face sends a message

Trump and Biden as housemates for a weekend? A TV program in Europe shows how

How the era of the counterspy changed history

I worry about asthma year round. Here’s what I especially dread in the summer months

The female gaze is taking over page and screen, and it is hot

How ‘Hit Man’ reimagines the femme fatale

Apple can still get back to its golden age

The risks of AI could be catastrophic. We should empower company workers to warn us

Why Americans are so frustrated with the economy right now

A huge boon for Trump

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A target for scammers, Graceland still embodies Elvis Presley and the American Dream

The only route to victory for Biden

New York social media measure is a smart start

Biden is taking a page out of Trump’s immigration playbook

The Fauci witch hunt intensifies while the next threat looms

Why we’re having less sex

A convicted felon ran for president from behind bars

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A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the European Election in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, June 9, 2024. The European Parliament election that wraps up on Sunday won't just decide the 720 lawmakers who will serve in the EU assembly for the next five years. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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This country’s 16-year-olds voted for the first time. The results are scary

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 01: Fans pose for a selfie during the ICC Men's T20 Cricket World Cup West Indies & USA 2024 warm-up match between Bangladesh and India at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium on June 01, 2024 in New York, New York. (Photo by Alex Davidson-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)

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How this very English sport found a home in America

Supporters of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi wear masks of his face, as they attend an election campaign rally in Meerut, India, March 31, 2024. Modi is now seeking a third consecutive term in general elections. If, as widely expected, Modi wins the polls, which conclude on June 1 with vote-counting set for June 4, he will be only the second person after Indian independence hero and first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to serve three consecutive terms. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS MODI LOOKALIKES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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For Indian Muslims like me, the hope of a weakened Modi

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80 years after D-Day, there’s one world leader who won’t be at the commemoration

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France is putting a multicultural face forward at the Olympics. Not everyone is pleased about it

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waits for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting also attended by the US President, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. US President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023 as Middle East anger flared after hundreds were killed when a rocket struck a hospital in war-torn Gaza, with Israel and the Palestinians quick to trade blame. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Israelis have had enough of Netanyahu

A member of Ukraine's 72nd Brigade Anti-air unit points to the direction of a Russian Zala reconnaissance drone sighted overhead as they prepare to fire a Strela-10 anti-air missile system on February 23 near Marinka, Ukraine.

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Time to call Putin’s bluff

U.S. President Joe Biden looks on as he deliver remarks at the Westwood Park YMCA in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. May 21, 2024.

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Dear American voter, you should care what the rest of the world thinks

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Mexico gears up for its first woman president. In the US, it’s the same old story

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There’s no way Hugh Grant could afford today’s ‘Notting Hill’

TOPSHOT - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2023 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Netanyahu said on October 28 that fighting inside the Gaza Strip would be "long and difficult", as Israeli ground forces operate in the Palestinian territory for more than 24 hours. (Photo by Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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The International Criminal Court’s threat to Netanyahu

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We Germans are making Trump ‘thunderstorm’ plans

TEHRAN, IRAN - FEBRUARY 11: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the crowd at the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2023. The event marks the 44th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, which came ten days after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from his exile in Paris to Iran, toppling the monarchy system and forming the Islamic Republic. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Iran’s president is dead. The power struggle is just beginning

Palestinians walk through the destruction in the wake of an Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabalya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Enas Rami)

This deal can end the war in Gaza

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Former President Donald Trump walks to make comments to members of the media after being found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree at Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

What we should fear about Trump’s ‘breaking point’ warning

3 reasons why Alito’s flag controversy doesn’t warrant his recusal

A Russian weapon could wipe out US space edge

The telling adjectives used to describe Stormy Daniels’ testimony

Clarence Thomas has had enough of ‘hideous’ DC. The open road is calling the justice

RFK Jr.’s brain worm reignites this debate

Stormy Daniels turned the tables on the Trump team’s strategy

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The federal student loan program is unraveling

Donald Trump’s luxury

Hope Hicks’ testimony was a nightmare for Trump

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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - JUNE 4: Outdoor cafe at Kongens Nytorv near Nyhavn on June 4, 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo by Ole Jensen/Getty Images)

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The secret of being the world’s second happiest country

TOPSHOT - Taliban fighters escort veiled women marching during a pro-Taliban rally outside the Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul on September 11, 2021.

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Biden’s Afghanistan exit decision looks even worse a year later

President Donald Trump speaks next to Peter MacDonald during a meeting with Navajo Code Talkers in the White House Oval Office in November 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Why a Navajo leader’s conviction gives prosecutors a road map to take on Trump

U.S. President Joe Biden, former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton participate in a discussion moderated by Stephen Colbert, host of CBS's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", during a campaign fundraising event at Radio City Music Hall in New York, U.S., March 28, 2024.

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Against Trump, Biden will have to be his own best argument

The problem Joe Manchin highlighted is crucial for America’s future

How the Biden administration can ensure mask access to all Americans

What 2020’s pro-Trump phony electors means for 2024

Social commentary

Gabby Douglas competing in the uneven bars during the Core Hydration Classic at XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 18, 2024. Injury has ended her dream to take part in her third Olympic Games later this year in Paris.

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Gabby Douglas’ attempted comeback may have been her most daring gymnastics move ever

The evolution of Bill Maher

What Tom Brady realized about his roast came too late

Seinfeld’s most important meal of the day

I’m a flight attendant. You need to get over your reclining seat rage

What people don’t understand about being bisexual

Could these laws fix America’s broken work culture?

I’m a 16-year-old high school student. This is why young journalists matter.

The next Census could reveal a very different America

Reversal in Harvey Weinstein case isn’t the demise of sex crimes prosecution

This ‘Visibility Week,’ I am celebrating the many ways to be a lesbian

She was immortalized by Joni Mitchell - and if you love comics, she touched your life

Why memes about Mommy and wine are no joke

Women’s basketball is exposing the sexism of ‘play nice’

Why gardens and poems rhyme

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Ozempic isn’t just a ‘wonder drug.’ It can also be a warning sign

Richard Roth and Samira Jafari in New York in June 2022.

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How a coworker’s email saved his life and renewed hers

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The real out-of-control college costs aren’t where you think

Pedestrians walk towards Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York, US, on Thursday, July 6, 2023.

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The absurdity of the return-to-office movement

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The fiercest fight of the 21st century – to save democracy

I met my dad for the first time when I was 4, and he was behind bars

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Your rights could be taken away rapidly. I know because it happened to me

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I was born in a Chinese ‘reeducation camp.’ I’m watching history repeat itself

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Fractured States of America

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in prior to testifying during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to become an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 21, 2022. - The US Senate takes up the historic nomination on Monday of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Republicans would be wise to get behind Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation

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Potential Supreme Court pick is one of the finest judges I’ve seen

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial April 5, 1961 in Jerusalem. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ahead of Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day May 4, 2005 which this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Nazi's World War II defeat in 1945. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images)

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60 years ago, we saw the face of evil

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - AUGUST 24: President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence give a thumbs up after speaking on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center on August 24, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The four-day event is themed "Honoring the Great American Story." (Photo by Chris Carlson-Pool/Getty Images)

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Pro-Trump lawyer’s memo begins with a lie, then descends into madness

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 18: U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a news briefing on the latest development of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House March 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. and Canada will close their border to non-essential traffic to try and stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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The worst of Trump’s pardons

CLYDE, OHIO - AUGUST 06: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to workers at a Whirlpool manufacturing facility on August 06, 2020 in Clyde, Ohio. Whirlpool is the last remaining major appliance company headquartered in the United States. With more than 3,000 employees, the Clyde facility is one of the world's largest home washing machine plants, producing more than 20,000 machines a day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Something went terribly wrong with Trump’s defense

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Justice for George Floyd gets a step closer

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 31: U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with members of the National Association of Police Organizations Leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House July 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

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The most devastating piece of evidence at the Trump trial

A billboard promoting contract army service with an image of a serviceman and the slogan reading "Serving Russia is a real job" sits in Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP) (Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Opinion: Putin’s army without a cause

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This picture taken on April 12, 2015 and handed out on March 21, 2022 by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation shows Holocaust survivor Boris Romanchenko (2nd R) as he stands next to other former prisoners of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp during a commemoration ceremony at the camp's memorial site in Buchenwald near Weimar, eastern Germany. - As the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation said in a press release on March 21, 2022, Romanchenko, 96, was killed as his house in Kharkiv was hit by shelling during the Ukraine-Russia conflict. (Photo by Michael REICHEL / Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Michael REICHEL / Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by MICHAEL REICHEL/Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Me/AFP via Getty Images)

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We just hit the biggest reset button in history

A mockup of a Soviet AN-602 hydrogen bomb (Tsar Bomb) is displayed at the exhibition devoted to the 70th anniversary of Russias nuclear industry in Moscow on September 1, 2015. The most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated was first tested on October 30, 1961, having 50 megatons of TNT equivalent. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

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Putin’s war was launched on a runway of lies

"We are here. We are in Kyiv. We are defending Ukraine."That was the title of a video posted on Facebook Friday night by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as he vowed to defend his country while standing on a Kyiv street with other leaders of his administration.

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President Zelensky is a profile in courage

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What happened to our new Roaring ’20s?

US President Donald Trump (L) chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. (Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

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What Trump’s lavish praise of Putin reveals

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I’d like to introduce you to the real Marilyn Monroe

A man wearing a face mask walks on a street in Manhattan of New York, the United States, Jan. 19, 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will start shipping 400 million free non-surgical N95 face masks to distribution sites nationwide this week as part of the efforts to fight the surging Omicron COVID-19 variant, USA Today on Wednesday quoted an official source as saying. (Photo by Wang Ying/Xinhua via Getty Images)

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A humble prediction for what comes after Omicron

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San Francisco rape controversy will have a chilling effect

Fontana, CA - February 17: Gov. Gavin Newsom announces the next phase of Californias COVID-19 response called SMARTER, during a press conference at the UPS Healthcare warehouse in Fontana on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. The plan is to move from the pandemic stage into an endemic stage in which people will learn to live COVID. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)

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California’s endemic strategy is a vital step forward

BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 20: A firework display is seen inside the stadium alongside the Olympic rings during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony on Day 16 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Beijing National Stadium on February 20, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

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Beijing Olympics hit the heights – and the depths

KIEV, UKRAINE FEBRUARY 3, 2022: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan following their talks at the Mariinsky Palace. Zelensky and Erdogan have signed an agreement on a free trade zone. Irina Yakovleva/TASS (Photo by Irina Yakovleva\TASS via Getty Images)

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Ukrainians are wondering if their comedian-turned-president can handle the world stage

Canada's Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje compete in the figure skating ice dance free fance at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on February 17.

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My Olympic figure skating dream came true. Don’t let others get ruined

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I’m a mom, and mask rollbacks make me terrified for my kids’ health

Supporters arrive at Parliament Hill for the Freedom Truck Convoy to protest against Covid-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in Ottawa, Canada, on January 29, 2022. - Hundreds of truckers drove their giant rigs into the Canadian capital Ottawa on Saturday as part of a self-titled "Freedom Convoy" to protest vaccine mandates required to cross the US border. (Photo by Lars Hagberg / AFP) (Photo by LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images)

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Canadian trucker protests are the latest example of Covid-19 absurdity

A woman visits a booth selling clothing during the 35th annual meeting of the French Muslim community on April 2, 2018 at Le Bourget, north of Paris.

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France is on a dangerous collision course with its Muslim population

This view from NASA spacewalker Thomas Marshburn's camera points toward his U.S. spacesuit legs, downward from the Canadarm2 robotic arm that he is attached to, and toward the International Space Station below him on December 2, 2021. The station's prominent features include (from left) the Kibo laboratory module's external pallet, the truss structure, its radiators, and the orbiting lab's Russian segment.

America and Russia cooperate in space. Why not on Earth?

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What ‘Succession’ got right about 2021

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As Olympics begin, the world is looking. But will anyone be watching?

Nurse practitioner Sarah Rauner fills a syringe with the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to be administered to children from 5-11 years old are seen at the Beaumont Health offices in Southfield, Michigan on November 5, 2021. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

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A Covid-19 vaccine may soon be available for young kids. Here’s what parents should consider

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Bob Saget turned my life around

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in Moscow, on Jan. 21, 2022.

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Why China’s Olympics matter to Putin

VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - FEBRUARY 13: Pope Benedict XVI leads the Ash Wednesday service at the St. Peter's Basilica on February 13, 2013 in Vatican City, Vatican. Ash Wednesday opens the liturgical 40-day period of Lent, a time of prayer, fasting, penitence and alms giving leading up to Easter. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

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Pope Benedict XVI revelations are a chance to overhaul a rotten system

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Jamie Oliver is veering into cultural appropriation. Because he’s Jamie Oliver

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 26: Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, who opposed the British fleet's arrival on January 26, 1788, to be celebrated as "Australia Day", organize a demonstration describing this date as "Invasion Day" in Melbourne, Australia on January 26, 2021. (Photo by Recep Sakar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Australia’s national day should be one of pride. Instead it commemorates an invasion

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The future of the GOP isn’t about Ron DeSantis or Glenn Youngkin

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TEHRAN, Nov. 11, 2019 -- Laborers work at the construction site of the second phase of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Bushehr, southern Iran, on Nov. 10, 2019. The concrete placement for the construction of the second phase of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant started on Sunday. (Photo by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz via Getty Images)

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America has taken its eyes off the ball on Iran

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: An American flag waves outside the United States Capitol building as Congress remains gridlocked over legislation to continue funding the federal government September 29, 2013 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution with language to defund U.S. President Barack Obama's national health care plan yesterday, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated the U.S. Senate will not consider the legislation as passed by the House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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This is the revelation America is still waiting for