Category: Current Events
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Senate Health Bill Reels as C.B.O. Predicts 22 Million More Uninsured
The figure released by the Congressional Budget Office is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured under the House version of the legislation. Source: Senate Health Bill Reels…
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NPR Interviews George W. Bush
Bush has dedicated billions to combat AIDS in Africa and recently traveled to the continent. If nothing had been done about the pandemic during his time in office, he said,…
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Two Explosions Kill at Egyptian Coptic Churches on Palm Sunday
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, but they came weeks before Pope Francis is to visit the country. Source: Two Explosions Kill at Least 31 at…
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President Trump
This isn’t what I was expecting. There was no way Trump would win. He’s not going to win the primary. He did? He’s not going to win the general. But,…
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Orlando
There isn’t a word for the event overnight in Orlando. To call it terrorism, which it was, makes it seem like something far away, isolated, and a something abstract that…
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Visualized: How the insane amount of rain in Texas could turn Rhode Island into a lake
What 8 million acre-feet of water actually looks like. Source: Visualized: How the insane amount of rain in Texas could turn Rhode Island into a lake The Washington Post has…