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Sitting peacefully amid us in the Pacific Northwest is one of the defining symbols of a trigger-point to America’s involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s.

Cuba remained largely without power on Saturday morning after the island´s grid collapsed the night before, knocking out ...

LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT from Harry Potter, “Made in China 2025" is an initiative which induces so much fear and loathing abroad ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet ...

A small but determined group of community leaders is working to change the way food insecurity is addressed in ...

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