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"I myself was a slave given to live with family members I didn’t even know. I had to wake up in a hard cold cement area under the stairway. ... I ran away when things got worse and taught myself in a lot of ways to survive. But I don’t feel completely free."

“You never know what freedom is because you have become immune.”
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The constitutional test of the president’s being “unable to discharge the powers and duties” of the office was intended to be vague and open-ended.

Nothing in the text or history of the amendment is stopping the vice president, Cabinet, and Congress from determining that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
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The administration backed away from its aggressive January order punishing jurisdictions that limit collaboration between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents.
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The company’s content moderation guide suggests it hasn’t come to grips with its unique role in the world.
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“I suspect the number of women who have undertaken general engineering courses is so few that you will hardly be able to form an organization,” William Raymond, the dean of the State University of Iowa wrote in 1919, adding, “However, I may be mistaken.”

“We have not now, have never had, and do not expect to have in the near future, any women students registered in our engineering department.”
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"In a way, SNL’s latest era seems to be over before it got a chance to really begin."

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Even with the knowledge that Trump does not have a plan, the Palestinian Authority is surprisingly optimistic.

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Ariana Grande's career has been built on freedoms of expression, sexuality, and religion.

Her career of female self-determination demonstrates the rights of religion, sexuality, and expression that much terrorism seeks to undo.
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The South Korean military fired warning shots at the object.

The incident comes days after Pyongyang successfully launched a medium-range ballistic missile.
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The hospital’s decision to host the event at another venue has the appearance of moving away from the controversies associated with Trump, or at least not actively supporting his businesses (in what could be perceived as an endorsement or an attempt to curry favor).

Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has said it will not host its annual gala at the president’s Mar-a-Lago property. Though it won’t say why.
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"It’s an approach perfectly suited to a man who has spent a lifetime dividing the world into winners and losers. And in this case, it may well be the right one."

Why a schoolyard taunt could be a savvy strategy against ISIS
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"The next step isn’t to pile on more technology; it’s ensuring that the technology we rely on works properly and has not been hacked or undermined."

A low-tech solution to America’s voting problems
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“Peace is a choice we must make each day, and the United States is here to help make that dream possible for young Jewish, Christians and Muslim children all across the region,” Trump said Tuesday during a press conference at Abbas’s presidential palace.

The U.S. president told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas he will “do everything” to achieve Middle East peace.
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“The whole idea here is that cinema deeply conditions our response to the everyday world."

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Each participating computer would dig through SETI data for suspicious signals, possibly containing a “Hello, World” or two from aliens.

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