Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Tony Gentile/Reuters An American Hijab at the Olympics
Ibtihaj Muhammad, a fencer, will make history when she competes at the Rio games.
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Darren Garnick Quoted
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Shutterstock The Lonely Jaguar of the United States
Conservationists have released video of the only known jaguar living in the country.
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Why Don't Gun Control Advocates Talk More About Suicides? Cont'd
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Roe vs. Wade 'Unleashed a Beast'
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Orbital View: The Matrix, or Mother Nature?
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Emmanuel Huybrechts / Flickr A Record Number of Exonerations in the U.S.
The 149 people freed last year had, on average, spent 14½ years in prison, a new report says.
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Randall Hill / Reuters The Ellis Island for African Americans
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Victor Fraile / Reuters Quoted
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters The Zika Cases in the United States
The first case of the virus transmitted in the country has been confirmed in Texas.
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Frederick Douglass in The Atlantic
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Would MLK Support Reparations Today?
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Phil Noble / Reuters Quoted
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Mystery of Amtrak 188
The NTSB’s report on the May 2015 crash in Philadelphia does little to explain why the train was traveling faster than the posted speed before it derailed.
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Reed Saxon/AP Welcome to the Next America
