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Richard Drew / AP NYPD Settles Pair of Lawsuits Over Muslim Surveillance
The agreement will call for, among other changes, a civilian to monitor police surveillance of religious groups.
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Ng Han Guan / AP Another Day of Market Turmoil
Chinese markets closed 29 minutes after trading began because they fell 7 percent in that time. Stocks across the world all closed sharply lower.
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Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters The Problem With Telling Women to Stay an 'Arm's Length' From Men
The mayor of Cologne’s suggestion for how women should protect themselves from sexual violence has drawn sharp criticism.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Don't Fear the #10kTwitter
The micro-blogging service is at its best when it adopts user-invented hacks.
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John Locher / AP What's the Point of the New Ted Cruz Birtherism?
Questions about eligibility are, at heart, questions about difference—whether those questions are about Barack Obama or Ted Cruz.
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Jimmy King What Is David Bowie's Blackstar Really About?
Mysterious and gorgeous, his 25th album obsesses over ego.
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Michael Sohn / AP Will the Cologne Assaults Lead to Deportations?
German officials say that’s a possibility if those found responsible for the New Year’s Eve assaults were migrants.
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Matt Slocum / AP Is the Baseball Hall of Fame Changing Its Mind About Doping?
The 2016 class consists of two star players, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, with the latter prompting speculation that its attitude toward performance-enhancing drugs may be shifting.
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Ithaca Fire Department / AP The Rescue of 17 Workers Trapped in a Salt Mine in Upstate New York
The last of the workers stuck in an elevator Wednesday night while descending to the floor of the Cayuga Rock Salt Mine were rescued Thursday morning.
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Khaled Abdullah / AP Another Escalation in Saudi-Iranian Tensions
Iran is accusing Saudi warplanes of bombing its embassy in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital.
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Reuters A Perjury Charge for the Cop Who Pulled Over Sandra Bland
In the only indictment tied to the black woman’s death, a grand jury said Brian Encinia lied about why he ordered her out of her car.
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Zoheir Seidanloo / Mehr News Agency via AP Iran’s Beleaguered Sunnis
Although they make up a vast majority of Muslims worldwide, they say they’re a persecuted minority in the largest Shia country.
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Ahn Young-joon / AP New Doubts Over North Korea’s Claim of a Hydrogen-Bomb Test
Although there has been no independent confirmation of the test, there is skepticism and condemnation of the claim.
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Gretchen Ertl / Reuters What Bernie Sanders Thinks Is Wrong With the Fed
If elected president, he said he’d board up the “revolving door” between regulators and the bankers they’re supposed to regulate.
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Wolfgang Rayyay / Reuters The Fallout From the Reports of Sexual Assaults in Cologne
The mayor’s suggestion that women keep an “arm’s length” from men they don’t know is prompting mockery and criticism.
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Bernie Sanders’s Plan to Make Banking Affordable for Average Americans
In a speech on Tuesday, he said that there's a "special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for those who charged people usurious interest rates."
