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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Limits of Obama's Moves on Gun Control
Rip up the Second Amendment? Save thousands of lives? Despite the hype and the dread, the president’s policy options are ultimately too constrained to have much effect.
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Hasan Jamali / AP Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and the Forgotten Shiites of Saudi Arabia
The cleric executed this weekend hailed from a little-known, impoverished community in the most famous Sunni kingdom in the world.
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Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters Sexual Assaults in Germany and the Debate Over Refugees
The alleged assault of dozens of women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve by as many as 1,000 men of “Arab or North African” origin has sparked outrage.
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MTV Shannara, Star Wars, and the Burden of Fantasy
MTV’s new show offers a reminder that stories about other worlds need to feel at least somewhat new.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters A Shaky Start to 2016 for Global Markets
Is a volatile year ahead?
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Obama's Emotional Speech on Gun Control
The president announced new measures that would tighten regulations on firearms purchases.
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In Photos: Inside the Internet
Photographs of what “the cloud” actually looks like
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AP How the Execution of a Shia Cleric Is Roiling the Middle East
Kuwait has recalled its envoy from Iran, a day after Bahrain and Sudan severed diplomatic relations with Tehran, and the United Arab Emirates downgraded them.
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AP LCD Soundsystem to Reunite for Coachella: Too Soon?
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Rick Bowmer / AP The Latest in the Oregon Standoff
The local sheriff has asked the armed protesters to leave the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Protesters say they will go if the “county people tell us to leave.”
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In Photos: A Major Correction
Saturn, not Jupiter, is the best planet.
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Rick Bowmer / AP The Oregon Standoff, Black Lives Matter, and Criminal-Justice Reform
Police restraint and deescalation are as important in the standoff with an armed militia in Oregon as they are in urban police departments around the country.
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Jae C. Hong / AP The New Crackdown on Migrant Families
Federal raids to capture and deport border crossers from Central America are angering President Obama’s allies in the immigration-reform fight.
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Gaffe Track: Jeb Bush's NRA Misfire
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Shutterstock The Newcomers to the Periodic Table
Four new elements have been added, filling out the table’s seventh row.
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Reuters United States v. Volkswagen
The Justice Department is suing the automaker over illegal emissions-control software installed in thousands of diesel vehicles.
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USA Today Sports / Reuters Kanye West’s 2016 Rap Resurrection
“Facts” has him returning to the hip-hop fray after a year of ignoring it.
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