THE IMMIGRANT SONG: As thousands of people pile up in US detention centers, President Obama and Congress appear at a stalemate regarding the President’s request for $3.7 billion in emergency funding…
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Africa
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At a meeting of the African Union this week, leaders voted to exempt themselves and their political supporters from prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity, rendering useless a…
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The next great pandemic may have arrived. Ebola, a virus for which there is no cure, has begun spreading through Africa. The death toll is about 600 people so far,…
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US Special Operations forces have captured a suspected mastermind behind the September 11, 2012 terror attack on the United States embassy and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens…
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In a fascinating TED lecture delivered in October, 2009, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses what she calls “the danger of a single story.” She tells of her childhood reading…