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The New Works Company’s New Works Festival
A New Leader at New York Theater Ballet and a Call for New Audiences The company’s 2017-18 season came to a close Thursday night at the Jacob K. Javits Center with a grand, if...
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The California Tax Could Be a Political Football
Editorial: Corporations keep trying to throw out progressive California laws. Do we need reforms? In San Francisco, a small but vocal group of activists have been using every trick they can think of to...
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Women’s Football in Afghanistan: The Taliban’s Impact on Women
Nadia Nadim on women's football in Afghanistan one year on from Taliban takeover After several years of intense violence, the Taliban have now been driven out of Pashtun areas of the country and a...
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Trump’s “Agreed to be the President of the United States”
AG Garland appoints special counsel to weigh criminal charges against Trump The Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer who promised them dirt on Hillary Clinton? The campaign’s response to...
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Serena Williams is “doubling down” on her recent stance about race
US tennis star feels some people don't want Black players to succeed By Ben Gollner · March 15, 2018 The Wall Street Journal’s tennis writer Ben Greenfield is not going to be surprised when...
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California Legislature to Change Name of Mountain to Squaw Peak
New law will remove the word 'squaw' from California place names California is about to get a new name to go with the other place names in the state: Squaw Peak. The state Legislature...
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The Housing Minister’s Choice
It was supposed to be a safe, affordable home for Ontarians with nowhere else to go. But inside, it was horrifying: a prison. The day after the Liberals’ election defeat, the new housing minister,...
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Kanye West’s “This is America” film is “insulting”
MRC pulls Kanye West doc: 'We cannot support any content that amplifies his platform' The MRC has pulled “This is America” – Kanye West’s latest documentary film on America’s immigration problem – after it...
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California’s Gas Crisis Is a Real Problem
California repeatedly warned about spiking gas prices, fragile supply. But fixes never came, and the problem spread beyond California. The state suffered its first big gasoline shortage in 2014, when motorists across the state...
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Florida Coalition to Repeal Term Limits Calls It a “Constitutional Referendum”
Florida voters asked to scrap one way to amend constitution VOTE-POWER: At a recent city council meeting in Tallahassee, advocates of a referendum to scrap term limits called it a "constitutional referendum." Pictured here...