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The Impact Of War

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The women who fought back when their jailers assaulted them

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Christa Pike discharged from the hospital and back in prison

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The Kennedy Center names new artistic director, amid concerns

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At least 2 deaths attributed to Isaias after hurricane bashes Florida and Alabama

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The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that

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U.S. working to reverse an Egyptian man's third-country deportation to Africa

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In Central African Republic, deported immigrants find themselves in limbo

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Why we remember: One student's journey into memory

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A student hated reading for years. Her podcast explores finding the right diagnosis

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Christa Pike is walking with help and eating after failed execution attempt

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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

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The long-deployed USS Lincoln returns home to San Diego Bay

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German spymaster / U.K. drone fears / Musk on Pentagon project?

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Margaret Hamilton, whose software sent humans to the moon, dies at 90

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The long-deployed USS Lincoln is returning home to San Diego

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New U.S. indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture

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4 people on NASA's Crew-12 mission return to Earth after 8 months in space

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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

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Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome

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A legal loophole could shape how the Cornell rape case is prosecuted

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Judge orders that Christa Pike execution evidence be preserved

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Trump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII. Why now?

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

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