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2 dead, 1 missing after plane crashes into New York home

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Notable deaths of 2019

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Voices - 'Christian left' is rising in America, appalled by treatment of migrants - Aug. 16 (UPI) -- High-profile, religiously based moral outrage at President Donald Trump's immigration policies seems to be spurring some long-overdue rethinking of what it means to be Christian in America.

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Beijing moving to stamp out Hong Kong protests, but may have lost the city

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As Iran reinforces impunity for past crimes, world must demand justice

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Guns of August: Americans no safer than two years ago

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French cannabis debate ignores race, religion, mass incarceration of Muslims -- France's brief experiment with cannabidiol seems to have started a movement to legalize cannabis, which has been illegal since 1970.

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India and Kashmir, now one -- India's government scrapped Article 370, the part of the 1956 Constitution that gave the state of Jammu and Kashmir special autonomous status after independence. How consequential is this for India?

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Census participation crucial for rural Americans -- People living in rural and small-town America in particular have much at stake in the 2020 census. Unfortunately, census participation tends to be lower in rural areas.

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Climate change will mean more multiyear snow droughts in the West -- Scientists have long known that the warming temperatures associated with climate change are diminishing the snowpack in the western U.S., with more precipitation falling as rain, rather than snow. That's a problem.

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Anti-Christian attacks in Nigeria threaten precarious balance of faiths -- Over the weekend, Chidinma Ibeleji, a deaconess in the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria, was kidnapped along with four others on her way to her Pentecostal denomination's annual convention in Lagos.

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8chan's demise is a win against hate, but could drive extremists to dark web -- The news that 8chan, the far-right online community allegedly home to mass shooting manifestos, has been effectively removed from the Internet is cause for celebration, but should also make us consider the implications.

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Iran's Javad Zarif smiles for cameras, while regime tortures dissidents -- With his neatly trimmed beard, wide smile and receding white hair, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, is viewed in the Western media as the moderate face of his regime. The reality is somewhat different.

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CNN's Democratic carnival can't be called a debate -- CNN produced two made-for-television carnival shows mistakenly called Democratic presidential debates. While not always presidential in conduct, one of the 20 carnival contestants will likely be the next nominee.

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Gun buybacks have little impact on America's 393 million firearms -- Americans own nearly half of the world's guns, with approximately 120 firearms for every 100 U.S. residents.

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Gilroy, El Paso, Dayton and the normalization of violence -- As a bad Catholic, I need to make a confession: I no longer pay attention to mass shootings.

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El Paso shooting horrifies lawmakers; so do the solutions -- Add my hometown of El Paso to the list that, in Texas alone, includes Sutherland Springs and Santa Fe - places where people were shot where they went to pray, shop and go to school.

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South African gender-based violence needs more than slogans, summits -- South Africa's crisis of gender-based violence needs more than slogans and summits to fix, and the impact of government's interventions cannot be fully effective without data and performance monitoring.

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U.S. should not let China replace Russia in Central Asia -- Central Asia is the one region on the planet where Russia and China have enjoyed greater influence than the United States. However, this situation is rapidly changing.

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Party divide a bigger threat to Catholic unity than theological differences -- American Catholics are almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, which means the church can either self-destruct or bridge the partisan divide.

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Two modern Waterloos: Brexit Boris and Impeachment Don -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and American President Donald Trump are facing 21st century political variants of Waterloo. For Johnson, it is Brexit. For Trump, it is impeachment.

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Barr's decision to reinstate death penalty at odds with his Catholic faith -- The worry that Attorney General William Barr might impose his private religious views on federal matters has apparently been overblown, at least judging from his decision this week to reinstate the federal death penalty.

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TV anchor, pilot killed in New Orleans stunt plane crash

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