Numerous people trapped in a shopping mall following powerful earthquake in Japan
Fuji TV reports that there are several fatalities. The earthquake has left at least 50 people injured in the southern prefecture of Kumamoto and 300,000 people have been instructed to go to evacuation...
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Berna León, a Harvard researcher in Spain’s Socialist ranks: ‘Entering politics today is like throwing yourself to the wolves’
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Atlanta activist charged after using phone-wiping software during federal questioning
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Trump administration steps up fight to block undocumented students from attending college
Colorado becomes the 14th state the government sues for refusing to discriminate against students based on immigration status
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Race against time in Spain’s wildfire battle: 24 critical hours before the heat wave
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A Louisiana community rises up against a new ICE center to detain and deport families
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An appeals court upholds the injunction blocking Trump’s order that sought to restrict mail-in voting in 23 states
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US faces the challenge of turning soccer into a mass sport following the success of the World Cup
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A major retrospective revisits the actress’s films and legacy as a performer, beyond the stereotypes that defined her image
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Helena Moreno, mayor of New Orleans: ‘Being Latina and bilingual allows me to defend my community’
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Peter Singer, philosopher: ‘People still think the animals we eat live out in the fields, outdoors’
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Fire Island, the ‘hottest’ beach in the world: 100 years of art, parties and wild sex
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ICE’s corpses and the search for answers: ‘Let the truth come out. My son was killed by the guard’
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The protest that broke the silence in Cuba: ‘It changed my whole life’
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Zacamil, the Salvadoran neighborhood once terrorized by gang violence, is being transformed into an open-air museum
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An underwater window on World War I
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Early Christian church that survived Muslim rule is found in southeastern Spain
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Lawsuit alleges FEMA and DHS are withholding funds to 25 states that do not support Trump’s immigration and election policies
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Controversy in Japan over Prime Minister Takaichi’s excessive work zeal: ‘Between 0 and 3 hours of sleep a day’
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The collapse of the ‘Tower of Babel’: Humans have lost thousands of languages since antiquity
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