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'There were a lot of threads working against this happening': How Stevie Wonder's joyful hit song...

'There were a lot of threads working against this happening': How Stevie Wonder's joyful hit song...

With Happy Birthday, Stevie Wonder successfully campaigned to honour Martin Luther King Jr with a national ho…

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Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Verdict In Defamation Trial

Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Verdict In Defamation Trial

Michael Mann wins defamation trial against climate deniers

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50 years after Munich Olympics attack, victims' families are compensated

50 years after Munich Olympics attack, victims' families are compensated

Fifty years ago Monday, on Sept. 5, 1972, Palestinian extremists infiltrated athletes' dorms at the Munich Su…

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The United States' first interracial love song

The United States' first interracial love song

Today we take them for granted, but in the 1960s interracial duets were almost unheard of. Diane Bernard expl…

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Gaslit and Watergate: The enduring draw of a 1972 conspiracy

Gaslit and Watergate: The enduring draw of a 1972 conspiracy

Fifty years after the Watergate scandal, a new TV series and exhibition explore the events that led to one of…

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'No blondes allowed': 50 years after a junior high experiment, students say it had 'a big impact'

'No blondes allowed': 50 years after a junior high experiment, students say it had 'a big impact'

Blond eighth-grader Jan Shipe Brown remembers getting off the school bus at her junior high school in Potomac…

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Q&A: ‘The Climate Crisis Is Directly Related to Inequality’

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In an interview with Rachel Donald of the podcast Planet: Critical, science historian Naomi Oreskes spoke about her new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, cowritten with Erik M. Conway. She explored why our climate is in crisis, detailing how institutions, lobbyists, and corporations continue to undermine democracy; and why a renewable world threatens the powers that be.
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Activists Launch Their Own Investigation of  Mud Spill Near Pennsylvania LNG Pipeline  

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On February 15, Pennsylvania’s environmental regulator received an anonymous complaint that a mysterious white material was covering the bottom of a creek in Chester County — a tributary of nearby Marsh Creek Lake located about a thousand feet from the underground Mariner East pipeline. A day later, an inspector from the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed that the clay-like material was flowing from a nearby sinkhole into the stream and nearby wetlands.
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The president who deported 1 million Mexican Americans nearly a century ago

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The raid came at the height of the Great Depression and on the heels of President Herbert Hoover’s announcement of a national program of “American jobs for real Americans” — code words for “ ‘getting rid of Mexicans,’ who weren’t considered ‘real’ Americans,” said Dunn, whose staff spent three years delving into federal, state and local records in the United States and Mexico to document this little-known tragedy of the Latino experience in the United States.
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