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After years of hating on the Seattle Police Department, I was pleased to hear Mayor Ed Murray tell the public he’s taking major steps to rebuild the department. Unfortunately, the mayor is missing an…
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The G-20 convened Monday, November 19, for its main meeting and is expected to adopt a global tax plan to support a financing system for sustainable economic growth. Here’s how the growing movement to…
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It’s becoming one of the capital’s most-sought-after residential destinations. An upscale co-working space called 68 Tank has moved into a former house in Georgetown, and two blocks away, 919 Tenley Circle is expanding. The…
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During the 2016 presidential campaign, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton repeatedly said they supported arming teachers to protect their students from the scourge of gun violence. Both also supported a more “professional” response…
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The Milwaukee Bucks are the latest National Basketball Association team to announce they will visit the White House to celebrate their NBA Championship. The team made the announcement on their official Twitter page on…
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For 10 months, the little bit of money that the Nigerian school was struggling to raise for his tuition allowed 11-year-old Tani Adewumi to follow his dream to become a world-famous chess grandmaster. When…
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Xander Schauffele, the 24-year-old Tour de France qualifier who won the green jersey last year, has been spending a lot of time sharing videos of himself riding to social media after a revelatory win…
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Written by Staff Writer Haiti’s police chief in Port-au-Prince said on Wednesday that four suspects had been arrested in the abduction of 17 American missionaries from a Baptist church in Haiti, CNN affiliate VOX…
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What if you could replicate your body’s response to a vaccine with your own body cells? How would that affect your health? And what if it didn’t just create a strong immune response, but…
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Image: Getty Images Papua New Guinea’s second case of the deadly cyclone-driven Yellow Fever disease has been reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The PNG office of National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD)…
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