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Opinion: How An Indian-American Family Got Stranded In India Due To Broken US Immigration System
The Mazumdars are home. After nearly three months trapped in a frightening immigration limbo, the family returned from India to their D.C. condo, to their schools and jobs, to their friends and their lives. All it took was one stamp on a passport.
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Opinion: US Woman, 83, Might Get Kicked Out Of Home For Taking Too Many Cookies
The first indication that 83-year-old Elsie Cruey could be kicked out of her apartment came in an email in June.
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Opinion: Indian Family Visited Delhi For H-1B Visa Renewal. Now They're Stuck Here
They've been stranded in India for six weeks now.
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Opinion: E-Cigarettes Help Quit Smoking But May Get Teens Hooked To Nicotine
Ever since e-cigarettes began surging in popularity, they have posed a vexing problem: These nicotine-delivery devices may help some adults quit smoking, which is more dangerous than vaping, but also may addict nonsmokers to nicotine, especially curious teenagers.
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Blog: My Date Bailed Two Days Before Prom, But I Had A Happy Ending Nonetheless
It's prom season, and every year around this time, as my Facebook feed fills up with pictures of friends' children headed out for their big night, it reminds me of a single, inexplicable act of kindness 24 years ago on my own prom night.
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Blog: Meghan Markle's Subtle But Important Message To New Moms On Giving Birth
Did you notice something in those pictures of Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, with their newborn son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor?
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Opinion: Game of Thrones' "The Long Night" Felt Decidedly Conventional
I love "Game of Thrones"; more than any other work of art, George R.R. Martin's novels and the television adaptation of them have defined my career as a critic. But if you asked me whether "Game of Thrones" is a genuinely great show, after "The Long Night," I'd have to answer: not today.
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Opinion: How Many Trumps Does It Take To Not Change A Lightbulb?
Of all the counterproductive policy campaigns conservatives have waged in recent years, among the most irrational has been their war on the federal government's efforts to update the lightbulb. Swapping out all the old incandescent bulbs across the country would save an astonishing amount of energy, which would translate into big savings for consumers and less polluti...
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Blog: My Mother's Place Of Escape Is Patel Brothers, Indian Grocery In US
My mom's bucket list doesn't include lavish trips to far-flung locales like Bora Bora or Peru. Instead, it stars a grocery store - more specifically, a Patel Brothers location in Naperville, Illinois.
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Opinion: Trump Says China Is "Honourable". He Should Learn From This Woman's Case
Not long before President Trump expounded on how "honorable" he finds China's communist regime, my friend Ti-Anna Wang found herself and her 11-month-old baby in custody in the Hangzhou airport.
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Opinion: After Khashoggi, No Longer Feel Safe In Exile From Pakistan
The U.S. intelligence officials told me they believe that, after Jamal Khashoggi's killing, repressive regimes such as the one in Pakistan have been emboldened to silence critics, not only at home but also abroad.
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Blog: My Mom Traveled To India To Save My Life. This Is How I Thanked Her
I can't say if my love story had anything to do with the Hindu goddess of marriage, but I do know that there would be no happy ending without my mother by my side through it all.
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Opinion: "Glitch Of The Pentagon": There's A Reason No One Heard Of This Monster
Search for a combination of "glitch" and "Pentagon," and you get news stories about temporarily lost 9/11 photos or the maligned F-35 fighter plane, but no Pentagon monster.
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Opinion: YouTube King's Most-Watched Video Is An Insult Aimed At T-Series
It is perhaps the silliest spat of the year. Since September, PewDiePie, a Swedish Internet personality whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, has waged a war of words with T-Series, an Indian record label and film producer. For five years, PewDiePie has been the most subscribed channel on YouTube, amassing more than 76 million subscribers. T-Series, however, is threaten...
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Opinion: Mark Zuckerberg Should At Least Step Down As Facebook Chairman
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once set out a bit of digital-world wisdom that became his company's informal motto: "Move fast and break things." After the past week's developments, the 34-year-old should declare mission accomplished - and find something else to do for the next few decades.
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Opinion: Behind Saudi's Public Face, A Dark Side
When he hosted last October's glittering global investment conference in Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had the world at his fingertips. Thousands of investors, corporate chieftains and government leaders flocked to the kingdom to hear the charismatic young heir to the Saudi throne outline his plans for modernization of the reclusive kingdom, and to be...
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Opinion: Is Fantastic Beasts 2 Racist? Not Quite.
It's thoughtless but not necessarily bigoted. But even a series as beloved as Harry Potter needs diverse characters to stand the test of time.
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Opinion: "You're Not Thinking. You Never Do," Donald Trump Tells Female Reporter
In a feisty news conference, the US President seemed to go out of his way to attack female reporters.
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Opinion: What Do We Still Want From Monica Lewinsky?
There's a line between needing to hear women's painful stories and forcing women to relive them, and on Monday evening the line got blurry with Monica Lewinsky.
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Opinion: Protecting Democracy Is An Arms Race – By Mark Zuckerberg
When you build services that connect billions of people across countries and cultures, you're going to see all of the good that humanity can do, and you're also going to see people try to abuse those services in every way possible.
