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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: 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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Renowned Scientist Hopes To Find Stranger Who Helped Him 3 Decades Ago
A groundbreaking scientist, Mahmoud Ghannoum, has been telling the story for almost 30 years, how one generous act by a stranger in Washington made his remarkable life possible.
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High Schools Are Starting to Bet on E-Sports - to Engage and Motivate
US High Schools Are Starting to Bet on E-Sports - To Engage and Motivate.
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Stranger Helped 5-Year-Old Fly Back To US. 15 Years Later They Found Him
The story of Tom and Maya and Zainab is about trust, about listening to your heart over your mind, and about that gut feeling you have when you meet a good person.
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How I Lost My Children to Fortnite
There is no easy answer to navigating the culture of video games as a parent.
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For A Mother-To-Be (And The Dad, Too), The Ultimate Gender-Reveal Party
At 8:40, the crowd - most of them had no idea the Ferris wheel was involved, they thought maybe the white cakes on the tables held the answer for the gender reveal - were told to walk back out on the pier a bit.
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Oscars 2018: The Wrong Envelope Wasn't The First Academy Awards Fiasco - This Was
Oscars 2018: Here's the fiasco after which the Academy adopted the sealed-envelope system
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A Panty Liner Triggers A TSA Pat-Down Just One Step Removed From A Pap Smear
There's flying while Muslim. Flying while looking Muslim. Flying in leggings. Flying while 13 and forgetting to pull your laptop out. But did you know about flying with a panty liner?
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A Retired Police Chief Is Detained At US Airport For One Reason: His Name is Hassan
He's been called lots of things: chief, deputy chief, officer, husband, son, dad, immigrant, American. But none of those titles mattered when Hassan Aden landed on U.S. soil earlier this month in Trump's America. All that mattered was that his name is Hassan. And that, apparently, was enough for U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to questi...
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Staying At The New Trump Hotel In D.C.? You'll Pay A Price Beyond $700 A Night
A reservation at the new Trump International Hotel in the nation's capital will carry lots of baggage this fall - and not just the kind you would need to haul around the $700 (at least) a night it is going to cost to stay at the swish, new place.
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'I Wasn't Crazy.' A Homeless Woman Proves The Feds Owe Her $100,000.
At 80, Wanda Witter was dismissed as mentally ill as she fought with Social Security over the money she insisted she was due. She was right.
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An 11-Year-Old Buries Her Mother After Hearing The Gunshots That Killed Her
Her friends from Holy Trinity School in Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., lined up in the small church to hug the 11-year-old after the service.
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Mother's Day Without Her Son: 'I Knew From The Beginning He Would Probably Die Before I Did.'
Mom dilemma No. 9,786: The son wants a tattoo.
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Opinion: If You Wouldn't Say It To Our Faces, Don't Type It In A Tweet.
The trolls hide behind screens. And I've wondered: If some of these online creeps were face-to-face with the woman they are trashing, looking into her eyes, rather than the glow of their phone or laptop, would the vicious words they type with such abandon actually leave their mouths?
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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: 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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Renowned Scientist Hopes To Find Stranger Who Helped Him 3 Decades Ago
A groundbreaking scientist, Mahmoud Ghannoum, has been telling the story for almost 30 years, how one generous act by a stranger in Washington made his remarkable life possible.
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High Schools Are Starting to Bet on E-Sports - to Engage and Motivate
US High Schools Are Starting to Bet on E-Sports - To Engage and Motivate.
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Stranger Helped 5-Year-Old Fly Back To US. 15 Years Later They Found Him
The story of Tom and Maya and Zainab is about trust, about listening to your heart over your mind, and about that gut feeling you have when you meet a good person.
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How I Lost My Children to Fortnite
There is no easy answer to navigating the culture of video games as a parent.
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For A Mother-To-Be (And The Dad, Too), The Ultimate Gender-Reveal Party
At 8:40, the crowd - most of them had no idea the Ferris wheel was involved, they thought maybe the white cakes on the tables held the answer for the gender reveal - were told to walk back out on the pier a bit.
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Oscars 2018: The Wrong Envelope Wasn't The First Academy Awards Fiasco - This Was
Oscars 2018: Here's the fiasco after which the Academy adopted the sealed-envelope system
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A Panty Liner Triggers A TSA Pat-Down Just One Step Removed From A Pap Smear
There's flying while Muslim. Flying while looking Muslim. Flying in leggings. Flying while 13 and forgetting to pull your laptop out. But did you know about flying with a panty liner?
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A Retired Police Chief Is Detained At US Airport For One Reason: His Name is Hassan
He's been called lots of things: chief, deputy chief, officer, husband, son, dad, immigrant, American. But none of those titles mattered when Hassan Aden landed on U.S. soil earlier this month in Trump's America. All that mattered was that his name is Hassan. And that, apparently, was enough for U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers to questi...
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Staying At The New Trump Hotel In D.C.? You'll Pay A Price Beyond $700 A Night
A reservation at the new Trump International Hotel in the nation's capital will carry lots of baggage this fall - and not just the kind you would need to haul around the $700 (at least) a night it is going to cost to stay at the swish, new place.
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'I Wasn't Crazy.' A Homeless Woman Proves The Feds Owe Her $100,000.
At 80, Wanda Witter was dismissed as mentally ill as she fought with Social Security over the money she insisted she was due. She was right.
-
An 11-Year-Old Buries Her Mother After Hearing The Gunshots That Killed Her
Her friends from Holy Trinity School in Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., lined up in the small church to hug the 11-year-old after the service.
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Mother's Day Without Her Son: 'I Knew From The Beginning He Would Probably Die Before I Did.'
Mom dilemma No. 9,786: The son wants a tattoo.
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Opinion: If You Wouldn't Say It To Our Faces, Don't Type It In A Tweet.
The trolls hide behind screens. And I've wondered: If some of these online creeps were face-to-face with the woman they are trashing, looking into her eyes, rather than the glow of their phone or laptop, would the vicious words they type with such abandon actually leave their mouths?
