Rebecca Tan The Washington Post
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After Man Fined For Cutting Tree, US Immigration Knocks On His Door
An undocumented immigrant from Maryland is suing a state police agency whose officers turned him over to USImmigration and Customs Enforcement after writing him a ticket for improper tree removal.
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"I Look Orange, It's The Lightbulb": Trump's Dig At Energy-Saving Policy
While the Democratic presidential debate was underway on Thursday, President Donald Trump was behind a pulpit of his own, addressing House Republicans at a policy retreat in Baltimore. In between bashing the Democratic candidates in Houston and running through a list of what he considered GOP triumphs, Trump said that energy-saving lightbulbs - whi...
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"Frozen Dragon Of North Wind" Among Largest Flying Animals: Scientists
A new species of Pterosaur, a flying reptile, has been identified in the vast, dry terrain of Canada's badlands. On Tuesday, it was anointed as "Cryodrakon boreas," Greek for "Frozen dragon of the north wind."
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Delivery Of 100 Boxes Of Pasta With Raw Chicken Confuses Hong Kong Police
Hong Kong police, embroiled in the 14th week of protests in the city, received a peculiar delivery Friday night: 100 boxes of pasta topped with chunks of raw, pink chicken.
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Sri Lankan Tamil Family Facing Deportation Gets Australian Town's Backing
Biloela, population 6,000, is a small rural town in northeastern Australia. When the town's first - and hitherto only - set of traffic lights was built 10 years ago, residents were sent into a tizzy. Many families still work in coal mines or cotton farms. On weekends, people fish.
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Couple Went Shopping For Child's Birthday Party. They Died Protecting Her
They had just dropped their oldest daughter off at cheerleading practice when they pulled into the Walmart parking lot, packed with hundreds of back-to-school shoppers like them. Jordan and Andre Anchondo grabbed their 2-month-old baby and headed inside.
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Woman On Hike Dies On Hottest Weekend Of Year In Washington Region
A woman hiking the Billy Goat Trail in Montgomery County, Maryland, died Saturday in what authorities believe was a heat-related medical emergency during the the hottest weekend of the year in the Washington region.
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A Medical School Didn't Want Too Many Women. So It Lowered Their Grades
One of Japan's top medical universities has been systematically blocking female applicants from entering the school for at least eight years, local news agencies reported on Thursday.
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UK Teen Was Forced To Marry Her Cousin In Bangladesh, Parents Now Jailed
In 2016, Britain's diplomatic mission in Bangladesh helped an 18-year-old British girl escape from a village in the South Asian nation just days before she was being forced to marry her first cousin.
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Dog Who Rescued Quake Survivors Found Dead. Owner Says He Was Poisoned
When a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the central Italian town of Amatrice two years ago, Fabiano Ettore and his German shepherd, Kaos, were among the first to join in the rescue efforts. Kaos, who was just over a year old at the time, worked for days with other dogs to find survivors of the quake, which killed 241 people and destroyed most of the to...
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Fitness Tracker Reveals Locations Of US Military Personnel, Exposes Risk
Less than seven months ago, a group of journalists and Internet sleuths reported that the fitness-tracking application Strava was revealing highly sensitive information about U.S. military personnel around the world, including in Iraq and Syria.
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From Chilean Miners To Elon Musk, World Watches Cave Rescue Of Thai Boys
It was a Thursday afternoon nearly eight years ago when Omar Reygadas heard the explosion that would seal him and 32 others inside a mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile. He wouldn't see the light of day again for 69 days.
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22-Year-Old Driver Stopped By French Police - Then Shot And Killed
Several neighborhoods in the city of Nantes in western France were set ablaze on Tuesday night by dozens of young people wielding small missiles and gasoline-filled bottles, protesting the shooting death of a 22-year-old driver.
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Donald Trump Gets Dose Of Dutch Bluntness From Visiting Prime Minister
During their exchange, Trump suggested that leaving the trade dispute unresolved could still be "positive." Rutte responded by raising his eyebrows, laughing and cutting in to say, "no."
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Foreign Media On Mandsaur Rape Survivor, Age 7
A week ago, a 7-year-old girl was abducted outside her school, raped, then left with her throat slit open in Madhya Pradesh. Now, thousands of people, including several of the country's political leaders, are calling for her perpetrators to receive the death penalty.
_625x300_1530673238647.jpg?downsize=260:195 "Donald Trump Gets Dose Of Dutch Bluntness From Visiting Prime Minister")
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After Man Fined For Cutting Tree, US Immigration Knocks On His Door
An undocumented immigrant from Maryland is suing a state police agency whose officers turned him over to USImmigration and Customs Enforcement after writing him a ticket for improper tree removal.
-
"I Look Orange, It's The Lightbulb": Trump's Dig At Energy-Saving Policy
While the Democratic presidential debate was underway on Thursday, President Donald Trump was behind a pulpit of his own, addressing House Republicans at a policy retreat in Baltimore. In between bashing the Democratic candidates in Houston and running through a list of what he considered GOP triumphs, Trump said that energy-saving lightbulbs - whi...
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"Frozen Dragon Of North Wind" Among Largest Flying Animals: Scientists
A new species of Pterosaur, a flying reptile, has been identified in the vast, dry terrain of Canada's badlands. On Tuesday, it was anointed as "Cryodrakon boreas," Greek for "Frozen dragon of the north wind."
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Delivery Of 100 Boxes Of Pasta With Raw Chicken Confuses Hong Kong Police
Hong Kong police, embroiled in the 14th week of protests in the city, received a peculiar delivery Friday night: 100 boxes of pasta topped with chunks of raw, pink chicken.
-
Sri Lankan Tamil Family Facing Deportation Gets Australian Town's Backing
Biloela, population 6,000, is a small rural town in northeastern Australia. When the town's first - and hitherto only - set of traffic lights was built 10 years ago, residents were sent into a tizzy. Many families still work in coal mines or cotton farms. On weekends, people fish.
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Couple Went Shopping For Child's Birthday Party. They Died Protecting Her
They had just dropped their oldest daughter off at cheerleading practice when they pulled into the Walmart parking lot, packed with hundreds of back-to-school shoppers like them. Jordan and Andre Anchondo grabbed their 2-month-old baby and headed inside.
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Woman On Hike Dies On Hottest Weekend Of Year In Washington Region
A woman hiking the Billy Goat Trail in Montgomery County, Maryland, died Saturday in what authorities believe was a heat-related medical emergency during the the hottest weekend of the year in the Washington region.
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A Medical School Didn't Want Too Many Women. So It Lowered Their Grades
One of Japan's top medical universities has been systematically blocking female applicants from entering the school for at least eight years, local news agencies reported on Thursday.
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UK Teen Was Forced To Marry Her Cousin In Bangladesh, Parents Now Jailed
In 2016, Britain's diplomatic mission in Bangladesh helped an 18-year-old British girl escape from a village in the South Asian nation just days before she was being forced to marry her first cousin.
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Dog Who Rescued Quake Survivors Found Dead. Owner Says He Was Poisoned
When a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the central Italian town of Amatrice two years ago, Fabiano Ettore and his German shepherd, Kaos, were among the first to join in the rescue efforts. Kaos, who was just over a year old at the time, worked for days with other dogs to find survivors of the quake, which killed 241 people and destroyed most of the to...
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Fitness Tracker Reveals Locations Of US Military Personnel, Exposes Risk
Less than seven months ago, a group of journalists and Internet sleuths reported that the fitness-tracking application Strava was revealing highly sensitive information about U.S. military personnel around the world, including in Iraq and Syria.
-
From Chilean Miners To Elon Musk, World Watches Cave Rescue Of Thai Boys
It was a Thursday afternoon nearly eight years ago when Omar Reygadas heard the explosion that would seal him and 32 others inside a mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile. He wouldn't see the light of day again for 69 days.
-
22-Year-Old Driver Stopped By French Police - Then Shot And Killed
Several neighborhoods in the city of Nantes in western France were set ablaze on Tuesday night by dozens of young people wielding small missiles and gasoline-filled bottles, protesting the shooting death of a 22-year-old driver.
-
Donald Trump Gets Dose Of Dutch Bluntness From Visiting Prime Minister
During their exchange, Trump suggested that leaving the trade dispute unresolved could still be "positive." Rutte responded by raising his eyebrows, laughing and cutting in to say, "no."
-
Foreign Media On Mandsaur Rape Survivor, Age 7
A week ago, a 7-year-old girl was abducted outside her school, raped, then left with her throat slit open in Madhya Pradesh. Now, thousands of people, including several of the country's political leaders, are calling for her perpetrators to receive the death penalty.
