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People line up to receive the monkeypox vaccine.

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  • History

Talking about monkeypox? Then you should be talking about sex

Despite the possibility of stigmatizing queer sex, experts say it's important to keep sex at the center of the conversation around monkeypox.

August 18, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Sacheen Littlefeather appears at the Academy Awards ceremony to announce that Marlon Brando was declining his Oscar as best actor for his role in <em>The Godfather</em>, on March 27, 1973.

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  • Movies

The Academy apologizes to Sacheen Littlefeather for her treatment at the 1973 Oscars

In 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather spoke on behalf of Marlon Brando at the Oscars about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.

August 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is calling for the repeal of the Espionage Act.

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  • Law

Sen. Rand Paul wants to repeal the Espionage Act amid the Mar-a-Lago investigation

This is the first time in U.S. history a former president has been investigated for possibly violating the 1917 law. But it's not the first time the Espionage Act has been under scrutiny, experts say.

August 15, 2022
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Emily Meggett, the author of <em>Gullah Geechee Home Cooking</em>. Meggett published her cookbook at age 89.

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  • Arts & Life

For this 89-year-old Gullah Geechee chef, cooking is about heart

Emily Meggett has spent decades caring for her community and family with her delicious, traditional Gullah Geechee food from South Carolina. Now, she's sharing that cuisine with the world.

August 15, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Ishar Das Arora, 83, watches a 3-D video of his birthplace in Pakistan, through a virtual reality device.

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  • World

75 years after India's violent Partition, survivors can cross the border — virtually

A virtual reality project helps survivors of India's Partition glimpse long-lost birthplaces they fled as children. Fraught relations between India and Pakistan mean they can't visit in person.

August 13, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Friends Nasir Dhillon (left) and Papinder Singh run a YouTube channel, Punjabi Lehar, that tries to heal the wounds of Partition through reuniting loved ones separated when British-ruled India was divided into two countries, India and Pakistan, 75 years ago.

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  • World

YouTube videos are helping reunite loved ones separated by the India-Pakistan border

Two Pakistani friends make videos in which those who lived through India's 1947 Partition describe loved ones they lost at the time. With viewers' help, siblings and others are reunited after decades.

August 12, 2022
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid,
  • Lauren Frayer,
  • and 2 more
U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: The right to be 'let alone': Could Georgia's privacy law be used vs. abortion ban?

Thursday on Political Rewind: The ACLU is suing the state over a six-week ban on abortions, citing Georgia's constitutional right to privacy. Listen in to our special panel examine the state constitution's history and its potential relevance to future high-profile cases.

August 11, 2022
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By:
  • Chase McGee and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
The wild ponies roam on South Ocean Beach at Assateague Island.

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  • Animals

A fossilized tooth may help solve the mystery of the Chincoteague ponies

After taking a second look at what was thought to be a cow tooth, one scientist has found evidence to help solve the mysterious origin story for these wild ponies.

August 11, 2022
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By:
  • Erika Ryan and
  • Justine Kenin
Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, Republican Gov. Phil Scott wears a mask as he takes the Oath of Office on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt., beginning his third two-year term. Vermont is one of two states that holds elections for governor every two years.

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  • National

It's primary day in Vermont. Why do voters there choose a governor every 2 years?

Vermont's Republican governor, Phil Scott, is on the ballot today, just like he was in 2016, 2018 and 2020. Why is that and will it ever change?

August 10, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Kinzel
Historian David McCullough, shown here in 2013, has died at 89. He wrote extensively and compellingly about American history and won two Pulitzer Prizes.

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  • Arts & Life

Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough has died

He wrote acclaimed books about Harry Truman and John Adams, along with the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal. He also was the authoritative voice narrating TV films such as The Civil War in 1990.

August 10, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby and
  • Elizabeth Blair
In this 1955 file photo, Carolyn Bryant poses for a photo. A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman, Carolyn Donham, known as Carolyn Bryant, whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago.

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  • National

A grand jury declined to indict a woman whose accusations set off Emmett Till killing

A grand jury declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in 1955. The grand jury determined that there was not sufficient evidence.

August 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Horniman Museum's collection of artifacts from the ancient kingdom of Benin includes 12 brass plaques, ceremonial objects and a key 'to the king's palace'.

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  • Art & Design

A London museum agrees to return more than 70 pieces of looted Nigerian art

The Horniman Museum promised to repatriate a trove of artifacts, which include objects known as Benin bronzes, looted from West Africa during a British military invasion in 1897.

August 07, 2022
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
President Barack Obama delivers a televised statement that Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. President Donald Trump makes a statement announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. President Biden announces on Monday that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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  • Politics

How 3 presidents announced the deaths of terrorist leaders and what it says about them

The way Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden announced the deaths of terrorist chiefs revealed much about their own leadership.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer speak to media during the opening of New Zealand's 53rd Parliament.

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  • World

New Zealand considers changing its name to confront its troubled colonial past

As the people of New Zealand confront their nation's troubled past with colonization, a return to the Maori name of Aotearoa is being presented to a parliamentary committee.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • Christopher Intagliata,
  • and 1 more
A mural of Rep. John Lewis on a street named after him Feb. 11, in Nashville, Tenn. The late Lewis was part of a movement that marched downtown from the historically Black neighborhood of North Nashville to take part in lunch counter sit-ins. That same neighborhood is redistricted into a mostly white congressional district, which some Democrats are comparing past civil rights violations.

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  • National

Today in Nashville, 9 Republicans run for a seat redistricted out of Democrats' reach

GOP lawmakers in Tennessee have redrawn Nashville from one Democratic congressional district into three GOP-leaning districts. Democrats will have a difficult, if not impossible, time getting elected.

August 04, 2022
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  • Blaise Gainey
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