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51+ min ago   (362+ words) Nine years after the murder of a journalist, there remains a ‘suffocating intimacy’ between big business and politics Nine years have passed since Malta’s pre-eminent investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was killed by a car bomb near her home,…...

52+ min ago   (448+ words) Bringing the BOOKS program to life was not easy. Behind every book delivered and every smile was a story of dedication and personal sacrifice. Easter College librarians already carried demanding workloads and daily responsibilities, yet they willingly devoted their personal…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (241+ words) The president’s outlandish campaign promise has prompted questions about his grip on reality The Democrats made a very wise decision this spring, said Lauren Egan on The Bulwark. They were considering whether to host their own midterm convention to steal…...

2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (220+ words) “This one hurts and does not seem real,” the Glee alum, who starred in Sheik’s “Spring Awakening” musical, writes Duncan Sheik’s colleagues and friends paid tribute to the Tony and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter following word of his death on Friday. Among…...

3+ hour, 17+ min ago   (265+ words) Texas executed LeJames Norman on Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was pronounced dead at 6:44 p.m. local time, hours after the US Supreme Court rejected his petition and request for a stay. Norman was the fifth person executed…...

2+ hour, 59+ min ago   (734+ words) Roughly 100 workers at the Smithfield Foods pork plant in Monmouth, Illinois, walked off the job Monday after Patou Mpinda, a 44-year-old maintenance worker, was killed during the overnight shift. Their action is a sign of growing opposition in the working…...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago   (886+ words) The more than 50-minute interview also discussed the massive German military buildup, the militarization of schools and universities, the electoral advance of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the deepening social crisis expressed in mass job cuts throughout German…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (71+ words) FILE -- Gloria Steinem speaks at a rally in New York on Feb. 29, 1968. Steinem, the feminist crusader who, in galvanizing the modern women's movement, helped millions of women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at home,…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (20+ words) FILE -- Film negatives of Gloria Steinem, shot in New York on May 23, 1984. (Neal Boenzi/The New York Times)...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago   (716+ words) President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House was swiftly condemned as an assault on the First Amendment by numerous journalists and commentators, but what does the law actually say…...