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Betrayal of Yazidis Stokes Iraqi Fears of Return to 2006 Sectarian Horrors
Yazidis who fled the violence in northern Iraq were left with a sense of betrayal after Arabs who they thought were friends became supporters of ISIS, or even joined militants.U.S.
Judges Take Tough Tone at Gay Marriage Hearing
Federal appeals judges heard arguments defending bans on same-sex marriage in Indiana and Wisconsin comparing them to laws that once barred mixed-race marriages.U.S.
Rubio Warns Obama Against Executive Action on Immigration
The Florida senator, who once championed an overhaul supporting people who are in the U.S. illegally, told the president not to interfere with deportations.Sports
Dressage Teams Are First to Qualify
Almost two years before the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first competitors have qualified for the Rio de Janeiro Games.Sports
State Fair’s Big Attraction: The Newest Timberwolves
Three days after Minnesota dealt Kevin Love to Cleveland, the team introduced the players acquired in the three-team trade at the Minnesota State Fair.World
Turkey: Chinese Workers Abducted
Kurdish separatists kidnapped three Chinese engineers in an area near a power plant in Turkey’s southeast, a regional government official said Tuesday.
I am not worried about the morality of the practice.
The state of contract law there bothers me.
Contract law and Babies are not usually paired.
25 years of dependency is stretching things at our age.
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Blood Industry Shrinks as Transfusions Decline
Medical advances have increased efficiency, but the trend is forcing an enormous wave of mergers and job cutbacks.The Upshot
Don’t Get Mad if Burger King Gets Canadian
Sometimes a corporate merger is just a corporate merger, not a disguised attempt to escape U.S. taxes. Here’s one such case.Fashion & Style
Video: Vows | Love From Tragedy
Colin Goddard, a survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, met his fiance, Gabriella Hoehn-Saric, while they were both working at The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.World
South Sudan: U.N. Helicopter Goes Down, Killing Three in Crew
A United Nations helicopter carrying cargo in South Sudan crashed on Tuesday, killing three of its four Russian crew members, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan reported.U.S.
Obama Tells Veterans He Will Fix Health System, as New Report Lists Lapses
President Obama spoke to an American Legion convention Tuesday with a promise to do more to improve veterans’ access to health care and housing.N.Y. / Region
Sheep Are Given Room to Roam, and in Return, They Manage the Land
A partnership between a nonprofit farm and the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester County uses privately owned ewes to mow and maintain publicly managed land.Opinion
The Expanding World of Poverty Capitalism
Court costs, fees and fines are big business for private companies and local governments.- 2.1 Early settlement, convict transportation, and the prisoner trade
- 2.2 Colonial criminal punishments, jails, and workhouses
- 2.3 Post-Revolutionary Penal Reform and the Beginnings of United States Prison Systems
- 2.4 Jacksonian and Antebellum era
World
New Palestinian Town in West Bank Awaits Israel’s Approval for Water
Rawabi, a heralded enterprise in the West Bank, lacks residents more than a year after its first 600 apartments were sold, becoming a cautionary tale about investing in the area.
There will be no two state solution in Palestine.
It is not a question of border position but of resources and religion.
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Liberian Leader Reported to Fire Officials for Defying Ebola Order
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had ordered cabinet ministers and senior officials to return home to help confront the outbreak.Opinion
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