As the 2020 election ramps up, student loan debt has emerged as a hot-button issue on the campaign trail, with several presidential hopefuls r…
"And I can't deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me!" - Sally Field, accepting the Best Actress Academy Award for "Places in t…
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This week marks 75 years since Soviet troops stormed the gates of hell.
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Here are three things that happened on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. On Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., an impeachment trial was going on. It was…
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On Jan. 17, Michelle Obama's birthday, the Trump administration proposed rollbacks in nutrition standards in the school meal program. Under th…
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On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun…
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Every January, synagogues across the country hold a special service or ceremony in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. They do this to honor the …
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