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democrats say taking the virginia state legislature could signal

Everytown Action Fund, the gun control group founded by former New York Michael Bloomberg, announced last month it was spending $438,000 addition to its $135,000 in ad buys to help Democrats take the majority.. ..

country reports on terrorism 2018

A November 2018 study by the Congo Research Group, a New York University-affiliated NGO that tracks unrest in eastern DRC, concluded that the ADF demonstrated interest in increasing its ideological and financial links with broader jihadi movements comparable to ISIS. ..

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under trump, iraqis who helped u.s. in war are stalled in refugee

Credit...Joao Silva/The New York Times . . . Nov. 2, 2019, 2:14 a.m. ET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Only 153 Iraqi refugees whose applications were given high priority were admitted in the fiscal year that ended in September — down from a high of 9,829 in the 2014 fiscal year,..

culture wars

The conventional on climate change got new lease on life when Greta Thunberg, Swedish activist, arrived New York to address United Nations General Assembly September. ..

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