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Month: November 2019

Thomas Jefferson Middle School cross country team goes the extra mile to support teammate with Down syndrome

Click here for updates on this story     WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — There’s a sense of family at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Winston-Salem. “The parents, the teachers, the principal, the kids, it`s just always been one big family,” said Betsy Pace, Thomas Jefferson Middle School cross country coach. The sense of family is also shown

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Fiona Hill nails the Democrats’ case

Fiona Hill, the last witness in two weeks of televised impeachment hearings, made the case against her old boss President Donald Trump better than Democrats ever have. The former National Security Council official on Thursday distilled the fog of shady dealings and competition between Trump appointees and career bureaucrats with a crystal clear condemnation of

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U2 debuts new song ‘Ahimsa’

U2 is back with new music. The group has collaborated with Indian musician A.R. Rahman for a single titled “Ahimsa.” Both U2 and Rahman tweeted a snippet of the new song. “The concept of ‘ahimsa’ or non-violence — it’s Indian, it’s South Asian, it’s Buddhist… and sometimes we have to remind people about love, about

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Calles a reventar, enfrentamientos y un cacerolazo nocturno: lo que dejaron las protestas masivas en Colombia

(CNN Español) — Con cánticos, pancartas y múltiples reclamos, se realizó la jornada de manifestaciones en Colombia convocada para este jueves por varios sectores y organizaciones sociales. El descontento en contra del gobierno de Iván Duque quedó reflejado en las calles de varias de las principales ciudades como Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Cartagena y Barranquilla, entre otras.

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Fiona Hill, Trump’s former top Russia adviser, wrote the book on Putin

Fiona Hill, President Donald Trump’s former top Russia adviser, testified publicly on Thursday before the House Intelligence Committee in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Hill, a former national security adviser until she left the administration this summer, told lawmakers that US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was involved in a

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Google has changed its political ad policies. Now come the really hard questions

In announcing new limits on political advertising Wednesday, Google took aim at an issue that a growing cross-section of business leaders, government officials and researchers say is a threat to democracy. The problem they’ve identified is the ability of political advertisers to finely target vulnerable groups of internet users with misinformation — skewing their view

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