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Cuban doctors to leave Brazil courtesy of Jair Bolsonaro
November 21, 2018Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health announced Nov. 14 that some 8,000 Cuban doctors providing health care in Brazil will be returning to Cuba. The action was in response to Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s harsh criticism of...
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‘CAM’: Sex worker empowerment through horror genre
November 21, 2018A common saying goes that sex work is considered the oldest profession, yet it also happens to be one where the workers are often the most exploited. Exploitation and safety on the job is a constant...
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Fifth graders compose and perform poignant songs about math and science
November 21, 2018LOS ANGELES—Early last year a press release from the Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC) came my way about high school kids in Van Nuys writing and performing a new oratorio on the theme of the Japanese...
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The House has gone Democratic. Can its majority now go bold?
November 21, 2018Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school...
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U.S. weapons in hands of Trump’s Saudi pals create humanitarian disaster
November 21, 2018Defying the world’s findings as he sits down to eat his Thanksgiving dinner, Trump defends Saudi prince who killed a Washington Post columnist and who is now starving Yemen’s children to death.
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