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Will scandals derail political progress in Virginia?
February 14, 2019Increased voter turnout of the state’s minority working-class base, as well as demographic and cultural changes, have been important drivers of this movement in this formerly arch-segregationist state.
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Turkey’s Erdogan facing resistance to his dictatorial rule
February 14, 2019A ruler who sees democracy as nothing more than a temporary measure in his autocrat’s tool box has reason to fear coming local elections.
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Butterfly Center asks judge to stop Texas border wall
February 13, 2019In a motion filed late Monday, center director Marianna Trevino Wright says heavy machinery has been driving through their property for a week.
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South African unions on national strike over job losses
February 13, 2019Trade unionists across South Africa are walking out in a national strike as the country faces a shutdown over “privatization, retrenchment and imperialism.”
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Federal workers fear Trump could rerun shutdown/lockout
February 13, 2019“If the shutdown returns, the (workers’) lines to food banks will return. And if we don’t get paid and can’t work.”
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