This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Lt. Alaric A. Piette was tough enough to serve nearly seven years as a Navy SEAL. He was smart enough to go on to Georgetown University’s law school, dedicated enough to rejoin the Navy as a lawyer and […]
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Image copyright Gemma Purkiss Image caption Lucien Greaves (far-right) uses several aliases to protect his family Everything you know about Satanism is wrong. At least that’s what a new documentary about the Satanic Temple could be about to prove. Despite the similarity of the name, the Temple is different to The Church of Satan, established
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Image copyright Square Roots Image caption Tobias Peggs says the fledgling industry is still developing the right business models A car park opposite the infamous New York City housing estate where rapper Jay-Z grew up seems an unlikely place for an agricultural revolution. Ten shipping containers dominate a corner of the Brooklyn parking area, each
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A California state senator who was shoved by an anti-vaccine activist says Facebook is deliberately giving a platform to violence by not removing a video of the incident. Democratic Sen. Richard Pan was walking on a street near the Capitol on Wednesday when Kenneth Austin Bennett confronted him with a camera. Video shows Bennett shoving
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The Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers are playing their exhibition game in Canada on a shortened field out of concern for the safety of the field. The game in Winnipeg on Thursday night is being played on an 80-yard field with the goal lines starting at the 10-yard lines and no kickoffs. Teams are
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In a ruling that kicks at the foundation of how America chooses presidents, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said members of the Electoral College, who cast the actual votes for president, may choose whomever they please regardless of a state’s popular vote. The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th
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Federal safety officials are recruiting pilots from airlines around the world to test changes that Boeing is making to the flight-control software on the grounded 737 Max jet, according to two people briefed on the situation. Interested in Boeing? Add Boeing as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Boeing news, video,
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Image copyright Getty Images A daily pill containing four medicines can cut the number of heart attacks and strokes by a third, a study shows. The polypill contains blood-thinning aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering statin and two drugs to lower blood pressure. The researchers – in Iran and the UK – said the pill had a huge
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Miley Cyrus may feel younger now than ever, but insists she’s all grown up in a self-aware response to the rumors circling her recent split from husband Liam Hemsworth. In the days since the former couple called it quits after less than a year of marriage, the two have been locked in a game of he
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Image copyright Waplington/Woodham family Image caption Rising Instagram star Ralphie Waplington with his mum, Stacey Woodhams Social media “influencers” – people who promote goods and services for money online – are getting younger and younger it seems. And services are springing up to teach parents and kids just how to do it. Ralphie Waplington is
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