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Writer, Editor, Newsletterer. Love uplifting stories. Now: Priors: . 4-ever. He/him.

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    13 hours ago

    “Bah opens her account with the painful reflection that ‘I didn’t know I wasn’t an American until I was 16 and I was in handcuffs.’ Within minutes, she & her father were in custody.” Rave for ⁩ book “Accused.” Glad I reported on her ‘05 case.

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  2. 13 hours ago

    The corgi was left in a shelter's night drop. He had a skin infection and was missing half the fur on his back. He also came with a note that called him sweet and loving and pleaded to "find him a good, loving home." How Sherman joined the fam:

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    15 hours ago

    Before Dying, An Unvaccinated TikTok User Begged Others Not to Repeat Her Mistake.

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  4. 14 hours ago

    Ghosts: "Kamel was a genial host who served wine in china teacups, and a fellow animal lover who never let me pay for a meal, saying I should save my money to feed stray dogs and cats." The restaurant owner and all 21 of his guests were slain one evening in 2014.

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Under the eye of a receding Taliban in 1999: "At the deserted national palace, the heads of marble fish had been knocked off a courtyard pool and the faces of pheasants scratched off tapestries, because the Taliban viewed depictions of animals or humans as blasphemous."

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  6. 15 hours ago

    I've met few reporters with the curiosity and the stamina to cover a nation from as many angles as Pam Constable. In this one story, you see two decades of shoe leather—and a writer with eyes wide open.

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    18 hours ago

    “All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” Leo Tolstoy, born this day.

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  8. 19 hours ago

    "A dolphin can sell for $500 for its meat, but a live bottlenose dolphin for the dolphinarium trade can bring $8,000 to $12,000."

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  9. 19 hours ago

    Ever see The Cove? Japan's annual slaughter of dolphins has started again. "They are captured for the aquarium trade in front of [their] family and pod members or killed right in front of their families and siblings."

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  10. 19 hours ago

    For decades, the prestigious Dutch museum displayed a decorative collar its researchers thought came from a family dog. It didn't. It came from an enslaved Black person. The relabeling of 77 artworks sheds light on the nation's brutal colonial past

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    Sep 8

    It hangs in a darkened gallery on the fourth floor of a Smithsonian museum. It is the only portrait in the room. Behind glass. Heartbreaking. It is of Breonna Taylor. By Amy Sherald. Via

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  12. Sep 8

    It hangs in a darkened gallery on the fourth floor of a Smithsonian museum. It is the only portrait in the room. Behind glass. Heartbreaking. It is of Breonna Taylor. By Amy Sherald. Via

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  13. Sep 8

    They had sworn to uphold the law. Three Vermont state troopers have resigned after they were accused of being involved in a scheme to create fake vaccination cards in the nation’s most vaccinated state.

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  14. Sep 8

    He was a rising star of Spain's Catholic Church, the nation's youngest bishop for a time, a promoter of gay conversion therapy and performer of exorcisms. She is a psychologist who writes Satanic-tinged erotic fiction. Love is strange, people.

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  15. Sep 8

    In today's ... -How response will help us with massive climate health issues -Using deadly venom, like from the scorpion (pictured), for live-saving medicines -Facial recognition to track grizzlies -And the tangible importance of friends

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    Sep 8

    I spoke with an official about this wild story of zebras on the loose in Prince George's County, outside of DC. Local news has reported that they've been loose for 3-4 days, BUT witnesses first reported seeing zebras on August 31. 8 days now. THREAD!

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  17. Sep 8

    Raised. Protested. Fallen. Richmond's Robert E. Lee's statue throughout time.

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  18. Sep 8

    Curious boys, whether in Afghanistan or America, like to jump. I will never think of this song the same way again.

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  19. Sep 8

    Critical beat, solid reporter. Help 'im out.

    🚨 I’m the new water reporter at the , covering California and the West. I want to invite all of you to share tips — topics to investigate, readings, people I should talk to, questions you wonder about. It all helps. Please DM or email me. Thanks!
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  20. Sep 8

    His mom ran numbers for the Italian mob in Buffalo. He grew up to become Motown's biggest star for a while. Now there's finally a worthy docu coming out about ambitious, line-stepping Rick "Superfreak" James.

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