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    Sep 5

    Under federal law, children who are sex trafficked are victims, not criminals. Yet every year, dozens are detained and charged with crimes. In 2019, at least 290 minors were arrested for prostitution-related offenses.

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  2. 7 minutes ago

    A secretive Pentagon program that started on Trump’s last day in office just ended. The mystery has not.

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  3. 20 minutes ago

    Denmark lifts all coronavirus restrictions and celebrates “a whole new era”

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    27 minutes ago

    “There needs to be a question of — how do we tell that story? And when do we tell that story, that people really remember it?” On today’s Post Reports … we try to tell that story. Sept. 11, recounted by the people who covered it for the .

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  5. 29 minutes ago

    Grady Knox, a junior at Central Magnet High School in Murfreesboro, Tenn., told the school board his grandmother, a former teacher in the district, had died of covid-19 last year because of lax mask rules — and was immediately jeered

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  6. 42 minutes ago

    Black quarterbacks are taking over the NFL. But there’s still more ground to gain.

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  7. 45 minutes ago

    In Part 2, they visit Rodriguez in LA to see what his life is like now, and look at what happened to him, his song, and the country in the years after 9/11, as shifting political winds drove Americans further apart.

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  8. 47 minutes ago

    In Part 1, Jerry, Kent and Bishop revisit this iconic performance and try to understand what made it so powerful. Then they go looking for Rodriguez and hear how an aspiring opera singer became a policeman catapulted to fame after a national tragedy.

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  9. 51 minutes ago

    In this two-part podcast, columnist Jerry Brewer, writer Kent Babb and producer Bishop Sand explore how Rodriguez and the country have tried to heal after tragedy.

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  10. 53 minutes ago

    With his performance of “God Bless America” during Game 3 of the 2001 World Series, NYPD officer Daniel Rodriguez comforted a nation still grieving in the wake of 9/11. It felt like a timeless moment. Instead, it proved fleeting.

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  11. 54 minutes ago

    Tanya Snyder apologizes to former WFT employees, says her comments were taken out of context

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  12. 1 hour ago

    Perspective: U.S.-led military campaigns have taken a grim toll on Muslims everywhere

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    2 hours ago

    How 9/11 changed the lives of Americans and our political landscape, the fate of refugees escaping war, and America's role in the world. Join us 6pmET. With

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  14. 1 hour ago

    Opinion: The trouble with Biden’s first eight months

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  15. 1 hour ago

    Analysis: The inescapable overlap of pandemic and politics

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  16. 2 hours ago

    More than 4,000 face-mask incidents have been reported to the TSA

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  17. 2 hours ago

    Opinion: A dangerous trend among GOP candidates shows the Trump threat is here to stay

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  18. 2 hours ago

    Opinion: Movie theaters needed a hero. Marvel delivered.

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  19. 2 hours ago

    The peak of hurricane season is here, and the tropics are busy

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  20. 2 hours ago

    How cartoonists are taking on the Texas abortion law

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  21. 2 hours ago

    Luxury retailers are rushing to open new and increasingly lavish stores in suburbs and the vacation hot spots where the wealthy have retreated during the pandemic

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