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Showing Love Through Breast Ironing: Why Some Daughters Endure This Painful Practice to Appease Their Mothers

Nearly a quarter of the women in Cameroon, a Central African nation of 23 million, have had their breasts flattened in some form.

By Stav Ziv | 6 min read

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Showing Love Through Breast Ironing: Why Some Daughters Endure This Painful Practice to Appease Their Mothers

Nearly a quarter of the women in Cameroon, a Central African nation of 23 million, have had their breasts flattened in some form.

By Stav Ziv | 6 min read

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Trump Is Failing: With Republicans in Charge of Washington, He Can't Get Anything Done

President Trump has a majority in Congress. So why has his agenda—from health care to infrastructure—largely gone up in flames?

By Matthew Cooper | 8 min read

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Tourism in Egypt: Can Trained Bedouin Guides Lure People Back to the Sinai Peninsula?

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Undocumented Immigrants in Trump's America Now Deported After Running Red Lights

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Trump Is Failing: With Republicans in Charge of Washington, He Can't Get Anything Done

President Trump has a majority in Congress. So why has his agenda—from health care to infrastructure—largely gone up in flames?

By Matthew Cooper | 8 min read

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Tourism in Egypt: Can Trained Bedouin Guides Lure People Back to the Sinai Peninsula?

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Undocumented Immigrants in Trump's America Now Deported After Running Red Lights

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Getting Shots May Soon Be a Thing of the Past as Band-Aid Patch Replaces Flu Vaccine

Toss out those needles: Flu vaccines could be delivered via a painless, Band-Aid-like patch.

By Sandy Ong | 3 min read

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Emojis Are Everywhere, But For How Long? Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Replace Our Smiley Face Friends

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Authorities Are Treating August's Solar Eclipse, a First in 99 Years, Like It's the End of the World

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Getting Shots May Soon Be a Thing of the Past as Band-Aid Patch Replaces Flu Vaccine

Toss out those needles: Flu vaccines could be delivered via a painless, Band-Aid-like patch.

By Sandy Ong | 3 min read

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Emojis Are Everywhere, But For How Long? Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Replace Our Smiley Face Friends

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Authorities Are Treating August's Solar Eclipse, a First in 99 Years, Like It's the End of the World

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Taylor Sheridan's 'Wind River' is a Blistering Expose of Violence Against Native American Women

One of Hollywood’s top writers returns with ‘Wind River,’ shining a light on sexual abuse and the many women who disappear on America’s Indian reservations.

By Mary Kaye Schilling | 7 min read

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Al Gore Patiently Tries Again with 'An Inconvenient Sequel'

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Need a book for August? Try 'The Blinds,' where everyone is guilty but they don't know why

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Taylor Sheridan

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Taylor Sheridan's 'Wind River' is a Blistering Expose of Violence Against Native American Women

One of Hollywood’s top writers returns with ‘Wind River,’ shining a light on sexual abuse and the many women who disappear on America’s Indian reservations.

By Mary Kaye Schilling | 7 min read

Al Gore

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Al Gore Patiently Tries Again with 'An Inconvenient Sequel'

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