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EDITOR’S NOTE: Over the weekend, a young freedom fighter and community organizer mounted an awe-inspiring campaign to bring down the Confederate battle flag . Brittany “Bree” Newsome, in a courageous act of civil disobedience , scaled a metal pole using a climbing harness, to remove the flag from…

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THE launch on March 1st of the Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Dragon cargo capsule (pictured) to the International Space Station, went perfectly. But once the capsule had reached orbit, a problem emerged

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