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Eva Vazquez was at a bus stop on Wilshire Boulevard, on the way to work as a cashier at a discount store near MacArthur Park, when her phone rang. “I knew it was probably him,” she said. It was Thursd

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S TAR WARS RETURNS today with its fifth installment, Attack of the Clones. There will be talk of the Force and the Dark Side and the epic morality of George Lucas's series. But the truth is that from

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F ailures by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and school district cost children and faculty their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A gunman with an AR-15 fired the bullets, but a seri

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Lyra McKee is dead. A beautiful young woman, brimful of life and love and creativity, has been sacrificed to the bigotry of people who could never in any imaginable circumstances be reconciled to peac

KABUL — On one side of a hillside cemetery overlooking the Afghan capital is the blue-domed mausoleum of King Nader Shah, a dynastic ruler who died in 1933. On the other side, up a steep path, is a fr

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O ver the past two decades , Bryan Singer’s films— The Usual Suspects , Valkyrie , Superman Returns , four of the X-Men movies—have earned more than $3 billion at the box office, putting him in the to

The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class With Brexit, the chumocrats who drew borders from India to Ireland are getting a taste of their own medicine. Jan. 17, 2019 Earl and Countess Mountb

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Because I write books about Soviet history, and because I often speak about them to U.S. or European audiences, I am frequently forced to confront the problem of Western indifference. Why, I am asked

Photo: Governatorato S.C.V., Direzione dei Musei, All Rights Reserved We have no reliable figures on just how many priests in the Catholic Church are gay. The Vatican has conducted many studies on its

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Matching my Type A personality, I’ve always had a Type A menstrual cycle — textbook, punctual, predictable to the hour. When I went into the bathroom one morning early this winter and didn’t need a ta

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The enormity of the tragedy in New Zealand -- a terrorist attack perpetrated by a white supremacist and Islamophobe -- touched so many people around the world. My Muslim students, as well as several f

Central Park Detective Retires With the Horse He Rode In On Detective John Reilly and his equine partner, Trooper, spent 10 years as the New York Police Department’s only mounted team dedicated to pat

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"I wasn't born blind," Ross explains. Ross Minor is a 19-year-old from Colorado Springs, USA. "When I was eight-years-old, I was shot in my sleep by my father, who then shot and killed my brother, and

‘It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out The crisis over sexuality in the Catholic Church goes beyond abuse. It goes to the heart of the priesthood, into a closet that is tra

Games, role-playing games in particular, have created this interesting conundrum in which most of the things you do will turn out to your advantage somehow. I advance through the world. I give people

Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed 1. It's Feb. 14, 2005, and I am 15 years old. I'm standing by a row of lockers just down the hall from the cafeteria, waiting for the last few minutes of lunch to go by so I can