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Why critics are concerned about H-Pop, India's Hindu nationalist genre

3:57pm April 19, 2024

With an election underway, some critics are warning H-Pop may have destructive power.

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Wisconsin Gun Store Found Liable for Straw Buyer Sale

Legal scholar Emily Bazelon discusses two high-profile cases that are playing into the larger national debate on gun control.

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Democratic Debate: Clinton And Sanders Spar, Shake Hands

The top two contenders, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, differed over topics including gun control, Syria and Wall Street reform.

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Art Museums In The Digital Age

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The New Melones Lake reservoir is seen at less than 20 percent capacity on May 24, 2015. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

GOP Congressman On Drought: Prioritize People Over Fish

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The first issue of Playboy magazine featuring Marilyn Monroe, left, and a boxed DVD set of Playboy magazines from the 1950s are shown in New York on Monday, July 16, 2007. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

No More Nudity In Playboy

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Migrants and asylum seekers charge their mobile phones at the registration camp after crossing the Macedonian-Greek border near Gevgelija on September 30, 2015. Macedonia is a key transit country in the Balkans migration route into the EU, with thousands

Migrating To Europe? There's An App For That

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A refugee learns the letters of the German language taught by a volunteer in a garden of a private initiative near the refugee camp on August 29, 2015 in Dresden, Germany. Germany is expecting to receive 800,000 migrants this year and is struggling to cop

What Role Does Language Play In Where Migrants Settle?

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A person walks on the stage set up for the Democratic presidential candidates, former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Hillary Clinton, Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and former governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee, a d

A Strategist's Advice For The 5 Democratic Debate Candidates

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Vice Prime Minister and chairman of the government commission to investigate the causes of the MH17 crash Hennadiy Zubko, right, speaks at a briefing for journalists in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. Investigators said the Buk missile that downed

New Report Unveils Details On Flight MH17

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Layoffs, 'Moments', Longer Tweets: How Jack Dorsey Is Changing Twitter

With Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey now officially at the helm, we look at what's ahead for the company and its users.

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Jaeden Alvarez practices cursive writing at Cleveland K-6 School, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, in Dayton, Ohio. In years gone by, penmanship helped distinguish the literate from the illiterate. But now, in the digital age, people are increasingly communicat

Bic Is On A Mission To Save Handwriting. Does It Need Saving?

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California Gov. Jerry Brown signs one of the hundreds of bills he has left to deal with as Graciela Castillo-Krings, right, his deputy legislative secretary, looks on at his Capitol office in Sacramento, Calif., Friday Oct. 9, 2015. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

California Governor Wraps Up Marathon Bill Signing Session

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