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George H.W. Bush dead at 94
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Tim Cook has a really big iPhone problem
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The James Beard Award 2022 winners are ...
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Should police use of force be regulated? The answer isn't simple, and that's a problem
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How Atlanta rappers helped flip the White House
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First OTC birth control pill in the US now available in some stores
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Loving Your Enemies
Sermon by Martin Luther King Jr. Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, on 17 November 1957
I am forced to preach under something of a handicap this morning. In fact, I had the doctor before coming to church. And he said that it would be best for me to stay in the bed this morning. And I insisted that I would have to come to preach. So he allowed me to come out with one stipulation, and that is that I would not come in the pulpit until time to preach, and that after, that I would immediately go back home and get in the bed. So I’m going to try to follow his instructions from that point on.
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A mother shielding her son, a 26-year-old attending a music festival and 2 brothers are among the Americans killed in Israel
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Israeli doctor: "Detained Palestinians undergo ‘routine’ amputations for handcuff injuries."
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At Penn State, Critics Claim, There's No Handle On Hazing
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"I've Been to the Mountaintop," Address Delivered at Bishop Charles Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.
Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. [Laughter] It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you, and Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world.
