The president wants to raise the minimum wage, Pete Seeger and Philip Seymour Hoffman pass away, and a criminal is sentenced to Gladwell
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Photographic evidence of war crimes in Syria, ominous Ukrainian texting, and a South Korean tower of jawbones
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Obama announces surveillance reforms, the Taliban bombs a Kabul restaurant, and Smartie snorting prompts nose-maggot panic
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A Pakistani ninth-grader sacrifices himself to save his classmates, Chris Christie saves himself, and Cormac McCarthy’s ex-wife chooses an unconventional holster
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Factional warfare in the Middle East, a politician under indictment for genocide seeks peace in South Sudan, and an embarrassment of coldness in Minnesota
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War and peacekeeping in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, a brief truce in the Syrian civil war, and bells hell in Manhattan
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More NSA surveillance targets are revealed, violence in South Sudan, and claims of U.S. virgin births
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The Ukrainian protests rage on, Nelson Mandela is buried, and China sends a Jade Rabbit into the Bay of Rainbows
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Walmart celebrates Black Friday with protests and police reports, Amazon experiments with drone delivery, and Republicans salute the end of racism
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The countries and companies responsible for climate change, nuclear options in Congress and Iran, and the extinction of Darwin’s frog
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Casualty counts and corruption in the Philippines, protest and repression in Russia, and the usual news from Toronto