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Homeless Man Longs To See His Daughter On Christmas. Can He Find $27 For A Bus Ticket?
Robert Fox knew where he should spend Christmas. With his daughter, who would welcome him with a hug and a kiss. He would tell her he loved her, and thank God for bringing them together.
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What Happens To Children Who Survive School Shootings In America?
Over the past two decades, a handful of massacres that have come to define school shootings in this country are almost always remembered for the students and educators slain. Death tolls are repeated so often that the numbers and places become permanently linked.
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Inside The Mind Of An Alleged Teen School Shooter: Plot To Kill "50-60"
Six days before he allegedly opened fire on an elementary school playground, the eighth-grader returned to his Instagram group chat to fixate, yet again, on his most intense interests: guns and bombs and the mass murder of children.
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How Trump Replied To A 7-Year-Old's Anguished Letter
The manila envelope arrived on Mary Olsen's doorstep the day after Christmas, and in its top left corner were three words that stopped her: "THE WHITE HOUSE."
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50 Years After Vietnam War Photographer Captured Bloody Tet Offensive, He Bears Witness Again
John Olson can barely remember taking the photograph.
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He Couldn't Bear Life Anymore. So The Teen Called Police With A Chilling Threat.
Jessica Newburn saw his text appear just as she turned on her phone that fall morning at 5:54, and with the message came relief. Her best friend was still alive.
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Road Rage, Bullet To Head - And Frantic Effort To Save A 4-Year-Old
The bullet exploded from the gun's barrel, spiraling through cool night air toward a gray SUV's back passenger-side window. Carter "Quis" Hill was perched in his car seat on the other side of the glass, and as it shattered all around him, the round burrowed into his head, an inch above the right temple. From the boy's hand slipped a bright-red plas...
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Women's March On Washington: Pink-Hatted Protesters Vow To Resist Donald Trump
Tens of thousands of women, determined to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inaugural gathering for Donald Trump, poured into Washington Saturday for the Women's March.
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A Warning Left On A Nanny's Car. License Plates Stolen. And A Top Pentagon Official In Big Trouble.
Police identified the alleged Capitol Hill license plate thief as Bryan Whitman, a high-ranking Defense Department public affairs strategist
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Two Near-Strangers, One Kidney And a Life-Changing Gift
Cynthia Decker always liked to talk at the gym, and now, as she sluggishly pedaled atop stationary bike No. 88, she wasn't talking at all.
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Nearly Naked Outside the White House: How Nature Boy Became a Washington Fixture.
Nature Boy was four blocks shy of Lafayette Square when a gray-haired man once among the country's most powerful people stepped onto the 16th Street sidewalk in front of him.
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Homeless Man Longs To See His Daughter On Christmas. Can He Find $27 For A Bus Ticket?
Robert Fox knew where he should spend Christmas. With his daughter, who would welcome him with a hug and a kiss. He would tell her he loved her, and thank God for bringing them together.
-
What Happens To Children Who Survive School Shootings In America?
Over the past two decades, a handful of massacres that have come to define school shootings in this country are almost always remembered for the students and educators slain. Death tolls are repeated so often that the numbers and places become permanently linked.
-
Inside The Mind Of An Alleged Teen School Shooter: Plot To Kill "50-60"
Six days before he allegedly opened fire on an elementary school playground, the eighth-grader returned to his Instagram group chat to fixate, yet again, on his most intense interests: guns and bombs and the mass murder of children.
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How Trump Replied To A 7-Year-Old's Anguished Letter
The manila envelope arrived on Mary Olsen's doorstep the day after Christmas, and in its top left corner were three words that stopped her: "THE WHITE HOUSE."
-
50 Years After Vietnam War Photographer Captured Bloody Tet Offensive, He Bears Witness Again
John Olson can barely remember taking the photograph.
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He Couldn't Bear Life Anymore. So The Teen Called Police With A Chilling Threat.
Jessica Newburn saw his text appear just as she turned on her phone that fall morning at 5:54, and with the message came relief. Her best friend was still alive.
-
Road Rage, Bullet To Head - And Frantic Effort To Save A 4-Year-Old
The bullet exploded from the gun's barrel, spiraling through cool night air toward a gray SUV's back passenger-side window. Carter "Quis" Hill was perched in his car seat on the other side of the glass, and as it shattered all around him, the round burrowed into his head, an inch above the right temple. From the boy's hand slipped a bright-red plas...
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Women's March On Washington: Pink-Hatted Protesters Vow To Resist Donald Trump
Tens of thousands of women, determined to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inaugural gathering for Donald Trump, poured into Washington Saturday for the Women's March.
-
A Warning Left On A Nanny's Car. License Plates Stolen. And A Top Pentagon Official In Big Trouble.
Police identified the alleged Capitol Hill license plate thief as Bryan Whitman, a high-ranking Defense Department public affairs strategist
-
Two Near-Strangers, One Kidney And a Life-Changing Gift
Cynthia Decker always liked to talk at the gym, and now, as she sluggishly pedaled atop stationary bike No. 88, she wasn't talking at all.
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Nearly Naked Outside the White House: How Nature Boy Became a Washington Fixture.
Nature Boy was four blocks shy of Lafayette Square when a gray-haired man once among the country's most powerful people stepped onto the 16th Street sidewalk in front of him.
