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Something unprecedented is happening in Puerto Rico which, like the U.S., will hold its general election on November 5th. For the first time ever, the island could elect a governor who favors Puerto Rico’s independence from the United States.

The US singer-songwriter, who has died at 97, encountered Louis Armstrong and more as she championed civil rights as much as music. In her final interview conducted last week, she explained why she was still angry.

Three months after Hitler promised to uphold the German Constitution, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler’s prominent political opponents. By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service,

More than 2,700 Israelis have signed this open letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’

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John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.

A new United Nations report sounds alarm "over the millions of lives that are being shattered and the decades of development efforts that are being wiped out," said one official.

Is this the beginning of the end for property taxes? One state could change the game…