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The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases turning the subject into a saint. At the opposite end, they can tend towards tell-all pieces, in some cases aiming to tear down the subject.

A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century.

The government insists that the oil giant should pay Ecuador reparations for thousands of oil spills in the Amazon rain forest.

Update about Chelsea Manning and one of her recent blogs.

Cuba has successfully held off the Zika epidemic and in the process all but eliminated Dengue fever and other mosquito-carried illnesses, Cuba state-run media has reported.