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“They have a lot of money, we have a lot of people, so our job is to mobilize people.”

Marshall had neither a Harvard degree nor wide legal experiences, but he possessed an extraordinary judicial temperament and proved to be an outstanding federal judge. Of his 98 majority decisions on the circuit court, not one was overturned.

High-energy neutrinos have been traced back to a flaring supermassive black hole known as a blazar. The long-sought link opens the door to an entirely new way to study the universe.

Many poor rural Southern communities lack a decent water and sewage infrastructure; consequently, poverty-related infections, or “neglected tropical diseases,” have been discovered in southeastern Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

French autonomous zone; Mozambique +43; Dalits fight; Latinas insurgent; Hard right vs soft left in Ontario

Liberal activists, who are closely aligned with the party’s base, are losing patience with centrist Democrats who are on the fence over Kavanaugh, a judge with impressive credentials and the approval of the conservative Federalist Society.

Trump’s burgeoning trade war is more about asserting US dominance in the world than helping American workers.

In particular, the report shows the United States’s unemployed and at-risk workers are getting very little support from the government, and their employed peers are set back by a particularly weak collective-bargaining system.

Trump: So I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad. I think you are losing your culture.

Massachusetts poet Kathy Nilsson exposes feelings of alienation in the current state of the world: “I don’t recall being American, or even here.”