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I was homeless as a kid. Here’s how I survived.
When our mom suggested I busk with my violin on Fifth Avenue, I happily agreed. It beat picking through the trash bins to retrieve a 5-cent can.
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A stranger raced to give a Marine vet his final honor: A high school diploma
Richard Remp, a Marine veteran who served in the Vietnam War, received a high school diploma from a Pennsylvania superintendent days before his death.
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N.C. residents sue to remove monument dedicated to ‘our faithful slaves’
Tyrrell County residents are pushing to remove a confederate monument that overlooks a North Carolina courthouse and includes a dedication to “our faithful slaves.”
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American backtracks after blaming child for being filmed in bathroom
A 9-year-old girl is one of several children whom a former American Airlines flight attendant allegedly filmed in lavatories.
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Long before Key Bridge collapse, Baltimore mariners warned of ‘ship strikes’
Over the past two decades, a Baltimore harbor safety committee repeatedly discussed the risks that ever-larger cargo ships posed to local bridges, according to previously unreported records obtained by The Washington Post.
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A fan hit by a foul ball stayed through the 9th. Now she’s on a baseball card.
Topps has created a baseball card of a Blue Jays fan who got nailed in the head by a 110 mph foul ball at Friday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Trump’s Fla. trial was supposed to start this week. Instead, motions hearings.
The defense argues that the case is vindictive and discriminatory, and that the violations were not laid out clearly — claims strongly disputed by prosecutors.
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Why Trump keeps reading printouts of news articles at his trial
It’s an unorthodox strategy for a criminal defendant, yet it embodies the former president’s penchant for showmanship and determination to discredit his case.
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