US, Israeli Officials Share Notes On Force-Feeding Tactics
(File/AP/Brennan Llinsley) As Ramadan begins, more than 100 inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison will continue fasting, both as a religious practice and as a protest against conditions of torture and...
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(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) The current Congress, the 113th, is on track to be the least productive in the history of the Union. A divided government and extreme partisanship, which on repeated...
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We spent the day at a beach in Brooklyn. Skyscrapers floated in the distance and my toddler kept handing me cigarette filters she had dug out of the sand. When we got home, I checked my email. I had...
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