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    Next week on The World, we will bring you untold stories of Afghan women. With reporting by

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  2. 2 hours ago

    C.J. Chivers says "Robbie went from idealist to realist inside of six weeks." He arrived in July and by September he'd lost his squad leader and one of the soldiers who had a previous tour in Iraq who he looked up to most.

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  3. 5 hours ago

    PredictIt's market, which went live at 11 a.m. EDT and was titled, "Who will NYT confirm as anonymous op-ed author in 2018," listed 19 senior officials as possibilities.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Negotiations have stalled, while signs North Korea has maintained work on its weapons have emerged.

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  5. 7 hours ago

    If the Trump administration gets its way with a revised NAFTA, 40% of a car built in North America would need to come from a North American country where workers earn about $16 an hour, i.e., the US or Canada. Could this drive more work to the US?

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  6. 8 hours ago

    Researchers explore a pesticide link to asthma in farmworkers' children

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  7. 9 hours ago

    Refugees asking for asylum in Canada argue the US is no longer safe

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  8. 9 hours ago

    Shashi Tharoor, a senior member of the opposition Congress party in India, said "the government has no place in the bedroom."

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  9. 14 hours ago

    "There is another version that we are not ruling out; that this was done deliberately in space."

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  10. 14 hours ago

    One year later, a family affected by Harvey is still trying to put pieces back together

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  11. 17 hours ago

    Trump’s NAFTA revisions — designed to help the US auto industry — could have the opposite impact

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    23 hours ago

    Loved this episode. And, yes, if you steal someone else’s words without attribution, it is a crime AND a violation. If you quote briefly with attribution and permission, it is a compliment. Maria Popova has written about giving sources a “hat tip.”

    Does poetry detective valiantly defend the original words and ideas of struggling poets? Or does his plagiarism sleuthing go too far? investigates.
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  13. Sep 6

    Does poetry detective valiantly defend the original words and ideas of struggling poets? Or does his plagiarism sleuthing go too far? investigates.

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    Sep 6

    Check out on , where she discusses her report on black women running for office in Brazil

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  15. Sep 6

    4/But, how reassured should Americans be that “Anonymous” and the other “adults” in the White House can prevent Donald Trump from triggering a war? Lewis said he is quite skeptical.

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  16. Sep 6

    3/Lewis drew a parallel between the novel and the current political climate in the US, in light of the publication of an op-ed from an anonymous “senior Trump administration official.”

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  17. Sep 6

    2/“The book pretends to be a government report set in 2023, that looks back on the nuclear war that unfolds between the United States and North Korea in 2020,” explained Lewis. In the novel, Donald Trump is the US president.

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  18. Sep 6

    1/On the show today, host spoke to Jeffrey Lewis (), a scholar and author of a novel about an imaginary war with North Korea.

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  19. Sep 6

    PredictIt's market, which went live at 11 a.m. EDT and was titled, "Who will NYT confirm as anonymous op-ed author in 2018," listed 19 senior officials as possibilities.

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  20. Sep 6

    Today on The World, we speak with The World's contributor Chhavi Sachdev () about the reaction to the ruling. Sachdev says that the LGBTQ community is elated.

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