Michael Phoch
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On Aug. 26, 1920, nearly a century after the women’s suffrage movement began, U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed a proclamation officially certifying the recently ratified 19th Amendment and granting women the right to vote. In that moment, nearly 100 years’ worth of persistence, activism and strategy came to fruition.
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Bulgaria announced on August 26 that it will bolster its border with Greece and Turkey with between 400 and 700 soldiers amid growing concern in Europe over an influx of migrants from Afghanistan.
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Five people have died and 90 people have been injured in a series of blasts triggered by a fire at a military base in southern Kazakhstan, prompting the country’s defense minister to offer to resign.
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Former inmates, their families, and human rights activists have long complained of mistreatment and torture at Evin prison, a notorious facility in Tehran that is a primary site for political detainees.
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The team behind the critically acclaimed Rising Phoenix documentary enlist host and executive producer Sophie Morgan and executive producer Sinéad Burke to spotlight breakthrough conversations about the issues most important to the disabled community
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In the early morning hours of Aug. 2, 1995, federal agents raided an apartment complex in El Monte, California, where 72 Thai workers – mostly women – were found working.
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Black women are an integral part of the American labor force but have long faced a pay gap due to longstanding inequities in education and the labor market.
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Even though video games have become one of the most lucrative industries worldwide, eSports are still considered far removed from "real" sports, even though events like world championships in popular games like League of Legends, DotA 2 or StarCraft II regularly sell out huge arenas and athletes follow similarly strict training regimes to improve at
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Over the past few years, as more and more states moved towards legalization of cannabis, the use of marijuana for medical reasons has become a lot more popular in the United States.
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