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Even if Matthew avoids making landfall and Florida dodges some of the worst-case scenarios laid out by forecasters, it still poses a considerable threat to residents from Florida to North Carolina.
The United Nations said more than 350,000 of the 1.5 million people on the island need assistance to deal with destruction from the storm.
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2016Even in the home stretch of the general election, the GOP nominee shows his team that he will never be fully managed. He will win or lose on his own terms — and that means minimal prep.
For the past five decades, the Justice Department has sent hundreds of observers and poll monitors across the country to ensure that voters are not intimidated or discriminated against when they cast their ballots. But U.S. officials say that a 2013 Supreme Court decision now limits the federal government’s role inside polling places on Election Day.
Some athletes and former employees are critical of what they consider Max Siegel’s soaring pay, lavish expenses and unethical nonprofit leadership.
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The Post interviewed five boys whose families escaped from Islamic State territory, including a Syrian refugee interviewed near his temporary home in Europe. These are their stories.
Juan Manuel Santos's award comes despite the shocking referendum earlier this week in which Colombian voters narrowly rejected a reconciliation deal with the leftist militia that has battled the government for more than 50 years.
Sherrod Brown won seven terms in the House and two terms in the Senate by campaigning against “job killing” international trade deals. Now, for the first time, he's poised to defeat one.
A board member of the football association asked the coach why he felt he was qualified to handle the bullying incident. "Because I’m a father,” Todd Kennedy told a local TV station.
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Some who have worked closely with presidents are having trouble envisioning a provocateur as commander in chief.
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Speaking in Washington, the secretary of state said Syrian forces had attacked a hospital overnight, killing 20 people and wounding 100 more.
To find out, researchers took some chimps to the movies.
Lyntell Washington was seven months pregnant when she was found in a ditch in Louisiana.
America’s economic ladder is more broken than anyone realized.
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