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Conservative organizations want Republican lawmakers to block reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, falsely claiming that it serves as a “slush fund” for abortion. |
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Popular accounts of the Holocaust overlook its irrationality and often disordered violence. |
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