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The top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, is in hot water with the White House for some derogatory comments he made during an interview for a magazine article. The remarks were controversial enough to have him summoned to the W

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump will sign an executive order tomorrow that aims to expand offshore drilling. The order will essentially try to undo actions taken by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that restricted drilling in the Arctic Pacific and

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Once upon a time, if you planned on splashing water around in a decorative manner, you were expected to provide a basin in which the water could be collected afterward. In a long history reaching back to the Rome Empire, fountains had always had basi

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