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From the Pig Town Boys to the Green Avenue Stompers: A 1954 map of New York City street gangs
In his Washington Post newsletter "How to Read This Chart," Philip Bump presents a map of New York City street gangs from a ...
How Everglades National Park came to preserve the great 'River of Grass'
A Florida governor in the early 1900s saw potential for the Everglades land but only if it was drained of its water.
Icy relationship: Tension is building between the Denver and Aurora mayors — and not for the first time
The distrust between Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has devolved to the point where Coffman says he will no longer meet with Johnston alone.
The search for a high school basketball all-time scorer that time forgot
The unwritten history of Finell White, who went from Harlem playgrounds to South Carolina countrysides and rewrote the record ...
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A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons
A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...
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5-at-10: True or false Tuesday loaded with NFL goodness from Super Bowl sides to the QB conundrum
Washington Commanders tight end Zach Ertz (86) with the catch as Philadelphia Eagles safety Reed Blankenship (32) tackles him ...
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The Alaskan hero dogs who prevented a diphtheria epidemic in 1925
One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.
Staz Nair interview: ‘I suffer from imposter syndrome’
The Game of Thrones and Rebel Moon star on stepping up as the lead in BBC One’s Bradford-set crime-thriller, Virdee ...
Why States Took a Gamble on Sports Betting
On today’s episode of Good on Paper, I talk with the journalist Danny Funt, who has been reporting for years on a behavior ...
'That was it — I never saw my son again': meet the Londoners at the heart of the capital's knife crime epidemic
A new BBC documentary by Idris Elba tackles the epidemic of young people dying at the end of a blade across the UK. As part ...
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Stephen Miller’s Return to Power
jonathan swan And it became this huge national story. You had members of the faculty ... So what you had was the so-called Gang of Eight, which was a bipartisan group of senators who got together ...
The best Netflix original movies right now
The best Netflix original movies now include Back in Action, Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, The Six Triple ...