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In Brittany Runs a Marathon, a woman takes control of her life. Jillian Bell says it was terrifying.

Jillian Bell stars in Brittany Runs a Marathon. | Amazon Studios “I had no idea if I would go in…

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China paid Facebook and Twitter to help spread anti-Muslim propaganda

A Uighur woman beside a propaganda painting showing soldiers meeting with a Uighur family, in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. |…

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9 questions about the Hong Kong protests you were too embarrassed to ask

A protestor outside the British Consulate General during a demonstration in Hong Kong, on June 26, 2019. | LightRocket via…

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“In a perfect world, they’d be running mates”: New Hampshire voters are torn between Sanders and Warren

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks to supporters during a campaign stop and town hall at Toad Hill Farm in…

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Scientists weighed all the mass in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s mind-boggling.

The Milky Way has a mass of 1.5 trillion suns. We have no idea what most of it is made…

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More than half of House Democrats now support opening an impeachment inquiry against Trump

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi answered questions and pushed back on the need for an impeachment inquiry during her weekly news…

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Elizabeth Warren’s criminal justice reform plan, explained

Elizabeth Warren speaks at a town hall event in Aiken, South Carolina, on August 17, 2019. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images…

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Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus, calls out Marvel Comics for its “apolitical” politics

Spiegelman in 2012. | Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images The Pulitzer-winning author says an editorial policy prevented him from calling Donald Trump…

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Vox Sentences: Planned Parenthood loses funding

Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by…

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Bernie Sanders wants to ban police use of facial recognition tech

Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that he would ban police use of facial recognition technology as part of his 2020 presidential…

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