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'No Pressure,' Trump Insists, While Sitting With Ukraine's Zelensky at U.N.
President Trump, in the midst of a political firestorm over evidence showing he pressured the newly elected president of Ukraine to coordinate with his personal lawyer and attorney general to investigate a political rival, sat down for a previously-scheduled joint press conference with that man, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the United Nations Wednesday afternoon. The White […]
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Saving the Paris Agreement
How a team of U.S. diplomats helped salvage the global pact on climate change in the face of Trump's denialism
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U.N. Reports 'Most Dangerous Place for Women' Is at Home
A new study from the United Nations shows that women account for 82 percent of people killed at the hands of their intimate partner
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The Trump Administration Wants Your Thoughts on Pot
As the World Health Organization considers rescheduling marijuana on an international level, the American public has a chance to tell the FDA what they think about weed
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Congress' Top Legal Pot Advocate on the Future of Marijuana Policy
"The United States, when it thinks something is right or important, it doesn't hesitate to stand alone. Why not drug policy?" asks Rep. Earl Blumenauer
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Meet the Teenage Indigenous Hip-Hop Artist Taking on Climate Change
Rolling Stone recently sat down with Xiuhtezcatl Martinez after his powerful speech at the United Nations
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John Legend, Ed Sheeran Join U.N. to Create 'World's Happiest Playlist'
David Guetta, James Blunt, Cody Simpson and Charlize Theron will also contribute
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Jay-Z Honored With United Nations Humanitarian Award
Jay-Z was presented with a United Nations special humanitarian award at a ceremony earlier this week in New York. The ceremony's host, actor Michael Douglas, presented Jigga with the award, which honored him for his raising funds and awareness for the world's water crisis. At the heart of his contributions was a 2006 world tour […]
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The Soviet Union: The Country That Stayed Out in the Cold
After the collapse, maybe you thought the cold war was over. You were wrong
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