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Name deal stirs up Greece and ‘North’ Macedonia
Dismissal of Trump-satirizing newspaper cartoonist raises concerns and stirs an outcry
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette didn't just report news last week – the paper made a splash of its own, reported nationwide. The publisher and a news executive he hired three months ago got rid of a longtime editorial page cartoonist whose work ofte...
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Interior Department faces heat over axed coal study
The Interior Department hasn't sufficiently explained why it canceled a more than $1 million study into public health impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining, according to the agency's internal watchdog. Blasting away mountain tops to get to the ...
This week's word in the news: COHERENT
DEFINITION:
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“He was very coherent,” Hamilton said.
The Denver Post -- 06/18/2018
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