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Microsoft gives up on physical retail
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Juganu’s Smart Lighting System Transforms Main Border Crossing Between Brazil and Paraguay
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White Elderly Woman Asks Black Man to Wait Until She’s Done Shopping To Rob the Store- The Man Was Just Shopping
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Impossible to hold 2020 polls - Somalia elections boss
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Boris Johnson wants Britain to go to the pub – and forget about the 65,700 dead | Owen Jones
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Federal judge orders Trump to release migrant children due to COVID-19
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Voter suppression: The new poll tax
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As COVID cases rise, White House seeks to scrap ‘Obamacare’
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Jenny Slate, Kristen Bell admit Black voice actors matter – but that doesn’t solve the problem
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Locust swarm destroys crops in Kenya as millions face hunger
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