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A shooting at Umpqua Community College

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VIDEO: President Obama addresses the Oregon shooting
Good news for federal criminal-justice reform?

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Shut out in the Black Belt

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People without high school degrees are over four times likelier to die in car crashes than college grads. [Washington Post / Emily Badger and Christopher Ingraham]
"When a friend from boot camp sent Lawton an email full of links to videos made by the Islamic State — the execution of James Foley, clips from the day ISIS executed 250 Syrian soldiers in the desert — Lawton looked up ‘'how to fight ISIS'’ on his lunch break." [NYT Mag / Jennifer Percy]
Ta Prohm’s haunting ruins are also a 1,000-year-old climate change warning [YouTube / Joe Posner]

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