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Vox Sentences: The same Marines who lowered the US flag in Havana in 1961 helped raise it in 2015

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.


Kerry is surrounded by Cuban and Ameircan security agents; you can see Havana's distinctive architecture in the background.

Secretary of State John Kerry in San Francisco Plaza, Havana, today. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)


Two men operate a large machine gun; one is firing, the other is holding a belt of ammunition

Syrian rebels linked to Damascus Front attack ISIS fighters in Aleppo, Syria on August 13, 2015. (Huseyin Nasr/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)







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