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The Obama administration bypassed the standard public bidding process and agreed to a four-year, $1 billion contract two years ago with Corrections Corporation of America to build a massive detention facility for Central American women and children surging across the U.S. border seeking asylum.
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They still want the GOP nominee to win the White House but are frustrated as Donald Trump's unforced errors pile up.
Ever since former Fox host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s co-founder, Fox has been tight-lipped about telling its viewers about the allegations.
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The darling of the London Olympics had a much harder time in Rio -- on the floor and with the public. "I've been through a lot," she said.
Usain Bolt celebrates his win. (Jonathan Newton/The Post)
The Jamaican superstar finished in 9.81 seconds, becoming the first athlete to win three straight golds in track’s marquee event. American Justin Gatlin, the 2004 gold medalist, took silver in 9.89 seconds.
French Muslims bristled at the creation of the Foundation for Islamic Works, a mosque-monitoring body led by a non-Muslim that will also oversee the training of foreign-born imams.
Police used an armored vehicle to retrieve a man was shot late Sunday and take him to the hospital. Police offered no details of how the shooting happened. An officer was also injured after rocks thrown at a police vehicle caused the windshield to shatter.
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She was a college conservative, but her remarks at Wellesley’s commencement ceremony transformed her, virtually overnight, into a national symbol of student activism.
“Yes, it was a hate crime,” some Muslims chant a day after an imam and his assistant were shot at point-blank range in the head on a Queens sidewalk just a few blocks from their mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood.
Short, viral videos have become the central economy of the Internet and a serious business on which future media fortunes will be gambled, won and lost.
The D.C. teenagers’ plan to meet their idols included costumes, a rented limo, decoy groupies and even the unwitting participation of D.C. police, who provided the fake band with a real motorcade escort.
Unaired recordings are not unlike a reporter’s notes, which news organizations have long objected to being used in court.
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