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2:40 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The reputation surrounding GMO foods paints a picture of chemically enhanced produce, pumped with steroids and other poisons, being conned into our children’s mouths. But what if we have it... |
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5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. War has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and women are caught in the crosshairs. Since the 1990s, militias have been fighting over the region’s rich, lucrative natural... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. During Barack Obama’s presidency, the Department of Justice was aggressive in pursuing the broadest interpretation of civil rights law, with government lawyers addressing cases involving transgender students, juvenile prisoners, gay...
5:50 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Headlines can prevent us from seeing the actual lives affected by catastrophe. One such life is a beautiful eight-year-old named Evlin. When ISIS attacked her village of Kobane in Syria,... 
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. The past decade has seen Turkey veer from the path of a democratizing Muslim nation to authoritarian consolidations of power under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Beginning with the police crackdown... |
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5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Ron Book is an extremely powerful lobbyist from Florida. When he found out his daughter was molested by her nanny, he used his political capital to pass some of the... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Donald J. Trump's election capped off a series of defeats for Democrats that began during Barack Obama's presidency. From 2008 to 2016, the Democrats lost 1,000 seats in state legislatures...
3:10 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Director Rebecca Carpenter’s father Lew Carpenter had an illustrious ten-year career in the NFL playing for Cleveland and Detroit and winning three NFL Championships with Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers.... |
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10:35 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. “Si se puede” was the familiar battle cry of the National Farm Workers Association long before President Obama adopted the English version (“yes we can”) for his presidential campaign slogan.... |
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12:50 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. In 2014 an unarmed 18-year-old African-American named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. This was the final straw for black residents, caught... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. According to Freedom House, from 1973 to 2005, the number of democracies worldwide increased dramatically, however, over the past decade, the organization recorded a decline in global freedom. The U.S. was... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Leana S. Wen, M.D., MSc., FAAEM, became Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore in January 2015. In this role as head of the oldest continually operating health department,... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. “When I look into the future, I see our County as a place bursting at the seams with art, music, sports, great food, festivals, waterfront recreation, distinctive places, all converging... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. The movie Hidden Figures, released in December 2016, tells the story of the African-American women who played a crucial, but often overlooked, role in the space race and John Glenn's... |
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5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Cleveland development has been booming in places like Downtown and Ohio City while other neighborhoods continue to vie for investment dollars, hoping to capitalize on the growing interest in city... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. In The Crime of Complicity, author Amos N. Guiora examines the bystander effect through the lens of his parents’ personal Holocaust story. Six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust,... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Northeast Ohio has a long history with industry and sustainability. In 1969 the Cuyahoga River burned, making Cleveland's industry the center of national headlines and simultaneously sparking the catalyst for... |
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. According to a report recently released by the American Wind Energy Association, wind is now the largest renewable energy source in the United States. The Department of Energy estimates that... |
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