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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, shown here on Jan. 4, 2021, continues to embrace the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Does Marjorie Taylor Greene represent the future of the Republican Party?

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Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. He issued the formal Emancipation Proclamation the following January. Lincoln was under tremendous pressure to withdraw emancipation as a precondition for peace talks with the Confederacy. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

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Lincoln prioritized democracy over his political future. A new biography explains why

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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka holds his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida at the Shaw Theatre in London on Oct. 14. On Monday, his novel won the 2022 Booker Prize. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning addresses reporters outside a U.S federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., in 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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Chelsea Manning shared secrets with WikiLeaks. Now she's telling her own story

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This April 26, 1989, file photo shows Norma McCorvey, left, known as "Jane Roe" in the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, with attorney Gloria Allred in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Greg Gibson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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The human sensory experience is limited. Journey into the world that animals know

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Vanessa Williams recreates a scene from the 1963 historical drama Cleopatra, one of many such re-castings in the new photography book Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments. Carell Augustus/Sourcebooks hide caption

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This photography book puts Black actors in Hollywood's most iconic movie moments

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Journalist Jacob Goldstein traces the advent of paper money back to 1000 AD China. Above, $100 notes are printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption

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Money is 'A Made Up Thing' — but that doesn't change rising inflation

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Bella Ramsey stars in the new film Catherine Called Birdy. Alex Bailey/Amazon Prime Video hide caption

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Authors Tochi Onyebuchi (left) and Leslye Penelope (right) share their experiences building fantasy worlds in their latest sci-fi novels Goliath and The Monsters We Defy. PR Agency hide caption

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Black reality in a world of fantasy

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Cypress trees, some dead and some living, stand in Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Fargo, Ga. Proulx writes about the swamps of Okefenokee in her book. Stephen B. Morton/AP hide caption

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In 'Fen, Bog & Swamp,' Annie Proulx pens a history of wetland destruction

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Despite her investigative efforts, Laura Krantz (left) has never seen a Sasquatch. That doesn't mean Sasquatch (right) hasn't seen her. Jake Holschuh/Laura Krantz hide caption

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She wrote a Bigfoot book for kids. It was no small feat

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct. 9. Trump is currently facing two Justice Department investigations, as well as an investigation in the state of Georgia. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption

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Trump sees hate as a civic good, 'N.Y. Times' journalist Maggie Haberman says

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The forecast: Still tasty (and terrifying) in 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs'

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Puppeteer Shoshana Bass created this Baba Yaga puppet, and Maria Pugnetti created the panoramic scroll that makes up the background. Ezra Distler hide caption

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GennaRose Nethercott uses folklore to explore a painful, and personal, history

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