Every spring, local residents have staged a play based on To Kill a Mockingbird in this courthouse in Monroeville, Ala.
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There's plenty of speculation about whether the octogenarian author really intended to release the manuscript, discovered by her lawyer last year.
Travon Addison sits at the house he grew up in, bought by his great-grandmother, he thinks, in 1920. His family members had to abandon the home 15 years ago because they couldn't afford to fix it.
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Much of the Netherlands is below sea level, including Amsterdam. Urgenda argues that any rise in the sea level could have a huge impact on the country.
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Bob Skierski at the beach in Avalon, N.J., just hours before he fell ill and went to the hospital. He never went home.
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Every spring, local residents have staged a play based on To Kill a Mockingbird in this courthouse in Monroeville, Ala.
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Can candidates courting billionaires count as corruption, even if there are no explicit strings attached? Some activists see the campaign contributions of the super-rich as a problem, regardless of whether "quid pro quo" deals are made. Here, activists protest the political influence of the wealthy Koch Brothers near David Koch's Manhattan apartment on June 5, 2014.
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