From left, sisters Sue, Mary and Jane in 2009. Jane says Mary's death at Sandy Hook is "a weight you kind of drag around in your life."
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After the vigils and the reporters move on to the next mass shooting, the families are left to deal with the grief. "I feel like it never ends," says Jane Dougherty, who lost her sister at Sandy Hook.
A third of Native Americans say they have experienced discrimination in the work place when seeking jobs, getting promotions and earning equal pay, according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard TH Chan school of public health.
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A baby-food jar packed with gunpowder and ball bearings found in a field in La Venta, Colombia. Improvised explosive devices such as this were commonly used during the decades-long conflict between the FARC rebels and the Colombian government.
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An oral history project called The Great Thanksgiving Listen encourages people to record interviews with loved ones over Thanksgiving weekend.
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Singer-performance artist Poppy attends the 7th Annual Streamy Awards in September, when she won the Breakthrough Artist award.
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From left, sisters Sue, Mary and Jane in 2009. Jane says Mary's death at Sandy Hook is "a weight you kind of drag around in your life."
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at her Berlin party headquarters Friday for talks with members of potential coalition parties to form a new government.
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Sam Rockwell (left) and Caleb Landry Jones feature heavily in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which is open now in theaters.
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In The Wolves, characters are known only by their jersey numbers. Playwright Sarah DeLappe says she wanted to portray them "not as daughters, not as girlfriends, not as sexual objects, but as athletes."
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