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It's a very different Otto Warmbier than the one we saw terrified, "confessing" before a court in communist North Korea.
No. This video shows a cheerful Warmbier cracking jokes in his salutatorian speech for his high school graduation in 2013. He quotes Andy Bernard from the TV show "The Office," saying, "I wish there was a way to know that you're in the 'good old days' before you've actually…
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Zachary Wood grew up in a rough neighborhood. So when he was accepted into the top liberal arts college in the country, he saw an unbeatable opportunity to further himself and expand his ideas.
Unfortunately, Williams College in Massachusetts has not been the bastion of knowledge he was looking for. Like many colleges all around the country, Williams and its president, Adam Falk, have recently…
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Otto Warmbier, the American college student just released from North Korea last week, has passed away.
A statement from his family reads, "It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home. Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20 pm."
Otto Warmbier had a bright and promising future ahead of him. He was salutatorian of his high school…
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Meet the candidate who will challenge House Speaker Paul Ryan in the 2018 election.
Democrat Randy Bryce, who announced his bid earlier this week. a union ironworker and Army veteran, will run against the No. #3 man in American politics for the congressional seat in Wisconsin's 1st District.
Already, it seems the Democrat's campaign will focus on Ryan's role in the attempts to repeal and…
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America's creepy uncle is back in action.
Former Vice President Joe Biden gave the commencement speech at Morgan State University's graduation ceremony this past week. Then good old Uncle Joe stuck around to...er, congratulate the graduates.
When one graduate (whose Instagram account is beautyyallure_) went to take a selfie with Biden, he surprised her with a big wet kiss on the cheek…
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Otto Warmbier is in a coma at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
In 2015, he left on a trip to North Korea that would last 18 months. After being sentenced to 15 years hard labor for "crimes against the state" (attempting to take a propaganda poster), the 22-year-old University of Virginia student was detained in one of North Korea's horrifying prisons. The prisons are places the U.N…
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Bill Shakespeare never had these scenes in mind when he wrote his "Julius Caesar."
This past weekend, pro-President Trump protestors interrupted a controversial production of the play in Central Park which features a Trump-esque Caesar. Obviously to the Shakespeare-buff, the controversy comes from the stabbing of the Roman emperor that takes place in the play.
The first interruption came from…
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This afternoon, President Trump officially rolled back Obama's deal with the communist dictatorship of Cuba.
President Obama and his State Department had "normalized" relations with Cuba back in 2015. This included rescinding the Cold-War-era embargo and reopening tourism to the country where political prisoners are brutalized.
The United States received almost nothing in return.
In 2016,…
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Officer David Bailey is an American hero.
Wednesday morning, Bailey was hit by a bullet when a shooter attached a group of Republican congressmen practicing for their upcoming congressional charity baseball game. Even after sustaining injuries, the Capitol police officer returned fire and turned back to check on Rep. Steve Scalise, who'd been shot in the hip.
Everyone who was at the scene…
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Setting up a lemonade stand in hot summer weather is a distinctly American childhood experience. Most of us remember eagerly stirring up a pitcher of lemonade, grabbing markers to make a sign, and applying to the local city council for a temporary food permit.
Wait, what was that last one?
For tykes in Austin, Texas, paying for a permit is just part of their summer lemonade stand memories…