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Stacia Alexander was 25 and pregnant when her OB-GYN first recommended a hysterectomy. It was 1996, and an ultrasound had revealed fibroids growing in the walls of her uterus. But she knew what the procedure had done to her mother: After her ovaries
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Rebels seized control of Syria’s capital on Sunday, ending the reign of Bashar al-Assad, who infamously used chemical weapons to kill thousands of his own citizens during the country’s 13-year-long civil war. Now, a militia group that once had ties
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The New York Times Opinion columnists Lydia Polgreen and Tressie McMillan Cottom discuss what was revealed about America on Tuesday, why the Democrats failed and what individuals can do about the future. Democrats Had a Theory of the Election. They
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