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Los Angeles, like other cities across the nation, is facing a rise in gun violence. And the police budget is growing.

New York Times: Women in Xinjiang are being forced to have fewer babies.

When China’s government ordered women in her mostly Muslim community in the region of Xinjiang to be fitted with contraceptive devices, Qelbinur Sedik pleaded for an exemption. She was nearly 50 years old, she told officials. She had obeyed the government’s birth limits and had only one child. It was no use. The workers threatened to take her to the police if she continued resisting, she said. She gave in and went to a government clinic where a doctor, using a metal speculum, inserted an intrauterine device to prevent pregnancy. She wept through the procedure. “I felt like I was no long...

Biden to Say Armenians Suffered Genocide. Here’s Why It Matters. Rick Gladstone © Bryan Denton for The New York Times A memorial to Armenian victims in a chapel in Antelias, Lebanon. At the risk of infuriating Turkey, President Biden is set to formally announce on Saturday that the United States regards the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Turks more than a century ago to be a genocide — the most monstrous of crimes. Mr. Biden would be the first American president to make such an announcement, breaking with predecessors who did not wish to antagonize Turkey, a NATO a...

Ryan Denton, a reformed Christian evangelist from New Mexico, visits Texas Tech several times a semester to spread his beliefs to students. He preaches in the free speech area outside of the Student Union Building on campus, which hosts a variety of visitors throughout the year to engage students in social and political issues. Denton said he did not grow up in a Christian home, but he found his faith when he was 22 years old. He was a student at The University of New Mexico when he began to feel religion calling to him. When he was 27 years old, he decided to go to seminary school and become...