DUPONT: Grim new reality for once popular TV genre in the US

>Too white and too male. That is the charge facing the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after it unveiled its nominations this week for the 2015 Oscars race.

Investigators at the scene of the officer-involved shooting in Dupont Circle neighborhood.



 A late night exchange of gunfire between a Metropolitan Police Department officer and a man in a Dupont Circle neighborhood left the man dead of a gunshot wound to the head, authorities said.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting death about 11:30 p.m. Thursday in the 1500 block of Caroline Street NW were not immediately clear.
It was unknown if or why police were pursuing the man before the...

The United Nations says the on-going conflict in South Sudan has a disturbing echo of events in Rwanda 20 years ago.

The foundation of democracy is the right to vote. For this to work, the majority of voting-age people are supposed to exercise that right. When people lose faith in the voting process, it is a dangerous trend, a symptom of great social malaise in any nation.

During the dry season, students walk on the brownish-red sand, passing a water pump adjacent to school buildings.

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Grim history repeats itself as Burundians back in Tanzania
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Grim camps albinos' best shot at avoiding witch doctors' clutches
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A 6 year-old from Tanzania with albinism, is treated at Global Medical Relief Fund and Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Photo / AP. It was from neighbours that Scola Joseph first heard of two strange men in the village asking after her ...
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