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On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed 69 more, most of them teenage members of Norway's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist?

Women have bravely served in the US Navy for nearly a century, but they have been allowed to serve in combat roles for only the last 25 years. When the combat exclusion law was lifted in 1993, women in the navy soon had a new range of opportunities available to them. The repeal of the law finally gave women the chance to serve on combatant ships for the first time. Among the first women to step onto these warships as a new crewmember was Joanna Sprtel Walters.

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Join Lorie Burch and the Burch Law Team each week as we demystify the world of estate planning and probate in Texas. With light-hearted expert insights, we're here to shed light on the essentials you really need to know.Whether you're trying to navigate your next legal move or just enjoy unraveling mysteries, tune in and find out which one of us really knows that they're talking about (and spoiler: it might not be you)!

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No One Told Us the truth about parenthood. WHY?! Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast where we uncover the raw, unfiltered truths about parenthood. I'm your host, Rachael Shepard-Ohta, mom of three and founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby. Each week, join me as we dive deep into the joys, challenges, and surprises of raising children with a mix of expert insights, personal anecdotes, and candid conversations. From navigating postpartum anxiety to mastering the art of making mom friends, and from introducing solids to tackling tantrums, we cover it all. Whether you're a first-time parent or a seasoned...

In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. In the internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism's dirty tricks.

Each day we all get up and get dressed, an action we take both seriously and utterly for granted. 1000 Fibers Connect Us explores with designers and manufacturer how what you wear arrives in your closet, and, with experts from different fields, clothing’s cultural and economic significance.

As the first Black woman to anchor the Boston-area evening news, Liz Walker found herself in an industry that defined the neighborhood of Roxbury largely by violence. But when she became a pastor there, Walker grew close to households marked not only by trauma but by courage—including the family of Cory Johnson, a young father who was murdered. In the wake of their worst nightmare, the family reached out for help.

"US Targets $1 Billion in Assets in Malaysian Embezzlement Case" is from the July 20, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Louise Story and narrated by Caroline Miller.

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was...

"U.N. Offers 'One-Off' Help to Australia in Resettling Refugees in U.S." is from the November 25, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Michelle Innis and Somini Sengupta and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"VW Settles Diesel Emissions Case in U.S., Clearing Just One Hurdle for Its Finances" is from the June 28, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Jack Ewing and Hiroko Tabuchi and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"One in 6 U.S. Adults Say They Have Taken Psychiatric Drugs, Report Says" is from the December 12, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Benedict Carey and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"U.S. Women Drop Baton in 4x100 Relay" is from the August 18, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Victor Mather and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law.

All three series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy about love, marriage and despair, initially broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as 'Start/Stop'. Barney and Cathy. Evan and Fiona. David and Alice. Three couples who have beaten the odds and stayed married – but is that simply because they haven’t got around...

In the tradition of Neil Postman's masterpiece Amusing Ourselves to Death, Audience of One shows how American media have shaped American society and politics, by interweaving two crucial stories. The first story follows the evolution of television from the three-network era of the 20th century, which joined millions of Americans in a shared monoculture, into today's zillion-channel, internet-atomized universe, which sliced and diced them into fractious, alienated subcultures. The second story is a cultural critique of Donald Trump.