| Police: Shooting of Dallas transgender woman was hate crime - ![Police: Shooting of Dallas transgender woman was hate crime]( "Police: Shooting of Dallas transgender woman was hate crime") Police in Dallas say a transgender woman was seriously wounded after being shot multiple times and are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Investigators say a man driving a pickup pulled alongside the woman late Friday, yelled slurs about her gender identity and fired several times, striking her in the chest and arm. Police are searching for a red, four-door pickup with large rims.
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:51:40 -0400
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| From Luckenbach to Rocky Top, country is an American roadmap -  Country music is a uniquely American art form, with its roots in the fiddle from European immigrants and the African banjo all the way through its explosion as a commercial art form that has reflected the social, economic and cultural changes within our country. Ken Burns took on the gargantuan task of telling the story of country music in his new PBS documentary series "Country Music," which airs in eight parts over 16 hours. Just as Burns and his filmmaking partners, Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey, sifted through hundreds of hours of footage and audio, there's a wealth of accompanying material for aficionados who want to dig deeper into the music and the history.
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:48:09 -0400
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| UPDATE 1-Sudan announces nine-month plan to rescue economy, tame inflation - ![UPDATE 1-Sudan announces nine-month plan to rescue economy, tame inflation]( "UPDATE 1-Sudan announces nine-month plan to rescue economy, tame inflation") Sudan's transitional government will start a nine-month economic rescue plan next month aimed at curbing rampant inflation while ensuring supplies of basic goods and is asking the World Bank for $2 billion, the country's finance minister said on Monday. Shortages of bread, fuel and medicine coupled with hefty price rises sparked protests that led to the toppling of longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April. Finance Minister Ibrahim Elbadawi told reporters the new plan would restructure the budget and tackle inflation but leave bread and petrol subsidies in place until at least June 2020.
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:42:10 -0400
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| U.N. chief announces formation of Syria constitutional committee - ![U.N. chief announces formation of Syria constitutional committee]( "U.N. chief announces formation of Syria constitutional committee") United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Monday the formation of a constitutional committee for Syria, a long-awaited step in a stalled peace process. "It will be facilitated by the United Nations in Geneva," Guterres told reporters, adding that it would be convened in the coming weeks. The United Nations sees the committee as a next step in efforts to find a political solution to end the more than eight-year war in Syria.
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:41:14 -0400
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| UPDATE 1-Rouhani says Iran resists sanctions, drives U.S. "desperate" - ![UPDATE 1-Rouhani says Iran resists sanctions, drives U.S. "desperate"]( "UPDATE 1-Rouhani says Iran resists sanctions, drives U.S. \"desperate\"") Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday new U.S. sanctions blacklisting Iran's central bank for a second time pointed to U.S. "desperation" in the face of Iranian resistance. President Donald Trump last year quit a 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and six world powers, reimposing and then tightening sanctions that had been lifted under the deal in return for Iran curbing its nuclear program.
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:40:11 -0400
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