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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne has been standard high school reading for decades. In the novel, Hester Prynne, the adulterer forced to wear the scarlet "A" as a sign of her community's disapproval, and her daughter Pearl, the product of the adulterous affair, are ostracized
Faith
Written by Shannon Mullen LAKEWOOD, N.J. — Like thousands of Orthodox men here, Israel Klein came to Lakewood from Brooklyn as a young man to study the Torah at Beth Medrash Govoha, the largest yeshiva in the U.S. He eventually got married and settled here.
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By Christopher Bodeen TIANJIN, China (AP) — Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether the materials had been properly stored.
Barack Obama
Written by Bradley Klapper and Michael Weissenstein WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration doesn't plan to invite Cuban dissidents to Secretary of State John Kerry's historic flag-raising at the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday, vividly illustrating how U.S. policy is shifting focus from the
congress
Written by Martin Crutsinger WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government ran a much higher budget deficit in July than a year ago, but it's still on track for the lowest full-year deficit in eight years.
justice department
Written by Ken Dilanian WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign casts her decision to turn over her personal email server to the Justice Department as cooperating with investigators. Her Republican critics suggest that the move and new revelations about classified information points to her malfeasance as secretary
Harvard University
BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University student says he lost his internship at Facebook after he launched a browser application that exploited privacy flaws on its mobile messenger. Aran Khanna's app showed that users of Facebook Messenger could pinpoint the exact locations of people they were talking to.
iran
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Iranian foreign minister says he has discussed the possibility of resuming work on a stalled Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline during a visit to Islamabad. Mohammad Javad Zarif, who arrived in the Pakistani capital on Thursday, spoke after meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other
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