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What a difference a year makes -- Trump, Russia and Ukraine

September 16, 2016  •  Fox News

KIEV, Ukraine – What a difference a year makes.

Last year, Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman who was then leading the Republican presidential field in the polls, was all for defending Ukraine against Russian aggression.

In an unusual appearance by satellite last September, Mr. Trump told a gathering of the European elite in the Ukrainian capital that America and Europe should be doing far more to support the struggling country.

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Yes, America is safer 15 years after 9/11. Here's why

September 10, 2016

Are we safer? That is the inevitable question being asked 15 years and a trillion dollars spent in the name of national security after 9/11, the most devastating foreign attack ever on American soil.

Yes. Of course we are safer.

The Freedom Tower rising over what was once rubble signals not only the reshaping of New York's skyline but the nation's security and psychological contours as well.

In a cover article in the Atlantic, Steven Brill outlines the extraordinary progress and extravagant failures of America's 15-year effort to ensure that terrorists will never again be able to inflict such carnage.

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Scientists help solve 37-year-old anthrax mystery

September 7, 2016  •  Fox News

Some 37 years after the deadliest known release of anthrax spores in history in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk, American scientists have sequenced the genome of anthrax DNA from the bodies of two people who died in the 1979 accident.

The study by scientists at Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) used deep DNA sequencing methods to recreate the genome of the anthrax spores that infected 77 people living near the Soviet anthrax production facility, 66 of whom died when a tiny amount of anthrax spores -- between a few milligrams and a gram, or one-thirtieth of an ounce -- escaped from a military facility known as Military Compound 19.

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Introducing the burkino: A modest proposal in the spirit of equality

September 3, 2016  •  New York Daily News

Fashion Week is coming. So in the spirit of audacious runway creativity, here's a new sartorial concept for the Muslim Middle East — and a way to at least partially solve the French "burkini" challenge: the "burkino," full-body-covering beachwear for men.

Brimming with cultural outrage, French officials from 30 municipalities recently decided to protect precious laïcité , or secularism, by banning women from wearing full-body bathing suits, calling the mere choice of modest swimwear a "provocation."

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Of Modesty and Melania

August 5, 2016  •  The Weekly Standard

There's nothing to be embarrassed about," Donald Trump spokesman Jason Miller told CNN when asked about his boss's reaction to the New York Post's publication of nude photos of his wife, Melania. "She's a beautiful woman."

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