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More than 6,500 prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers are vulnerable to environmental disasters nationwide.

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Within the span of less than a week, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have again shown how their ideology dictates their legal judgments, often in hypocritical directions.

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The concept is simple: Build in a full day at the end of your trip, between the vacation and the resumption of normal life.

The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.