Human Interest

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In this Jan. 14, 2009, file photo, Delegate Ulysses Currie, D-Prince George's County, listens during the opening day of the legislative session in Annapolis, Md. Ulysses Currie, a powerful former Maryland lawmaker who was censured in an ethics scandal has died, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. He was 82. (AP Photo/Gail Burton, File)

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., listens as an audience member poses a question at a Newport Town Hall Breakfast Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, at the Newport Opera House in Newport, N.H. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

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In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo an iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Best of 2019: Beyond The Front Page Quiz

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Man Hole Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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'From Russia With Blood' (book cover)

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I'm sorry, but we do not accept damaged goods ... (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)

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Actor Walter Matthau taps Macaulay Culkin under the chin as they pause for photographers before a screening of Culkin's new film "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," Nov. 14, 1992, in Chicago. Matthau is in Chicago filming "Dennis the Menace." (AP Photo/Mike Fisher)

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Sociologists have written at length on the nexus between popular entertainment and baby names, but for much of the last century, politics was as important a factor in shaping new Americans' identities. (Associated Press file photo)

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Writer Fabio Porchat, second from right, poses with the "Especial de Natal Porta dos Fundos," team in celebration of their best comedy award win during the 47th International Emmy Awards gala at the Hilton New York, Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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Star Wars actors quiz (Courtesy 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

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'One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA' (book cover)

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A Multi-Purpose Canine with U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC), prepares for Zodiac boat training inserts on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 9, 2016. MARSOC specializes in direct action, special reconnaissance and foreign internal defense and has also been directed to conduct counter-terrorism, and information operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Maricela M. Bryant, MCIWEST-MCB CamPen Combat Camera/Released)

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Take a brief trip past the year's assorted outrage moments, as reported in the Inside the Beltway column by Jennifer Harper. (Associated Press)

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President Ronald Reagan said in a 1981 speech that we experience Christmas "in our hearts" and "Christmas is a state of mind." (Associated Press)

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Peace on Earth, goodwill towards men. (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)

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A bonfire in the shape of an alligator being assembled in Garyville, La. (Special to The Washington Times/courtesy of Stephen Peytavin.)

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Israeli Education Minister Gideon Saar speaks during an unveiling ceremony for a plaque honoring Pawel Frenkel, a leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday March 20, 2012. Frenkel was a senior commander of the Jewish Military Union, an underground resistance group that opposed the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. He died in the uprising. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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"[President Trump] actually played a businessperson on a reality TV show and that he is actually a terrible steward of the American economy," Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer said. (Associated Press)