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MIAMI — Days after the Miami-Dade County School District denied students from attending Miami New Drama’s production of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Anna in the Tropics,” school officials pointed to lines and imagery they considered to be “sexually explicit” or inappropriate for school-aged children.

There’s nothing like recording an audiobook to make you question every word you write. The classics would definitely take a trim

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

Russia's most senior parliamentarian Vyacheslav Volodin warned that the Kremlin could take back Alaska from the United States if the West confiscates its billions

While locals donate blood for the injured and relatives of the missing provide DNA, glimmers of our normal life cling on, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

As the virus of totalitarianism begins to infect India, the immune system of the Republic needs to be reinvigorated

Monkeypox is a viral disease, distantly related to its far more deadly cousin, smallpox. So far this year, it has been discovered in dozens of countries that are generally not familiar with monkeypox, with about 113 cases in the U.S., 15 of them in Illinois.

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

New legislation necessary to rid Ukraine of Russian cultural influences, minister says