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| Why Indian-Americans are so good at spelling bees | | The finals for the Scripps National Spelling Bee have once again produced Indian-American winners -- with Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam sharing this year's prize. Since 1999, 15 of the 19 winners have been Indian-Americans. |
| Biker rally plan an abuse of freedoms | | When you leave your house of worship, you don't usually expect to be greeted by hundreds of bikers, possibly armed, intent on insulting your religion with expletives emblazoned on their T-shirts and a drawing contest intended to mock your prophet. |
| 220,000 dead. Why are we just talking? | | Almost a year on from their dramatic seizure of Mosul, Iraq's second city, the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria continue to expand the frontiers of their stronghold in the Middle East. |
| 5 swapped for Bergdahl may soon walk free | | Senior administration officials said Friday that the U.S. is continuing to hold negotiations with the governments of Afghanistan and Qatar as a deadline to determine the fate of five Taliban figures released in a prisoner exchange with the U.S. looms. |
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