A wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden and almost completely drained during Saddam Hussein's rule, has become a UNESCO world heritage site, Iraqi authorities said on Sunday.
On Sunday, Barack Obama delivered a stirring commencement speech to the graduating seniors of Rutgers University in which he condemned the toxic “anti-intellectualism” that has taken hold during the current presidential campaign. “Class of 2016, let me be as clear as I can be: in politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue,” the outgoing president opined. “It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness, that’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”
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