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Trump justifies his past sexism: “that was done for the purpose of entertainment”

After a week of feuding with Alicia Machado — a Hillary Clinton supporter and a former Miss Universe whom Donald Trump once called “Miss Piggy” for gaining weight — Trump says he can explain his past comments: “A lot of that was done for the purpose of entertainment,”Trump told KSNV reporter Jim Snyder while campaigning in Las Vegas.

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Brexit: what happens when Britain leaves the EU

​Voters have voted in favor of Brexit: British exit from the European Union. That means that in the coming months, British and European leaders will begin negotiating the terms of Britain's departure.

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St. Patrick’s Day traditions, explained

St. Patrick’s Day, celebrated every year on March 17, has become synonymous with shamrocks, the color green, pinching, (if perchance you’ve forgotten to wear the color green), and plenty of guilt-free alcohol imbibing. But the holiday, commemorated in today’s green and shamrock-inflected Google Doodle, has a long, rich religious history.

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Donald Trump got tons of good news in Tuesday's election results

The election results on Tuesday were a disaster for Republican elites still clinging to hope that they can stop Donald Trump.

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"Comfort women": Japan's 70-year sex slavery controversy, explained

In August 1910, the Empire of Japan formally annexed what had once been the sovereign nation of Korea. It is only now, over a century later, that Japan and Korea have formally reconciled one of the darkest legacies of that era: the 1930s and '40s recruitment of Korean women and girls as sex slaves known as "comfort women."