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The president-elect chooses two immigration hawks to launch a mass deportation and taps Marco Rubio for foreign policy ...

This month's book is "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams ... with the other five sculptures to reopen to the ...

But, taking the Jewish Linguistic and Culinary Walking Tour of Pico-Robertson Sunday morning, I quickly discovered that ...