Author: David Mark
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RFK legacy hovers over presidential race in more ways than one
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The most memorable piece of information from my Bush-Quayle-era AP Biology class has nothing to do with cellular mitosis, genotypes, or, really, any scientific concept. Rather, it’s our long-tenured John Muir High School teacher, Al Razum, recalling how, more than 20 years earlier, FBI agents came calling on his classroom on a sad June 1968…
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Biden and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month
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The 2024 presidential election cycle will always include a tragic asterisk, in the form of a civilian casualty. Former Pennsylvania firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed in a July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, now the GOP nominee. The episode, in which a bullet fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks grazed Trump’s ear,…

