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Christian Science Monitor - Top Stories

Across the Middle East, a focus on home, healing, and restored hope

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Holiday traditions that glow with meaning

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English voters scatter from the center, strengthening extremes

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How the Lumbee Tribe earned federal recognition after a decadeslong effort

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Their husbands left for Europe. These Senegalese women are picking up the pieces.

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Why Latin America's authoritarian leaders lean into Christmas

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The next step was citizenship. Then these immigrants were pulled out of line.

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In Lebanon, Hezbollah's true believers are battered, yes, but unbowed

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With Russia looming, Europe tries to beef up its youth military service

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Amid destruction, a determination to live

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The eternal gift of Christmas

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Joy to the world! Concocting Christmas cheer, over the years.

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For Ukraine and Taiwan, dissuasion in strength

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Germany's defense of European values

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Invites for a corruption-free life

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A text that changed my life

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In a war-weary English town, singing together inspires hope

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Rob Reiner directed great comedies. He was also a voice for social justice.

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Another furry-eight hours: 'Zootopia 2' is a delight for kids and parents

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Civil servant or fascist spy? Hunting for the truth about her Albanian grandmother.

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Special Project -- Rebuilding trust -- Can trust bring connection and hope to help us find common ground in a divided world? Without trust, suspicion begets friction, division, and immobility. Today, too many realms are seeing trust deficits grow: between citizens, across racial lines, in government. This special project explores through global news stories how polarized parties are navigating times of mistrust and how we can learn to build trust in each other.

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Special Series -- The Climate Generation: Born into crisis, building solutions -- Climate change is shaping a mindset revolution—powerfully driving innovation and progress. And young people are leading the transformation. This special series focuses on the roles of those born since 1989, when recognition of children's rights and the spike of global temperatures began to intersect. The stories include vivid Monitor photography, and are written from Indigenous Northern Canada, Bangladesh, Namibia, Barbados, and the United States.

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