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Toronto author Anne Michaels wins Giller Prize for novel ‘Held’

TORONTO (AP) — Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($71,000) Giller prize honors the best in Canadian fiction. Past winners have included Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler and Alice Munro. Michaels appealed for “unity” among “all the arts” during

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El presidente de Paraguay es hospitalizado en Río de Janeiro tras una leve indisposición

Belén Liotti (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Paraguay, Santiago Peña, fue ingresado la noche de este lunes en el Hospital Samaritano Botafogo, en Río de Janeiro, para realizarse exámenes médicos, debido a un malestar que presentó durante la tarde mientras participaba de la cumbre del G20, informó el centro médico en un comunicado. Agregó

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Republican introduces anti-transgender bathroom resolution at Capitol after first transgender woman elected to Congress

By Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol, two weeks after history was made with the election of America’s first out transgender person to Congress. South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace on Monday introduced a resolution to

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With swastika flags and bellowed slurs, neo-Nazi marchers strode through Columbus. Ohio’s governor and officials condemn it

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Ohio officials have denounced a small contingent of neo-Nazis who paraded Saturday afternoon through a Columbus neighborhood – waving flags featuring swastikas and shouting a racist slur – in the latest public demonstration by White nationalists in recent years across the United States. Around a dozen people in black

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