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Poor Country Debt Could Worsen Due to Commodity Prices, Interest Rates: Malpass

September 30, 2021
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CAIRO—The debt situation for poor countries could worsen due to volatile commodity prices and higher interest rates, World Bank President David Malpass said on Thursday, urging countries to begin a gradual fiscal consolidation to maintain investor confidence. As of mid-2021, over half of the world’s poorest countries “are in external debt distress, or at risk…

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Tom T. Hall, Country Singer and ‘Harper Valley PTA’ Composer, Dies at 85

August 21, 2021
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue-collar bard, has died. He was 85. His son, Dean Hall, confirmed the musician’s death on Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. Known as “The Storyteller” for his unadorned yet incisive lyrics, Hall…

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A River of Doubt Runs Through Mail Voting in Montana

March 27, 2021
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MISSOULA COUNTY, Mont.—A mountainous, 2,600-square-mile region with a population of approximately 119,600 does not seem like your prototypical setting for machine politics. Yet a recent audit of mail-in ballots cast there found irregularities characteristic of larger urban centers—on a level that could have easily swung local elections in 2020, and statewide elections in cycles past….

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America the Fraud

January 28, 2021
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If America allows the Democrat Party election fraud to stand, it dishonors every veteran like me who served my country while believing it to be something it was not. It dishonors every one of my brothers and sisters in arms who died for this country. If this election fraud is allowed to stand, we Americans…

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