When I was 12 in 1967, the circus came to our Central Valley town near Hanford. It was the talk of the school yard, when to our surprise, the circus began setting up on the school yard itself. We had ...

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper expressed rare frustration Thursday as he shouted and openly laughed at a conservative commentator on ...

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