Breaking News: Turkey launches a military offensive in Syria – CNN Live Updates
Reading Time: < 1 minute Turkey’s military launched an offensive in northeast Syria today to push US-backed Kurdish forces away from its border.
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Month: October 2019
Former President Jimmy Carter Back To Building Homes One Day After Fall | NBC Nightly News
Reading Time: < 1 minute A day after falling at his home and receiving stitches above his eye, former President Jimmy Carter helped lead a build of Habitat for Humanity homes in Nashville.
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Holiday Desserts from Around the Globe
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over time, many families tend to return to the same holiday favorites, from ham and mashed potatoes to pies and cookie classics. This season, you can add a twist to tradition with these globally inspired desserts: Rugelach or Mexican Wedding Cookies.
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Stephen Colbert on Trump: ‘He’s gone full god-emperor’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Another day, another problematic presidential phone call, this time with the leader of Turkey. But don’t worry, America, your leader possesses unmatched wisdom
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3 Stories You Should Read 10/08/2019: Samuel Little, Coup, Gordon Sondland
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: If you don’t want
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Just Another Beautiful Family Short Documentary
Reading Time: < 1 minute First-time filmmakers Katherine and Nick fell in love, turned their worlds upside down and lived to tell about it. Their first joint project is this person documentary about how they fell in love, became a blended family with five kids, and navigated Nick’s gender transition from female to male.
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Botham Jean: Forgiveness as a spiritual practice is very different than what the niceness of whiteness demands
Reading Time: 8 minutes I think we are making a lot of false equivalencies and that is what is causing so much pain in the African American community on this issue.
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3 Stories You Should Read 10/7/2019: Graham, Fox News, Tax Returns
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Death and Taxes Judge
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The New Yorker: Did Donald Trump Just Self-impeach?
Reading Time: 6 minutes You could practically hear the collective gasp in Washington. Republicans had spent days denying what Trump had more or less just admitted to. “As President Trump keeps talking, he makes it more and more difficult for his supporters to mount an actual defense of his underlying behavior,” Philip Klein, the executive editor of the Washington Examiner, a conservative magazine, soon wrote. It was as though Richard Nixon in 1972 had gone out on the White House lawn and said, Yes, I authorized the Watergate break-in, and I’d do it again. It was as though Bill Clinton in 1998 had said, Yes, I lied under oath about my affair with Monica Lewinsky, and I’d do it again.
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When in fear, anger, or confusion, make deposits
Reading Time: < 1 minute There is a new book that is so relevant – Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety by Dr. John Duffy. This podcast shares a mission with this book – to deepen our understanding of what it is like to be a teen in the digital age. Today’s episode examines the first part of this important book and looks at strategies to help parents understand the new adolescent and to move through fear, anger and confusion to connection and consistent deposits in the Emotional Bank Account.
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