DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1
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Longing for the New Creation: Responding to the Vast Devastation as Mid-South — Especially Western Kentucky — Is Ravaged by Tornadoes

PART 2
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Objective Truth, Justice, and the Category of ‘Hate Crime’: Evaluating the Guilty Verdicts Against Jussie Smollett

LA TIMES (NARDINE SAAD)
Black Lives Matter Stands with Jussie Smollett after Verdict, but Don Lemon Does Not

PART 3
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The Battle for Life Goes On: Supreme Court Upholds Texas Abortion Ban — For Now.

PART 4
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Gen Z Group Attempts to ‘Fight Lunacy with Lunacy’ — But the Best Remedy to Untruth is Truth, Not Lunacy

NEW YORK TIMES (TAYLOR LORENZ)
Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.

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