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Granulated sugar is shown in Philadelphia, Monday, Sept. 12, 2016. A new study released Monday details how the sugar industry worked to downplay emerging science linking sugar and heart disease. It's the latest installment of an ongoing project by a former dentist to reveal the industry's decades-long attempt to influence science. The Sugar Association said it questions the author's attempt to play into current anti-sugar sentiment. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) 

The sugar industry funded research that cast doubt on sugar's role in heart disease 

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If Russian hackers can get into election data, could they change it?        

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Video: Clinton shaky leaving ceremony but rebounds quickly    

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Matt Lauer interview cited as example of gender bias        

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Kansas, Georgia, Alabama lose bid to disenfranchise "thousands"   

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Johns Hopkins in Baltimore pioneering experimental program    

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In this Tuesday, June 7, 2016 photo, students play basketball outside at Little Fort Elementary school in Waukegan, Ill. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, school districts serving poor communities generally have been hit harder than more affluent districts, according to an Associated Press analysis of local, state and federal education spending. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski) 

There has been a worsening of America's rich schools, poor schools divide — and with that a deepening racial divide 

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A line of protesters against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota head to a unity rally on the west steps of the State Capitol late Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in Denver. Several hundred marchers walked from the four directions to the Capitol to take part in the rally against the oil pipeline. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) 

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's attempt to halt construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline was denied Friday by a federal judge 

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) 

Hillary Clinton told reporters that among the first order of business is to host a White House conference on mental health 

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