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No Brexit deal, and just 10 weeks left before Britain is scheduled to leave the EU. Plus suicide and campus hazing, when kids know they are trans, and more
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The politicalMore than two years after citizens in the United Kingdom voted in favor of Brexit, the strategy on how to actually leave the European Union On Tuesday, the British Parliament voted down Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan, just 10 weeks before the country is scheduled to officially depart from the EU. The stunning rebuke of May could signal the looming end of her tenure as the country’s leader, as the opposition Labour Party is seeking a vote of no confidence that could result in a new election.

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