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Ahead of this year’s World Championship Horse Show at the Kentucky State Fair, a horse died by electrocution in its stall. Two years prior, event organizers were warned they needed to fix electrical issues to maintain horse safety.
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Tuesday is the remembrance day for what the U.S. government calls a “genocidal” campaign against the ethnic Rohingya people in Myanmar.
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