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A bull male elephant is seen meticulously dismantling an electric fence inside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants are often herded into parks to keep them from eating the crops of farmers, but the pachyderms have figured out how to manipulate the wooden fence poles to lay the wires flat and then step over them.
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Elephants eat their crops. Farmers strike back. It's a war that's only getting worse
Diaa Hadid, Susitha Fernando
In Sri Lanka, the islanders revere elephants. But for farmers, there's rising tension that's leading to more fatal encounters — for both humans and hungry pachyderms.
Mayor Thorsten Grädler of Vilseck, Germany, discovered that his town could be the target of President Trump's U.S. troop cuts on his first day in office, when a journalist told him during a press conference. Grädler says the impact on his town would be "dramatic."
Lisi Niesner
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Reuters
The townspeople of Vilseck, Germany, worry that Trump may pull out 5,000 U.S. troops
Rob Schmitz
"I feel like, up until this point, I probably was being 88% honest at face with everything," Rashad says. "And then now it's more like a hundred. And it doesn't hurt to. I don't feel the risk factor in talking about stuff."
Quil Lemons
We've seen Isaiah Rashad exposed. Now he's ready to bare his soul.
Rodney Carmichael
Admitted students and their families, including some from rural areas, take a tour of the Amherst College campus as they decide whether or not to enroll.
Lucy Lu
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The Hechinger Report
Colleges got more rural students to apply. The challenge is getting them to attend
Jon Marcus
Texas Standard
Lou Diamond Phillips says getting a city of Austin proclamation and a Dallas Star Award feels ‘full circle’
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