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Washington PostWednesday, 26 August 2026
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Country music legend and cultural icon
With her rhinestones and blond bouffant, she carved out a singular place in American life as a musician, movie star, philanthropist and unexpected feminist heroine
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Canada trade fight could cost the GOP
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Colleges are scaling back Black studies departments, majors and classes
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