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  "site": "https://politicalwire.com",
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  "textContent": "“A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel 1984, ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia,” CNN reports. Wrote U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe: “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with […]",
  "title": "Judge Cites George Orwell in Ruling Against Trump"
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