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Today in History

By The Associated PressOctober 19, 2021 GMT

Today in History

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2021. There are 73 days left in the year.

New Florida law expected to increase textbook challenges

By TERRY SPENCERNovember 26, 2017 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A parent in Florida is citing profanity and violence in trying to get the local school to ban Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" — itself a cautionary tale on the banning of books...

Dystopian fiction is selling like there’s no tomorrow

By COLLIN BINKLEYMarch 10, 2017 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Save the light reading for later. In 2017, dystopian fiction is all the rage.

Gloomy classics depicting societies gone terribly wrong have shot to the top of best-seller lists like Amazon's in recent months, including George Orwell's "1984" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," prompting publishers to ramp up production decades after the books were first released...

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