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Monitor articles for May 17, 2016

• How Donald Trump has made this election about women voters
• For black Americans, progress comes in small increments
• How a new 3-D printer can create electronics in mid-air
• Could this 'Little Lion' galaxy hold secrets about the Big Bang?
• For refugees in Greece, lots of rumors but little reliable news
• New York considers lifting the tampon tax
• Watch brilliant meteor dazzle in New England sky
• Evidence of humongous asteroid unearthed in Australia
• Bestselling books the week of 5/19/16, according to IndieBound*
• Champions of free speech launch $60-million First Amendment Institute
• Why Thailand is closing a lovely island in the Andaman Sea to tourists
• In contraception case, Supreme Court tried something different – and it worked
• 'Powerless': What we know about the upcoming NBC superhero comedy
• Emilio Navaira, Tejano music star, dies
• Inspired by Trump, new Arizona law redefines free speech
• 'The Twilight Children' makes a compelling coda to a remarkable career
• What not to buy during Memorial Day sales
• Around the world in 90 minutes: ISS completes 100,000th orbit
• Best deals on hybrid, electric, fuel-efficient cars for May 2016
• Why the Paris Agreement won't succeed without agricultural innovations
• Eight is enough? Missing one justice, Supreme Court takes novel approach
• Who shall lead?
• Following gas-mileage error, new labels on the way for GM's large SUVs
• How volcanoes moved mountains on Jupiter's moon Io
• Classic acts celebrate golden anniversaries
• Clean Power Plan challenge set for September. Is SCOTUS far off?
• Does Second Amendment include the right to sell arms?
• Developers ditch golf courses to build 'agrihoods'
• Celebrate National Short Story Month with five of the best
• How couples can master the financial balancing act
• Russians step in to protect UNESCO site Palmyra from ISIS
• These physicists accidentally programmed AI to do their job
• 'Pit Bull' aims to tell the story of a maligned breed
• How an itty-bitty ocean-dwelling bacteria helps regulate our climate
• With driverless big rigs, ex-employees one-up Google's self-driving cars
• Giraffes: Why the long neck? Scientists crack evolutionary code
• Free the linked 23? Why Twitter might revamp its 140-character calculus
• Breaking out of this election's partisan prison
• Craving a taco? Here's a veggie version with all the right stuff
• Why Bergdahl court martial won't begin until new president takes office
• With 'Sparkle' cheer teams, students with disabilities feel like they belong
• As Afghan insecurity deepens, can Ghani government fight back?
• Behind Facebook's trending news feed, a deeper flaw
• One year after Santa Barbara oil spill, California presses criminal charges
• Why Americans spend more on their homes than their clothes
• Senate passes bill allowing families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
• Foreign leaders can't agree on Syrian peace talk schedule
• Waze launches carpool experiment in San Francisco Bay Area
• North Korea's 'Mad Men': Signs of capitalism in the Hermit Kingdom?
• GMO crops are safe, say scientists. Do they need labels anyway?
• Donald Trump is forcing the GOP to reconsider what is 'conservative'
• Has Brazil begun a moral reckoning?
• How technology could have prevented Philly Amtrak disaster
• Baghdad violence stirs local Shi'ite militia
• How Portugal went 107 hours on only renewable energy
• 2017 BMW 2-Series preview
• Desegregation in 2016? Judge orders Mississippi town to unify school system
• Are we pointing telescopes in the right direction to find alien life?