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Like a nonfiction novel, Keefe’s book traces five decades of thorny history from the perspective of real-life characters, including the notorious Price sisters, Marian and Dolours, I.R.A. militants whose prison hunger strikes made front-page news in the 1970s, and Gerry Adams, the political leader who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland but has been accused of participating in atrocities committed during the height of the conflict.

Jorgensen’s transition, which had made front-page news in 1951, had been reduced to a historical curiosity nearly two decades later.

You have to go onto major news websites’ Africa page and scroll down and see Sudan; 2.5 million people facing death by famine in three or four months is apparently not front-page news.

Some pundits have already predicted that Putin's visit will be "front-page news for all the world's media".

But as the court has been drawn into Trump’s legal woes, it has become front-page news in recent weeks, both for the strikingly political and deeply consequentialist “per curiam” decision to rewrite the text of the 14th Amendment to keep Donald Trump on the ballot last month, and its even more harmful decision to allow his D.C. criminal trial to be delayed pending Supreme Court review, even though everyone and his cat knows that Trump’s immunity theory is risible and untenable.