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Steve Sovern had low expectations for a recent event he hosted to support Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign. Iowans are legendary for expecting to meet White House hopefuls in person — multiple times — and the candidate wasn’t going to be ...

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A small, family-run shoe store in an era when such items are either sold online or at large national chains is something of an anomaly. But despite the ever-changing retail environment, Arciuolo’s Shoes just keeps on keepin’ on, doing as ...

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The owners of a Kansas City nightclub where a gunman opened fire on people outside, killing a woman and injuring at least 15 other people before a guard killed him, expressed sorrow about the shooting amid calls by some to ...

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Senators like to float above messy politics in what’s known by some as the dignified “upper chamber,” home of Congress’ cooler heads and lofty rhetoric. But as a court of President Donald Trump’s impeachment, the Senate might seem more like ...

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Shortly before they were rounded up by Nazi troops in Belgium and deported to Auschwitz in 1942, the parents of three-year-old Maurice Gluck placed their only child in the care of a local Christian family. Gluck forgot his Yiddish mother ...

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Tens of thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully Monday at the Virginia Capitol to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation — a move that has become a key flash point in ...

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Alarmed by a deadly new twist in the nation’s drug addiction crisis, the government will allow states to use federal money earmarked for the opioid epidemic to help growing numbers of people struggling with meth and cocaine. The little-noticed change ...

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President Donald Trump boasted this week he’s led a “spectacular” turnaround of the U.S. economy and urged the world to invest in America, but had little to say about climate change issues that are a focus of this year’s gathering ...

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Planned Parenthood has endorsed a Democratic challenger to Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, saying Collins “turned her back” on women and citing her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court as well as other judicial nominees who ...

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The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected a recommendation that tools used to measure offenders’ suitability for being released after an arrest be made available to all judges as they make bail decisions. Requiring the availability of so-called “risk assessment tools” ...

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President Donald Trump thanked farmers this weekend for supporting him through a trade war with China as he promoted a new North American trade agreement and a separate one with China that he said will massively benefit farmers. “We did ...

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