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President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies are inflicting lifetime damage on children separated from their families and worsening conditions at overcrowded and unsanitary detention facilities at the border, a Democratic House chairman said Friday as his panel held a hearing ...

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The wide metal barn on the Utah alfalfa farm owned by Russell and Diane Jones will host their youngest son’s wedding next month. By September, they hope the structure will be full of marijuana plants. The Joneses are fourth-generation farmers, ...

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China’s trade with the United States plunged in June amid a tariff war with Washington over Beijing’s technology ambitions that has battered exporters on both sides. Imports of U.S. goods fell 31.4 percent from a year earlier to $9.4 billion, ...

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In baseball circles, the St. Louis Cardinals organization is known for its so-called “The Cardinal Way,” a manual of sorts that players and managers adhere to in the quest for consistency. Since August 2018, Missouri state government has been teaching ...

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Demolition of abandoned, broken buildings is on the rise. The number of properties held by the city’s land bank is down. Contractors are, for the most part, following a new, safer demolition protocol. A year after Mayor Lyda Krewson outlined ...

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Marie Carr was homeless on the streets of Springfield when she lost her balance and fell a few weeks ago. Carrying her belongings and her emotional support animal — a rabbit named Lacy — Carr walked to Jordan Valley Community ...

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Anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court might end mandatory union fees for public employees, some labor-friendly states enacted laws last year to protect membership rolls while unions redoubled their recruitment efforts. Those steps appear to have paid off, at least ...

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When reforms shortened working hours for U.S. doctors-in-training, some worried: Was that enough time to learn the art of medicine? Would future patients suffer? Now a study has answers, finding no difference in hospital deaths, readmissions or costs when comparing ...

Tagged with: doctors Dr. Karl Bilimoria Dr. Mitesh Patel Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine training U.S. University of Pennsylvania

A company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people, said that it has settled or is in the process of settling more than half of the lawsuits it faces. KYTV reports ...

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Pete Buttigieg has a message for white liberals who decry racism: “Good intentions are not going to be enough.” The Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, mayor is combating perceptions that he’s out of touch with black people and ...

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Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, some people insist it never happened and was all a big hoax by the U.S. government. The suspicions arose even as the lunar landing was taking place in ...

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