‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news really means
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Big Tech wanted to dethrone credit cards. Why it failed, and who wins now
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"I got mine": Like college debt and climate change, the US housing affordability crisis is generational warfare
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The disadvantages of an elite education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
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It's time to change the way the media covers crime
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Ten years after abortion doctor's brutal murder, one woman carries the fight for reproductive rights
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Corporations are getting better at gutting worker protections
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The movement to skip the electoral college is picking up steam
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KKR hires former Australian Prime Minister Turnbull as global senior advisor
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All-American despair: For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers
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A transgender soldier who fought to wear the Army uniform wonders if it still fits
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How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell
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U.S. measles cases in first five months of 2019 surpass total cases for any year since 1994, may cause loss of measles elimination status
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Ohio's liquor laws won't let this restaurant have gender-neutral bathrooms
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How one Colorado art teacher inspires kids by leaning into chaos, not control
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How Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go! became a ubiquitous (and cliché) graduation gift
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Why astronomers are worried that SpaceX’s satellite network will pollute the night sky
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Political confessional: I think private schools should be banned
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Scientists are setting a forest on fire and studying it with drones
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Gender-segregated swim hours create hot water in some city pools
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Protesters nearly run over by front-end loader outside PHA headquarters
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A Washington state lawmaker just quit to lobby for Amazon. Most states wouldn’t allow that.
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Cooking with FOIA: The military’s official brownie recipe
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‘A zombie party’: The deepening crisis of conservatism
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US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas”
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Are the Democrats too meek?
Shouldn't there be loud and clear opposing voice to Trump overstepping historical boundaries? When Trump declares emergency to expedite arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE or when he approves...
Shouldn't there be loud and clear opposing voice to Trump overstepping historical boundaries?
When Trump declares emergency to expedite arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE or when he approves secret nuclear power tech sales to Saudi Arabia
When Trump urges US Fed to cut interest rates
When Trump lifts sanctions on firms linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and when Trump conceals face-to-face encounters with Putin
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Oregon restricts solar development on prime farmland
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The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans?
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A generation is learning how to strike: An interview with Isra Hirsi
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Lawyers for Noah’s Ark theme park are suing its insurance company for rain damage
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Large tornado touches down near Kansas City; at least twelve injured
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China: Leverage in the tech sector and values
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‘Wow, what is that?’ Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects
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Many in Chinatown have never tried its most popular restaurant, so I brought the food to them
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How eminent domain is blighting farmers in path of gas pipeline
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Abortion clinics reported a surge in trespassing, vandalism and a historic high of picketing
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Banned bread: Why does the US allow banned additives that Europe says are unsafe?
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On the trail of Tupelo Honey, liquid gold from the swamps
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Netflix’s ‘Street Food’ reveals a thriving and threatened culture
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What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns
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Here comes the neighborhood: Many US cities are booming -- and experiencing housing crunches as a result. Here's a look at two cities that tried to do something about it.
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The cancer capital of America: Eastern Kentucky is poor, remote, and inadequately serviced, and those factors have led to alarming rates of cancer in the area
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Murray Gell-Mann, who peered at particles and saw the universe, dies at 89
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'This case will set a precedent': First major opioid trial to begin in Oklahoma
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People are moving to smaller cities in search of affordable houses that don't exist
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The rise of Calamari, fueled by Rhode Island’s dirty politics
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Everyone is framing 5G as a "race", but nobody seems to be able to explain why it matters who wins
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It’s time to end horse racing for good
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The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day: More than two dozen US cities claim to the be the “birthplace of Memorial Day"
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Jane Jacobs and the death and life of American planning
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