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Immigrants drive population growth in a graying America, census shows
Jun 29, 2025 6:00 am - Immigration is driving U.S. population growth and helping offset a broader demographic shift as the baby boom generation ages, according to data from the U.S. Census Bure...
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Video was posted before U.S. airstrike on IranJun 29, 2025 4:00 am - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that a social media video shows the bombing of the Fordow complex in Iran, the Minnesota governor deleted posts about the suspect in a fatal shooting and more.
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Netanyahu denounces report that Israeli soldiers have orders to shoot at Palestinians seeking aid
Jun 28, 2025 6:25 pm - JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz emphatically rejected a report in the left-leaning Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday,...
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Biden, Harris and Walz attend funeral for former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman
Jun 28, 2025 5:03 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was honored for her legislative accomplishments and her humanity during a funeral Saturday where f...
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White House seeks to cut nation’s only federal after-school programJun 28, 2025 4:55 pm - The Trump administration is seeking to cut the only federal after-school programming in the nation. The 21st Century Community Learning Centers, a program created by the ...
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Beloved dog joined Minnesota lawmaker, husband as they lay in state
Jun 28, 2025 4:17 pm - Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, as they lay in state Friday, ahead of Saturd...
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‘Kisses yes, Bezos No,’ protesters say, as Bezos wedding bonanza stirs controversy in Venice
Jun 28, 2025 4:13 pm - VENICE, Italy — Hundreds of protesters marched through Venice's central streets on Saturday to say “No” to billionaire Jeff Bezos, his bride and their much-awaited weddin...
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‘The life of an angel’: Plainfield monument dedicated to slain 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy
Jun 28, 2025 4:04 pm - The Plainfield community gathered with family of Wadee Alfayoumi on Saturday to dedicate a monument honoring the life of the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy killed in a hate crime.
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Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families.
Jun 28, 2025 4:01 pm - In the time before widespread vaccination, death often came early. Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children. Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges like polio and measles. Today, however, some preventable, contagious diseases are making a comeback as vaccine hesitancy pushes immunization rates down.
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Trump says he will move aggressively to undo nationwide blocks on his agenda
Jun 28, 2025 3:30 pm - An emboldened Trump administration plans to aggressively challenge blocks on the president’s top priorities, a White House official said, following a major Supreme Court ...