Nation and World
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‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
Sep 29, 2024 6:00 am - Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower.
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Grocery chains are bigger than ever. Here’s a look at the market.Sep 29, 2024 6:00 am - Tom Thumb in Plano, Texas. Star Market in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Pavilions in Newport Beach, California. Jewel-Osco in Arlington Heights. What do these regional groce...
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Medicare Advantage shopping season arrives with a dose of confusion and some political implicationsSep 28, 2024 10:36 pm - Thinner benefits and coverage changes await many older Americans shopping for health insurance this fall. That's if their plan is still available in 2025. More than a million people will likely have to find new coverage as major insurers cut costs and pull back from markets for Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run version of the federal government's coverage program mostly for people ages 65 and older.
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After a chaotic Congress, lawmakers head home to ask voters: How about another term?Sep 28, 2024 5:30 pm - Congress is off for the campaign season, as lawmakers from one of the most chaotic and unproductive legislative sessions in modern times try to persuade voters to keep them on the job.
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Trump lists his grievances in a Wisconsin speech intended to link Harris to illegal immigrationSep 28, 2024 5:16 pm - PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. — Former President Donald Trump meandered Saturday through a list of grievances against Vice President Kamala Harris and other issues during an eve...
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SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck in space until next yearSep 28, 2024 5:09 pm - SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year.
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Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a ‘measure of justice’
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Rare condor hatched, raised by foster parents in captivity now gets to live wildSep 28, 2024 5:02 pm - Another chapter in one of the greatest comeback stories in the world of endangered species is being written with the release of three young California condors north of the Grand Canyon. The group includes Milagra, a young condor whose story is nothing short of a miracle, as her name implies. Her mother died last year during a devastating outbreak of avian flu, and her father struggled alone to incubate the egg. Hatched in captivity and raised by foster condor parents, Milagra joined other endangered condors in the wild this weekend.
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At least 52 dead and millions without power after Helene's deadly march across southeastern US
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Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike