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Medical reports released this week suggest that the covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated vision problems and increased obesity rates among schoolchildren.
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - September 17, 2021Weeks after their dramatic escape from Kabul, tens of thousands of Afghans hoping to be resettled in the United States remain on military bases across the co...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - September 17, 2021Thousands of Haitian migrants who have crossed the Rio Grande River over the past several days are sleeping outdoors under a border bridge in south Texas, cr...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - September 17, 2021The prominent South Carolina lawyer whose life has unraveled in the months after his wife and son were fatally shot was arrested Thursday after he admitted t...
by NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS THE NEW YORK TIMES - September 17, 2021The prosecutor tasked with examining the U.S. government's investigation into Russian election interference charged a prominent cybersecurity lawyer on Thurs...
by ERIC TUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - September 17, 2021One side is energized by the prospect of the greatest expansion of government support since the New Deal nearly a century ago. The other is fearful about dra...
by WILL WEISSERT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - September 17, 2021The Biden administration has been enlisting one emissary after another to persuade Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to help raise the federal debt li...
by KEVIN FREKING AND LISA MASCARO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - September 17, 2021Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the No. 3 House Republican, is pushing the notion in Facebook ads that President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats are seeking ...
by JOHN WAGNER THE WASHINGTON POST - September 17, 2021Within his first week back at school after a year and a half, 7-year-old Ben Medlin was exposed to an infected classmate, and he was sent home, along with 7,...
by BRYAN ANDERSON AND HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - September 17, 2021Mississippi has surpassed New Jersey as the state with the highest rate of covid-19 deaths in the U.S., with roughly 1 of every 320 Mississippians having die...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - September 17, 2021France reacted with anger Thursday to President Joe Biden's announcement of a deal to help Australia deploy nuclear-powered submarines, calling it a "unilate...
by ROGER COHEN THE NEW YORK TIMES - September 17, 2021Northern Idaho has a long and deep streak of anti-government activism that has confounded attempts to battle a covid-19 outbreak overwhelming hospitals in th...
by NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS The Associated Press - September 17, 2021Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will split "Jeopardy!" hosting duties for the remainder of 2021. Sony Pictures Television announced the plan Thursday as this w...
by The Associated Press - September 17, 2021Jared Polis of Colorado, the first openly gay man to be elected a U.S. governor, married his longtime partner and first gentleman, Marlon Reis, a writer and ...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - September 17, 2021The House Oversight Committee has widened its inquiry into the oil and gas industry's role in what lawmakers say is a disinformation campaign about the role ...
by HIROKO TABUCHI THE NEW YORK TIMES - September 17, 2021