Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Chris Carlson / AP Water, Water Still Is Scarce, Except for California's Rich
California’s decision Wednesday to let water districts self-regulate their usage has people worried the wealthy will opt out.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters San Francisco's Besieged Police Department
The city’s police chief resigned this week after recent officer-involved shootings and reports of racism within the department.
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Elizabeth Warren on the Second Gilded Age
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Phil Noble / Reuters It's National Craft Beer Week!
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters What's Wrong With the Police Department in Calexico, California?
The U.S. Department of Justice released a review Wednesday that said the border town needs to overhaul its force in every way.
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Margaux Fisher America by Air: Precarious Pontchartrain
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Victor Ruiz Caballero / Reuters Quoted
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Joe Burbank / Reuters The Gun That Killed Trayvon Martin Finds a Buyer
George Zimmerman said Wednesday the gun used to kill the unarmed teen in 2012 has been auctioned.
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AP The Day Lincoln Took the Reins of the Republican Party
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Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm: Why Does This Ring a Bell?
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Orbital View: 'The Aquatic Appalachian Trail'
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Ivan Sekratev / AP Quoted
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Larry Downing / Reuters The Long Airport Lines of Summer
As airport passengers face historically long security lines, the Transportation Security Administration says it’s shorthanded.
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Jae C. Hong / AP An Indictment For 20,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled in the Pacific
Investigators looking into the 2015 oil spill near Santa Barbara, California, found the pipeline was cracked and nearly worn through.
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Norsk Telegrambyra / Reuters Elon Musk Is Sorry Foreign Workers May Have Built His Factory For $5 an Hour
A Slovenian construction worker claims a Tesla subcontractor owes more than 140 foreign workers $2.6 million in neglected pay.
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Joseph Kaczmarek / AP 'Preventable Tragedy': Amtrak 188 and the Case for Positive Train Control
The NTSB concludes that the engineer in a deadly 2015 crash in Philadelphia was distracted by radio traffic, following rocks striking another train.
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Torsten Blackwood / Pool / AP Job Cuts at Australian Agency That Studies Climate Change
In all, 275 positions at CSIRO are being eliminated, including that of a prominent scientist who studied sea-level rise.
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W. A. Rogers / Library of Congress When Criticizing the U.S. Government Put You in Prison
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David Cameron and Michael Bloomberg eat hot dogs … Quoted
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Massachusetts General Hospital The First Penis Transplant in the U.S.
Doctors say that so far Thomas Manning’s new appendage shows no sign of infection.
