Separation at the top and a few random scheduling quirks has allowed the AP college football poll voters to work a little easier this season than last. No. 1 LSU, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Clemson held their spots in the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank this week. The only movement […]
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Thomas Jefferson believed that the rural farmer was the ideal of the American citizen. William Jennings Bryan preached something similar a century later. “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,” he said in his 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech. “But destroy our farms
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At least 60 percent of U.S. Superfund sites are in areas vulnerable to flooding or other worsening disasters of climate change, and the Trump administration’s reluctance to directly acknowledge global warming is deterring efforts to safeguard them, a congressional watchdog agency says. In a report being released later Monday, the Government Accountability Office called on
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Author Stephen King can’t understand why anyone is still in doubt about President Donald Trump after the first set of public impeachment hearings last week. Multiple witnesses have testified that Trump withheld aid to Ukraine to pressure the country into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, son Hunter Biden, and conspiracy theories about a Democratic
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Online services Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. have announced they are merging By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer November 18, 2019, 9:16 AM 3 min read Online services Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. have announced they are merging. Z Holdings Corp., which owns SoftBank Corp. that operates Yahoo Japan, and Naver Corp. of South Korea,
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The Tokyo Olympic marathons and race walks are likely to start and finish in Sapporo’s Odori Park November 18, 2019, 9:25 AM 2 min read The Tokyo Olympic marathons and race walks, moved last month to the northern city of Sapporo to avoid the capital’s summer heat, are likely to start and finish in the
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When her contractions became unbearably painful, 18-year-old Perseverance Kanyoza rushed to a maternity hospital in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. But the doors were closed amid a weekslong strike by public health workers. With no money for private care, panic set in. A hospital guard directed her to a tiny apartment in the poor suburb of Mbare
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Steven Holcomb’s family, and his bobsled teammates, set to finally receive silver medals from 2014 Sochi Games By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer November 18, 2019, 8:28 AM 4 min read U.S. bobsledder Steven Holcomb is getting one last victory celebration. A long overdue one. More than 2 1/2 years after his death — and
Steven Holcomb’s Olympic legacy to grow, for a final time Read More »
The loss of shared facts can be corrosive for rational discourse, as in Russia, where political leaders learned to use the online explosion far ahead of the United States. “They spread this sense that people live in a world of endless conspiracy, and the truth is unknowable, and all that’s left in this confusing world
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A new report finds that the number of foreign students coming to US colleges and universities continued to decrease last year By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer November 18, 2019, 8:30 AM 4 min read The number of foreign students coming to U.S. colleges and universities continued to fall last year, according to a new
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