Almost 15,000 Migrant Children Now Held At Nearly Full Shelters
The number of immigrant children being held in government custody has reached almost 15,000, putting a network of federally contracted shelters across the country near capacity. The national network of more than 100 shelters are 92 percent full, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The situation is forcing the government to consider a range of options, possibly including releasing children more quickly to sponsors in the United States or expanding the already crowded...
A Song Of Tribute To The Lost Town Of Paradise
In the aftermath of the Camp Fire, two musicians from Paradise, Calif., wrote a tribute to their hometown which was destroyed by the fire. The song, called "One of These Days," quickly went viral online. I can still remember the first time that I fell in love with this town. The tall green trees, the mountain breeze, the girl that made me shake in my knees. I'm going to miss it. I already miss it. One of these days we're going to see the sunset rise in Paradise, one of these days we're gonna...
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What You Need To Know About Another Wild Week In The Russia Investigation
Updated at 9:47 a.m. ET Each new dawn seems to bring a major new headline in the Russia investigation, including a number of important courtroom developments this month. Here's what you need to know about what has happened so far this week in this often complex and fast-moving saga. Michael Cohen is going to prison, but he says he isn't finished yet President Trump's former personal lawyer was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Wednesday following guilty pleas to a number of crimes...
Apple Will Build $1 Billion Campus in Austin, Adding 5,000 Jobs
Apple plans to build a 133-acre campus in Austin, Texas, that will cost $1 billion and employ 5,000 new workers, the company announced Thursday. The company says the move is expected to make it the largest private employer in Austin. Apple already employs more people in that city, some 6,200 workers, than it does in any other city outside of its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. The company now plans to add substantially to that figure. Its current main site in Austin is an office park...
Nancy Pelosi Cuts Deal With Democratic Rebels To Ensure Return To Speakership
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has very likely sewn up the support she needs to become speaker of the House next year when the new Congress is sworn in. In a deal struck with a group of House Democrats who had vowed to vote against the longtime Democratic leader in next month's House speaker election, the California lawmaker agreed to term limits that would see her hold the post through 2022 at the latest. The agreement ensures Pelosi will easily have the 218 votes she needs to win the...
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Vitamin Treatment For Sepsis Is Put To The Test
Dr. Jonathan Sevransky was intrigued when he heard that a well-known physician in Virginia had reported remarkable results from a simple treatment for sepsis. Could the leading cause of death in hospitals really be treated with intravenous vitamin C, the vitamin thiamine and doses of steroids? "Hundreds of thousands of people die in the U.S. every year and millions of people in the world die of this," says Sevransky, a critical-care physician at Emory University . "So when somebody comes out...
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Iowa College Becomes Battleground For Student Worker Unionization
A faceoff between students and administrators at Grinnell College in Iowa could affect schools across the U.S., through a case that could prompt the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider whether student employees at private colleges and universities can form unions. Whether student workers should have the right to unionize has long been a point of contention. In 2016, under the Obama administration, the NLRB sided with students at Columbia University . That means under current policy,...
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The Cure, Janet Jackson, Radiohead Among Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees For 2019
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced its newest class of inductees Thursday, one year to the day after the 2018 class was announced. From 15 nominees, seven remain. Here they are, in alphabetical order: The Cure Def Leppard Janet Jackson Stevie Nicks Radiohead Roxy Music The Zombies It was Def Leppard, Roxy Music and Stevie Nicks' first nomination as potential inductees (though, as a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks is already in), The Cure and Radiohead's second, Janet Jackson's third and...
'Jurassic Park,' 'The Shining,' And 23 Other Movies Added To National Film Registry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPnV2392Tck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLjixsUEj5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2KF7DAlM4E Each year the Library of Congress adds 25 films to the National Film Registry, a list of motion pictures that it deems "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and thus recommended for preservation. The 2018 additions were announced Wednesday morning. Among those added this year are Disney's Cinderella (1950), Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993...
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The Bitter Boom-And-Bust Tale Of Colorado's Bet On Local Beer Hops
Back in 2010, there were high hopes in Colorado that locally grown hops, the plant that gives beer a bitter or citrusy flavor, would help feed the then-booming craft beer market. In just six years, the industry had sprouted from almost nothing to 200 acres, according to the trade association Hop Growers of America. Inside the chilled storage room at the 22nd largest craft brewery in the country — Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colo. — brewer and agronomist Scott Dorsch pulls down a...
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Major Project To Identify Long Nameless Korean War Dead Begins
At a picturesque national cemetery inside a volcanic crater above Honolulu, crews with shovels and backhoes are digging up hundreds of long-nameless U.S. dead from the Korean War and turning them over to a nearby Pentagon lab for identification. The massive disinterment project is giving hope to thousands of aging family members that they may finally know what happened to missing fathers, brothers, husbands, and uncles. "This one is very big because you have such a large number of men who...