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  1. 20 minutes ago

    As seas rise, local communities are spending millions to keep their beaches intact, which keeps property values high. To save public money, California is debating another idea: buy coastal homes to rent out, and then retreat.

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    A new Census Bureau survey finds that the number of households that homeschooled students doubled last year. The rates increased most dramatically among Black respondents.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    A lot of Americans are looking to buy a home right now — and having a tough time finding one. Home prices are up 16% over the past year, giving homeowners about $2 trillion more in equity and widening the wealth gap.

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  4. 3 hours ago

    The spacecraft works by attempting to attach itself to dead satellites and pushing them toward Earth to burn up in the atmosphere.

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  5. 4 hours ago

    Dan Pashman, host of the podcast The Sporkful, had a quest: Develop and market a brand-new shape of pasta. The result is the sauce-holding cascatelli — a short, ruffled pasta three years in the making.

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  6. 4 hours ago

    The push by Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage would also eliminate a decades-long practice of paying restaurant servers as little as $2.13 an hour under the expectation they would earn far more through tips.

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  7. 5 hours ago

    School social worker Maria Garcia keeps a list of names on her computer — 35 of them so far — of all her students’ relatives who have died of COVID-19. Schools are struggling to balance learning and healing for kids hit hardest by the pandemic. ()

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  8. 6 hours ago

    A growing number of migrants are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, many to seek asylum. But the government wasn't prepared for a huge influx of children coming without their parents.

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  9. 7 hours ago

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration upgraded its weather forecasting computer model to better predict where hurricanes will make landfall and to gauge the intensity of other weather events sooner.

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  10. 7 hours ago

    Unemployment benefits fraud was rampant in 2020. By one estimate, the amount of benefits stolen was at least $63 billion. But a lot of the fraud is just now coming to light, during tax time.

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  11. 8 hours ago

    UPDATE: Police have confirmed that 10 people, including an officer, were killed in the Boulder, Colo., shooting.

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  12. 8 hours ago

    Rumors are widespread on college campuses about students who exploited loopholes to get a COVID-19 vaccine so they can party or travel for spring break. But upon closer examination, many cases aren't so duplicitous.

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  13. 9 hours ago

    BREAKING: A suspect is in custody after multiple people, including a police officer, were killed in a mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., authorities said.

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  14. 10 hours ago

    The push by Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage would also eliminate a decades-long practice of paying restaurant servers as little as $2.13 an hour under the expectation they'd earn more through tips.

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  15. 11 hours ago

    Federal Trade Commission nominee Lina Khan and presidential adviser Tim Wu have advocated for new rules to curb the power of the tech giants.

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  16. 11 hours ago

    The House Administration Committee is reviewing a challenge brought by defeated Iowa Democrat Rita Hart against freshman Republican congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who won the race by just six votes.

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  17. 11 hours ago

    Georgia state Republicans are pushing legislation to restrict early voting on Sundays. Sunday voting is especially important for congregants in Black churches, which regularly hold "souls to the polls" events after Sunday services.

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    Many Americans are relying on local, independent pharmacists to get their COVID-19 shot. Today on , we hear from Chichi Ilonzo Momah on how her pharmacy has vaccinated thousands in the last few months.

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  19. 12 hours ago

    Under a new Chinese law, some Weibo users have faced criminal charges after making online comments — in and outside China — that cast doubt on a military death toll released by the government.

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  20. 12 hours ago

    China and the EU traded sanctions against each other's officials Monday. The U.S. joined the U.K. and Canada "in parallel to measures by the European Union" to protest "human rights violations and abuses" of Uyghur Muslims in the western Xinjiang region.

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