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Boom or bust: Everything you need to know about US team before men’s World Cup
Expectations seem to be all over the map for this team.
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Judge considers arguments in challenge to New Mexico’s universal childcare program
It is up to a New Mexico judge to settle a challenge over the legality of New Mexico’s fledgling universal childcare program.
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A look at the SpaceX IPO by the numbers
Elon Musk is all about big numbers and there are plenty of them associated with SpaceX and Musk’s plans to take the rocket maker public.
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Nearly 118 million people were displaced by conflict and persecution last year, UN says
The U.N. refugee agency reports that 118 million people were displaced last year, the first time in a decade the statistic fell.
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The man accused of killing a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband is due to change plea
Vance Boelter is set to change his plea in the killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman.
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Search called off for girl swept into ocean off Laguna Beach coast
Authorities were switching Thursday to monitoring offshore and shoreline areas, officials said.
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Alabama asks appeals court to let it continue nitrogen gas executions
A federal judge ruled that Alabama’s nitrogen protocol is unconstitutional and blocked the state from using it to execute Jeffery Lee.
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Parker Mesnick, Sam Utu named CIF-SS boys volleyball players of the year
Many Orange County teams represented in the All-CIF Southern Section boys volleyball selections.
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Too sick to work, but can they prove it? New Medicaid rule worries patients
Patients worry about the Trump administration's new Medicaid work requirements affecting their health coverage.
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Black midwives are suing Southern states, claiming regulations make it harder to help patients
The maternal mortality rate for Black women in 2024 was 44.8 deaths for every 100,000 births.