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President Trump Contradicts Head Of CDC Regarding Vaccine, Masks

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Hurricane Sally Hit Gulf Shores, Ala., With 25 Inches Of Rain

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Daughter's Tweet Helps Boost Sales For Her Dad's Taco Truck In Texas

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High Schoolers Cross State Lines For An Opportunity To Play Football

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In many states, the pandemic has put a pause on high school football, and that has some families making major changes. From Kansas City, Greg Echlin reports.

McDonald's Runs Low On Ingredients For Travis Scott Quarter Pounder

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Big Ten Reverses Decision To Cancel Football Season

By editor • Sep 16, 2020

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Well, the Big Ten football conference will play football this fall after all. It is going to start in October. This reverses a previous decision to delay the season because of the coronavirus.

Hurricane Sally Makes Landfall Near Gulf Shores, Ala.

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Japan's Parliament Picks Suga To Succeed Abe As Prime Minister

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California Aims To Add Housing Away From Wildland Urban Interface

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Climate Change Is Not The Only Reason For Record Wildfires

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Congressional Inquiry Faults Boeing And FAA Failures For Deadly 737 Max Plane Crashes

By • Sep 16, 2020

A sweeping congressional inquiry into the development and certification of Boeing's troubled 737 Max airplane finds damning evidence of failures at both Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration that "played instrumental and causative roles" in two fatal crashes that killed a total of 346 people.

Walls And Ceiling Of Florida Condo Are Covered With Beer Cans

By editor • Sep 16, 2020

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Malaysia Man Discovers Who Snapped Photos With His Lost Phone

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House Probe Of 737 Max Crashes Sites Failures Of Boeing, FAA

By editor • Sep 16, 2020

A congressional inquiry finds that two deadly 737 Max plane crashes were the culmination of design flaws, faulty technical assumptions and management failures, and grossly insufficient FAA oversight.

Parents Keep Children Home As China Limits Mongolian Language In The Classroom

By • Sep 16, 2020

Early this month, parents and students across the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia streamed back to school campuses, not to attend classes, but instead to protest.

They gathered by the hundreds outside dozens of schools in rare acts of civil disobedience, protesting a new policy that sharply reduces their hours of Mongolian-language instruction. For several days, schools across Inner Mongolia stood empty as parents pulled their children out of class, the largest demonstrations in Inner Mongolia in more than three decades.

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