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The fourth suspect wanted in connection with the March 8th shooting that killed a three-year-old Athens child has been arrested.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and a recent study shows that the nation’s young people are struggling.
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Mother’s Day is this weekend and a recent study compared states to see which were best and worst for working moms.
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The measure also limits charitable organizations, nonprofits, individuals, and others from bailing out more than three people a year.
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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has joined 24 counterparts from other Republican-led states in challenging a new federal rule governing emissions from coal-burning and gas-fired power plants asking a federal court to declare the rules unlawful.
NPR News
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The United Nations says 7,500 metric tons of unexploded ordnance litter the Gaza Strip. The U.N. says it could take 14 years to dispose of these dangers.
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Childhood myopia, or nearsightedness, is growing rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. Researchers say kids who spend two hours outside every day, are less likely to develop the condition.
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Workers at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama start voting this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Last month, Volkswagen workers in Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to unionize.
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He is expected to bolster the prosecutors case that Trump falsified business records to pay off Stormy Daniels, the adult film star, with whom he is alleged to have had an affair
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