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Over 400 Advertisers Hit Pause On Facebook, Threatening $70 Billion Juggernaut
Companies from Ford to Microsoft are part of a growing protest over how the social media giant handles hate speech and other harmful content.
'Someone's Going To Get Killed': Ga. Official Blasts GOP Silence On Election Threats
In a fiery Tuesday news conference, Gabriel Sterling had scathing words for top Republican leaders who have been attacking Georgia's election system.
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Riding Ukraine's last train line out of Donbas with families fleeing for their lives
Russia is fighting to conquer the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. To help civilians escape, the Ukrainian railway runs a free evacuation train out of the east. Here's what it's like.
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Training For The Olympics Is Hard Enough. Try Doing That While Earning A Degree
Olympic athletes struggle to balance the demands of their sports with college.
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'Weird Al' Yankovic wants to 'bring sexy back' to the accordion
It's "a very sensual instrument," the parody artists insists. A new over-the-top "biopic" tells the story of Yankovic's life — sort of.
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Have economists gone out of fashion in Washington?
Once the high priests of policy, economists may now be seeing lower demand. But who's taking their place?
What Happened When Dylann Roof Asked Google For Information About Race?
The 22-year-old said in court documents that the results of a Google search shaped his beliefs on race years before he murdered nine people in a historically black South Carolina church.
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Angered and Dissatisfied, Some Mission Patients Seek Healthcare Elsewhere
The flagship Mission Hospital provided a level of care that helped put Asheville on national lists as one of the top places to retire. As recently as 2018, for the sixth time in the previous seven years, Mission Health was named one of the nation’s Top 15 Health Systems by IBM Watson Health.But also in 2018, in a surprise decision, Mission’s board of directors voted to sell the successful nonprofit to HCA Healthcare — the largest for-profit hospital chain in the U.S., with a reputation for cost-cutting and skimping on staff. Soon after taking over, HCA raised prices across the board, and complaints about staffing and quality of care began rising as well. Many retirees and former patients said they were angered and disillusioned.Some local residents, including those who spent their careers in medicine, are now traveling to other cities or even other states for their health care.
3 new recipes for finding balance and making a healthy start for the New Year
After a month of indulging in sugar, alcohol, and rich holiday meals, it's time to get healthy.
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