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Tech titans love Modi's economic powerhouse India — despite mass unemployment and abject poverty
India is on track to become the world's third-largest economy by 2027, but Narendra Modi faces a pi…
Theron Mohamed
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Pro-Confederates celebrating 'Confederate Memorial Day' clashed with protestors at Georgia's Stone Mountain
"We have been fighting this war since 1861. We will be victorious," a Sons of Confederate Veterans …
Katie Balevic
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers' plan to boost the child tax credit for parents would help 'hundreds of thousands of kids get out of poverty,' a top economic official says
Jared Bernstein, a White House top economist, thinks a bipartisan plan to give parents a bolstered …
Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan
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Jeff Bezos hinted Amazon might split from the SPLC over designation of extremist groups after pressure from a GOP lawmaker
Rep. Matt Gaetz pushed Bezos on the company's Amazon Smile program, which allows customers to desig…
Avery Hartmans
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This map shows how many Confederate monuments and symbols still stand in the US
Southern Poverty Law Center tracks the number of confederate symbols in each state. Southern states…
Madison Hoff
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In 1916, the US began forcing Mexicans crossing the southern border to take kerosene baths. That tactic was later studied by the Nazis.
US officials feared that Mexicans were bringing diseases, such as typhus and tuberculosis, into the…
DeArbea Walker
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The ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the Southern Poverty Law Center are suing Georgia over its new voting law
The new law brings changes to several aspects of the election process, and civil rights groups have…
Kelly McLaughlin
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5 million kids fell into poverty last year after Congress cut off Biden's monthly checks to parents
The expanded child tax credit gave monthly checks to parents and helped pay bills. There were 5 mil…
Madison Hoff
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Men are twice as likely as women to say their family's finances have improved during the pandemic
According to a new National Women's Law Center survey, just over half of low-paid women reported th…
Madison Hoff
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There are more ways to cancel your student debt than you might think. Here are your options
Confusing rules for student debt cancelation and forgiveness means that many borrowers don't take a…
Cezary Podkul
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Democrats lost a 12-point edge among voters who received expanded child tax credit payments, GOP now holds slight lead: poll
Among all voters, 43% would back a Democrat if the election were held today, while 43% would vote R…
John L. Dorman
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Self-centered boomers destroyed the economy and now millennials and Gen Z are paying the price
Boomers' greed is to blame for high prices and crippling shortages — and now millennials and …
Alex Yablon
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3.4 million more kids lived in poverty in February than last December, two months after a monthly check program to parents expired
Congress has shown no sign that it will revive the expanded child tax credit anytime soon. Sen. Joe…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Madison Hoff
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An Australian woman hosted her ex in-laws for lunch. Less than a week later, three of them died and police suspect poisonous mushrooms are to blame.
Victoria Police launched a homicide investigation into the incident after three people died followi…
Chris Panella,Lauren Edmonds
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One chart shows how pandemic poverty reached a new high in March
In March, before many of the American Rescue Plan's benefits were enacted, pandemic-era poverty lev…
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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Sen. Joe Manchin suggests requiring people to work so they can get Biden's monthly child tax credit
"Don't you think, if we're going to help the children, that the people should make some effort?" Ma…
Connor Perrett,Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Richard Belzer, 'Law & Order' actor famous for playing Det. John Munch, dead at 78: reports
Belzer, who was 78, was well known for his role as police detective John Munch on "Law & Order." Co…
Sarah Al-Arshani,Jordan Parker Erb
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What poverty in Philadelphia taught me about homelessness in Los Angeles
Both cities have high rates of poverty. But in one, the housing is far less affordable - and that h…
Charles Davis
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Democrats want to bring back Biden's child tax credit soon — and a new report shows it was a huge success in fighting child poverty
Stimulus checks and federal unemployment benefits dented poverty last year, in addition to the mont…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Madison Hoff,Jason Lalljee
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Buildings at multiple universities were evacuated after receiving bomb threats. It's not clear if the threats were related in any way.
New York University, University of Southern California, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology e…