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Americans strongly oppose data centers in their communities. The federal government wants to make them easier to build.

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ICE shootings in Houston and in Biddeford, Maine, are the predictable output of a federal agency that lacks training, oversight and a settled mission.

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A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.