The Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded access to benefits for vets who left the military with other-than-honorable discharges — in particular those kicked out for homosexuality.
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A pier for the delivery of food and other supplies to Gaza is complete and is expected to be installed off the coast of Gaza in the coming days. Aid groups say there are a lot of unanswered questions.
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Marilí Rodríguez García spent several years working as a doula in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was called to the profession after losing her first child, Adrián José, a few days after his birth in 2009.
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Hawaii residents have used the "shaka" hand gesture to convey several greetings: hello, goodbye, thank you and aloha.
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Though TikTok could soon be banned in the U.S., the app continues to gain followers among members of the military. Miltok has become a hub to talk about daily life in the service.
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Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep knocks on doors in Pennsylvania and Arizona, to hear the views of voters on immigration.
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President Biden would halt weapons shipments if Israel invades Rafah. House Speaker Johnson survives leadership threat. GOP lawmakers grill leaders of three public school districts about antisemitism.
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Forecasters warned a wave of dangerous storms in the U.S. could march through parts of the South early Thursday, after deadly storms a day earlier spawned damaging tornadoes and massive hail, leaving 2 dead in Tennessee and 1 dead in Gaston, North Carolina.
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FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that.
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A month after fast food workers in California started earning at least $20 an hour, how is the financial picture for them and franchise owners shaping up?
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A drug company will voluntarily stop selling a medicine that was bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars, keeping a promise the business made years earlier to people with the fatal condition ALS.
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The judge presiding over Trump's case in Florida issued a ruling to indefinitely delay the trial, which centers on allegedly mishandling classified documents and resisting attempts to reclaim them.
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President Biden had said he wanted the power to effectively "shut down the border" when migration numbers surge. But this rule is an incremental shift.