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October 26, 2018

• A train crashed into a crowd celebrating Dusshera, a Hindu festival that was located near Amritsar, India leaving 59 people dead and 90 with injuries on October 19. Part of the...

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May 2, 2018

• Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced April 12 that a new plan to increase teacher pay by 20 percent will be implemented by the beginning of the 2020 school year, according to CBS News. In 2018, teacher...

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April 6, 2018

• Linda Brown Thompson, the renowned “Brown” in the Brown v. Board of Education case that turned America’s segregated schools into diverse communities, passed away at 75 in Topeka, KS, on March...

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March 22, 2018

• The next two weeks will feature unusually chilly temperatures from coast to coast, the Climate Prediction Center said. But by early to mid-April, temperatures should flip to warmer than average for...

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March 1, 2018

• Illegal immigration from Mexico has fallen dramatically this decade, sending the overall population of unauthorized people in the U.S. tumbling below the 11 million mark, according to a new think...

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February 16, 2018

• More teenagers are identifying themselves with nontraditional gender labels, such as transgender or gender-fluid. The research, published the Journal Pediatrics, found that almost 3 percent of Minnesota...

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February 1, 2018

• A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the gulf of Alaska on Jan. 23 early in the morning. There were no casualties reported, but the aftershock created a change in water levels all the way down in Florida....

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