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Month: August 2025

Texas dispute highlights nation’s long history of partisan gerrymandering. Is it legal?

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press When Democratic lawmakers left Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s congressional districts, it marked the latest episode in a long national history of gerrymandering. The word “gerrymander” was coined in America more than 200 years ago as an unflattering means of describing political

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBN–THE OLD GUYS DESCRIPTION: EAGAN, Minn. — Harrison Smith has entered his 14th season with the Minnesota

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBN–THE OLD GUYS DESCRIPTION: EAGAN, Minn. — Harrison Smith has entered his 14th season with the Minnesota

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBN–THE OLD GUYS DESCRIPTION: EAGAN, Minn. — Harrison Smith has entered his 14th season with the Minnesota

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBN–THE OLD GUYS DESCRIPTION: EAGAN, Minn. — Harrison Smith has entered his 14th season with the Minnesota

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Texas state lawmakers board a bus in Carol Stream

How Texas’ redistricting effort is having major implications across the US

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The outcome of the political battle over Texas’ redistricting effort is already having major implications across the country. Other Republican-dominated states are considering following Texas’ lead as Democratic governors weigh their options to retaliate with their own mid-decade redistricting efforts. The Texas legislature, meanwhile, is at a standstill after

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Storm Floris batters Scotland with 90 mph winds, disrupts travel and festivals

LONDON (AP) — Authorities in Scotland canceled trains, closed parks and warned people to tie down backyard trampolines as an unusually strong summer storm toppled trees, felled power lines and disrupted travel across northern Britain. The U.K.’s Meteorological Office on Monday issued an “amber” wind warning in Scotland for Storm Floris, meaning there is potential

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Israel's Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara listens on as she attends a cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5

Israel’s government votes to fire country’s attorney general

By Dana Karni, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli government voted unanimously on Monday to fire the country’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. “The government has just unanimously approved the proposal of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Yariv Levin to immediately terminate the tenure of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara,” according to Levin’s spokesperson.

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Meals cooked from whole foods at home are considered "minimally processed."

Eating minimally processed meals doubles weight loss even when ultraprocessed foods are healthy, study finds

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — People in the United Kingdom lost twice as much weight eating meals typically made at home than they did when eating store-bought ultraprocessed food considered healthy, the latest research has found. “This new study shows that even when an ultraprocessed diet meets nutritional guidelines, people will still lose more

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