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HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA: A 'Freedom For All' rally on July 01, 2023 to protest Senate Bill 1718. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislators passed the law to discourage undocumented workers from coming to the state. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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A report from Purdue University found that a majority of consumers expect food prices to keep rising in the coming year, which could sour voter sentiment.
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Rick Mangnall remembers the time he was helped after a serious car accident by two Hispanic men in an old white pickup track.
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Catherine Berthet of France, whose daughter Camille was killed in the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, speaks Wednesday alongside other family members of victims after meeting with Justice Department officials.
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Pamela Hill-Veal says that while she and her family were flying first class on Feb. 10 from Chicago to Phoenix, an American Airlines flight attendant stopped her as she returned to her seat and accused her of slamming the restroom door.
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Workers at this Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., held a revote on unionizing in March 2022, but the result remains unresolved.
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University of Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams is expected to be the number one pick in Thursday's NFL draft. His stellar on-field performances can be traced to one play as a nine-year-old.
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The Conemaugh Generating Station in New Florence, Pa., is among the nation's coal-fired power plants that face tough new regulations to limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
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World Central Kitchen Founder José Andrés speaks Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral during an interfaith memorial service for the seven workers from the group who were killed in Gaza.
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Georgia State Patrol officers detain a demonstrator on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta during a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Thursday.
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Chicago's iconic "rat hole" in the Roscoe Village neighborhood is seen on Jan. 19, 2024. The sidewalk landmark was removed Wednesday, April 24, 2024, after city officials determined the section bearing the imprint of an animal was damaged and needed to be replaced.
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Jim Hoft, owner of the Gateway Pundit, at the White House in 2019. The website has been hit with defamation lawsuits related to 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories it is accused of spreading.
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Manuel Vazquez, owner of Coya's artisan ice cream, poses for a photo as he carries a tray of ice pops in the kitchen of his shop in Fort Myers, Fla.
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Reggie Bush of the University of Southern California (shown here in New York on Dec. 10, 2005) has been reinstated as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner on Wednesday, more than a decade after USC returned the award following an NCAA investigation that found he received what were impermissible benefits during his time with the Trojans.
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The Biden administration is establishing new standards for how much time each day a nursing home resident gets direct care from a nurse or an aide.
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