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[TRENDING NEWS] A vaccine veteran in New Mexico is hitting the road again.

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Author: BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE AND PAUL RATJE - Publish Date: November 24, 2021 at 11:45PM A pharmacist and his team administered 41,794 vaccines last winter and spring. Now with boosters shots and vaccines for children, they’re hitting the road again.

[TRENDING NEWS] Satellite Hopes Meet Internet Reality

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Author: BY SHIRA OVIDE - Publish Date: November 10, 2021 at 12:21AM Satellite internet is exciting, but it needs to be part of a bigger effort to get more people online.

[TRENDING NEWS] Satellite Hopes Meet Internet Reality

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Author: BY SHIRA OVIDE - Publish Date: November 10, 2021 at 12:21AM Satellite internet is exciting, but it needs to be part of a bigger effort to get more people online.

[TRENDING NEWS] Democrats Thought They Bottomed Out in Rural, White America. It Wasn’t the Bottom.

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Author: BY ASTEAD W. HERNDON AND SHANE GOLDMACHER - Publish Date: November 7, 2021 at 12:07AM Republicans ran up the margins in rural Virginia counties, the latest sign that Democrats, as one lawmaker put it, “continue to tank in small-town America.”

[TRENDING NEWS] ‘We Didn’t Have a Plan’: Disabled People Struggle to Evacuate From Wildfires

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Author: BY AMANDA MORRIS - Publish Date: September 12, 2021 at 11:45PM In Northern California, a region troubled by fire, many people with disabilities live in rural areas that lack the resources to support them during disasters.

[TRENDING NEWS] A Fading Coal County Bets on Schools, but There’s One Big Hitch

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Author: BY EDUARDO PORTER - Publish Date: June 15, 2021 at 01:37AM Hard hit by the decline of mining, a rural area in West Virginia is trying to attract teachers in a comeback effort. What’s lacking are jobs for the graduates.

[TRENDING NEWS] Why Is the Virus Killing So Many Pregnant Women in India?

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Author: BY ALIA ALLANA - Publish Date: May 23, 2021 at 12:00PM The authorities’ decision to block pregnant women from getting the Covid-19 vaccine is having devastating consequences.

[TRENDING NEWS] Their Own Private Idaho: Five Oregon Counties Back a Plan to Secede

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Author: BY KIRK JOHNSON - Publish Date: May 22, 2021 at 07:03AM In nonbinding elections, parts of eastern Oregon said they wanted to join Idaho. The conservative region has long felt alienated from the liberal politics of Oregon’s population centers.

[TRENDING NEWS] Tropical Forest Destruction Accelerated in 2020

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Author: BY HENRY FOUNTAIN - Publish Date: March 31, 2021 at 11:01AM There were bright spots, but the total lost acreage increased by 12 percent over all from the year before, according to new research.

[TRENDING NEWS] Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around?

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Author: BY EMILY BADGER, JOSH KATZ, KEVIN QUEALY AND RUMSEY TAYLOR - Publish Date: March 29, 2021 at 08:56AM An interactive, street-level tour of America’s full political landscape.

[TRENDING NEWS] A cinco años del acuerdo de paz, los niños de Colombia siguen atrapados en el conflicto

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Author: BY JULIE TURKEWITZ, SOFÍA VILLAMIL AND FEDERICO RIOS - Publish Date: March 27, 2021 at 02:15PM A pesar del acuerdo de paz de 2016, el largo conflicto interno de Colombia continúa. Pocas veces ha sido tan evidente como este mes, cuando el gobierno bombardeó un campamento rebelde lleno de jóvenes.

[TRENDING NEWS] Children Trapped by Colombia’s War, Five Years After Peace Deal

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Author: BY JULIE TURKEWITZ, SOFÍA VILLAMIL AND FEDERICO RIOS - Publish Date: March 27, 2021 at 02:00PM Despite a 2016 peace deal with the FARC, Colombia’s long internal conflict continues. Seldom has that been as evident as this month, when the government bombed a rebel camp full of young people.

[TRENDING NEWS] Kamala Harris Deserves a More Important Job

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Author: BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: December 16, 2020 at 07:00AM She could be at the forefront of helping a part of America that’s been left behind.

[TRENDING NEWS] Goodbye, U.S.D.A., Hello, Department of Food and Well-Being

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Author: BY RICARDO SALVADOR AND MARK BITTMAN - Publish Date: December 4, 2020 at 07:30AM It’s time the secretary of agriculture leverages the department’s impact for more than the benefit of agribusiness.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Runway Lights Failed, So Villagers Used Their Headlights to Aid an Airlift

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Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: August 31, 2020 at 10:41AM A child was waiting to be flown to Anchorage, but the pilot of a LifeMed Alaska flight could not see the runway at the airport in Igiugig, Alaska, officials said.

[TRENDING NEWS] Australia’s Volunteer Firefighters Are Heroes. But Are They Enough?

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Author: BY DAMIEN CAVE AND MATTHEW ABBOTT - Publish Date: February 3, 2020 at 06:29AM The country relies heavily on civilians to contain its fires, but the monstrous blazes that come with climate change threaten to break the system.

[TRENDING NEWS] La aldea japonesa en donde hay más muñecos que personas

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Author: BY MOTOKO RICH AND NADIA SHIRA COHEN - Publish Date: December 19, 2019 at 07:09AM Mientras que la población de Japón envejece y se reduce, las áreas rurales se han estado quedando sin habitantes. En una aldea sin niños, un grupo de adultos compensan la ausencia con la compañía de muñecos hechos a mano.

[TRENDING NEWS] H.I.V. Is Coming to Rural America

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Author: BY STEVEN W. THRASHER - Publish Date: December 2, 2019 at 07:00AM And rural America is not ready.

[TRENDING NEWS] 11 Hospitalized After a Car Crashes Into a Hayride in Illinois

Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR - Publish Date: October 13, 2019 at 11:02AM All of the passengers were adults and three were in serious condition, emergency responders said.

[TRENDING NEWS] How Geography Became America’s Political Fault Line

Author: EMILY BADGER - Publish Date: May 21, 2019 at 07:00AM The U.S. isn’t unique in having an urban-rural divide, but it has found ways of making it worse.