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Jim Salter / AP How St. Louis Workers Won and Then Lost a Minimum-Wage Hike
After a Missouri law took effect on Monday, the wage floor in the city was reduced to $7.70 per hour after three months at $10 per hour—the latest case of a state cracking down on a city that had enacted a progressive policy.
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Reuters The Houston Hospital Running Out of Food
Ben Taub Hospital is surrounded by water, and an evacuation attempt failed Sunday night.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters Will Flooding in Texas Lead to More Mosquito-Borne Illness?
Long-term damage from Hurricane Harvey could create more breeding grounds for the insects.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters NASA's New Space Telescope Is in Harvey's Path
Here’s how they’re protecting the $8.6 billion project.
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David J. Phillip / AP The Unprecedented Flooding in Houston, in Photos
Hurricane Harvey has dropped historic amounts of water on southeastern Texas.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters A Catastrophe for Houston's Most Vulnerable People
Within cities, poor communities of color often live in segregated neighborhoods with higher flood risks. This is especially true in Houston.
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Bob Coates / AP What Health Reform Means to the American Territories
A Q&A with U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp on how health care works for the country’s insular areas, and how the ongoing debate over health policy affects the millions of citizens who live there
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The White House Formalizes Its Military Transgender Ban
In a memo released Friday, President Trump announced the rollback of an Obama-era order allowing transgender individuals to be recruited by and serve in the United States armed forces.
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Scott Olson / Getty Images President Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Trump picked the notorious Arizona lawman for his first-ever act of presidential absolution.
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Mark Humphrey / AP 'The Republican Party Is Unified in Revulsion'
The Republican National Committee unanimously approved a resolution Friday condemning white supremacy.
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Jim Hollander / Reuters Is Russia Really Arming the Taliban?
Why would Moscow reengage in a country where it was humiliated?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Foreign Fascination With Trump's White House
Palace intrigue knows no borders
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LM Otero / AP A Court Strikes Down Texas's Voter ID Law For the Fifth Time
By finding legislators intentionally discriminated, the ruling could put state elections laws back under control of the Department of Justice.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Mattis's Mission to Reassure Ukraine
He'll be contending with a stalled Minsk process, unclear direction from Washington, and a still-hot war with Russia in the east.
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Eric Gay / AP ESPN's Robert Lee Blunder—and the Backlash It Provoked
A sports commentator was reassigned from a football game at the University of Virginia based on his name—provoking howls of outrage.
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Aaron Bernstein Striking an Impossible Balance in Turkey
The U.S. war against ISIS depends on the Kurds—an inconvenient fact for Jim Mattis's visit to Ankara.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Paul Ryan Doesn't Want to Fight With Trump
In keeping with his non-confrontational approach, the House speaker offered the gentlest of criticism during a CNN town hall for the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump's Recycled Afghanistan Policy
Campaign-trail rhetoric aside, his inability to define victory was the most troubling part of his speech.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Full Transcript: Donald Trump Announces His Afghanistan Policy
“No place is beyond the reach of American might and American arms.”
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump's Plan for Afghanistan: No Timeline for Exit
Despite prime-time billing for the president’s announcement, Americans heard a familiar argument about extending the war.
