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  • Health

To stay open, rural hospitals need local patients. Two hospitals in Georgia hope to bring them back

Rural hospitals sometimes look for lifelines through consolidation with big city hospitals. Now a couple of rural hospitals in Middle Georgia are trying a grassroots approach emphasizing local ownership. And, they say, it’s working. 

 

August 07, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
Then-Minnesota Democratic Rep. Tim Walz and his son Gus Walz celebrate while entering his election night party in August 2018 in St. Paul, Minn. Walz won the night's primary and went on to be elected governor.

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  • National

'Midwestern Nice' and 'Fun Dad' posts abound after Tim Walz is named VP pick

Walz's Midwestern-dad humor has endeared Harris supporters to the Minnesota governor and father of two, whose national visibility has been on the rise since Harris took over the Democratic ticket.

August 07, 2024
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Google suffered a defeat in a major antitrust lawsuit that was first brought by the Department of Justice in 2020.

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  • Technology

Google is defiant after losing antitrust lawsuit and being called a 'monopolist'

A federal judge rules that Google illegally abused its monopoly power to maintain its control over the search engine business. Google says it’s appealing.

August 07, 2024
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
Jan Smith hugs members of her legal team after the final hearing before Georgia's Public Service Commission on the issue of whether or not a local railroad can use eminent domain to take rural land which has been in her husband's family since the 1920s.

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  • Economy

Sparta residents and the railroad they oppose get a final hearing

Georgia’s Public Service Commission heard the final oral arguments this week for and against allowing eminent domain to be used to build a new 4-mile rail spur through a majority Black community that opposes it.

August 07, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Companies that make weighted infant sleepwear say their products are safe and help babies sleep, but a growing chorus of medical experts, safe sleep advocates and government regulators warn that the garments could be dangerous.

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  • Business

U.S. lawmakers urge banning weighted infant sleepwear over safety concerns

Weighted infant sleepwear companies say their products are safe and help babies sleep, but some medical experts, safe-sleep advocates and government regulators warn the garments could be dangerous.

August 06, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks with union organizers before they march on businesses in downtown Minneapolis on Oct. 14, 2022.

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  • Business

4 reasons why labor unions love Tim Walz

To labor advocates, Minnesota is considered one of the best places in America to be a worker. Last year, the Democratic legislature passed and Gov. Walz signed a sweeping package of pro-labor laws.

August 06, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
A hearse and van sit outside the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., on Oct. 6, 2023. On Monday, a judge ordered the funeral home’s owners, Carie and Jon Hallford, to pay $950 million to families whose loved ones' remains were mishandled.

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  • National

The owners of a Colorado funeral home are ordered to pay $950M over mishandled remains

"Bad behavior has significant consequences,” the attorney representing families in a class-action lawsuit says. The remains of nearly 200 people were found at the Return to Nature Funeral Home.

August 06, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
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  • News

Google loses in antitrust lawsuit. And, Harris to announce VP pick

Google says it plans to appeal the ruling in an antitrust lawsuit that calls the company a monopoly. And, Harris to announce her running mate today in Philadelphia.

August 06, 2024
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  • Brittney Melton
A new study finds that Americans have adopted generative AI faster than personal computers and the internet. Does this mean we're about to see a long-awaited increase in productivity growth?

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  • Technology

10 reasons why AI may be overrated

A list of reasons why generative AI may be overhyped.

August 06, 2024
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Economists say creating a 2% tax minimum for the extremely wealthy would unlock an extra $250 billion per year.

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  • Business

A proposal to tax the uber-rich is gaining traction. But there are skeptics

The Brazilian government has proposed a 2% global wealth tax on the uber-rich. It would impact the 3,000 wealthiest people in the world.

August 06, 2024
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  • Patrick Wood,
  • Kathryn Fink,
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A stack of the Marion County Record sits in the back of the newspaper's building, awaiting unbundling, sorting and distribution, Aug. 16, 2023, in Marion, Kan. Two special prosecutors said on Monday that they plan to file a criminal obstruction of justice charge against a former central Kansas police chief over his conduct following a raid last year on his town's newspaper, and that the newspaper's staff committed no crimes.

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  • National

Prosecutors say they plan to charge former police chief over Kansas newspaper raid

Prosecutors concluded that the staff at the Marion County Record committed no crimes before former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody led a raid on its offices and the home of its publisher.

August 05, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Stocks fell sharply in the U.S. and around the world on Monday.

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  • Business

The Dow Jones slumps over 1,000 points as fears about the U.S. economy intensify

Stocks fell sharply across the globe on Monday, as worries about the U.S. economy triggered a worldwide sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 1,000 points or 2.6%.

August 05, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Various Google logos are displayed on a Google search on Sept. 11, 2023, in New York. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Monday that Google's ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world's best-known companies.

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  • Business

Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance

The highly anticipated decision comes nearly a year after the start of a trial pitting the U.S. Justice Department against Google in the country's biggest antitrust showdown in a quarter century.

August 05, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Vice President Harris delivers a speech on artificial intelligence in London on Nov. 1, 2023.

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  • News

Tech luminaries and VCs go all-in on Kamala Harris campaign, 5 things to know

Harris started her political career in the Bay Area. And since launching her campaign, donations from Silicon Valley have poured in. But that doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll go easy on Big Tech.

August 04, 2024
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
Then-Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris (left) speaks during a debate Oct. 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks during a debate June 27 in Atlanta. Trump said Friday that he's pulling out of a scheduled debate with his likely Democratic opponent, Vice President Harris, and instead has agreed to a date earlier in September on Fox News Channel.

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  • Politics

Trump posts about a new debate plan, and Harris pushes back

Former President Trump posted on his Truth Social about shifting the next televised presidential debate a week earlier, with Fox News hosting instead of ABC News.

August 03, 2024
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  • Willem Marx and
  • Amy Morgan
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