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Former NFL all-star quarterback Brett Favre says he has Parkinson's disease. Favre played 20 seasons in the NFL, mostly with the Green Bay Packers. He retired in 2011. Favre won the Super Bowl and was a three-time NFL MVP. He also had his share of concussions and said he had often had memory loss.

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Retired NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre reveals he has Parkinson's disease

Favre, 54, revealed the diagnosis while testifying before a U.S. House committee about his role in a controversy over millions of dollars of misspent welfare funds in his home state of Mississippi.

September 24, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
Some employers are giving workers contributions to buy their own health care plans on the individual marketplace. It can mean a better plan option for some, though critics note it moves the complex process of choosing a good plan from staff to employees.

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A new approach to employer health care? Give workers money to buy their own plan

Some companies are trying something new: Instead of offering a group health insurance plan, they're giving workers a contribution to buy their own individual plans.

September 24, 2024
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  • Michelle Andrews
The Nebraska State Capitol is seen in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 14, 2024.

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A GOP push to change how Nebraska awards its electoral votes appears to have stalled

Republicans have sought to have the state switch to a winner-take-all system. The change would block one of Vice President Harris' main paths to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.

September 24, 2024
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Former President Donald Trump appears on streamer Adin Ross's channel after an August interview.

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How Trump and Vance's tour of dude influencers might help them win

Donald Trump has spent the last several months speaking with popular male influencers and podcasters like Logan Paul and Theo Von. The appearances are part of a strategy to turn out young men.

September 24, 2024
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  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Voters wait in line at a Las Vegas polling place on Nov. 8, 2022. Voters in Nevada — and several other states — may enact big changes to their election systems.

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Voters in several states could upend how their elections are run

Voters in a record number of states — including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada — are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

September 24, 2024
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  • Ashley Lopez
Luis Armando Albino was kidnapped as a child from a park in Oakland, Calif., in 1951. Seven decades later, his niece took an online DNA test that led authorities to his home on the East Coast.

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A boy snatched from a California park in 1951 is found living on the East Coast

Luis Armando Albino was lured away from a California park at the age of 6. He reunited with his biological family this summer after his niece found him through DNA testing and newspaper clippings.

September 24, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman

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'Intermezzo' is Sally Rooney's most moving novel yet

Rooney's fourth novel is a story about learning to accept loss. And though it has its share of grief and strife, it's happier and less disturbing than Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

September 24, 2024
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  • Heller McAlpin
Jason Mazzola walks to work at The Residence at Natick South, an LCB Senior Living community in Natick, MA. August 22, 2024.<br>

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Fragile X held him back. An experimental drug is helping him break free

For 22 years, Jason Mazzola’s life was defined by a genetic condition that can cause autism and intellectual disability. Then he started taking an experimental drug.

September 24, 2024
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  • Jon Hamilton
The Arts District in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sept.18, 2024.

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  • Elections

Here's what role Nevada — and its voters — could play in the 2024 election

Nevada could be a tipping point for the 2024 presidential election. Here’s what could convince voters to go to the polls and vote for either VP Harris or former President Donald Trump.

September 24, 2024
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  • Claire Murashima
Octopuses and fish hunt in groups, and octopuses have been observed striking fish who try to freeload.

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Octopuses and fish share leadership — and enforcement — in group hunting

When octopuses and fish hunt in groups in the Red Sea, the leadership roles are more dynamic than researchers knew — as are some ways the animals enforce cooperation.

September 24, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
The NFL logo is surrounded by helmets of the 32 teams in the league. A new survey released Monday found that a third of former NFL players believe they have CTE, a degenerative brain disease linked to concussions.

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A third of former NFL players surveyed believe they have CTE, researchers find

The degenerative brain disease can only be diagnosed after death. But hundreds of retired players reported symptoms linked to CTE, like depression, mood swings and suicidal thoughts.

September 24, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
Patrick Hall at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pa. An investigation is underway at the college, where one student is no longer enrolled after being found liable in a case where a racial slur was carved on the chest of another student.

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Student exits Gettysburg College after racial slur is carved on teammate

Earlier this month, a Gettysburg College student used a box cutter to write a racial slur on another student's chest during a social gathering on campus. The incident is under campus investigation.

September 24, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Vehicles wait in traffic in the town of Damour, south of the capital Beirut on Sept. 24, 2024, as people flee southern Lebanon. Israel announced dozens of new air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon on Tuesday, a day after more than 490  people, including dozens of women and children, were killed in the deadliest bombardment since a devastating war in 2006.

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Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire as residents in Lebanon look for safety

The trade of cross-border missiles came after the deadliest day of conflict in Lebanon since 2006. Lebanon’s health ministry said on Tuesday that 558 people have been killed.

September 24, 2024
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  • Willem Marx and
  • Jane Arraf

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  • Politics

Have economists gone out of fashion in Washington?

Once the high priests of policy, economists may now be seeing lower demand. But who's taking their place?

September 24, 2024
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  • Greg Rosalsky
 Sanitation workers collect trash in Harlem.

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  • National

New York City has a rat problem. Officials have a plan to kick it from the curb

New York City has a well known rat problem. And the city is trying to tackle it — with trash cans and by changing human behavior.

September 24, 2024
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  • Jeongyoon Han
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