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Publisher and president Andrew Morse says the <em>Atlanta Journal Constitution </em>can surmount tough industry headwinds by capturing readers throughout Georgia and the South. "Instead of reading story after story about the futility of this," Morse asks, "why don't we grasp onto notions of, 'How do we build for the future?'"

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Local news is in crisis. This paper has a $150 million plan

Nearly two years ago, the owners of Atlanta's leading newspaper hired former CNN executive Andrew Morse to reverse its steep decline. He's laid out a grand vision.

November 17, 2024
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  • David Folkenflik
Laura Helmuth poses for a portrait in May 2017.

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  • National

'Scientific American' editor resigns after comments about Trump supporters went viral

Laura Helmuth announced her resignation from the long-running magazine after her statements on election night regarding Trump sparked outrage among conservatives.

November 17, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event on Nov. 6 in West Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Politics

Trump is creating team of loyalists after conflicts with Cabinet members in 1st term

In his second term, President-elect Donald Trump is surrounding himself with people who can amplify his message and agree with how he wants to remake the executive branch.

November 17, 2024
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  • Domenico Montanaro
Dale Stephanos created the digital illustration based on a 2010 photograph by Kwaku Alston. Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp.

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  • Arts & Life

The USPS will honor Betty White with her own stamp in 2025

Having received hundreds to thousands of fan mail each week, it's only fitting to honor White with a postage stamp.

November 17, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
President-elect Donald Trump wants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to play a major role in U.S. food policy as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Some farmers and agriculture experts worry that Kennedy will push unscientific and unproven ideas.

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  • Food

Some in the U.S. farm industry are alarmed by Trump's embrace of RFK Jr. and tariffs

President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.

November 17, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks after being elected Senate Majority Leader for the 119th Congress following the Senate Republican leadership elections on Nov. 13.

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  • Politics

Trump picks loyalists for top jobs, testing loyalty of Senate GOP

Nominees for several key Cabinet posts in the new administration of President-elect Trump caught officials in Washington off guard and ignited a firestorm of criticism — not all of it from Democrats.

November 17, 2024
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  • Ron Elving
Erykah Badu opens up on whether there's more to reality than we can see or touch.

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  • Arts & Life

Erykah Badu likes chasing unreachable goals. Here's why

Erykah Badu opens up on Wild Card about wanting to live in a space shuttle, how music is the undertone to her life, and whether there's more to reality than we can see or touch.

November 17, 2024
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  • Rachel Martin
Scientists noted the kitten's unusual muzzle shape in their paper. The kitten had small ears and a large mouth opening.

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Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

The kitten, which was found in Russia's northeastern Sakha Republic, still had fur and whiskers when it was discovered.

November 16, 2024
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  • Mansee Khurana
President Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru, on Nov. 16, 2024.

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  • Politics

Biden and Xi take a first step to limit AI and nuclear decisions at their last meeting

The leaders agreed that humans should control decisions to use nuclear weapons — not AI. And they talked about the importance of stability during the transition to a new U.S. administration.

November 16, 2024
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  • Asma Khalid
The Department of Energy building is seen in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2019. Trump picked Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright as his energy secretary.

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  • Energy

Trump announces oil executive Chris Wright as his pick for energy secretary

Trump announced Chris Wright, the CEO of oil and natural gas fracking services company Liberty Energy, as his pick for energy secretary.

November 16, 2024
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  • Camila Domonoske
Skiers ski past dry ground at a ski resort in 2015 in Olympic Valley, Calif. The resort changed its name in 2021 and has been among the places removing a derogatory word from their names.

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A derogatory term for Native women will be removed from place names across California

The word "squaw" was declared derogatory by the Department of Interior in 2021. Since then, hundreds of geographic features have been renamed with input from local tribes and Indigenous communities.

November 16, 2024
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  • Mansee Khurana
President-elect Donald Trump is calling on the GOP-led senate to use all options to approve his nominees.

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  • Politics

How far can Trump go to get his nominees confirmed?

If the Senate puts up a fight against President-elect Trump's demand for recess appointments, could Trump force Congress to adjourn and ram his nominees through anyway?

November 16, 2024
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  • Barbara Sprunt and
  • Susan Davis
From left: Michelle Salaün, Jeannine Plassard and Marie-Annick Gouez, the daughters of Catherine Tournellec Salaün, stand at their mother's grave in Plabennec, in France's Brittany region, in June.

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  • Europe

In France, a family reckons with World War II Allies' legacy of rape and murder

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: a murder and sexual assault so traumatic they are only now coming to terms with it.

November 16, 2024
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church in Montgomery County, Maryland is currently meeting at the Lutheran Church of St. Andrew, after their building suffered a fire. It is one example of interfaith cooperation in the most religiously diverse county in the country.

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This county is the most religiously diverse in the U.S.

This stretch of New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland is so packed with houses of worship, it's been called the Embassy Row of Religions. But locals know it as the Highway to Heaven.

November 16, 2024
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  • Sarah Ventre
A portion of a house that collapsed during the overnight hours of Thursday and Friday is seen in the water in Rodanthe, N.C.

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  • National

Sixth beach house collapses in North Carolina's Outer Banks in the past 6 months

The daily effects of strong winds, large waves, as well as rising sea levels — which are fueled by human-caused climate change — are causing beaches on the Outer Banks to wash away.

November 16, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
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