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Joe Biden is defending the Affordable Care Act, challenging not just President Trump but also some Democrats who want to replace the current system with a fully government-run model. Biden, in Iowa, also blasted President Trump’s character. (July 16)
Hundreds of Africans are joining Central American migrants on the long, dangerous journey for seeking asylum in the US. One family shares their experience after fleeing the Democratic Republic of Congo through South America. (July 16)
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Highlights of this day in history: Test of the world’s first nuclear weapon; President Richard Nixon’s White House taping system revealed; John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister die in a plane crash; Apollo 11 lifts off for Moon. (July 16)
Arrests last week of immigrants in the country illegally illustrate how President Donald Trump’s pledge to start deporting millions of people is virtually impossible with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s current budget and methods. (July 15)
Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen aren’t sure whether their characters in Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ are gay, but say that more family films should include openly gay characters. (July 15)
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration has concerns that the new digital currency planned by Facebook could be used for illicit activity such as money laundering, human trafficking and financing terrorism. (July 15)
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Tropical Depression Barry transformed part of the Mississippi Delta into what the state’s governor described as “an ocean.” (July 15)
There is growing anecdotal evidence that more women are pushing back against wearing the compulsory headscarf, or hijab, in Iran. The debate over the hijab is polarizing Iranians as a time when the country is buckling under US sanctions. (July 15)
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Unbowed by searing criticism, President Donald Trump on Monday emphatically defended his tweet calling on four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their “broken and crime infested” countries, insisting many people agree with him. (July 15)
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Scientists are closing in on a long-sought goal _ a blood test to screen people for possible signs of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Half a dozen research groups gave new results at a conference on these experimental tests. (July 15)