Frank Morris
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The huge driver shortage in the trucking industry is forcing big changes in the way it does business. Trucking companies are trying to hire more women and younger people to drive their rigs.
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As sales of plant-based substitutes like almond milk rise and cow milk sales decline, the meat industry sees a cautionary tale. With meat alternatives growing, Big Beef takes the fight to regulators.
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Lawyers representing 3 men convicted of plotting to bomb Muslim Somali refugees argue their clients deserve a break at sentencing because the president's rhetoric inflamed their hatred of migrants.
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Meth is back "with a vengeance," police say. Now made mostly by superlabs in Mexico, it is stronger, cheaper and more prevalent, cutting across demographic barriers and sparking serious crime.
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Despite a reputation for being suspicious of government and outsiders, some rural residents now say state funds are needed to help fix the big economic and drug problems faced by small towns.
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President Trump addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, spending much of his time reviewing his achievements as president and criticizing his predecessor. The speech came the day after his Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie, was confirmed by the Senate.
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"It's like little by little, more and more, the life of the newspaper is leaving," laments Avis Little Eagle, who publishes a paper on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
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President Trump has promised to shield farmers from trade war fallout. That effort is likely to involve an infusion of taxpayer money and the Commodities Credit Corporation.
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China's retaliatory tariffs would hit farmers, who rely on exports to keep their business models going, harder than any other group, especially those raising hogs, nuts and fruit.
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In 1954, Linda Brown was the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregated public schools for black and white students. Brown was 76.