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Thinking of buying a new pair of jeans? Breaking down the cost over time might help you decide
NEW YORK (AP) - Shoppers are looking beyond just the price tag of a skirt or a pair of pants in the wake of still stubbornly high inflation. Some are adopting a new calculation: how many times will th...
Jody Heemstra Aug 19, 2023 CafeCredit.com / CC
At 103, Sister Jean publishes memoir of faith and basketball
CHICAGO (AP) - She's known simply as Sister Jean -- the Catholic nun who captured the sports world's imagination as chaplain for the Loyola Chicago men's basketball team that reached the NCAA Final Fo...
Jody Heemstra Feb 16, 2023
Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library...
Jody Heemstra Sep 08, 2023 Charles Hackley / CC
Internal conflicts and power struggles have become hallmarks of the modern GOP
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Dysfunction within the Republican Party isn't limited to the leadership chaos in the House of Representatives playing out in the nation's capital. The GOP insurgent forces that i...
Jody Heemstra Oct 11, 2023 DonkeyHotey / CC
First over-the-counter birth control pill gets FDA approval
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, a major change that will broaden access for women and teenagers. The Food and Drug Administration decision...
Jody Heemstra Jul 13, 2023
Punishing their own but passing few laws, a Congress in chaos leaves much to do in 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) - This Congress started with showy bluster, a bitter 15-round, multi-day spectacle to elect a House speaker who vowed to "never quit," and then did just that. Lawmakers went ...
Jody Heemstra Dec 22, 2023 MrT HK / CC
The economy tops US priorities for government across racial groups, AP-NORC and AAPI Data polls show
WASHINGTON (AP) - Black, white, Hispanic and Asian adults in the U.S. largely agree that the government should focus on the economy and foreign policy issues in 2024. But recent polling shows that vie...
Jody Heemstra Jan 10, 2024
Rounds, Smith urging colleagues to support request for federal investigation into cattle prices
United States Senators from South Dakota and Minnesota launched a bipartisan, nationwide effort this week (May 19, 2021) to protect consumers and cattlemen from what they call "anticompetitive pr...
Jody Heemstra May 21, 2021
Parents of Iowa teen who killed 1 and wounded 7 in shooting say they had 'no inkling' of his plan
JANUARY 9, 2024: PERRY, Iowa (AP) - The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week (Jan. 4, 2024) said in ...
Jody Heemstra Jan 09, 2024 Alan Cleaver / CC
Speaker Johnson insists he's sticking to budget deal but announces no plan to stop partial shutdown
JANUARY 12, 2024: WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Mike Johnson insists he is sticking with the bipartisan budget deal he struck with the other congressional leaders. But he has offered no clear path f...
Jody Heemstra Jan 12, 2024