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Real estate once drove China's economic growth. Now it's holding it back.

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Precious water and gold: New extraction methods for arid air and e-waste

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Lilly Ledbetter fought for equal pay at the highest levels and launched a worker movement

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How are targeted killings different from assassinations – and are they legal?

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Community - In Norway, having a joyful, secure childhood is a right enshrined into law

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Innovation - Big launch for SpaceX, but promise aloft comes with tension in Texas - SpaceX achieved a first Sunday by returning its Super Heavy booster rocket safely to rest in the launch tower. Among Texas locals, concerns about environmental impacts are matched by enthusiasm for space industry innovation.

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Where Hezbollah stands, and what's at stake, after battering by Israel

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The sound of silent giving

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NASA launches its biggest space probe to find if life can exist on Jupiter moon

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'Sharing the human stories': What keeps our Gazan reporter going

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Helene ravaged North Carolina's mountains. Its citizens are hollering back.

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Trump speaks on 'migrant crime.' The reality: It's not rampant, but a real concern.

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Swing states scramble to keep elections on track in hurricanes' wake

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After Hurricane Milton: Relief and resilience, but also a shaken Florida

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After hurricanes, FEMA confronts a different kind of flood: Misinformation

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Trust - 'Enough is enough': In Israel, rationale for war trumps distrust of leaders

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Education that embraces limitless opportunities

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Beyond politics of identity

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Historic grievances, new friends

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Roots of Mexico's confidence against crime

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The kindly calm after a storm

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Decisions that heal and bless

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'Your legacy won't be matched:' Rafael Nadal, 22-time Grand Slam winner, retires

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Resilience - 'The Last of the Sea Women': How one director is documenting a South Korean tradition

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The art of conversation: Books for going beyond conflict

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How to have better conversations with people across the aisle

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Live, from New York, it's the 'SNL' origin story 'Saturday Night'

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Americans are actually less divided than they think

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Dropping the 'senior' in senior center: Beyond bingo, there's speed dating and travel

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On the plane with Harris – but is she really opening up to the press?

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With heirloom seed swaps, gardeners grow community – and biodiversity

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Columbia's president called the police. Students say they don't know who to trust.

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How Biden and Trump compare on border crossings and immigration

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Special Project -- Rebuilding trust -- Can trust bring connection and hope to help us find common ground in a divided world? Without trust, suspicion begets friction, division, and immobility. Today, too many realms are seeing trust deficits grow: between citizens, across racial lines, in government. This special project explores through global news stories how polarized parties are navigating times of mistrust and how we can learn to build trust in each other.

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Special Series -- The Climate Generation: Born into crisis, building solutions -- Climate change is shaping a mindset revolution—powerfully driving innovation and progress. And young people are leading the transformation. This special series focuses on the roles of those born since 1989, when recognition of children's rights and the spike of global temperatures began to intersect. The stories include vivid Monitor photography, and are written from Indigenous Northern Canada, Bangladesh, Namibia, Barbados, and the United States.

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