This Alabama City Faces a Culture War, With Its Public Library at the Center
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This Alabama City Faces a Culture War, With Its Public Library at the Center

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The public library is one of the biggest civic buildings in Fairhope, Ala. Almost every day across its 40,000 square feet in the heart of downtown, retirees gather for book club in the auditorium, teenagers play chess upstairs, and toddlers learn their letters…

Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Straining This Oklahoma Used Car Business
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Straining This Oklahoma Used Car Business

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Antonio Austin spotted the car from 100 yards away — red dirt caked onto tinted windows, the front bumper gone, smoke billowing out from under the hood. “Damn, I hate this car,” he said. He had sold the 2012 Dodge Avenger almost a…

How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town
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How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With its horse-trodden roads, endless fields of almond blossoms and cowboy heritage, the 20,000 person town of Oakdale, Calif., fits the American West of imagination. And for decades, its media diet was classically all-American, too. Nightly news broadcasts played on living room televisions….

Prelude to a Funeral – The New York Times
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Prelude to a Funeral – The New York Times

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Francis set the stage for his own mourning late last year, when he approved a simplified procedure for papal funeral rituals. Simplicity, of course, is relative — in this case to the breathtaking grandeur bequeathed by centuries of Roman Catholic tradition. The procession…

Ukrainians Mourn Many Killed in Russian Strike Near Playground
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Ukrainians Mourn Many Killed in Russian Strike Near Playground

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Their lives intersected around a playground on a sunny Friday evening in Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine. Kostiantyn Novik, 16, had come with his cousin to hang out with friends. Serhii Smotolok, a 57-year-old welder, was nursing a beer nearby on…

Sudan’s Military Sweeps Across Capital, Hoping to Turn the War
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Sudan’s Military Sweeps Across Capital, Hoping to Turn the War

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At the battle-scarred presidential palace in the heart of Sudan’s shattered capital, soldiers gathered under a chandelier on Sunday afternoon, rifles and rocket launchers slung over their shoulders, listening to their orders. Then they trooped out, down a red carpet that once welcomed…