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The Rebuild N.C. Program was designed to help homeowners who didn't have insurance and didn't qualify for other assistance. But more than six years after the hurricanes ravaged eastern North Carolina, the program has faced repeated delays and red tape.
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Right now, some districts can offer credit recovery -- an alternative to repeating an entire course to earn credit for high school graduation. Students that successfully learn the portions of the class they failed are given a pass/no pass instead of a letter grade. -
Raymond was thought to be in his late 20's and an offspring of a while Banker mare and donkey that lived with the herd prior to a domestic livestock ordinance. -
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune has invested nearly $675,000 to improve living conditions for Marines in bachelor enlisted quarters.
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In her new book The Serviceberry, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer argues that humans would be wise to learn from the circular economies of reciprocity and abundance that play out in natural ecosystems.
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Field goals of 50 yards or more used to be rare in the NFL. But this season, kickers are hitting them at a historic clip — and that's changing the game.
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Tuesday night, tennis legend Rafael Nadal played his last professional game. As Spain was knocked out of the Davis Cup, his career came to an end.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Eddie Glaude Jr., the chair of the department of African-American studies at Princeton University, about Trump's victory and the U.S.'s apparent shift to the right.
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Florida has lost much of its clam industry from hurricanes over the past year. Clam farmers say it will be a while until they can recover their losses.
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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced a bill to ban transgender women from using facilities on federal property — like bathrooms and locker rooms — that don't correspond with the sex assigned at birth.
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With climate-related disasters getting more extreme, richer countries are piloting ways to compensate developing nations, since they bear the least responsibility for causing climate change.
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Israel's war against Hezbollah has driven hundreds of thousand of civilians from their homes in southern Lebanon. Satellite data and eye witness testimony indicate the scale of the destruction.
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Los Angeles on Tuesday approved a so-called "sanctuary city" ordinance aimed at protecting undocumented immigrants from potential deportation.
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Two collections that deal with the war in Gaza are competing at the National Book Awards. The poets discuss poetry's power in times of great suffering and what the awards mean for Palestinian voices.
