Down the Mighty Columbia River, Where a Power Struggle Looms
The Trump administration has proposed selling off portions of a vast system that produces nearly half of the nation’s hydropower electricity.
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CreditCharlie Riedel/Associated Press With State Finances Shaky, Kansas Governor Prepares to Step Down
Gov. Sam Brownback has accepted a job with the Trump administration. His departure will be an anticlimactic turn for a man who once had presidential aspirations.
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CreditNathaniel Brooks for The New York Times ‘I Am Totally Burned Out’: Patients Watch Health Care Debate With Dread
The war in Congress over repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act has brought anxiety to the people whose health insurance is at risk.
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CreditSaul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Boy Scouts Apologize Over President Trump’s Remarks at Jamboree
The chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America said he did not mean for the event to become a venue for Mr. Trump’s partisan political attacks.
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CreditPool photo by Jodi Hilton Defrocked Priest Is About to Be Freed Amid Renewed Fury
Paul Shanley, convicted of raping a boy in a suburban Boston parish, is scheduled for release on Friday, and victims and their families are protesting.
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CreditJustin Gilliland/The New York Times Wisconsin’s Lavish Lure for Foxconn: $3 Billion in Tax Subsidies
The incentive package includes $1.5 billion in state income tax credits for job creation and $1.35 billion in state income tax breaks for capital investment.
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CreditSam Hodgson for The New York Times. Wells Fargo Forced Unwanted Auto Insurance on Borrowers
An internal report shows customers with car loans had costly, unnecessary insurance tacked onto their bills, and 274,000 were pushed into delinquency.
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CreditThirty Meter Telescope Giant Telescope Atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea Should Be Approved, Judge Says
The Thirty Meter Telescope, which would be the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, could survey black holes and planets orbiting distant stars, but opponents say it would desecrate a sacred mountain.
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Redrawing the Maps
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Credit How a Ruling on Texas Districts Could Help Reshape Congress
Republican lawyers raised the possibility of “Armageddon” — a map that endangered a half-dozen G.O.P. districts.
