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News Wrap: Supreme Court rules location data protected

In our news wrap Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone location data, the San Francisco Archdiocese agreed to pay $395 million to sexual abuse survivors and global health officials say more than 1,300...

Texas board mandates students read Bible stories

Passages from the Bible will now become required reading for public school students in Texas. The Republican-controlled state board of education approved the mandatory reading list on Friday, the first of its kind in the country. William Brangham discussed...

Willy Vlautin on spotlighting working-class life

Novelist Willy Vlautin built his career writing about people on the edges of the American dream: working-class families, lonely alcoholics, and those struggling to make ends meet in the fast-changing American West. He’s also a musician, telling his stories...

American dream slipping from DACA recipients, report finds

The American dream is slipping further out of reach for young adults who were brought to this country without authorization as children. A new report says recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, face barriers not by...

Charlie Kirk’s parents and widow to attend key hearing for the man accused of his killing

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk’s parents and his widow, Erika Kirk, will attend a key hearing in his murder case next week in Utah, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity...

Crash blocking all southbound lanes on I-405

CHOKEPOINTS A crash is blocking all of the southbound lanes on I-405. (Photo courtesy of WSDOT) (Photo courtesy of WSDOT) ...

Trump nominates acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to be agency’s permanent chief

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will nominate Keith Sonderling to be the secretary of labor, elevating him from the agency’s acting director two months after Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid abuse-of-power allegations. Sonderling, a lawyer who...

AG Brown joins 23-state coalition suing Trump administration over Medicaid rule

Washington State Attorney General (AG) Nick Brown, a coalition of 23 other attorneys general, and two governors filed a lawsuit Monday over the unlawful implementation of Medicaid work requirements. The federal administration’s illegal work requirements for Medicaid make it more...

Trump says his renovation plans for a golf course will have Washington hosting a ‘major’ tournament

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday surveyed several of his construction projects around the nation’s capital, suggesting afterward that his redevelopment of the East Potomac Golf Links would enable it to host a premier tournament. “When completed, this...

U.S. Marshals rescue child from alleged trafficking operation at Olympia homeless encampment

Authorities have rescued a child reported missing from Mesa, Arizona, who may have been a victim of sex trafficking here locally. After getting a tip, the U.S. Marshals Service, with help from the Washington Corrections Department, searched a Thurston County...
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In 1886 a club of Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts paid $125,000 for Jekyll Island off Georgia and kept it as a private winter retreat...

In 1904, Munsey’s Magazine surveyed the private playgrounds of America’s rich and awarded Jekyll Island the full crown: the...
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