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Courtesy of Arkansas Farm BureauHigher costs and lower prices are squeezing farmers out of profitability. That’s led many to file for bankruptcy as a last resort to find aid. -
Brian Munoz/St. Louis Public RadioChapters of FFA, once called Future Farmers of America, are becoming more common in city schools. Program advisors say students are learning skills that can help them work in a wide range of industries — from biotech to cosmetology. -
Mid-America Regional CouncilPlaces such as Minnesota and Austin, Texas, already use green infrastructure like rain gardens to absorb stormwater and keep pollution out of streams and lakes. Now communities across the Kansas City area could get on board. -
Abbie Nell Lankitus/University of MissouriAlgae is a 'little vacuum' for microplastics. Midwest scientists think it could clean up the problemTiny shards of plastic called microplastics are all over the environment and even inside human bodies. Researchers have found a type of bioengineered algae that can clean up these pesky particles.
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A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains. -
Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said. -
Israel announced a barrage of new strikes on western Iran on Sunday, while Iran's foreign minister says the country has not asked for a ceasefire as President Trump had claimed. -
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Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.
