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Banks say USDA’s debt forgiveness for minority farmers will cost them money and could affect future loans. Black farmers call that a threat.
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Three of the biggest US banking groups want the US Department of Agriculture to reconsider the terms of billions of dollars in planned debt relief for minority farmers, claiming it will cut into banks' profits -- an...
A card exempted a gay man from serving in Iran’s military. It may have cost him his life
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Alireza Fazeli-Monfared's future was brutally cut short last week when members of his family allegedly murdered him due to his sexual orientation, according to his partner and a LGBTQ rights group. The 20-year-old...
Isla Fisher slams Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for hosting ‘lies that cost lives’
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The 45-year-old actress spoke to Marie Claire magazine for a recent interview in which the conversation turned to politics, a subject that she and her husband, "Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen, are familiar with. In th...
Biden celebrates and prepares to expand Amtrak despite decades of cost overruns and bad service
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As a former senator from Delaware, "Amtrak Joe" famously rode the train between his home in Wilmington and Washington, D.C., every day. So it's perhaps not surprising that tucked into Biden’s American Jobs Plan is $...
Rep. Nancy Mace: Biden’s spending plan will cost America big time – we can’t afford 4 more years of this
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It was a welcome change after years of radical voices calling louder and louder for things like Supreme Court-packing, single-payer health care, and trillions of dollars in spending. This was a real chance for the ra...
Ten state AGs sue Biden admin for ‘social cost of carbon’ executive order
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The lawsuit was announced on Friday, with the group calling the president’s executive order on tackling climate change "an act of executive overreach that will kill thousands of jobs throughout the country threatens ...
Students sue Oregon colleges over cost of remote learning during the pandemic
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Three Oregon college students are claiming in two class-action lawsuits that they should be reimbursed tuition and other fees since the University of Oregon and Oregon State University transitioned to mostly remote ...
US and South Korea reach agreement on cost sharing for American troops
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Washington and Seoul have agreed to a cost-sharing agreement for US forces based in South Korea, a US State Department spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Sunday. Negotiations over the Special Measures Agreement, or SM...
US and South Korea nearing agreement on cost sharing for American troops
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Washington Washington and Seoul are narrowing in on a new cost-sharing agreement for US forces in South Korea and could be just weeks away from striking a deal, according to five sources familiar with the discussions...
There will be no Trump china collection due to cost and time, source says
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The Trump administration will not have its own signature collection to display in the White House China Room -- another departure from protocol for the outgoing first family. Timing and exorbitant cost prevented out...
Streaming TV and movies became a flood in 2020. But that comes at a cost
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The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, but in terms of movies and TV, it will mark the moment when streaming became a flood. While that has huge business implications for entertainment companies, it also ...
California prosecutors say thousands of people, including inmates, fraudulently applied for stimulus money and may have cost the state $1 billion
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Thousands of inmates throughout California -- including death row inmates -- may have bilked the state's unemployment benefits system of up to a billion dollars in what prosecutors called "the largest ever taxpayer ...
Almost 1 in 10 transgender Americans use nonprescribed hormones because they’re uninsured or insurance won’t cover the cost
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For the transgender people who seek it, gender-affirming hormone therapy can be lifesaving. But if they're uninsured or their insurance won't cover it, some bypass the health care system entirely to get the care the...
Wisconsin recount would cost Trump campaign $7.9 million
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The Wisconsin Elections Commission said Monday that if President Donald Trump's campaign wants a recount of the razor-thin presidential race in the state, it will need to pay $ 7.9 million upfront. CNN projected...
Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs split cost to use Arrowhead Stadium as Election Day voting site
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Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes played a large role in making Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City a polling location on Election Day by splitting the cost with the Chiefs. Chiefs president Mark Donovan on Tuesday told ...
A man covered his face with tattoos and turned his eyes black. He says it cost him his kindergarten teaching job
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A schoolteacher whose body, face and tongue are covered in tattoos and who has had the whites of his eyes surgically turned black said he was prevented from teaching at a French kindergarten after a parent complained...