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BEIJING, April 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is due to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in May during his first visit to China in eight years, a closely watched trip that comes just a year after Washington rolled out sweeping and at times erratic global tariffs. The confrontation between the world’s two top …
Big Chief Demond Melancon is so devoted to making the elaborate, beaded suits he wears on Mardi Gras day that once it lost him his home. Melancon participates in New Orleans’ Black Masking tradition, better known as the Mardi Gras Indians. Broken up into groups, what they call tribes, Melancon and other members of the …
About one third of Americans say they have skipped meals, borrowed money, or cut back on utilities to pay for health care. That’s in a Gallup poll released in March. The Trump administration has lowered prices on more than 50 drugs. But it also let premiums rise — even double — in the Affordable Care …
Dave Burge slept in his truck overnight in frigid weather for a dental appointment. Burge needed dentures, but was unable to afford them. He was one of more than 1,200 patients, some of whom waited in line for days, to get a free appointment at a Remote Area Medical pop-up clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee. RAM …
RAM’s free clinics full of needy patients, but slowed by red tape – CBS News Watch CBS News A patchwork of state licensing rules prevents medical volunteers from reaching more patients in need through RAM.
It’s hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in other countries — not tracked in the U.S.? An ambitious state-run project connecting L.A. and San Francisco has lurched, …
Evangelist Franklin Graham, who’s preached in all 50 U.S. states, says he believes faith in God is the value that played the biggest role in shaping the nation.
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With high-speed rail ambitions in California delayed by years and coming in at a higher-than-expected cost, Lou Thompson, who sat on the state’s high-speed rail peer review group, said “failure is always an option.” He doesn’t think failure is what will necessarily happen in California, but earlier ambitions have been scaled back. When California voters …
Latest details on daring mission to rescue U.S. airman from Iran after fighter jet shot down – CBS News Watch CBS News New information is emerging about Saturday’s dangerous rescue of an American aviator who was shot down Friday over Iran. Charlie D’Agata has more.