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Every month, more than 170,000 Missouri children receive : a free, age-appropriate book in the mail — from the time they were born until they turn five. No cost. No catch. Just a book, chosen with care, delivered to their door. Missouri lawmakers just voted to cut the funding that makes this effort possible by more than half.

For a growing number of American families, daily life is being quietly disrupted by the rapid rise of AI data centers.

Fresher, less processed school food sounds like an answered prayer to parents—but nutrition directors warn there's a hard reality behind the headlines: doing it well costs money most districts don't have.

When 85-year-old Marie-Thérèse Ross crossed the Atlantic Ocean to be with the man she loved, she could never have imagined that months later she would be sleeping in a dormitory with 58 other women, listening to babies cry through the night in a Louisiana detention facility.