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CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A man was injured in a shootout with deputies Saturday on I-20 near the Alabama border, officials said, one of three officer-involved shootings across Georgia over a four-hour span that morning. The shootings, which left a man dead and two others in critical condition, occurr…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Three years after Colorado stopped requiring doctors to report newborns who tested positive for drugs as possible child abuse victims, the number of families referred to child protective services for prenatal drug use is down 25% — but hospitals are still learning how best to…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — For Nataly Velasquez, a counselor at a teen crisis center in Concord, Calif., just getting through the day can feel like a small miracle. Velasquez is tasked with leading therapy groups and one-on-one patient sessions, but too often she’s also scrambling to respond to emergen…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Leave no man behind. Those words, a creed that began during the Revolutionary War and has since become a fixture of U.S. military protocol, are why Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Paul F. Eshelman Jr. is coming home to Pittsburgh more than 80 years after he was killed in World War…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a $1.2 trillion spending package, keeping the U.S. government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago. Biden described the package, which Congress overwhelmingly passed in the early hours of Saturday, as investing…

(Reuters) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump came a step closer on Friday to reaping a major windfall from his social media firm after investors in a blank-check acquisition company approved a merger currently worth about $5.7 billion. The deal values Trump’s majority stake in the company t…

(Reuters) — UnitedHealth Group said on Friday its Change Healthcare unit will start to process the medical claims backlog of more than $14 billion as it resumes some software services disrupted by a cyberattack last month. The company has been scrambling to resume services at the technology unit th…

PARKLAND, Florida (Reuters) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday remembered the victims of a 2018 mass shooting at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people, pushing for states to strengthen laws on seizing firearms from high-risk people. “We have a duty to remember a…

(Reuters) — Prosecutors on Thursday announced that no criminal charges would be filed in the death of nonbinary Oklahoma teenager Nex Benedict, who died one day after a fight at school that may have followed bullying due to Benedict’s gender identity. The Oklahoma medical examiner on March 13…