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White House Begins Implementing Changes In U.S.-Cuban Relations

7:59am January 16, 2015

The moves to be made on Friday, loosen restrictions on travel and trade. The U.S. travel ban to Cuba is still technically in place, but experts say it's become a lot easier to go there anyway.

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Public Sales Of Google Glass To End Later This Month

7:42am January 16, 2015

by Sam Sanders

In an announcement, the company said Glass is not dead, it's just going through a "transition.

Senate Republicans Move To Block Further Transfers From Gitmo

9:43pm January 15, 2015

by David Welna

As part of a renewed push by the Obama administration to empty the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the transfer of five more detainees to other countries was announced on Wednesday night. All five are citizens of Yemen, where the local branch of al-Qaida is claiming responsibility for last week's attacks in Paris. Senior Republican senators introduced legislation this week blocking such transfers. They say releasing the prisoners lets them return to the battlefield.

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Erica Johnson prays before her meal. She volunteers at the food pantry at John Still school where three of her four children are students. She eats alone after she feeds her kids.

Beyond Free Lunch: Schools Open Food Pantries For Hungry Families

9:33pm January 15, 2015

by Julia Mitric

More than 8 million U.S. children don't get enough to eat. In Sacramento, Calif., one school is helping families cope by sending students home for the weekend with backpacks full of groceries.

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Dennie and Kathy Wright sift through a stack of medical bills at their home in Indian Valley, Calif.

Limited Insurance Choices Frustrate Patients In California

8:39pm January 15, 2015

by Pauline Bartolone

California is seen as an Obamacare success story. But tens of thousands of people in the northern part of the state have only one insurer available on the health plan exchange.

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Yosemite Dawn Wall Climbers Reach The Top After 19 Days

6:33pm January 15, 2015

Climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson finished their historic first free climb on El Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park. Melissa Block talks with the duo about their 19-day effort.

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White House Starts Chipping Away At U.S. Embargo On Cuba

6:33pm January 15, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

The Obama administration is following through on its pledge to ease travel and trade restrictions on Cuba. The Treasury and Commerce Departments say the new rules they have just issued go into effect on Friday. Critics of the administration, though, are questioning the legality of the moves.

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James Fallows On The 'Tragedy Of The American Military'

3:24pm January 15, 2015

The gulf between the vast majority of the American public and the nation's military has had a detrimental effect on the U.S. fighting force, according to James Fallows in an Atlantic cover story.

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Slices of pizza on the counter of Rosa's Fresh Pizza, where customers are encouraged to pay it forward.

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Philadelphia Pizza Lovers Pay It Forward One Slice At A Time

3:11pm January 15, 2015

by Elizabeth Fiedler

A Philadelphia pizza shop has become an ad hoc feeding program for the homeless where customers can pay the $1 slices forward. To date, some 8,400 slices have been bought for the homeless.

Feinstein Proposal Would Lock In Anti-Torture Measures

3:09pm January 15, 2015

by David Welna

The CIA's excruciating interrogations of suspected terrorists, widely seen as torture, are detailed as official acts in the Senate report released last month. Now Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who spearheaded that report, wants to prevent such acts from ever happening again. She's proposing legislation and administrative moves for which her Republican colleagues see little need and which activists deem too timid.

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