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Mueller plans to build his chicken barns in this cornfield just south of his home. His barns would house "breeders," the hens that lay the eggs that will hatch to be raised for meat.

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Farmers Take Out Millions In Loans To Raise Chickens For Big-Box Retailers

4:08pm June 22, 2017

by Grant Gerlock

To slaughter 2 million birds per week, Costco is contracting poultry farmers. But this requires a major financial investment from small producers, and the payoff may not be guaranteed.

Esther Martens walk through a flooded roadway to get to her car in the West End section of New Orleans on Wednesday.

Heavy Rains And Flooding As Tropical Storm Cindy Makes Landfall

3:17pm June 22, 2017

by James Doubek

States on the Gulf Coast are being hit with severe weather and floods as Tropical Storm Cindy moved inland Thursday morning in Louisiana.

Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury, N.C., surrenders to police in December in Washington, D.C.

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'Pizzagate' Gunman Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison

2:13pm June 22, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Edgar Maddison Welch pleaded guilty in March after entering the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C., brandishing a rife in order to "investigate" a baseless conspiracy theory.

Chart: About four-in-ten U.S. adults say they live in a gun-owning household

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Americans Agree On Some Gun Restrictions, Pew Survey Finds

1:16pm June 22, 2017

by Tanya Ballard Brown

Americans' relationship with guns is complicated and often contentious. But they do agree on restricting sales to people with mental illness or on watch lists.

Senate Republicans Prepare To Release Details Of Their Health Care Plan

11:07am June 22, 2017

by Alison Kodjak

Negotiations have been going on in secret, with only a small number of members privy to the ins and outs of the bill, but it is widely expected to track the House version that passed last month.

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Census Finds A More Diverse America, As Whites Lag Growth

9:25am June 22, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Asian and mixed-race people are the two fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population, the U.S. Census Bureau says. Non-Hispanic whites are the only group to see deaths outpace births.

Pemiscot Memorial, the public hospital in one of Missouri's poorest counties, depends on Medicaid funding to survive, its CEO says.

Republicans' Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Hit Rural Patients Hard

9:18am June 22, 2017

by Bram Sable-Smith

Hundreds of rural hospitals are on the brink of closing. The House Republican health plan drastically reduces one of their key sources of funding and the Senate bill is expected to do the same.

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Iraqis and supporters rallied outside a Detroit courthouse Wednesday as a hearing began on a lawsuit that seeks to stop the government from deporting more than 100 Iraqi nationals who were recently rounded up.

Trump Administration Faces Pressure To Not Deport Detained Iraqi Christians

8:27am June 22, 2017

Many of the nearly 200 Iraqis currently under detention are from the minority Chaldean Christian community, which faces severe persecution in Iraq.

Jury Finds Ex-Milwaukee Officer Not Guilty In Death Of Black Man

8:17am June 22, 2017

by LaToya Dennis

Tensions are high in Milwaukee after a former police officer, who is black, was found not guilty of first degree reckless homicide following the fatal shooting of a young black man last summer.

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Michigan Airport Stabbing Is Investigated As A Possible Terrorism Act

7:45am June 22, 2017

by Quin Klinefelter

Federal officials are investigating the stabbing of a police officer at the airport in Flint, Mich., as a potential act of terrorism. A Canadian man is being held in the attack.

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