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Despite the support of local donors, some small, minority-led immigrant rights groups express frustration at not being included in the latest national organizing campaigns.

"Why should we believe that it's going to be different this time than it's been in the past?" Sen. Jeanne Shaheen asked Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller.

The female-run Bandhu Gardens in Michigan sells surplus vegetables from backyards and hosts pop-up dinners and cooking classes to help meet the needs of recent immigrants and their families back home.

One couple sped up their wedding plans because of concern over how a GOP health plan might affect them. The bride had bad experiences in getting health insurance before Obamacare.

A late season storm has hit a wide swatch of the Northeast — crippling travel and knocking out power across the region. Some of the hardest hit areas will likely be digging out of more than 2 feet of snow before the storm tapers off.

The storm swept through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday, leaving more than 200,000 utility customers without power and some 6,000 canceled flights in its wake.

The Congressional Budget Office says millions of people would lose coverage under the proposed House bill. But the CBO's definition of insurance is more generous than what Republicans want.

Mira Wang, protege of the late virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, this week debuted his Ames Stradivarius, stolen 37 years ago and reclaimed in 2015. "It's like meeting a new stranger," she says.