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Mexico's Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena speaks to the United Nations General Assembly during Summit of the Future, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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At the UN, world leaders try to lay out a vision for the future — and actually make it happen

By JENNIFER PELTZ AND EDITH M. LEDERER JENNIFER PELTZ AND EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Sun,09/22/24-11:02PM, 47 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly adopted a “Pact for the Future” to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Now comes the hard part: uniting the world’s divided nations to move quickly to implement the agreement's 56 actions.
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This cover image released by Penguin shows "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" by Wright Thompson. (Penguin via AP)

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Book Review: Wright Thompson exposes deep racist roots of the Mississippi Delta in ‘The Barn’

By ROB MERRILL ROB MERRILL - Associated Press
Mon,09/23/24-9:24AM, 71 Reads
“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.’ “Nobody knows when it was built exactly but its cypress-board walls were already w
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Terri Ross, left, checks out a customer at a store in the Huntington Mall in Barboursville, W.Va., on Nov. 25, 2022. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP, File)

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Before you sign up for a store credit card, know what you're getting into

By ADRIANA MORGA ADRIANA MORGA - Associated Press
Mon,09/23/24-9:12AM, 132 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — When Mykail James was 19 and working a holiday job at Victoria's Secret, she took out a store credit card with a $2,000 credit line.
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Photos of 43 students who have been missing for 10 years cover the stairs at their former Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

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Case of Mexico's 43 missing students persists among tens of thousands of disappearances

By MARÍA VERZA MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press
Sun,09/22/24-11:10PM, 104 Reads
MEXICO CITY (AP) — All countries have crimes that resonate. In Mexico, one of the modern day ones is the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teacher’s college in 2014.
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