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Poverty fight provides common ground for conservatives, liberals

"Poverty is changing, and policy responses must change too," argues an important recent report published by the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute and the left-leaning Brookings Institution. The document — the product of a bipartisan group of top scholars — combines political diversity with shared values to make a dozen recommendations

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News seen at risk of following ‘dinosaur’ dailies down

In an unflinching report on the current state of journalism, the Brookings Institution proclaimed this week that so-called "hard news" is an endangered species along with the print newspaper "dinosaurs" that have purveyed the commodity for centuries. Tribune Publishing, owner of broadsheet papers such as the

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Chattanooga raises terrorism concerns

By Eric Tucker WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly shootings at military sites in Tennessee illustrate the threat that FBI officials have warned about: violence directed against a vulnerable government target by a lone gunman with apparent terrorist aspirations.