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From The Sports Desk: Free agency frenzy

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The WNBA free agency period opened Wednesday, signings will begin Saturday, and the draft will take place Monday night. In today’s newsletter, a primer on all the upcoming WNBA business. Plus, an Arsenal-focused preview of this weekend’s Premier League action. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. … Read more

Southwest Airlines, once known for its free bags perk, hikes fees amid higher jet fuel costs

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Southwest Airlines is raising checked baggage fees by $10, less than a year after ending its “bags fly free” perk that long set it apart, as jet fuel costs have jumped since the start of the Iran war. Customers checking one bag will pay $45 starting on Thursday, while a second will now cost $55, … Read more

Obama Center takes heat as critics cry foul over ID rules for free entry — while Dems blast voter ID laws

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Obama Presidential Center is facing a wave of backlash ahead of its opening, with critics blasting its admission policies and raising broader concerns about the project’s cost and management. Conservative commentators on social media are taking aim at the center’s requirement that Illinois residents show valid … Read more

RAM pop-up clinics provide free medical, dental, and vision care to uninsured or underinsured Americans

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About one third of Americans say they have skipped meals, borrowed money, or cut back on utilities to pay for health care. That’s in a Gallup poll released in March. The Trump administration has lowered prices on more than 50 drugs. But it also let premiums rise — even double — in the Affordable Care … Read more

RAM’s free clinics full of needy patients, but slowed by red tape

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Each weekend across the United States, thousands line up before dawn for free medical care at pop-up clinics, but a patchwork of state laws is preventing volunteer doctors from helping as many people as they could. Despite those constraints, Remote Area Medical (RAM) makes life-changing differences each week. At a recent clinic, Dave Burge raised … Read more

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

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If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants upon which nearly everyone could agree. Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies … Read more

Sister recounts relentless 903-day fight to free sibling kidnapped in Iraq

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When 36-year-old Princeton University graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Iraq, it set off a grueling 903-day fight her sister never expected. “I honestly was so naive when she was kidnapped. I had no idea what it would take,” Elizabeth’s sister, Emma, told “CBS Sunday Morning.” In March 2023, Elizabeth — an Israeli Russian … Read more

Kagan turns on liberal ally Jackson with footnote jab over free speech

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson drew fire from an unlikely colleague on Tuesday over her lone dissent in the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision finding Colorado’s ban on so-called “conversion therapy” for minors violated free speech rights. Fellow liberal Justice Elena Kagan criticized Jackson for failing to acknowledge case … Read more