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Women at the Tutwiler Prison in Wetumpka, Ala., walk through the halls. This week, current and former prisoners announced a lawsuit challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of modern slavery.
Dave Martin/APIn a lawsuit filed this week, a group of current and former Alabama prisoners say they have been coerced into providing cheap labor to the state and to private employers.
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Away from Gaza, homes in south Lebanon bear the scars of Israel's other front line National News
A farming village in southern Lebanon sits on the edge of a parallel conflict to the war in Gaza, with Hezbollah militants fighting with Israel. Some Lebanese hold out hope for a permanent truce.
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Broken wings: Complaints about U.S. airlines soared again this year National News
Passenger complaints about airlines rose sharply in the first half of the year, according to consumer watchdogs. The number of canceled flights declined, but delays and other problems increased.
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The New Hampshire primary is a little unusual for Democrats this year National News
Rep. Dean Phillips sees an opening for his long-shot presidential bid because President Biden won't be on the New Hampshire primary ballot.
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Australian court tosses woman's 2-decade-old convictions in deaths of her 4 children National News
Kathleen Folbigg already was pardoned and released from prison in June based on new scientific evidence that her four children may have died from natural causes as she had insisted.
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Activists failed to convince a judge in Richmond Tuesday that a database used by Governor Glenn Youngkin to determine eligibility for felon rights restoration should be made public.
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The governor's administration says salary funding shouldn’t come from the state.
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Fake social media accounts are targeting Taiwan's presidential election National News
The influence operation identified by Graphika researchers involved a network of more than 800 fake Facebook accounts that reposted Chinese-language TikTok and YouTube videos about Taiwanese politics.
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