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1 week ago | 
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Alfredo Sosa
On a bumpy dirt-road drive through a watermelon farm, Kate Hobbs points out the flood plain. There’s a 1 in 100 chance of a major flood each year, she says. Hard rains haven’t come to this farm near Normandy, Texas, but people have – thousands in recent years. The flood plain is where her husband had just arrived before calling her, upset, on Mother’s Day 2021. She was cooking at the house. He told her he’d found five little girls, stranded.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Alfredo Sosa
When I learned about L’Eroica, an annual cycling event in Tuscany, I knew where I could find people who would understand me.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Devon Haynie |Alfredo Sosa
Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee Tribe based in Miami, Oklahoma, spends a lot of time thinking about Kansas. There, in a small town called Fairway, three red-brick buildings sit aging on land once allotted to his tribe. These Federal-style structures are what remain of what was once called the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor Boarding School.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Alfredo Sosa
In a secured room at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, a Monitor journalist and photographer are getting ready to launch a nuclear missile. It takes two to launch. The training console before them has four screens, its updates appearing in a kludgy old font. There are too many keys. Three Air Force officials are calmly walking them through the steps to fire off intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). It’s a thicket of acronyms and codes.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake |Alfredo Sosa
Under a fading late-fall sun, protesters in support of the Palestinian cause are starting to gather in front of Ohio’s white-columned Statehouse. They arrive alone, or in twos and threes, wearing kaffiyehs, sneakers, and puffer jackets. Most are carrying Palestinian flags and handmade signs protesting Israel’s aggression.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Alfredo Sosa
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Howard LaFranchi |Alfredo Sosa
Javier Milei, Argentina’s libertarian president who came into office last December promising “to take a chain saw to the state,” is giving his audience of elites the show they came to see. He’s speaking to a gathering of the business organization Council of the Americas in a hotel ballroom with gold leaf and chandeliers.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Anna Mulrine Grobe |Alfredo Sosa
Bethanhi Scherer was an orphan in Vietnam when she was adopted as a teenager by her American mother and father, a FedEx executive. She was surprised. Most families don’t go for the older children, she says. “And I’ll be honest with you – I was the most undisciplined kid coming here.”Growing up in Georgia the past few years, Ms. Scherer was drawn to the military through her brother, who serves in Air Force special operations.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Stephen Humphries |Alfredo Sosa
In Portland, two opposing sides have united to battle addiction, instead of each other. Treatment providers are teaming up with law enforcement to patrol high drug-use areas. When police intercept users in dire situations, rehabilitation specialists are on scene to help. The two groups have long disagreed over the most effective way to get people into treatment. Stick, meet Carrot. What made the two sides open to change? Oregon’s drug policy hit rock-bottom.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
csmonitor.com | Whitney Eulich |Alfredo Sosa
Hunched over a weatherworn hand-crank organ in his repair shop, Roman Dichi explains why the work of Mexico’s organilleros has endured for a century and a half. “This music evokes happiness, tradition, and childhood memories of going out to a plaza with Mom and Dad – or of falling in love,” says Mr. Dichi, president of the organ-grinders union in Mexico City. He has played the instrument since the 1980s, when his in-laws introduced him to the family business.
