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  • 1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Marion Renault |Cheney Orr

    In Starr County, Texas, near the state’s southern tip along the U.S.-Mexico border, escaping dementia can feel impossible. The condition affects about one in five adults on Medicare—more than double the national rate. “Everybody has somebody in their family” with dementia, Gladys Maestre, a neuroepidemiologist who studies aging at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, told me. For Jessica Cantú, it was her father, Tomas. He asked her, his eldest daughter, never to put him in a nursing home.

  • 2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Cheney Orr

    Just weeks before World War I ended, the U.S. military established Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia. The first soldiers arrived there on Oct. 6, 1918. Later that month, officials held a ceremony for naming it after Confederate Brig. Gen. Henry Benning. More than a century later, the base was renamed Fort Moore in honor of the late Hal and Julie Moore, a husband-and-wife duo known for their fierce advocacy for military families.

  • Oct 28, 2024 | staradvertiser.com | Brendan McDermid |Cheney Orr

    Monday, October 28, 2024 85° Today's Paper Photo Galleries Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion, in Atlanta, Ga., on Oct. 28.

  • Oct 25, 2024 | japantimes.co.jp | Cheney Orr

    The journey of Rossanna and Widman began in the Guatemalan village of San Juan La Laguna, on the turquoise Lake Atitlan, where they met when he bought the tortillas she was selling for lunch. It ended in the murky waters of the Rio Grande. The couple drowned as they tried to wade across the notorious part of the river that links Piedras Negras, Mexico, with Eagle Pass, Texas, on Feb. 24, just two among the hundreds of people who lose their lives trying to cross into the U.S. every year.

  • Oct 25, 2024 | sightmagazine.com.au | Cheney Orr |David Adams

    Yepocapa/San Juan La Laguna, GuatemalaReutersThe journey of Rossanna and Widman began in the Guatemalan village of San Juan La Laguna, on the turquoise Lake Atitlan, where they met when he bought the tortillas she was selling for lunch. It ended in the murky waters of the Rio Grande. Family members carry the body of Widman Alexander Tax Chinic, 26, who drowned four months earlier trying to cross into the US, from the family’s home to their church in Yepocapa, Guatemala, on 19th June, 2024.

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30 Apr 25

RT @TheAtlantic: In Starr County, Texas, near the state’s southern tip along the U.S.-Mexico border, escaping dementia can feel impossible.…

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25 Feb 24

RT @corinne_perkins: A man attempts to resuscitate a man from Mexico who is unconscious and lays on the shore of the Rio Grande River in Pi…

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14 Jan 24

RT @benpershing: Eight years ago most Republicans in Hancock County rejected Trump. Now he has a dominant hold on that and other rural plac…