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The bill hits on a topic which has led to more than 200,000 lawsuits against fertilizer companies.
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The Associated Industries of Missouri sees a danger in the state maintaining its budget obligations while transitioning to an expanded sales tax. -
A city team focused on improving U.S. Highway 71 has proposed moving the roadway below ground level, creating narrower lanes and building overpasses to connect neighborhoods east to west. The highway's construction tore through majority-Black neighborhoods in east Kansas City decades ago.
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NPR visits the last detention camp for ISIS wives and children in an increasingly precarious northeastern Syria.
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