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America’s Small Businesses Shift Production to Aid COVID-19 Fight

Small businesses across America are at t...

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America’s Fortune 500 Take on COVID-19

Many of America’s most successful companies are giving money, supplies and know-how to take on the COVID-...
Apr 17, 2020VIEW
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Spiritual Life in the U.S. During a Pandemic

With the new coronavirus upending daily life, houses of worship throughout the United States are altering...
Apr 14, 2020VIEW
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Floating Hospitals Support U.S. Cities Fighting Coronavirus

America is meeting the increased medical needs of its citizens in a unique way. Two U.S. Navy hospital sh...
Apr 13, 2020VIEW
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America’s "Citizen Soldiers" Aid Coronavirus Fight

America’s National Guard is on the front lines of the “whole-of-America” fight against the deadly coronav...
Apr 9, 2020VIEW
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U.S. Private Sector Ramps Up to Respond to COVID-19

The U.S. private sector is facing the challenge posed by the COVID-19 virus head-on. As medical staff ...
Mar 31, 2020VIEW
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Americans Adapt to Social Distancing to Fight Coronavirus

Across the United States, Americans are pursuing creative ways to continue their lives while keeping thei...
Mar 31, 2020VIEW
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Explained: State Department’s Human Rights Reports

Want to know the human rights situation in a country? The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practice...
Mar 26, 2020VIEW
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Everyone Is Irish on March 17

St. Patrick’s Day, the feast day for Ireland’s patron saint, has come to embrace all ethnicities, not jus...
Mar 16, 2020VIEW
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Remembering the Man Who Inspired "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"

You’ve probably heard of Harriet Tubman, the American woman who famously led 70 enslaved people through t...
Feb 21, 2020VIEW
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Some U.S. Schools Have Religious Roots

Although most American children enroll in a public school system, which focuses on secular subjects, reli...
Feb 5, 2020VIEW
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Why Americans Go Crazy over the Super Bowl

Around 100 million people across America are expected to watch the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Ch...
Jan 31, 2020VIEW
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Protecting the Titanic Wreck Site

More than 100 years after the famed RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from London to New York, countr...
Jan 14, 2020VIEW
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Americans Give Back During the Holidays

Every year millions of Americans give their time, talent and donations to the needy over the winter holid...
Dec 31, 2019VIEW
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Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, and a Game Called "Dreidel"

This is part of an occasional series on how Americans celebrate religious holidays. Other articles looked...
Dec 23, 2019VIEW
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Winter Holidays in the U.S.

Americans of diverse backgrounds celebrate winter holidays with joyful traditions and tunes. Dances like ...
Dec 23, 2019VIEW
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U.S. Christians, Jews and Muslims Pioneer Multifaith Project

When a rabbi and an imam in Omaha, Nebraska, began to talk about their shared values, they asked how they...
Dec 12, 2019VIEW
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5G: Who Can You Trust?

Emerging 5G wireless networks will change the world. New interconnected applications will revolutionize b...
Nov 6, 2019VIEW
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Coding in Wyoming: Girls’ App Helps Feed the Needy

It began with building a bionic hand for class. That led to a group of high school girls in Wyoming creat...
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