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'A rocket docket': Judges want a speedy process to settle thousands of Camp Lejeune water cases

Caption: Michael Partain (left) and Jerry Ensminger, long-time activists for people harmed by Camp Lejeune water, speak outside the Raleigh, N.C. federal courthouse after a hearing. Hundreds of thousands of plaintiffs are expected to join the case., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront

Federal judges overseeing the massive litigation hope to keep cases from dragging on for years. As many as a million people were exposed to contami...

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Know someone who wants to join the National Guard? In some states, you now can get a finder's fee.

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Recruiters and other Virginia National Guard soldiers talk with fans at a July 2022 minor league baseball game in Fredericksburg. Any Virginia resident can collect a finder's fee up to $750 for referring somebody who becomes a National Guard recruit., Credit: Virginia Guard Public Affairs

The referral bonuses are designed to boost recruiting at the National Guard, which fell thousands of troops short of its goal last year.

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After a slow recruiting year, states are trying new ways to attract people to the National Guard

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: The concert band of the 42nd division of the New York Army National Guard performs holiday music at Warrior Ranch in Calverton, N.Y. Dec. 3, 2022., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront

The National Guard fell about 9,000 troops short of its goal in 2022. Some states are improving their outreach and incentive plans to try to counte...

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The VA is mandating vaccines for its health care employees, but enforcement may be a challenge

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Employees at the VA Medical Center in Grand Island, Nebraska take part in a December 2020 employee vaccination event. The VA now is ordering more than 100,000 of its health care workers to get vaccines by mid-September or risk losing their jobs., Credit: A Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System

The Department of Veterans Affairs said its frontline health workers must get vaccinated by mid-September or they'll lose their jobs.

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Armed forces scale back, PA young people often disappointed

From: PublicSource

Caption: Recruiters for the U.S. Marines canvass shopping plazas, high schools and job fairs for potential soldiers., Credit: Alexandra Kanik/PublicSource

In robust economic times, America’s armed services have had to hustle to recruit qualified soldiers. But when civilian unemployment is high and th...

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Latitude News Podcast #8 — Can the U.S. keep conflict minerals from Congo out of your laptop?

From: Latitude News

Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.

Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

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Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

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