Newly-Released Texas Inmates Prepare For A Long Ride To Freedom Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News Newly-Released Texas Inmates Prepare For A Long Ride To Freedom The first steps of freedom from the prison in Huntsville, Texas, lead to the nearby Greyhound bus station. Read this story With Few Choices, Gaza Family Makes Bombed-Out Shell Its Home The war between Israel and Hamas completely destroyed nearly 10,000 homes in Gaza. Not one has been rebuilt. Others, like the Otaish family, are cramming into the rubble-strewn rooms that remain. Read this story Jonas Salk's Polio Vaccine Makes A Comeback As it marks its 60th birthday, the injectable vaccine is still critical. It's "needed to end polio for good" is how Carol Pendak of Rotary's Polio Plus program puts it. Read this story Beyond Almonds: A Rogue's Gallery of Guzzlers In California's Drought California is parched. Wells are running dry. Vegetable fields have been left fallow and lawns are dying. Who can we blame? From almonds to politicians to cheap water, here are seven candidates. Read this story Pope Marks Killing Of Armenians In World War I, Calling It Genocide Most non-Turkish scholars believe the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians were part of a systematic slaughter carried out by Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915. Read this story more news stories

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