Rural Oklahoma Towns Struggle as Heat Bites Elderly
In Mulhall and similar rural areas the elderly stay home to beat record heat while services shrink. Residents describe scarce shops and long drives to Perry or Guthrie for groceries and medicine, raising concerns of isolated seniors and missed help.
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Mulhall
Marlene Snow
Logan County
First Baptist Church
Jo Swinney
Knight’s Steel Shop
Oklahoma City
Wanda Pangburn
Perry
Guthrie
Pangburn
Knight
Hasley
Wal-Mart
John Pangburn
Oklo
Wanda
Iowa Firms Push Delay on EPA Power Plant Pollution Rule
Regulators require costly scrubbers or cleaner fuels for Iowa coal plants as Alliant Energy and others urge House backers to delay the EPA rule with a cost benefit analysis. EPA argues the rule prevents 240 premature Iowa deaths yearly and saves up to 1.9 billion in health costs, while jobs may grow in manufacturing and installation sectors.
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Iowa
Alliant Energy
EPA
Cynthia Lummis
R-Wyo
Lummis
House
Senate
Cedar Rapids
Prairie Creek
Sixth Street
Tricity
Scott Drzycimski
Alliant
Drzycimski
Congress
Natural Resources Defense Council
United States
John Walke
The
Debt Deal Struck Yet House Factions Split
The proposal hinges on $1.5 trillion in further deficit cuts with a bipartisan panel to draft measures by Thanksgiving and a Christmas vote. Senate backing appears likely while House passage remains doubtful amid fears of impact on the economy and key programs.
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GOP
White House
Nancy Pelosi
House of Congress
Senate
House
Treasury
America
Congress
Pentagon
Debt limit deal draws mixed reactions across the U S
Americans react to the debt ceiling agreement with relief but mixed emotions. Voters from Alaska to Oregon to Georgia voice skepticism, disappointment, or anger at the concessions and the long wrangling, while some hoped the deal prevents a default and ends the stalemate.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Barack Obama
Congress
Phil Waters
Anchorage
Alaska
Waters
Treasury
Ernie Robert
Deerfield
N.H
Dallas
Robert
Nancy Curry
Manuel
Atlanta
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Ames
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Sergeant Bluff
Salix
Louisa
Muscatine
Riverside
Bettendorf
Walter Scott Energy
Council Bluffs
Pella Municipal
University of Iowa
Iowa City
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls
Housi
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Kiran Mahto
Portland
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