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A series of lawsuits argues an obsolete profit-sharing system is subsidizing industrial dairy farms.
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A Supreme Court decision is pushing immigration enforcement beyond jobsites into rural towns. A US citizen says an ICE agent told him: ‘We have the right to assume that you’re…
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