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    A young child walked up to her mother and stared at her hair. As the mother scrubbed on the dishes, the girl cleared her throat and sweetly asked, “Why do you have some gray strands of hair?”

    To help provide equitable learning access and opportunities and keep local youth connected, UScellular has donated 50 wireless hotspots and two years of service to the YWCA of Grand Island. This donation is worth $56,300 as part of the company’s After School Access Project.

    A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would close several loopholes identified by The Washington Post in an investigative series published last fall. The investigation found hundreds of retired U.S. military officers taking lucrative jobs advising foreign governments known for human rights atrocities and political repression. The Retired Officers Conflict of Interest Act would require public reporting about who is working on behalf of which foreign governments and for how much.

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    More Americans over the last several decades have abandoned their faith — usually Christianity — to join the ranks of the non-religious. This includes people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.”

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