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Wildfires In Southern California

Wildfires In Southern California

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The Law Behind the Great Plains' Giant Square Plots

If you fly over the Great Plains today, giant squares of land immediately stand out. Many of these are the 160-acre plots forged out of the prairie by 19th-century pioneers, a legacy of the Homestead Act of 1862.

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40 acres and a bill

Slavery reparations was once an untouchable idea in American politics, but now presidential candidates openly support it. And for the first time ever, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has Congress considering it. (Transcript here.)

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The Cows Are Taking All The Land

The U.S. is a big place, nearly 1.9 billion acres. On today's Indicator, we look at how all that land is divvied up.

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America's First Successful Homestead

America's First Successful Homestead