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Texas Medicaid Debate Complicated By Politics And Poverty()  

Paula Gomez is the executive director of the Brownsville Community Health Center

KHNIn Texas, it may be politically unwise to cross the governor, but some politicians and advocates in the poor Rio Grande Valley are starting to speak out in support of expanding Medicaid. Governor Perry opposes all parts of Obamacare.

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The Low-Tech Way Guns Get Traced()  

ATF Special Agent Charles Houser runs the National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, W.Va.

May 20, 2013 There is one place in the country where a law enforcement agency can trace a gun found at a crime scene back to a buyer: the ATF's National Tracing Center in West Virginia. But the tracing process is usually tedious, involving multiple phone calls and searching, by hand, through paper records.

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Turnabout Is Fair Play: Senators Have Many Questions For IRS()  

Outgoing acting Internal Revenue Service  Commissioner Steven Miller.

May 20, 2013 The IRS gave some conservative groups extra, improper scrutiny. Now there's a bipartisan request for the IRS to answer dozens of questions. Read the queries and demands for information from the top Democrat and top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.

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Pope Francis Puts The Poor Front And Center ()  

Pope Francis blesses a child Sunday after the Holy Mass at St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican.

May 20, 2013 Shunning the formalities of his office and focusing on poverty, Pope Francis is drawing a sharp contrast between his 2-month-old papacy and those of his predecessors.

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An Ancient Religious Pilgrimage That Now Draws The Secular ()  

A pilgrim walks the Way of St. James outside Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, on July 21, 2010. The ancient religious pilgrimage is also attracting the nonreligious these days.

May 20, 2013 The 1,200-year-old European pilgrimage route known as the Way of St. James is undergoing a revival. Tens of thousands of people are walking across France to the Spanish coastal city of Santiago de Compostela, and the relics of St. James. Once a religious affair, it's now a cultural and social phenomenon as well.

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Yahoo's Other Billion-Dollar Bets: Where Are They Now? ()  

GeoCities employees pose for a picture in 1999 after the Yahoo acquisition was announced. Yahoo quietly shut down GeoCities a decade later.

May 20, 2013 Tumblr joins GeoCities, Broadcast.com and Overture in the small fraternity of Yahoo's $1 billion-plus acquisitions. What can the company can learn from its previous purchases?

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Advocates Struggle To Reach Growing Ranks Of Suburban Poor()  

TD Bank volunteers sort donated food into barrels at the Manna Food Center in Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, Md. Poverty in the county just outside Washington, D.C., has grown by two-thirds since 2007.

May 20, 2013 The number of poor people living in America's suburbs now surpasses those in cities or rural areas. Long focused on the urban poor, social service agencies are now trying to respond to the basic needs of a much more far-flung population.

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Ray Manzarek, Founding Member Of The Doors, Dies()  

Ray Manzarek (far right) stands with fellow members of The Doors Jim Morrison (from right), Robby Krieger and John Densmore in 1968. Manzarek died Monday in Germany. He was 74.

May 20, 2013 The keyboardist co-founded the band after meeting Jim Morrison in California. The Doors went on to become one of the most successful rock 'n' roll acts of the 1960s. Manzarek, 74, died in Germany after a long battle with bile duct cancer.

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