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Population decline in rural counties, and more
feature About 46 percent of rural counties in the U.S. lost population over the last decade.
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Fewer households own guns, and more
feature The proportion of U.S. households in which a gun is present has fallen from about 50 percent in the 1970s to 34 percent last year.
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Obama vetoes aid to Syrian rebels, and more
feature President Obama nixed a plan to arm the Syrian rebels in 2012.
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A new trend in teenage sex?, and more
feature According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 57 percent of girls in the U.S. between 15 and 19 have not had sexual intercourse.
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$900 billion in tax breaks, and more
feature The 10 biggest tax breaks will save American taxpayers more than $900 billion this year.
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Wal-Mart's jump in midnight sales, and more
feature Wal-Mart says its stores see a jump in midnight sales on the first of each month, when cash-strapped shoppers receive their monthly government benefits.
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The cost of higher gas prices, and more
feature Every one-penny rise in the cost of a gallon of gas takes $1 billion of consumer spending away from other goods in the course of a year.
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The wealth gap between blacks and whites, and more
feature The median white household has 22 times more wealth than the median black household.
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Fewer couples file for divorce, and more
feature Hard economic times have produced a major drop in the number of people filing for divorce.
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Identifying the remains of 9/11 victims, and more
feature Ten years later, no remains from 1,121 of the people who died at the World Trade Center have ever been identified.
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Weighing in on women's issues, and more
feature When the media covers women’s issues, men do most of the talking.
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Very rich and very poor in California, and more
feature California is home to 111 billionaires, yet it also suffers the highest poverty rate in the country.
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Jailing the mentally ill, and more
feature American prisons have replaced state mental hospitals as a place to warehouse the mentally ill.
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Suicide deaths surpass battle deaths, and more
feature More active-duty U.S. troops have committed suicide this year than have been killed in battle.
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