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Golden Apple: Betsy Hill

A Chattanooga Valley Elementary school teacher makes learning fun, and treats her students like they are family. That's earned her this week's Golden Apple Award.

U.N. blasts Blackstone Group for worsening the U.S. housing crisis

No less an entity than the U.N. is wading into the U.S. housing affordability crisis. In a pair of letters to the U.S. government and Blackstone Group, Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, calls out the role of private equity in the housing market and blasts the federal government for failing to protect the right of people to housing.

Pence says U.S. will send astronauts to the moon within 5 years

The U.S. is sending astronauts back to the moon within the next five years, Vice President Mike Pence says. Pence, who has championed President Trump's new Space Force wing of the Air Force, made the announcement Tuesday morning at a National Space Council meeting in Alabama. 

Hickenlooper comes out against Green New Deal

Deriding its "unachievable goals," former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced his opposition to the "Green New Deal" resolution introduced in Congress, becoming the first major 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to rebuff the audacious progressive proposal.

Governor of N.J. will sign "aid in dying" bill

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced his plan to sign legislation allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending medication. Once the bill is signed, New Jersey will join six other states and the District of Columbia that have similar laws.

Attempt to stop Trump veto fails in House

An effort by Congressional Democrats to override President Trump's veto on a resolution that would have overturned his national emergency proclamation failed in the Democratic-controlled House on Tuesday.

McDonald's wants to become the Amazon of fast-food

Borrowing a page from ecommerce, McDonald's is going high-tech to make menu recommendations. That goal is behind the fast-food giant's move this week to fork out more than $300 million to buy Israeli technology company Dynamic Yield, its biggest acquisition in 20 years.

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