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  • Elkhart, Ind., took center stage this week as the backdrop for President Barack Obama's pitch at winning over Congress with his economic stimulus package. The Indiana town has the nation's highest jobless rate, a whopping 15 percent.
  • A lawsuit from the Center for Reproductive Rights alleges that Texas' abortion ban prevents doctors from providing women with necessary and lifesaving care.
  • Today’s programming is made possible in part by WCBU Day Sponsor Susan Reising in honor of Mended Hearts, a nonprofit center for equine-assisted, pet-assisted and traditional counseling for all ages, located on 12 acres in rural Metamora. Learn how you can become a WCBU Day Sponsor.
  • The state’s top health official is giving controversial advice that defies Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, leaving it up to parents to decide when to keep kids home from school.
  • Trump is accused of falsifying business records to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. At the center of the trial are payments that the National Enquirer made to keep damaging stories about Trump under wraps.
  • About 60 dump trucks full of debris from the fallen World Trade Center will be sifted for human remains from the Sept. 11 attacks beginning Monday. More than 1,000 victims have yet to be identified.
  • Thousands of remains will be coming to "the sacred ground of the World Trade Center site" this year, officials say. Family members will have a private seating area. The public will not have access.
  • The storm, downgraded from a Category 3 hurricane to a tropical storm over the course of Saturday, is expected to continue to lose steam as it heads toward the the eastern Caribbean.
  • The international aid group says the cholera treatment center had clear markings and that it gave its coordinates to the Saudi-UAE-led coalition that carried out the strike. No one was hurt.
  • In Kabul, a suicide bomber targeted a Shiite cultural center and a news agency. There were conflicting reports of how many explosions took place, and how many attackers were involved.
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