Commission recommends renaming Confederate-named military bases
The Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund noted there remain more than 700 such military location still named in honor of the Confederacy.
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Alabama prisons see three more deaths
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More than 15 million in U.S. could lose Medicaid coverage without action
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