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Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food

Farmers in Vermont are trying to build a sustainable local economy for agricultural products. Americans across the political spectrum want it to work.

The military now controls zones at southern border. Here鈥檚 how that looks to locals.

The Trump administration is expanding the military role at the border through new national defense areas, raising questions about militarization of the border.

Green thumbs throw a garden party at Connecticut flower show

The four-day event attracts thousands of flower fans to ooh and aah.

What US-Canada border security looks like through the eyes of a Border Patrol agent

President Donald Trump is pressing the Canadian government over immigration and drug flows across the border with the United States. Stricter policies are welcomed by U.S. Border Patrol agents, yet community tension also brews. 

Virginia data centers are running out of power. Maryland farms lie in the way.

Our reporter goes home to cover proposed high-voltage power lines in Maryland, a crucial need for expanding data centers and Americans鈥� digital lives.

For LGBTQ+ elders, a search for safe housing

Affordable housing is an issue for many older Americans. Members of the LGBTQ+ community are searching for solutions that allow them to live both safely and with dignity.

The awe of turning skyward together

In Xochimilco, floating gardens offer a glimpse of Mexico City鈥檚 past

A network of human-made waterways represents the remains of a vast transit system used by the Aztecs to move people and products around their empire.

Women in construction find solidarity as 鈥榮isters in the brotherhood鈥�

As more women enter skilled construction trades, they are laying a foundation to succeed in a rough-and-tumble world of labor union brotherhoods.

In Arizona, voters want tighter borders. Will this issue swing the election?

Arizona's voters are more united around border security than you might think, as Trump and Harris vie for the upper hand in this key swing state. 

To hug or to cut? A new generation of foresters says do both.

Cutting timber the right way can actually make forests more dynamic, says a new generation of foresters who focus on ecology and climate change.

A 鈥榩erfect storm鈥� could change America鈥檚 public schools for years to come

Fewer students and higher costs mean school districts are considering everything from mass layoffs to widespread school closures. How can tough decisions be made while protecting a community鈥檚 sense of common good?

Mexico is poised to elect its first woman president. Will women鈥檚 lives improve?

Mexican women have long struggled with their country鈥檚 culture of machismo. Now Mexico, ahead of the U.S., is about to elect its first woman as president.

Why Dallas wants police to adopt a 鈥榣ight footprint鈥� while fighting crime

Police tactics in high-crime neighborhoods have long caused controversy. Texas has a plan to change that with community help and 鈥渓ight footprint鈥� policing.

Howling at the moon on a Monday afternoon. Eclipse brings thousands to Vermont.

In a country seemingly fractured about most things, on Monday, Americans came together under one sky.

US parents are having fewer children, later. What it means for society.

People are having fewer children later in life. What do smaller families mean for society?

This Vermont ice swimming festival is only for the brrr-ave

The Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival lured 175 brave souls, who gladly jumped into 31-degree water. 

Why Oklahoma鈥檚 tough-on-crime lawmakers no longer trust death penalty

Only five states executed people last year. Oklahoma was one of them 鈥� and some GOP state lawmakers worry they cannot trust their system to get it right.

A little schoolhouse fights to keep Mohawk language alive

At the Akwesasne Freedom School, children learn from some the last remaining first-language speakers of Mohawk.

Photography as an act of trust