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Theme Parks

Six Flags Buys ArieForce One but Has Not Named Its New Park

Six Flags has acquired Georgia’s former ArieForce One coaster and promises a 2028 or 2029 return. The company has not named its destination, so Six Flags Over Georgia remains speculation—not a confirmed home.

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State News

Arkansas Panel Reviews Updated College Scholarship Rules

Sep 17, 2026

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State News

Arkansas Approves $8.2 Million for Three Water Projects

Sep 17, 2026

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State News

Twelve Arkansas Pharmacies Sue Express Scripts Over Alleged Underpayments

Sep 16, 2026

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State News

Arkansas Plans $17 Million Expansion for 2,464 Disability-Waiver Families

Sep 16, 2026

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Military

Pentagon Locks In Seven-Year Expansion of Missile Defense Production

Sep 1, 2026

Policy

Hackers Breached 30 Water Systems in 48 Hours, Exposing a Federal Cyber-Defense Force That Has Shrunk by a Third

Aug 16, 2026

Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Student-Debt Cancellation After 22 Million Borrowers Apply

Oct 22, 2022

Healthcare

U.S. Returns to 100,000 Daily COVID-19 Cases as Delta Pushes Hospitalizations Higher in Low-Vaccination States

Aug 7, 2021

Healthcare

U.S. COVID-19 Cases Jump Nearly 70% in a Week as Delta Drives a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’

Jul 17, 2021

Federal Guidance Tells Schools to Treat Gender Identity as Sex Under Title IX

May 14, 2016

Clinton and Trump Each Win Seven States in Super Tuesday’s National Test

Mar 5, 2016

Cruz Wins Iowa as Clinton Edges Sanders in First 2016 Presidential Test

Feb 6, 2016

Historic Blizzard Buries East Coast, Shutting Washington and New York

Jan 23, 2016

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