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El Paso Armed Services YMCA offers backpacks, school supplies MGN School supplies are loaded into a backpack. EL PASO, Texas -- The first day of school, Aug. 2, is right around the corner and one Borderland group is leading the charge in ensuring students are set for success this coming school year.  The Armed Services YMCA started with just 20 backpacks 10 years ago. The goal this year is 500 backpacks. "Its not just to Fort Bliss, its opening to everybody that may have been affected and can...

Centrist Dems flex muscles, create headaches for Biden: The Note Biden honors those lost to COVID-19 Replay Video President Joe Biden has tried not to take a side -- in part by keeping the focus on COVID-19 and in part by claiming there is no choice to make. The Democrats divide, though, is real. It is making itself evident in a week that is posing the most significant hurdles Biden has yet faced in terms of personnel and policy on Capitol Hill. The opposition of a single moderate Democrat...

As COVID-19 turns more children into orphans, siblings step up to fill the void • 11 min read When parents are taken by COVID-19, their kids step up to look after siblings Marlene Torres, a single mother of two, took in siblings Juan, Raymond, Angel, and Beatriz after their father died from COVID-19. Juan Martinez, 19, is caring for four of his young siblings.ABC News On his 11th birthday last May, Juan Ramirez woke up to the police and fire departments of Passaic, New Jersey, outside his ho...