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Being a new parent can be joyful and challenging. To help you get started, we're sharing the AZ New Parent Guide from First Things First.

A group of U.S. House members said Congress should not pass corporate tax breaks unless it also expands tax credits for families. Rep. ...

National Adoption Month comes to an end today, but in Tennessee, more than 9,000 children are in foster care and waiting for new families through adoption. A nonprofit organization is working to equip children and change their experience and outcomes. Carmen Brown, communications and marketing manager for Tennessee Kids Belong, said it starts with a family recruitment initiative, called the "I Belong Project." Children are the topics of videos presented to an online community...

The Arizona New Parent Guide is a resource that is intended to help new parents meet the challenges of having a baby and support their babys health and development within the first year of life. The guide is available fully online and in Spanish, and was put together by Arizonas early childhood agency First Things First, which saw a need for it to be digitized. Kat Willard, senior director of family support and literacy for First Things First, said parents in Arizona need a centralized place ...

Said cruz didnt do anything. hes an embarrassment to the state of texas. let me just say that. i dont care what or who runs again him. i will work for that campaign to defeat that son of a -- you get that idea. cruzs office told "the dallas morning news" his silence was out of concern of antagonizing strong man vladimir putin. well, how polite. that the does seem to be a trend among some in the new republican party, concerned not to anger the ex-kgb authoritarian communicator. take the president...

>> its rainman. >> yeah, thats true. i watch "the peoples court" and do that. what i learned from tim was the emotional content of the artistic expressions in the moment. because i would think of things, of course, as, this is what franklin roosevelt did. this was lincolns emancipation decision. and he pushed me to say, okay, but whats the history of "the battle hymn of the republic"? ♪ its not just something that emerged from the sky and became this marshal hymn. it was written in one night b...

The poor, including poor children. so he doesnt know much about it. >> now his opponent, his main opponent, newt gingrich, had this to say taking a shot at willard and at president obama at the same time. watch this, mr. chairman. >> both governor romney and barack obama seem to believe that a, quote, safety net is all the poor need. i dont believe that. what the poor need is a trampoline so they can spring up. they dont have the right to be given happiness by the government, which is impossible...