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Workers sort potatoes in the field, collecting small and large ones in different buckets. Each bucket weighs 30 pounds or so. A worker will shoulder that bucket and dump it into a flatbed truck 400 to 500 times a day. It's a daily load of 6 or 7 tons of sweet potatoes.

Behind Your Holiday Sweet Potato Dish, Hard Work In The Fields

More than half of America's sweet potatoes were lifted by hand from the soil of North Carolina. It's some of the most back-breaking farm work to be found, and migrant laborers do most of it.

Americans Weigh In On Excitement

Which of these events is the most exciting: Super Bowl, Iowa caucuses or the new Star Wars movie? A Bloomberg Politics poll says it's the Super Bowl followed by the Iowa caucuses.

President Obama and French President François Hollande embrace during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday.

Obama, Hollande Say They Will Expand Attacks Against ISIS In Syria, Iraq

French President François Hollande was at the White House trying broaden an international coalition to fight the Islamic State.

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9/19/19 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

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Company behind NED pipeline files formal application

The energy company Kinder Morgan has formally applied to install a pipeline connecting Pennsylvania gas wells with Massachusetts.This is the next step in…

Video Released Of Black Teen's Fatal Shooting By White Chicago Police Officer

Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times in October 2014, after he refused to follow officers' instructions as he walked down a street with a knife. The officer who shot him has been charged with murder.

A poster in the Nairobi slum of Kangemi welcomes Pope Francis to Kenya.

A Pope's Visit May Bring Hope, But Does It Also Bring Change?

During a papal visit, the media swarm and security is intense. He speaks of issues that face the country. After he goes, is there any lasting legacy?

1/29/19 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

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A relative of a boy who tested positive for Ebola in Liberia last week gets her temperature taken as she enters the clinic where he was being treated.

15-Year-Old Boy Is Liberia's First Ebola-Related Fatality Since July

Liberian officials announced a resurgence of the disease last week. Two of the boy's family members reportedly also have tested positive for the disease.

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