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After decades of earnest public-information campaigns, Americans are finally recycling. Airports, malls, schools, and office buildings across the country have bins for plastic bottles and aluminum cans and newspapers. In some cities, you can be fined if inspectors discover that you haven’t recycled appropriately. But now much of that carefully sorted recycling is ending up in the trash. For decades, we were sending the bulk of our recycling to China — tons and tons of it, sent over on ships to be made into goods such as shoes and bags and new plastic products. But last year, the country restricted...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 13 (UPI) -- Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has signed into law removing language in homes association documents that ban minorities from owning or renting property. The homes associations with such covenants have until January to delete the restrictions or face legal action, reports The Kansas City Star. "Language of this sort has no place at any level in our state, and I fully support this addition to the law," Blunt said before signing the bill Tuesday. "I'm very proud," said U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., who is sponsoring a similar resolution in Congress. "This means my...