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Francisco Erwin Galicia, a U.S. citizen, had been detained by border patrol for three weeks without clear cause. RFA corps members Obed Manual broke the story, which went viral, landed Obed on CNN—and led to Galicia’s release a day later.
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After Will Wright’s reporting exposed that Eastern Kentucky families had no access to clean water because of chronic service outages, state officials agreed to spend $3.4 million to fix problems.
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