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Natalie and Austin Jantz, a California couple, paid nearly $50,000 in non-refundable matching fees to Brighter Adoptions before a series of red flags and last-minute disruptions left them childless in the process.
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Photo illustration by Alexis Rausch, KUER
When Utah’s Brighter Adoptions unexpectedly closed its doors, it left more than a dozen families in the lurch and without answers. Those families say negligence sank the agency and blocked their way to parenthood.

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Mars isn’t just a modern-day obsession. Earthlings were nuts for the Red Planet more than a century ago. Science writer David Baron’s new book takes us to the turn of the 20th century, where astronomers are convinced they’ve uncovered proof of life on Mars.

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