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Donations to NPR and PBS Stations Surge After Funding Cuts
Donors are turning out to support local stations, but those contributions so far fall well short of the annual $550 million that Congress cut.
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She Tended to Patients Across 4 States. But She Wasn’t a Nurse, Police Say.
A woman who the Pennsylvania State Police say worked under multiple aliases faces multiple criminal charges. The authorities still aren’t sure of her real name.
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow NIH to Cut DEI-Related Grants
A district court judge declared some of the administration’s cuts ‘void and illegal.’
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Face to Face, Powell Told Trump He Was Wrong About a Construction Project
President Trump is used to world leaders bowing down to him, and to cabinet members fawning over him. Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, took a different approach.
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Fired FEMA Official Files Suit, Saying Board to Hear Worker Disputes Is Paralyzed
Fired employees have struggled to get a judge to hear their cases because Congress set up a separate system to referee such employment disputes.
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Texas Legislature Special Session: Democrats Attack Silent Republicans
President Trump wants Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s House maps to nab as many as five seats now held by Democrats. But no new maps have been publicly proposed yet.
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Gabbard’s Attacks on Obama Put the Attorney General in a Tough Spot
The director of national intelligence gave the Justice Department little warning before she demanded an investigation.
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Southwest Passenger Says She Was Ejected From Flight Based on Her Race
On a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., last November, the passenger said she was the only Black person seated in an exit row when she was asked to leave.
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6 Beaches in Europe Where You Can Cool Off This Summer
Visiting Europe in the heat can mean sweating it out with no air-conditioning, but sea breezes beckon in these refreshing spots from Croatia to Norway.
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Hints of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b Recede Even Further
New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions about what it will take to detect biology light-years away.