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Breaking News: The White House will restore $187 million in cuts to law enforcement funding that would have devastated New York’s intelligence and counterterrorism operations, following a bipartisan effort to reinstate the funds, officials said. nyti.ms/3VQN7e2
October 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Breaking News: The White House will restore $187 million in cuts to law enforcement funding that would have devastated New York’s intelligence and counterterrorism operations, following a bipartisan effort to reinstate the funds, officials said. nyti.ms/3VQN7e2
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Update: After the spokeswoman for USAID said on Thursday that millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives had been destroyed under orders from the Trump administration, the authorities in Belgium said they had checked the stockpile on Friday and it was still in place.
Belgian Authorities Say $10 Million Supply of Birth Control Has Not Yet Been Destroyed
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Update: After the spokeswoman for USAID said on Thursday that millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives had been destroyed under orders from the Trump administration, the authorities in Belgium said they had checked the stockpile on Friday and it was still in place.
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Thank you, Martha Raddatz
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences?
RUBIO: That's not the aim
RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
RUBIO: That's not the aim
RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
August 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thank you, Martha Raddatz
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White and Black descendants of enslavers and enslaved have come together where their ancestors once lived in Alabama, working to address the plantation’s legacy and promote healing.
At Alabama plantation, families of enslavers and enslaved strike a deal
The descendants of enslavers and enslaved have come together where their ancestors once lived, working to address the plantation’s legacy and promote healing.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
White and Black descendants of enslavers and enslaved have come together where their ancestors once lived in Alabama, working to address the plantation’s legacy and promote healing.
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Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library
Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library
The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library
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A Mississippi judge ordered a local newspaper to take down an editorial criticizing its mayor and city council, in a move that has alarmed free-speech advocates across the country and aggravated a years-long feud between the paper and the city’s mayor.
Mississippi city stuns newspaper with restraining order over editorial
The feud between a Black mayor and a conservative newspaper spilled over onto the national stage when a Mississippi court ordered a critical editorial be taken down.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A Mississippi judge ordered a local newspaper to take down an editorial criticizing its mayor and city council, in a move that has alarmed free-speech advocates across the country and aggravated a years-long feud between the paper and the city’s mayor.