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JD Vance and Marco Rubio’s Senate successors are cruising to the primaries. Artificial intelligence is fueling job cuts and anxiety in the tech world. And a new genetic test may predict a child’s risk of obesity in adulthood. Here’s what to know today. Vance and Rubio’s Senate successors avoid GOP primary drama As JD Vance and Marco Rubio shot to …

ICE raids and Medicaid cuts are bad news for California’s immigrants. State cuts could be ‘much worse.’  Politico Trump’s immigration crackdown causing labor shortages to California’s construction industry, builder says: “They’re hiding”  CBS News Los Angeles ICE raids: Fear and anxiety continue as businesses and restaurants slowly reopen amid LA immigration raids  ABC7 Los Angeles The Economics of Immigration and Deportation  Paul Krugman | …

Abby DuFour, WCHG news reporter and afternoon host of the show DuFour Du Jour, cues up the next song in her broadcast at the station in Hot Springs, Va. Kristian Thacker for NPR hide caption toggle caption Kristian Thacker for NPR DUNMORE, West Virginia — When President Trump pushed to slash federal funding for public media, he said a key …

Here’s where public broadcasting cuts hit the hardest  The Washington Post Congress approves public media and foreign aid cuts: What to know  The Hill How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era  NPR KUOW listeners give nearly $1.5 million in one day  The Seattle Times What’s next for PBS and NPR after Republicans strip funding?  Yahoo Home Source link

The Republican tax bill signed into law earlier this month could result in a significant death toll for people seeking treatment for opioid addiction, according to a group of health economics researchers.  Specifically, cuts to Medicaid could result in large numbers of the program’s beneficiaries losing access to medications for opioid use disorder, per the new estimate, which was published …

The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday as Republicans intensified their efforts to target institutions and programs they view as bloated or out of step with their agenda. The vote marked the first time in decades that a president has successfully submitted such …

NPR and PBS Funding Cuts Were Decades in the Making  The New York Times Bill cutting foreign aid and public broadcasting passes US House  BBC Congress sends $9B spending cuts package to Trump’s desk after late-night House vote  Fox News House passes Trump’s $9 billion DOGE cuts package in another legislative win for president  CNN ‘Devastating’: US public broadcasters condemn Trump cuts to key …

Raven Software in Middleton has been caught up in the latest mass layoffs to hit the video game industry, after Microsoft let go of hundreds of employees in its gaming division in early July. Microsoft laid off over 9,000 employees companywide July 2. A leaked email from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer — provided to Windows Central — confirmed hundreds …

Public broadcast station leaders are condemning Donald Trump’s latest victory after the Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that will cancel all federal funding for public broadcasting programs including PBS and NPR. Following the Senate’s decision to pass $9bn in spending cuts to public broadcasting as well as foreign aid, PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger saying that the Senate’s …

CNN  —  House Republicans gave the final stamp of approval early Friday morning to a package of $9 billion in spending cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting, handing a win to President Donald Trump. Congress passed the package — which is part of Trump’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency efforts — under an obscure presidential budget law used to …