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PBS plans to cut its budget by 21% as public media faces the loss of $1.1 billion in federal funding over the next two fiscal years. Paula Kerger, president and CEO of PBS, informed station general managers Wednesday of the planned cuts. The overall pool of station dues will be reduced by $35 million, she said. Local outlets are grappling …

MUBI CEO Efe Cakarel has addressed the ongoing controversy over the company’s recent $100 million investment from Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm that was found to have ties to several companies connected to the Israeli military. In a lengthy statement shared with the press Thursday, August 14, Cakarel clarified the profits MUBI generates do not fund other companies in …

Judge orders Trump administration to partially restore UCLA research funding  Politico Contributor: Unlike at Columbia, Trump’s attack on UCLA is aimed at taxpayer money  Los Angeles Times Trump Administration Violated Order on U.C.L.A. Grant Terminations, Judge Says  The New York Times Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore hundreds of UCLA research grants  CalMatters Judge orders Trump administration to restore part of UCLA’s suspended …

Chris Murphy goes all in on funding bill boycott as Dems seek bipartisanship  Politico Source link

The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would fund SEPTA and avoid major service cuts at the end of the month, but it’s expected to face challenges from Democrats in the state House. Senators first passed an amendment to the bill, introduced by Republican state Sen. Joe Picozzi of Northeast Philadelphia, with a 27-22 vote along party …

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Senate on Tuesday advanced a $47.6 billion state budget for 2025-26 that holds spending flat, as well as a two-year, $1.2 billion transportation plan opposed by Democrats to fund mass transit operations and repairs to rural roads. The transportation measure would draw from money designated for ongoing and planned transit capital projects in the Public Transportation Trust …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to build, and will outcompete rival models. The automaker’s top executive unveiled the new EV strategy at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant which, after producing gas-powered vehicles for 70 years, will be …

Washington — Just over a year ago, federal judges, defenders and a group of lawyers who represent criminal indigent defendants gathered at the U.S. courthouse in Baltimore to hear federal Judge Myron Thompson give an address. Thompson, who sits on the district court in Alabama, and the others were there to commemorate the 60th anniversary of passage of the Criminal …

Vance: ‘We’re done with the funding of the Ukraine war business’  The Hill Trump Live Updates: Vance Says U.S. Is Working to Set Up Meeting With Trump, Putin and Zelensky  The New York Times White House is open to bringing Ukraine, Russia together for peace talks  The Washington Post Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump ‘done with funding war’ and will force Putin and Zelensky …

Their medical research focuses on potentially lifesaving breakthroughs in cancer treatment, and developing tools to more easily diagnose debilitating diseases. Their studies in mathematics could make online systems more robust and secure. But as the academic year opens, the work of UCLA’s professors in these and many other fields has been imperiled by the Trump administration’s suspension of $584 million …