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As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit – The New York Times

As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit  The New York Times Opinion | A reality check for NPR stations in Trump country  The Washington Post Hussain: Future of WGTE, other public entities hang in balance  Toledo Blade After Trump and Congress spending cuts, public media stations wait on money for emergency alerts  AP News WRTI must raise $700,000 after CPB announces …

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A massive dust storm known as a haboob hit Phoenix : NPR

A massive dust storm known as a haboob hit Phoenix : NPR

A giant dust storm approaches the Phoenix metro area as a monsoon storm pushes the dust into the air on Aug. 25 in Phoenix, Az. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption toggle caption Ross D. Franklin/AP Parts of central Arizona were engulfed by a towering wall of dust on Monday evening — producing dramatic scenes that sent shockwaves far beyond the …

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National debt to hit 120% of GDP by 2035, new analysis shows

National debt to hit 120% of GDP by 2035, new analysis shows

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas discusses tariff revenue and how President Donald Trumps tax bill will affect the deficit on Mornings with Maria. The U.S. government’s budget deficits are now projected to worsen throughout the next decade when compared with earlier forecasts this year, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal …

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Fit and healthy father, 60, hit by deadly cancer – he suffered a single symptom that you should NEVER mistake as an infection

Fit and healthy father, 60, hit by deadly cancer – he suffered a single symptom that you should NEVER mistake as an infection

A fit and healthy father has told how he dismissed signs of his blood cancer as the lingering side effects of a stomach bug.  Tim Blackburn, from Somerset, suddenly began to feel fatigued in December 2022 during the busy festive period.  But it was only after the 60-year-old then developed nausea and struggled to keep food down that his family urged him …

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Confirmation Of Record 220 PeV Cosmic Neutrino Hit On Earth

Confirmation Of Record 220 PeV Cosmic Neutrino Hit On Earth

Neutrinos are exceedingly common in the Universe, with billions of them zipping around us throughout the day from a variety of sources. Due to their extremely low mass and no electric charge they barely ever interact with other particles, making these so-called ‘ghost particles’ very hard to detect. That said, when they do interact the result is rather spectacular as …

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Steep US tariffs set to hit Indian exports from Wednesday – Reuters

Steep US tariffs set to hit Indian exports from Wednesday  Reuters ‘How will I pay workers?’: Indian factories hit hard by Trump’s 50% tariffs  BBC India to Ease Russian Oil Purchases as Higher US Levies Loom  Bloomberg ‘Addressing threats to US by Russia’: Trump admin notifies India of additional tariffs; deadline tomorrow  Times of India US issues notice to India ahead of Donald Trump’s …

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Inside the Indian factories hit hard by US’s 50% tariffs

Inside the Indian factories hit hard by US’s 50% tariffs

Archana Shukla, Roxy Gagdekar & Garikipati Umakanth BBC News Reporting fromTiruppur, Surat & Veeravasaram Vishnu Vardhan, BBC News Tiruppur, which contributes to a third of India’s exports of apparel to US brands, is gripped by anxiety about tariffs An eerie silence hangs over N Krishnamurthy’s garment manufacturing unit in Tiruppur, one of India’s largest textile export hubs. Only a fraction …

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Repetitive radio bursts from deep space hit Earth hundreds of times

Repetitive radio bursts from deep space hit Earth hundreds of times

A team using MeerKAT in South Africa spotted a new repeating source of short, sharp radio pulses and, within days, tracked it through an intense outburst that produced hundreds of events across multiple frequency bands. These bursts belong to a class known as fast radio burst (FRB) events, which last only milliseconds and come from far beyond our galaxy, with …

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I lost nine stone on Mounjaro but then I was hit with this disfiguring side-effect I’d never heard of… and doctors say it’s now on the rise

I lost nine stone on Mounjaro but then I was hit with this disfiguring side-effect I’d never heard of… and doctors say it’s now on the rise

When Hope Lancaster Colquhoun was sent photos of her sister’s wedding, where she was a bridesmaid, she should have been thrilled. But the 42-year-old, who lives in Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, could hardly bear to open the file.  Instead, the ‘defeated’ mum of one, who weighed around 18 stone, was filled with dread at how ‘heavy’ she would look. So when, …

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