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Customers shop for produce at a grocery store on Feb. 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas.

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  • Politics

Privacy advocates urge states not to comply with USDA requests for food stamp data

One payment processor has so far signaled to states that it intends to turn over data about millions of Americans to the federal government even as privacy groups warn that the request is illegal.

May 13, 2025
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  • Jude Joffe-Block
Shen Yun dance troupe on a billboard advertising an upcoming performance in Leavenworth, Kansas.

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  • Art & Design

Two former Shen Yun dancers allege forced child labor, brutal conditions in lawsuit

Two former dancers allege that they lived under a culture of fear and routinely performed despite injuries. Shen Yun has vehemently denied the claims.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
This combination of pictures created on Monday shows a photograph distributed by Russia's state agency Sputnik showing Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview with RIA Novosti news agency at the Kremlin on March 12, 2024, and a picture of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a summit in Singapore on June 2, 2024.

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  • Europe

As Russia and Ukraine prepare for possible direct talks, cue President Trump

There are lots of unknowns ahead of potential direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey.

May 13, 2025
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  • Charles Maynes and
  • Joanna Kakissis
Caitlin Tulloch at home.

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  • Global Health

A matchmaking service with a twist: Connecting big givers to programs cut by USAID

A former USAID worker has a new mission. She's hoping to connect philanthropists with overseas programs that have lost — or are likely to lose — their U.S. funding.

May 13, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
Ximena Arias Cristobal was wrongfully arrested following a traffic stop.

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for May 13, 2025

Traffic charges dismissed for 19-year-old in ICE custody; Georgia Supreme Court heard public housing authority case; U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta heard case of mass voter challenge in 2021.

May 13, 2025
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Former Uruguayan President José "Pepe" Mujica on Oct. 27, 2024.

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  • Obituaries

Uruguay's ex-President José Mujica, nicknamed 'world's poorest president,' dies at 89

José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.

May 13, 2025
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  • John Otis
Ximena Arias Cristobal was wrongfully arrested following a traffic stop.

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  • News

Georgia Today: Student still in ICE custody after charges dropped; Voter challenge ruling appealed

On the May 13 edition: A Georgia college student remains in ICE custody; Morehouse announces its next president; a judge hears arguments over a 2021 mass voter challenge.

May 13, 2025
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Barbie Dolls imported from China line the shelves of the A to Z Toys store on May 07 in Miami Beach, Fla.

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  • Business

A major toy manufacturer is already nervous about Trump tariffs for holiday season

Jay Foreman, CEO of Basic Fun!, says the Trump administration's shifting tariff policy has created chaos for businesses — and could still disrupt the holiday season.

May 13, 2025
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  • Nia Dumas and
  • Michel Martin
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been carrying out President  Trump's vision to shrink government. On Monday, they announced an executive order aimed at drug prices.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. got rid of an 'alphabet soup' of health agencies. Now, Congress gets a say

On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. goes to Capitol Hill to promote and defend his massive overhaul of HHS, and President Trump's plans to change it even more.

May 13, 2025
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, following a hearing at the Robert E. Peckham U.S. Courthouse on March 17, 2023 in San Jose, California. Evans has raised millions of dollars for a new health tech startup that Holmes is advising him on.

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  • Technology

Elizabeth Holmes' partner raises millions for new biotech testing startup

The incarcerated former Silicon Valley star is advising her partner on a new health tech startup. Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors in her blood-testing company Theranos.

May 13, 2025
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  • Bobby Allyn
Attendees hold inverted U.S. flags, a sign of distress,  during a rally organized by the Bar Association of San Francisco in support of attorneys and law firms targeted by President Donald Trump on May 1.

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  • Law

Race to lead D.C. lawyers' association grows heated amid attacks on law firms

More than 30,000 people have already voted in the election for the president of the D.C. Bar Association, more than triple the previous record set in 1990.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
Prescription drugs sit ready to be distributed to patients at 986 Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy in Alhambra, Calif.

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  • Health

Pharmacists stockpile most common drugs on chance of targeted Trump tariffs

While Big Pharma seems ready to weather the tariff storm, independent pharmacists and makers of generic drugs — which account for 90% of U.S. prescriptions — see trouble ahead for patients.

May 13, 2025
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  • Jackie Fortiér and
  • Arthur Allen
A price tag with a dollar sign lies on the sidewalk outside a Walmart store in La Habra, Calif., Wednesday, April 2.

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  • Economy

Why an economist says temporary U.S.-China tariff deal doesn't ease uncertainty

Businesses are rushing to import Chinese goods after the U.S. struck a temporary deal. This "stop-go" nature of trade could still mean higher prices and doesn't ease uncertainty, an economist warns.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Obed Manuel and
  • Leila Fadel

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  • Economy

Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?

Leaders from both political parties have been working to bring back manufacturing. But American manufacturers say they are struggling to fill the manufacturing jobs we already have.

May 13, 2025
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., appears at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 6. Republicans are working to pass a sweeping multitrillion-dollar plan to reshape tax, energy and immigration policy.

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  • Politics

Republicans face a crucial stretch this week as they aim to deliver on Trump's agenda

Three key committees are putting pen to paper on Trump's "big beautiful bill." But lawmakers are at odds over policies with far-reaching impacts on Americans' wallets and, for many, their health care.

May 13, 2025
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  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Elena Moore
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