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News Articles: Politics

A flooded street with debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, in Siesta Key, Fla., on October 10, 2024. The monster weather system sent tornadoes spinning across the state and flooded swaths of the Tampa Bay area after the storm rapidly intensified to a top-of-scale category 5 major hurricane.

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  • Weather

Scientists say NOAA cuts by Trump undermine improvements in hurricane forecasts

The Trump administration is targeting top climate and weather labs for cuts. Insiders worry about the impact on research and NOAA's ability to forecast severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Allen
Pronatalists believe that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies. They see powerful potential allies in Elon Musk and JD Vance.

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  • National

They say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?

Pronatalists believe that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies. They see powerful potential allies in Elon Musk and JD Vance.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Lisa Hagen
Republican lawmakers in Florida are investigating how $10 million in state money was diverted for use in a political campaign with ties to the wife of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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  • Politics

A developing political scandal in Florida has Gov. Ron DeSantis on the defensive

A developing political scandal in Florida has put Gov. Ron DeSantis on the defensive. Republican lawmakers are investigating how $10 million in state money was diverted for use in a campaign.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Allen
Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump on March 9. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has asked for major cuts to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a foreign aid agency started by George W. Bush.

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  • Global Health

DOGE dismantling foreign aid agency started by George W. Bush

The Millennium Challenge Corporation, focused on boosting economic growth abroad, could essentially shutter.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert and
  • Fatma Tanis
The Department of Health and Humans Services changed course and will continue funding for the Women's Health Initiative.

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  • Health

In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study

The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Through Pere Ubu, David Thomas' influence can be heard on countless bands that resisted categorization.

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  • Obituaries

David Thomas, Pere Ubu's defiantly original leader, dies at 71

Formed in 1975, Pere Ubu embodied the industrial decay and hardscrabble ethics of Cleveland. Thomas tied together the band's sound with uncompromising vocals that exuded steely menace and unfettered anguish.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Annie Zaleski
A sign for new voter registration is seen outside a polling location in Derry, N.H., on March 11.

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  • Elections

Judge pauses parts of Trump's sweeping executive order on voting

A federal judge has paused a key section of President Trump's executive order that makes sweeping changes to voting and elections.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
Ronald Reagan, Amelia Earhart, Kobe Bryant and Albert Einstein will be among those honored in the National Garden of American Heroes.

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  • Arts & Life

Artists wanted for Trump's National Garden of American Heroes 

The National Endowment for the Humanities says the project will "honor the statesmen, visionaries, and innovators who shaped the nation." It's a lot of statues.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-VA is pushing for CDC's FOIA team to be restored, after the jobs were eliminated in the recent HHS layoffs.

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  • Health

House oversight Democrat demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
A precipitation monitor from the Southeast Regional Climate Center.

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  • Environment

What lost funding for weather data centers could mean for Georgia, according to climatologists

Data housed by the Regional Climate Centers includes drought maps, air quality visualization and precipitation and temperature averages by state going back more than 100 years.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Chase McGee
The 2025 NFL Draft gets underway Thursday night. Where will (left to right) Miami quarterback Cam Ward, Colorado wide receiver Travis Hunter, and Penn State defensive end Abdul Carter end up?

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  • Sports

Where will Travis Hunter, Cam Ward and other top players be picked in the NFL Draft?

It's been almost 30 years since an NFL player played a true two-way season. Heisman winner Travis Hunter could be the next — but first, he has to be selected in the NFL Draft, which begins Thursday.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office in February.

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  • Education

Trump signs executive actions on education, including efforts to rein in DEI

The directives include new efforts to curtail DEI programs at colleges, and discipline guidance for public schools.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
A pump jack in New Mexico's San Juan Basin. This is one of the country's oldest federal lands drilling areas. Many oil company executives celebrated Donald Trump's return to the White House. But now expectations of higher profits are fading amid fears of a recession.

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  • Business

Oil companies expected a big business boom under Trump. Now they're worried

Many oil company executives celebrated Donald Trump's return to the White House. But now expectations of higher profits are fading amid fears of a recession.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
The Department of Education says it will resume collections on defaulted student loans on May 5, affecting some 5 million borrowers nationwide.

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  • Education

What to know as the government begins collections on defaulted student debt

The Department of Education says it will resume collections on May 5 and send wage garnishment notices "later this summer." Here's how to know — and what to do — if you'll be affected.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Rockalina the eastern box turtle enjoys the outdoors for the first time in nearly 50 years.

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  • Animals

After nearly 50 years cooped up inside, Rockalina the turtle finds the great outdoors

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for her survival.

April 24, 2025
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  • Alina Hartounian
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