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Linda Gordon draws cartoons for <a href="https://squarerootday.net/"target="_blank"   >the website</a> that her husband Ron Gordon made to celebrate mathematically themed days.<br><br>

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Be square and get to the root of it! Celebrate Square Root Day today!

Square root days happen only a few times in a century, and the man who brought the day fame is celebrating his sixth one.

May 05, 2025
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  • Ari Daniel
Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don't include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town's identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg's firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company.

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A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target

Emmitsburg is home to the National Fire Academy, effectively the war college for U.S. firefighters. The Trump administration's decision to halt classes has some townspeople pondering their votes.

May 05, 2025
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  • Frank Langfitt
The Safe to Sleep campaign has greatly reduced cases of sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related deaths.

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  • Health

Trump cuts baby 'Safe to Sleep' team. Here's what parents should know

For decades the NIH has led a public health campaign credited with saving thousands of babies from dying in their sleep. The administration's cuts come as sleep-related infant deaths have been rising.

May 05, 2025
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  • Maria Godoy
Wind turbines of South Fork Wind are seen off the coast of Block Island, R.I., on Oct. 9, 2024.

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  • Energy

States sue Trump administration for blocking the development of wind energy

Attorneys general from 17 states and D.C. are challenging an executive order Trump signed on his first day in office pausing approvals, permits and loans for all wind energy projects.

May 05, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
"I don't know what comes after this, what tops this over stimulation of characters," Sarah Snook says of her work in <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray.</em>

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1 show, 26 characters: Sarah Snook shares the stage with herself in 'Dorian Gray'

Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway. "I don't know what comes after this," she says.

May 05, 2025
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado
Gov. Brian Kemp delivers the State of the State address at the House Chamber on Jan. 16, 2024. (Georgia House)

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  • News

Georgia Today: Kemp won't run for Senate; Ga. Democrats elect new leader; Proposed Medicaid cuts

On the May 5 edition: Kemp won't run for Senate next year; The Georgia Democratic Party elects a new leader; proposed Medicaid cuts could hurt children with asthma. 

May 05, 2025
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
An Eta Aquarid meteor streaks over north Georgia on April 29, 2012.

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Fast-moving Eta Aquarid meteor shower to light up the predawn sky

The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower is set to peak early on May 6 and will be viewable in the dark predawn skies.

May 05, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Thousands of international students studying at U.S. universities have had their visa records terminated by the Trump administration, sometimes for infractions as minor as a traffic violation.

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  • National

Minor infractions lead to big problems for international students

After weeks of confusion, the Trump administration confirmed that it terminated visa records for thousands of international students because of past brushes with law enforcement, many of them minor.

May 05, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
The former federal prison complex on Alcatraz Island is seen in 2005. The site has been operated by the National Parks Service for decades — but President Trump says he is ordering federal agencies to rebuild and expand a penitentiary site on the island in San Francisco Bay.

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  • National

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz for the 'most ruthless and violent' prisoners

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time to substantially enlarge and rebuild Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.

May 05, 2025
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  • Bill Chappell
Composer and band leader Duke Ellington adjusting his bow-tie at the Royal Festival Hall in London on October 5th, 1958.

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  • Arts & Life

Black Dandyism takes the spotlight at the 2025 Met Gala

Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter calls it "a full circle moment" as she reclaims history at the 2025 Met Gala.

May 05, 2025
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  • Michel Martin and
  • Nia Dumas
<em>Foreign Fruit</em> is a hybrid memoir that pulls apart mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and identity like the segments of a citrus fruit. Above, citrus on display at a shop in the UK.

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  • Book Reviews

Supermarket displays of oranges will never look the same after reading 'Foreign Fruit'

In her new hybrid memoir, Katie Goh unravels the multitudes citrus fruit contains, in lockstep with mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and identity.

May 05, 2025
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  • Kristen Martin
A Skype logo is seen at the Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. The video conferencing app is shutting down on Monday.

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  • Technology

It's last call for Skype as the once-popular video calling app shuts down

Microsoft has announced that the pioneering online video calling service that's been around for more than two decades will go offline on Monday.

May 05, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez and
  • Scott Neuman
 Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp official State of Georgia headshot

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Gov. Kemp is officially out of the running for U.S. Senate

Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday that he will not run for U.S. Senate in 2026, leaving the Republican primary to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff wide open.

May 05, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at The Neighborhood Lot on Friday, July 29, 2022, in McDonough, Ga. On Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, Kemp announced he would use federal COVID-19 relief money to make $350 payments to more than 3 million Georgians who benefit from Medicaid, subsidized child health insurance, food stamps or cash welfare.

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for May 5, 2025

Kemp won't run for Senate next year; Warnock faces tough questions in town hall; Georgia clean energy advocates rallying behind federal programs

May 05, 2025
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NPR TV critic Eric Deggans picks his favorite performances of 2025 so far, including, clockwise from top left, Catherine O'Hara in <em>The Last of Us</em> and <em>The Studio</em>, Noah Wyle in <em>The Pitt,</em> Uzo Aduba in <em>The Residence, </em>Carrie Coon in <em>The White Lotus, </em>Tramell Tillman in <em>Severance </em>and Owen Cooper in <em>Adolescence</em>.

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  • Television

The best 6 TV performances I've seen so far this year

NPR TV critic Eric Deggans picks his favorite performances of 2025 thus far, including Noah Wyle in The Pitt, Catherine O'Hara in The Last of Us and The Studio, and Carrie Coon in The White Lotus.

May 05, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
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