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The "song of the summer" sweepstakes have finally been joined by an honest-to-goodness pop jam from Sabrina Carpenter.

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Sabrina Carpenter joins the 'song of the summer' race, just in time

"Manchild," the first single from Sabrina Carpenter's forthcoming album Man's Best Friend, enters this week's Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1, making a late-breaking bid for "song of the summer" status in the process.

June 17, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Patricia Cheeley, center, has been coming to Homeplace Adult Day Center in Wrens, G.a. for about five years. She's often found in the living room reading from her Bible. Cheeley and others who are elderly and/or disabled and eligible for Medicaid can use it to pay for long-term support services, like attendance to a day center.

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  • Health Care

For Georgia's aging population, Medicaid cuts threaten options for care

Medicaid helps pay for the services seniors can no longer do for themselves. Proposed cuts target federal spending for the program, worrying providers of caregiving services.

June 17, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
Kraft Heinz says 90% of its food items already use natural food colorings. Products that still use synthetic dyes are in its beverage and dessert categories like Crystal Light and Jell-O.

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  • Health

Kraft Heinz to remove artificial dyes from all products, like Jell-O and Kool-Aid

By 2027, Kraft Heinz says all artificial food dyes will be replaced with natural colors. The move comes two months after federal officials called on food companies to stop using synthetic dyes.

June 17, 2025
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  • Maria Godoy
The entrance to the Turner Job Corps Center in Albany recently.

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  • Economy

How cuts to the nation's trade school could put vulnerable young people at risk

Among recent targets for federal spending cuts is a sixty year old Department of Labor program called the Job Corps. NOW thousands are wondering where they'll go next.

June 17, 2025
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  • Grant Blankenship
A rally in New York on June 9 protested President Donald Trump's new travel ban, which restricts entry to the United States for citizens from 19 countries.

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  • Global Health

How Trump's travel ban could disrupt the way knowledge about health is shared

Global health specialists talk about the consequences of the full or partial ban on travel to the U.S. from 19 countries.

June 17, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
Chessboards have no players at the Kabul Elite Chess Club in Kabul after Taliban authorities have barred the game across Afghanistan.

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  • Global Health

The Taliban has banned a lot of things ... but chess?

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?

June 17, 2025
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  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Fariba Akbari
Sixteen-time champion Joey Chestnut poses after his 2021 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest victory on Coney Island. He returns to the stage this summer after being banned last year.

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  • National

Joey Chestnut will return to the Coney Island hot dog contest after last year's beef

Joey Chestnut was banned from the contest that made him famous after signing an endorsement deal with a company that makes plant-based proteins. The 16-time champ returns to Coney Island on July 4th.

June 17, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Book Reviews

New books out this week offer catastrophes that at least profess to be just fantasies

The new books publishing this week may get quite heavy, laden as they are with family tragedy, psychopathy and heartbreak — but at least they are fiction.

June 17, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer
Cooling towers at the nuclear reactor facility at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency charged with overseeing safety at the nation's reactors.

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  • Politics

President Trump fires a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Christopher Hanson was appointed to serve on the commission overseeing the nation's nuclear reactors during Trump's first term in 2020.

June 17, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Democrat Abigail  Spanberger (left) and Republican Winsome Earle-Sears are the candidates for governor of Virginia.

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  • Politics

Virginia's governor's race could be a barometer for how voters feel about Trump

On Tuesday, Virginia holds its primary election. The contest is a barometer for how Virginians, and maybe Americans, feel about the Trump administration ahead of the 2026 midterms.

June 17, 2025
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  • Margaret Barthel

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GPB morning headlines for June 17, 2025

Polls are open today for Georgia voters to choose party nominees for two posts on the Georgia Public Service Commission.

Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock is pushing for a bipartisan bill to help shelter animals in Georgia.

Georgia historic preservation groups are scrambling amidst delays in funding distribution from the federal government.

June 17, 2025
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Raphael Warnock: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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  • Politics

Bipartisan 'BARK' act aims to bring food to shelter animals

Sen. Raphael Warnock is pushing for a bipartisan bill to help shelter animals in Georgia. 

June 17, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis
President Donald Trump alights from Air Force One after arriving at Joint Base Andrews on June 17 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Trump said he left the G7 Leaders' Summit a day early to return to Washington to try to deal with the conflict between Israel and Iran.

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  • News

Trump leaves G7 to focus on Mideast conflict. And, Vance Boelter faces federal charges

Trump left the G7 summit early to focus on the rapidly escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. And, the man suspected of killing a Minnesota state lawmaker faces federal murder charges.

June 17, 2025
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
Apple Store in Shanghai, China.

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  • Business

How Apple turbocharged China's development

A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have undermined America's lead in technological innovation and even its national security.

June 17, 2025
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Ukraine Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, right, examines the site of a missile strike that ruined a residential building during Russia's massive missile and drone air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.

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  • Europe

Russia pummels Kyiv with drones and missiles, killing at least 15

The attacks was one of the largest on Ukraine's capital in months. It came as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared for the G7 summit in Canada, where he is pushing for stronger sanctions on Russia.

June 17, 2025
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  • Joanna Kakissis
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