NPR (David Folkenflik) - In South Dakota, public media endures a year after federal funding was wiped out
We check in on one state public broadcasting network a year after President Trump signed a law ending federal funding of public media.
NPR (Shannon Bond) - Trump administration signs commercial nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia
The agreement gives American companies priority access to nuclear reactors and fuel to Saudi Arabia. It's expected to last decades and be worth billions of dollars.
ABCNEWS - Immigration enforcement becomes flashpoint in Maine Senate race after fatal shooting
The fatal shooting of a 25-year-old Colombian man by a federal immigration agent has put the issue of ICE front and center in Maine's Senate race.
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ABCNEWS - WATCH: Women go online to share post-divorce glow-ups
A growing social media trend has women sharing how they've transformed emotionally and physically after divorce.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: William Shatner, daughter each battle stage 4 cancer
Shatner and his daughter Melanie speak out in a new interview about their stage 4 cancer diagnoses, received a year apart, and how they're doing now.
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ABCNEWS - WATCH: OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach
OpenAI called it the first known instance of an autonomous AI cyberattack, long-feared by some industry observers.
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AXIOS (Kate Santaliz) - House GOP passes blueprint for reconciliation 3.0
House Republicans officially kicked off reconciliation 3.0 on Wednesday, narrowly approving a budget framework to unlock work on their planned $95 billion package. Why it matters: The vote gets Republicans into the reconciliation process , but lawmakers in both chambers have signaled the package itself faces a difficult path to passage. - Two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) — voted against the measure, along with all Democrats. GOPer- turned-Independent Rep. Kevin Kiley (Calif.) also voted against the measure, which passed 216-214. - The package includes $73 billion in funding for the Iran war, $12 in farm aid and a $10 billion fund aimed at incentivizing states to adopt elements of the SAVE…
NYTIMES (Sharon Waxman) - How Christopher Nolan Proved the ‘Odyssey’ Haters Wrong
The success of “The Odyssey,” and the potent political ideas at its core, only prove how tiresome the prerelease debate about “woke” really was.
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WASHINGTONPOST (Tim Craig) - Independent autopsy for Mississippi 18-year-old is inconclusive
Local officials have said no foul play is suspected in Nolan Wells’s death during a boating trip. But an attorney for Wells’s family said the autopsy could not rule it out.
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WASHINGTONPOST (Grey Battle) - Tourists behave badly at Yellowstone’s largest hot spring
Video captured two visitors illegally crossing the fragile crust of the Grand Prismatic Spring. “I thought I was going to watch people die," an onlooker said.
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