If you’ve ever felt like your favorite app or website keeps getting worse, Cory Doctorow has a word for it — and now, a whole book. “Enshittification” lays out how tech platforms win over users, then businesses, and finally ruin the experience[...]
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Ranchers have beef with President after Argentine beef comments
North Dakota ranchers are pushing back after President Trump suggested the U.S. might buy Argentine beef to lower consumer prices. To them, it’s more than a policy idea — it’s a threat to their livelihoods. Rancher George Leingang, whose family has worked[...]
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Trump fires another inspector general, raising fears about oversight independence
President Trump has again dismissed a key government watchdog — this time the inspector general for the Export-Import Bank — deepening tensions over the independence of federal oversight. Critics, including Sen. Chuck Grassley, say the firing violates federal law requiring Congress to[...]
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What is happening to the economy right now, according to the SF Fed president
The Federal Reserve often feels like a distant force—moving interest rates, shaping markets, and influencing everything from mortgages to job growth. But in this conversation, Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Fed, pulls back the curtain. She explains how decisions made[...]
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Do government programs have to be our solution to everything?
As talk of new farm payments circulates, one agricultural columnist asks whether the industry has grown too dependent on government help. With crop prices lagging and trade disputes fueling uncertainty, some producers are once again looking to Washington for relief. But do[...]
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In small towns and rural communities, young voters say they feel unseen by leaders
Across rural America, younger generations are finding that hard work no longer guarantees stability. For people like Andrew Tait in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, long hours still leave bills unpaid and dreams out of reach. NPR’s report captures the growing frustration among Gen[...]
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HOLY COW! HISTORY: Unsinkable Sam, the World’s Luckiest Cat?
You’ve heard about the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the brassy, nouveau riche millionaire mine owner’s wife who made it safely off the sinking Titanic. As incredible as that was, she had nothing on a remarkably feisty feline. Because he survived not one, but[...]
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Shohei Ohtani hits 3 homers and strikes out 10 in Dodgers’ clinching 5-1 NLCS win over Brewers
There are great games, and then there are the ones that reshape what greatness looks like. Shohei Ohtani gave baseball one of those nights last night. Three home runs, ten strikeouts, and seven innings of near-perfection lifted the Dodgers to a sweep[...]
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Are Americans Losing Trust in Public Health Leadership?
A new poll obtained by InsideSources shows Americans disapprove of the job Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing overseeing the nation’s health care — and they have serious concerns about his links to lawsuits targeting the drug[...]
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Pentagon journalists turn in badges over restrictions
For the first time in decades, the Pentagon’s press room has gone quiet. Rows of empty desks now mark a rare act of solidarity among journalists who chose principle over access. Faced with new rules that let Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decide[...]
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Citizens and Legal Residents Detained and Ticketed in Chicago
Maria Greeley had just finished a double shift and was heading home to walk her dogs when three masked federal agents surrounded her outside a Chicago bar. They zip-tied her hands, accused her of lying about being a U.S. citizen, and told[...]
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Bulletin Board Lessons For Elected Leaders
I recently attended a meeting held at the Business Department on the campus of Minot State University. Because I arrived early, I checked out what was posted on the bulletin boards in the hallway outside our meeting room. The poster that was[...]
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CDC Cuts Threaten Public Health Nationwide, Fired Employees Say
Former scientists are warning that sweeping layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have left the agency without much of its leadership or expertise. More than 600 employees were cut over the weekend, part of a larger reduction in force[...]
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Statement from NPR on Pentagon’s Press Policy
NPR will never be party to limitations on the independence of the press and the objective, fact-based reporting of our journalists. We will not sign the Administration’s restrictive policy that asks reporters to undermine their commitment of providing trustworthy, independent journalism to[...]
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Opinion: Why I’m handing in my Pentagon press pass
For the first time in decades, NPR reporters — and many of their peers across the media — are being shut out of the Pentagon. The Defense Department is demanding that journalists sign a new document restricting how they gather even unclassified[...]
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Math gaps narrowing, but reading scores remain stagnant, new research shows
Even as classrooms settle into post-pandemic rhythms, the question lingers: how far have students really come in catching up? A new national report from testing group NWEA offers a clearer — and more complicated — answer. Math scores are rising modestly, and[...]