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Here's another Washington Post story as reminder that a year after Donald Trump and his Republican allies shuttered the government as part of a pouting demand that Trump be allowed to build his useless border erection, many government contract workers who missed paychecks during that shutdown have yet to receive a dime of what they’re owed.
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No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:13 (KJV)
You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11 (ESV)
Wealth is treacherous, and the arrogant are never at rest. They open their mouths as wide as the grave, and like death, they are never satisfied. In their greed they have gathered up many nations and swallowed many peoples. Habakkuk 2:5 (NLT)
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump EPA from halting $14 billion in grants previously awarded to three climate groups.
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American farmers risk becoming “collateral damage” of the U.S. president’s go-to foreign-policy tool.
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President Donald Trump's purge of U.S. government staff could soon pay dividends — for other countries. According to Politico, a group of countries in the European Union have hatched a plan to poach ousted researchers from the United States.
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Allen Ferguson carried his son through a wildfire to safety during Friday’s extreme weather conditions
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NASA's Landsats captured views of a Swiss glacier 40 years apart, showing how a warming world has reduced its footprint.
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Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases known to science – more contagious than Ebola, smallpox or COVID-19. Declining vaccination rates over the past few years, plus a recent outbreak in West Texas, have public health experts concerned.
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The executive director of Northern New Mexico’s food bank, The Food Depot, says the recent U.S. Department of Agriculture’s elimination of a program that connected food banks to local food producers is “devastating.”
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This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
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Donald Trump has kneecapped the country’s ability to forecast extreme weather.
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Wired reports that cuts at the United States Department of Agriculture initiated by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency could send grocery prices surging upward again — with rural America taking the brunt of the hit.
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Recently reported cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) couldn't come at a worse time, an ex-prosecutor said. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance weighed in on cuts by Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency team.
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The halt in deliveries comes after the Trump administration separately slashed $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy food from farms.
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SThe outbreak shows that a near absence of once-common childhood diseases — like measles — is not evidence that vaccines are unnecessary.
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The H7N9 strain of bird flu was detected on a poultry farm in Mississippi. The infection of 47,654 commercial chickens was confirmed on March 13 by the World Organization for Animal Health.
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Republicans in Congress want to gut Medicaid, denying life-saving health care for regular families to cut taxes for billionaires.
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Hundreds of popular camping sites in the crucial presidential swing state of Pennsylvania have been shuttered thanks to cuts enacted by billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
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The Trump White House is ready to divvy up public lands for private profits.
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Three hundred and twenty-one cases have been reported in the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, the states said Tuesday. This is an increase of 25 cases since an update on Friday.
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Working-age adults who live in small towns and rural areas are more likely to be covered by Medicaid than their counterparts in cities, creating a dilemma for Republicans looking to make deep cuts to the health care program.
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According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, cattle inventory in the United States is at its lowest. For farmers, this lack of availability, high prices, and potential tariffs is not helping.
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Many fear shake-ups at NOAA could have an impact on the department's ability to respond to tornadoes after twisters ravaged the Midwest on Friday night, leaving 37 dead...
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Winds of up to 120 miles per hour wreaked destruction across the county as a huge weather system battered swathes of the U.S.
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The death toll from tornadoes and violent storms that ravaged the central and southern United States over the weekend has risen to at least 40 people, with dozens more injured, local authorities said. Local news channels across the affected region showed video of roofs torn off homes, trees felled...
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This past week, the EPA said it is reconsidering the scientific finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. This comes as research shows average global temperatures in 2024 likely rose above a 1.5 degree Celsius threshold that for years has been a red line for climate change.
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