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Lexington chef lobbies D.C. lawmakers for federal food programs
A Lexington chef traveled to Washington, D.C. last week to ask Kentucky lawmakers to restore funding to federal nutrition programs. Sam Fore of Lexington’s Tuk Tuk Snack Shop was one of 20 chefs from 14 states who made the trip to the nation’s...

Swing Beat: D.C. Artists Have Made Some of the Year’s Best Jazz Albums
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Former top D.C. aide, veteran Jessica Killin launches Democratic challenge to Jeff Crank in Colorado's 5th CD
Colorado Springs Democrat Jessica Killin, an Army veteran and former top congressional and White House aide, announced Tuesday that she's challenging first-term Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in Colorado's 5th Congressional District, predicting...

Ask Vance: The W.C. Handy Statue
Dear Vance: What’s the story of the W.C. Handy statue on Beale Street? Was that made locally? — T.W., Memphis. Dear T.W.: Born in 1873, William Christopher Handy came to Memphis in 1909 from Florence, Alabama. Decades later, an eight-foot...

Landlord seeks to evict Central Florida Rep. Cory Mills from D.C. penthouse
Central Florida U.S. Rep. Cory Mills could face eviction from a luxury Washington, D.C., penthouse after his landlord sued and accused him of failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in rent. The Republican congressman owes about $85,000 in...

Trump funding freeze threatens programs that prepare thousands for jobs in Wisconsin
Reading Time: 7 minutes Are you getting our free newsletters? Click here to read highlights from the story The Trump administration has frozen $715 million in previously appropriated adult education funds nationwide, including $7 million in...

Keeping a channel open with Pakistan is the only way to prevent third-party intervention: Lt General D.S. Hooda
Two months since Operation Sindoor, the sounds of this four-day conflict with Pakistan continue reverberating. What emerges repeatedly is that China and Turkey helped Pakistan—not just with weapons, but likely real-time intelligence. This while...

Can't Wait For Saturday | Strong run in C-U moves Bielema among the elites
Sign up for our daily Illini football newsletter here Greetings from "Can't Wait For Saturday," your morning morsel of college football, courtesy of longtime Illini beat writer, AP Top 25 voter and Heisman state rep Bob Asmussen. He'll give you...

Study: New Hampshire below national average for 5-year business success
MANCHESTER, NH – New Hampshire is 38th among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., for five-year survival of businesses that opened in 2024, according to a new analysis. Less than half of New Hampshire businesses established in 2019 were still...

Travel South Dakota’s Passport Program Seeing Success
PIERRE — Travel South Dakota’s popular Passport Program continues to inspire exploration across the state, driving record engagement during its Double Points Week, coinciding with Forever 605 Day, and unveiling new patriotic-themed stops with the...

Paul C Brunson passionately defends Nadiya Hussain after BBC axe rant on his podcast: 'Will bring you to TEARS'
Paul C Brunson, 50, has taken to social media to fiercely defend Bake Off alumna Nadiya Hussain after she claimed she was axed by the BBC for "not fitting in a box" while on his podcast. The TV personality and podcast host invited Hussain, 40,...

Cal Thomas: Politics in the pulpit in America
The Internal Revenue Service announced on last week it is overturning a restraint on churches and other houses of worship that was supposed to keep them from endorsing candidates for political office. The root of the ban extends back to 1954....

N.C. Democrats ask Senate leaders to remove public broadcasting funding clawback from recissions bill
Members of North Carolina’s Democratic Delegation sent a letter to senate leaders, asking them to strike cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from the recissions package, citing concerns that cuts to public broadcasting will impact...
Trump's tariff rollout makes business community anxious
President Trump’s approach to setting tariff rates is causing anxiety in the business community, with the trickling flow of letters to trade partners exacerbating concerns over hits to the economy. The president has sent two dozen letters to...

3 Franklin County students head to Washington D.C. for Girls/Boys Nation
FRANKLIN COUNTY — This week, three of the four students representing Vermont at Girls and Boys Nation in Washington D.C. will be from Franklin County. Molly Bernard and Jacoby Soter from BFA-St. Albans and Abby Durkee from Missisquoi Valley Union...

A Quiet Shift in D.C. Could Detonate the Next Bitcoin ETF Rally
Investing Chinnapong / Shutterstock.com Key Points There’s the CLARITY Act, which could provide a framework for the digital assets industry. There’s also the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, which would keep the U.S. Federal Reserve from issuing...

Democratic States, D.C. Sue Trump Administration
(MENAFN) Twenty-four states led by Democrats, along with the District of Columbia, have initiated a legal challenge against the Trump administration’s choice to suspend $6 billion in financial support designated for after-school initiatives,...

Travel Tuesday: Boston's Mapparium
This summer people will be traveling all around the globe. But only in one Boston museum can people travel inside the globe. The Mary Baker Eddy Library is a stunning 11-story limestone and granite building that holds the papers of Mary Baker...

New Study Finds Evidence of Hepatitis C Virus in Cells Lining Human Brain
Observational studies of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression have long tied viral infections with behavioral symptoms in these disorders, but scientists have been unable to find direct evidence of...

HOWEY POLITICS INDIANA: Indiana’s rural hospitals prepare for cuts to Medicaid
Before President Donald J. Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” last week, U.S. Rep. Erin Houchin of Indiana denounced what she called “fear-mongering” by Democrats and the news media on the “so-called cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Social...