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Many immigrants are altering their daily routines in response to a new state policy allowing highway patrol officers to detain individuals based on immigration status

Social Security claims surged in 2025 as insolvency, healthcare, debt and inflation concerns drive retirees to consider taking benefits early.

PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closure

Hundreds of television and radio stations across the United States risk seeing their resources evaporate, after President Donald Trump prevailed Friday in scrapping federal funding for public broadcasting.

Friday's action marks first time in decades lawmakers have agreed to a White House request to claw back funding Congress previously approved.

In Alaska, a public radio station general manager took a moment from a busy day warning her community about a possible tsunami for a special task — sending a text message to Sen. Lisa Murkowski urging her to vote against a measure to strip federal funding of NPR and PBS

The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives approved by narrow margins on July 17 and 18, 2025, a law that claws back federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Once President Donald Trump signs it into law, the US$9 billion rescissions package will withdraw $1.1 billion Congress had…

This was not an attack on the free press.

The Senate just voted to cut off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What comes next?