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Month: August 2025

PBS North Carolina announced it is offering a series of voluntary separation offers to its employees following a significant loss of federal funding in a press release on August 5.

PBS North Carolina offers voluntary separation to staff amid major federal funding cuts

By Marisa Sardonia Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — PBS North Carolina announced it is offering a series of voluntary separation offers to its employees following a significant loss of federal funding. The public media network confirmed via a press release on Tuesday that its “most permanent employees” will

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A photograph of Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky is displayed outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington

Justice Department to seek federal hate crime charges and death penalty in killing of Israeli Embassy staffers

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department will seek to indict the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC, on federal hate crime charges this week, according to sources familiar with the matter. The indictment against Elias Rodriguez is expected to include special findings for capital punishment, where

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— NEBRASKA ————-——————— US–Congress-Town Hall-Nebraska GOP congressman faces heated town hall where hundreds boo him for supporting Trump’s big bill SUMMARY: Republican congressman Mike Flood has gotten

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— NEBRASKA ————-——————— US–Congress-Town Hall-Nebraska GOP congressman faces heated town hall where hundreds boo him for supporting Trump’s big bill SUMMARY: Republican congressman Mike Flood has gotten

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— NEBRASKA ————-——————— US–Congress-Town Hall-Nebraska GOP congressman faces heated town hall where hundreds boo him for supporting Trump’s big bill SUMMARY: Republican congressman Mike Flood has gotten

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BBO–TWINS-TIGERS DESCRIPTION: DETROIT — Minnesota plays Detroit at Comerica Park. UPCOMING: 300 words, photos, more on merit.

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BBO–TWINS-TIGERS DESCRIPTION: DETROIT — Minnesota plays Detroit at Comerica Park. UPCOMING: 300 words, photos, more on merit.

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BBO–TWINS-TIGERS DESCRIPTION: DETROIT — Minnesota plays Detroit at Comerica Park. UPCOMING: 300 words, photos, more on merit.

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BBO–TWINS-TIGERS DESCRIPTION: DETROIT — Minnesota plays Detroit at Comerica Park. UPCOMING: 300 words, photos, more on merit.

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Trump’s politically motivated sanctions against Brazil strain relations among old allies

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear who his new Latin America priority is: former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a personal and political ally. In doing so, he has damaged one of the Western hemisphere’s most important and long-standing relationships, by levying

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Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda on Tuesday became the third African nation to agree to accept deportees from the United States under the Trump administration’s plans to send migrants to countries they have no ties with to get them off American soil. Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo

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