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Friday, July 3, 2026

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Hot dogs, polls, and Fourth of July celebrations

USA/250th Anniversary— By Mike Moen, producer, Minnesota News Connection, a bureau of Public News Service. Public polling shows mixed feelings about celebrating America’s 250th anniversary this Fourth of July, but many Americans still plan to gather with loved ones — and fire up backyard grills. A new Gallup Poll found more than three-quarters of respondents say the nation’s founders would be […]

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

By Public News Service Tuesday, June 30, 2026

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US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship

High Court Ruling on Brthright Citizenship— By Terri Dee, producer, Indiana News Service, a bureau of Public News Service. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to remove or limit birthright citizenship. The 6-3 vote was handed down today. The ruling concerns children born in the United States to parents who are in the country […]

Sunday, June 28, 2026

By Public News Service Sunday, June 28, 2026

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Judge’s order halts Trump administration efforts to rewrite history

USA/Sunday Feature— By Freda Ross, producer, Mississippi News Connection, a bureau of Public News Service. The Trump administration has been ordered to return historical items to the Medgar and Myrtle Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi. They were removed as part of a nationwide sweep of exhibits and signs the administration deemed “disparaging to Americans past or living.” Medgar […]

Friday, June 26, 2026

By Public News Service Friday, June 26, 2026

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CA female lawmakers slam plan to shield rideshare companies in sexual assault cases

CA/Rideshare Companies— By Suzanne Potter, producer, California News Service, a bureau of Public News Service. A total of 128 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including more than a dozen female lawmakers from California, are asking House Speaker Mike Johnson to pull an amendment they say would hurt sexual assault victims. The amendment to the “BUILD America 250 Act,” a […]

Thursday, June 25, 2026

By Public News Service Thursday, June 25, 2026

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Fight to block new protection for companies like Uber in some sexual assault cases

USA/Rideshare Companies- By Isobel Charle, producer, Oregon News Service, a bureau of Public News Service. Women lawmakers from Oregon and more than 40 other states are calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to strike an amendment they say would grant immunity to rideshare companies in sexual assault cases brought against their drivers. The amendment is part of the BUILD […]

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

By Public News Service Tuesday, June 23, 2026

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CA campaign underway to save more than two dozen US Post Offices

CA/Save Post Offices Campaign— By Suzanne Potter, producer, a bureau of Public News Service. Postal worker union leaders are urging communities to help save 25 California post office locations that have suspended operations and could close permanently. One of several threatened SoCal locations is at 2510 Monterey Street in Torrance. More than 414 locations nationwide are currently on […]

Sunday, June 21, 2026

By Public News Service Sunday, June 21, 2026

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Native Americans some of the first to toss the dice

USA/Sunday Feature— By Eric Galatas, producer, Colorado News Connection, a bureau of Public News Service. Native Americans on the western Great Plains were making and tossing dice 6,000 years before people in Africa, Asia, and Europe, according to new research at Colorado State University. Games of chance are considered the intellectual precursors to probability theory, statistics, and scientific thinking. […]

Thursday, June 18, 2026

By Public News Service Thursday, June 18, 2026

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Grim financial forecast for Social Security

USA /Social Security Troubles— By Suzanne Potter, producer, Nevada News Service, a bureau of Public News Service. The combined Social Security trust funds’ reserves will be depleted in late 2034, forcing automatic benefit cuts if nothing changes, according to a new report from the Social Security trustees. The program is not going broke, but it would be able to pay […]

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

By Public News Service Wednesday, June 17, 2026

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Cuts to SNAP benefits hurt low-income CA families and local farmers

Food/SNAP Benefits Cuts— By Suzanne Potter, producer, California News Service, a bureau of Public News Service. County leaders in California are speaking out against major federal cuts to SNAP, the food assistance program that helps low-income families buy groceries. Last summer, Republicans in Congress voted to tighten work requirements for SNAP recipients and shift up to 75% of administrative […]