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Congress Preserves PEPFAR Funding in Budget Cuts Deal

By Scott Wong and Sahil Kapur  PEPFAR, the popular global HIV/AIDS program credited with saving millions of lives, has been spared from a package of billions of dollars in spending cuts that Congress sent to President Donald Trump early Friday morning to sign into law. The original rescissions package Trump requested called for $400 million in cuts to PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which George W. Bush started in 2003. But in the Senate, Democrats and a handful of Republicans objected to the PEPFAR cuts. Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the health program had saved an estimated 26 million lives

Trump Sues WSJ for $10B Over Epstein Letter Report

By Chloe Atkins and Zoë Richards President Donald Trump on Friday took legal action less than 24 hours after The Wall Street Journal published an article saying Trump sent a letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 that included a drawing of a naked woman. The lawsuit, which seeks at least $10 billion in damages and a jury trial, names the Journal’s parent company, News Corp.; its publisher, Dow Jones; two reporters for the newspaper; News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch; and chief executive Robert Thomson as the defendants. “We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ in

Coach Confronts ICE Agents to Protect Youth Baseball Team

By Rosie Colosi What would you do if ICE agents approached the kids on your youth sports team at practice? Youman Wilder, the founder of Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy, said that he found himself in that exact position. And he didn’t hesitate. “I heard them saying, ‘Where are you from? Where are your parents from?’” Wilder told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. “And I just stepped in and said this is very inappropriate to ask these kids anything … I’m just going to have them implement their Fifth Amendment right, and not say anything to you.’” He said that one of the agents responded,

DOJ Seeks No Prison for Cop in Breonna Taylor Raid

By Ryan J. Reilly The Justice Department is seeking no prison time for a former officer who blindly shot into Breonna Taylor’s home during a botched 2020 raid that sparked a federal inquiry into policing in Louisville, Kentucky. Brett Hankison, a former Louisville Metro Police Department detective whose shots did not strike Taylor, was convicted of deprivation of rights under color of law in November. Federal prosecutors said he fired 10 shots through a window and a sliding glass door that were covered with blinds and curtains. Multiple bullets traveled through the wall and into an apartment next door but did not hit anyone. The officers

GOP Cuts Threaten Local NPR, PBS Emergency Alert Systems

By Megan Lebowitz and Raquel Coronell Uribe When a magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck off southern Alaska on Wednesday, officials were concerned about a potential tsunami. It was local public media that helped relay a tsunami alert, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said. But now, looming GOP-led funding cuts are concerning media allies that local public broadcasters would be forced to downsize or shutter, damaging news operations and hurting locals’ ability to get timely emergency alerts like the one issued in Alaska. “Their response to today’s earthquake is a perfect example of the incredible public service these stations provide,” Murkowski, of Alaska, one of two Republican senators to oppose

Judge Rules Medical Debt Can Stay on Credit Reports

By Alana Wise A federal judge has ruled that medical debt can remain on Americans’ credit reports, cancelling a policy set in place by the Biden administration to help relieve the burden of healthcare expenses weighing on nearly a third of the population. The ruling — handed down by U.S. District Court of Texas’ Eastern District Judge Sean Jordan on Friday — was a major blow to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which has fought against medical debt as a metric of credit worthiness. In the waning days of the Biden administration in January, the federal banking and financial

Native American Radio Stations Face Shutdown Over CPB Cuts

Dozens of Native American radio stations across the country vital to tribal communities will be at risk of going off the air if Congress cuts more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to industry leaders. The U.S. Senate is set to vote this week on whether to approve the Department of Government Efficiency’s plan to rescind previously approved public broadcasting funding for 2026 and 2027. Fear is growing that most of the 59 tribal radio stations that receive the funding will go dark, depriving isolated populations of news, local events and critical weather alerts. The House already approved the cuts

Court Upholds Arkansas Ban on Critical Race Theory in Schools

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Arkansas can enforce its ban on critical race theory in classrooms, ruling the First Amendment doesn’t give students the right to compel the state to offer its instruction in public schools. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a preliminary injunction issued against the ban, one of several changes adopted under an education overhaul that Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed in 2023. The prohibition is being challenged by two teachers and two students at Little Rock Central High School, site of the 1957 desegregation crisis. A federal

UNITE 2025 Gathers HBCU Leaders to Shape Bold New Future

More than 1,300 HBCU leaders, faculty, students, and advocates will gather in Atlanta next week for UNITE 2025, the nation’s most influential annual convening dedicated to advancing sustainability and excellence in historically Black colleges and universities. Hosted by the UNCF Institute for Capacity Building from July 20-24 at the SIGNIA by Hilton Atlanta, this year’s gathering operates under the theme “Together We Lead” and will bring together 54 current and former HBCU and PBI presidents, along with representatives from more than 300 organizations and mission-aligned partners. Diverse is the national media partner. The convening promises significant announcements that could reshape the HBCU

Senate Advances Cuts to NPR, PBS in $1.1B Funding Rollback

By Ted Johnson The Senate voted on Tuesday evening to advance a package that would roll back $1.1 billion in funding to PBS, NPR and public media that had already been allocated over the next two years. Vice President JD Vance had to break a tie, 51-50, to move the rescissions package to the floor. Three Republicans — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — joined with all Democrats and independents against it. A final vote is expected in the next couple of days. The cuts would zero out federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity

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