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25 Columbia Graduates Awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Grants
Columbia News - New York
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATES AND ALUMS AWARDED FULBRIGHT U.S. STUDENT GRANTS FOR 2025 - 2026 TWENTY - FIVE Columbia University graduates and alumni have been recognized by the Fulbright US Student Program this year....
How Sam Altman outfoxed Elon Musk to become Trump’s AI buddy
Mint
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July 18, 2025
Sam Altman, the 40-year-old chief executive of OpenAI, had just finished a long one-on-one meeting with Trump, and the two men were about to dine with the president’s top donors. Trump introduced Altman to the club’s applauding members as “a very...
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What's going on at Sun Valley, the 'summer camp for billionaires'?
Firstpost
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July 11, 2025
Each summer, the remote resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho in the United States, plays host to an exclusive annual gathering known as the Allen & Co conference — an event that has, since 1983, attracted the most powerful names from business, media...
16 Years Without a Federal Minimum Wage Hike Is an Outrage
Common Dreams
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July 18, 2025
When the minimum wage does not go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. For full-time workers that amounts to $15,080 if you are paid for 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year....
Grand Canyon blaze was initially allowed to burn. Experts say that's critical land management tool
KJZZ - Arizona
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July 17, 2025
U.S. land managers are racing the clock as hotter, drier weather raises the risk of wildfires in the nation’s overgrown forests with each passing year. One tool is to use the flames from lightning-sparked wildfires when conditions allow or to plan...
Graham: Sorry Big Bird, dumbest waste of tax dollars is (Finally!) about to die
Boston Herald - Massachusetts
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July 18, 2025
The Senate just passed its version of the $9 billion rescission bill, bringing the country one step closer to ending the most egregious and indefensible federal spending in the modern era. Public broadcasting. The $500 million that taxpayers are...
Innovative companies join forces to build 'microreactor' that could revolutionize how we generate power: 'A transformative approach'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 18, 2025
"An exciting step." by Leslie SattlerJuly 18, 2025 NuCube Energy joined the Shell GameChanger program to develop a nuclear microreactor that reaches temperatures over 1,000 degrees Celsius, reported Business Wire. The Idaho company designs small...
A popcorn giant in small-town Nebraska: How the Zangger family grew an international seed behemoth
Flatwater Free Press - Nebraska
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July 18, 2025
On a bitter October morning in 1982, Chuck Zangger stood in his field near North Loup, staring at the brittle, ruined stalks of corn. The early frost had stolen the popcorn grower’s harvest — 600 acres of kernels that would never pop. He knelt,...
Oregon parent takes school district to court over digital hall pass privacy issues
OregonLive.com
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July 4, 2025
A Beaverton parent has sued the school district over its digital hall passes, arguing they’re being used for much more than tracking a student’s hall activity or bathroom breaks. Jeffrey Myers, who has an information technology background and by...
Frightening map shows 9 states with dangerous levels of toxic arsenic in drinking water
The Mirror US
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July 3, 2025
Researchers at Columbia University have unearthed an alarming truth about a certain toxic chemical lurking in the water supply. The scientists have put together a map using data collected from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), showing...
Trans youth fight for care as California clinics cave to Trump: ‘How can this happen here?’
The Guardian
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July 11, 2025
Eli, a 16-year-old Los Angeles student, is spending his summer juggling an internship at a natural history museum, a research project, a physics class and cheer practice – and getting ready to apply for college. But in recent weeks, he has been...
Veterinary hospital to be built in Post Falls
Spokane Journal of Business - Washington State
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July 17, 2025
A veterinary facility dubbed One Love Animal Hospital is slated to be built in Post Falls for about $1.1 million, records filed with the city of Post Falls indicate. Wadsworth Development Group, a real estate developer based in Draper, Utah, is...
Which Invasion is Worse, the Flies in UT or the Crickets in ID
KOOL 96.5 - Idaho
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July 17, 2025
We have already established in previous stories that wasps and hornets are the worst buggy insects. They don’t seem to serve a real purpose, and they are jerks. We also have to deal with other insect mobs at different times of the year, and...
Strong turnout, sportsmanship marks 17th Peter Zornes Memorial Golf Tournament
Whitman County Gazette - Washington State
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Kathy Zornes Colfax — Clear skies and strong community spirit greeted players at the 17th Annual Peter Zornes Memorial Golf Tournament, held Saturday, July 12, at the Colfax Golf Course. Sixty golfers turned out for the event, which honors the...
LinkedIn ranks Pensacola metro area as one of the top mid-size U.S. cities on the rise
Pensacola News Journal - Florida
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Pensacola was ranked by LinkedIn as one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the U.S. in its inaugural “cities on the rise” list. Pensacola has drawn in professionals, homebuyers and manufacturing companies en masse since the COVID-19...
'Summer camp for billionaires': What to know
NewsNation Now - Illinois
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July 12, 2025
(NewsNation) — Every summer, tech and media moguls meet for a special gathering in Sun Valley, Idaho. Dubbed the “summer camp for billionaires,” the Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference took place earlier this week, where billionaires and CEOs struck...
Trump’s court pick would bring crypto baggage to the bench
Coin Telegraph
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July 17, 2025
Eric Tung, a corporate lawyer with a track record of representing crypto firms, is poised to join one of the most influential federal courts in the United States. On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump sent Tung’s nomination to the Senate to be a...
The Morning Catch-Up: ASX set to extend record run as lithium,...
Proactive Australia
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July 18, 2025
The ASX is poised to rise again this morning after a strong Wall Street session pushed major US benchmarks to fresh record highs. Futures were up 32 points (+0.37%) at 8:30 am AEST, building on Thursday’s rally that saw the ASX 200 gain 0.90% and...
NIC radiography tech graduates pass national exam
CDA Press - Idaho
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July 10, 2025
All eight recent graduates of North Idaho College’s Radiography Technology Program aced the national board exam on their first try, far surpassing the 2024 national average pass rate of 79%. Six of those graduates scored in the 99th percentile or...
An Open Letter to Rep. Kat Cammack From a Medical Doctor: It’s Abortion Bans That Make Doctors Afraid to Act, Not ‘the Radical Left’
Ms. Magazine
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July 11, 2025
A group of doctors join abortion-rights supporters outside the Supreme Court on April 24, 2024, during oral arguments in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) I remember the day I heard about Dobbs. It...