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Federal education funding freeze targets $115K for Barrington schools
Barrington schools could stand to lose more than $115,000 due to the recent freeze of federal education funding. In late June, the federal government froze approximately $6.8 billion in education aid. That figure translated to about $29 million...

Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Welcomes New Pastor
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Northwest D.C., considered the District’s oldest, independent Black Baptist congregation, has welcomed the Rev. Kevin Lamár Peterman as its new senior pastor. At the age 32, Peterman is widely regarded as a...

Britain’s Immigration Scandal, Budget Cuts in France, Druze Youth Attacked in Southern Syria
Is Britain preparing to share nuclear bombs with Germany? That’s the question I examine in today’s main story. Of course, if you read my Morning Brief last week, you know the answer already. But the article goes into more detail of Germany’s...

Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they're hungry, raise food quality concerns
Immigrants being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in at least seven states are complaining of hunger, food shortages and spoiled food, detainees and immigration advocates say. They say some detainees have gotten sick;...
Culture of death seizes ground in Britain
In just one week, the British Parliament dealt two major blows to the dignity of human life. On June 17, the House of Commons voted 379–137 to decriminalize abortion up to the point of birth—removing criminal penalties for women who obtain an...

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:CFG) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:CFG) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript July 17, 2025 Citizens Financial Group, Inc. beats earnings expectations. Reported EPS is $0.92, expectations were $0.88. Operator: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to...

Barriers and opportunities toward implementing climate education at Somerville High School
(The opinions and views expressed in the commentaries and letters to the Editor of The Somerville Times belong solely to the authors and do not reflect the views or opinions of The Somerville Times, its staff or publishers) By Liam Beretsky-Jewell...

3M Company (NYSE:MMM) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
3M Company (NYSE:MMM) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript July 18, 2025 3M Company beats earnings expectations. Reported EPS is $2.16, expectations were $2.01. Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the 3M Second...

The 15 Manchester United players who need a good pre-season
Manchester United’s pre-season begins in earnest on Saturday, with Ruben Amorim’s men in the Swedish city of Stockholm for a friendly against long-time rivals Leeds. Manchester United's pre-season fixtures Date Opponent Location July 19 Leeds...

Why Flash Flood Warnings Are Never Enough
A fire official on a search and rescue patrol in Hunt, Texas, July 12, 2025.Brandon Bell/Getty Images via Grist Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was...

How upper caste Hindus imbibed every privilege of White corporate America
In the face of a swelling Hindu nationalist and supremacist movement in India during the 1990s, the same Indian Americans, who had once played a significant role in the agitations abroad against Indira Gandhi during the Emergency years, were now...

Michigan joins 22 states in lawsuit against Trump over education funding freeze
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 22 states in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration, challenging its decision to freeze funding for six longstanding education programs administered by the U.S....

New Jersey Distributes Summer EBT Benefits to More Than 693,000 Eligible Children
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture, in partnership with the New Jersey Departments of Education and Human Services,announced that more than 693,000 eligible children across the state will be receiving Summer EBT benefits in the coming days....

National Association of Immigration Judges Leader Grants Asylum at Twice the National Average Rate
Dorothy Harbeck is both the Secretary-Treasurer for the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), a union representing judges who operate under the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), and a U.S....

NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson Sues to Protect $165M for NC Public Schools & Nearly 1,000 NC Educator Jobs
Raleigh -- North Carolina Attorney Jeff Jackson's Office Press Release July 14, 2025: Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson and 24 other states sued to prevent the federal government from cutting funds for North Carolina’s schools and educators....

Trump's pace of early travel largely mirrors Biden's, but with more sports events and golf
WASHINGTON — (AP) — Moving at the "speed of Trump" is one of the White House's favorite phrases, meant to convey the administration's attempts to bring big changes to government at breakneck speed. But when it comes to presidential travel, Donald...

PUB CHAT: A recipe for special chicken cutlets
How do you like your chicken cutlets? Maybe lightly breaded with homemade seasoned breadcrumbs and fried in extra virgin olive oil? Maybe you prefer them super thin like my father, who used to pound them so much that our family took to calling the...
Rep Josh Gottheimer addresses stablecoins regulation and US-Israel cooperation in recent posts
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, who represents New Jersey’s 5th district in the U.S. Congress, posted a series of statements on his social media account this week addressing legislative priorities ranging from stablecoin regulation to U.S.-Israel...

Coalition urges Congress to regulate mask use by federal immigration agents
New York Attorney General Letitia James has spearheaded a coalition of 20 attorneys general urging Congress to enact legislation that would prevent federal immigration agents from wearing masks that hide their identities. The coalition's letter,...

Hawaiʻi, 23 states sue over $6.8B withheld in education funding
Attorney General Anne Lopez Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez has joined a multistate lawsuit challenging the federal government’s decision to freeze billions in education funding, including an estimated $33 million earmarked for Hawaiʻi...