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1 month ago | 
thepulseofnh.com | MaryAlice Parks |Daniel Peck |Lucien Bruggeman |Olivia Rubin
(NEW YORK) -- Despite the deadly storms over the weekend, one of the core government facilities tracking severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, is listed on the website of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as one with a planned office closure.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | MaryAlice Parks |Kelly Livingston |Matthew Glasser
Calling it the "biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history," the Environmental Protection Agency rolled out sweeping moves Wednesday aimed at walking back environmental protections and eliminating a host of climate change regulations, some decades in the making.
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1 month ago | 
thepulseofnh.com | MaryAlice Parks |Selina Y. Wang |Kelly Livingston |Allison Pecorin
(WASHINGTON) -- Environmental Protection Agency staff members across the country have been told by supervisors they are prohibited from communicating with grantee partners they are supposed to supervise and monitor, according to multiple sources inside the EPA and others working directly with the agency. And without notice, many nonprofit organizations and other EPA grant recipients have found themselves frozen out of accessing their federal funds without notice or explanation.
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1 month ago | 
thepulseofnh.com | MaryAlice Parks |Hannah Demissie |Sarah Beth Hensley |Shannon Kingston
(WASHINGTON) -- After a month of fits and starts, a final hammer came down on the U.S. Agency for International Development on Wednesday night when the State Department, which had previously said it was going to review all foreign aid, announced that review was over and it had decided to terminate nearly 10,000 government contracts worth about $60 billion in humanitarian work abroad. The cancellations left aid organizations reeling Thursday.
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1 month ago | 
thepulseofnh.com | Shannon Kingston |MaryAlice Parks |Hannah Demissie |Sarah Beth Hensley
(WASHINGTON) -- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes to the White House on Friday to ink a deal that would give the U.S. access to his country's mineral resources -- an agreement that President Donald Trump has cast a way to ensure American taxpayers get paid back for supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia. "We'll be digging. We'll be dig, dig, digging.
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1 month ago | 
thepulseofnh.com | Hannah Demissie |MaryAlice Parks |Sarah Beth Hensley
(WASHINGTON) -- With the Virginia gubernatorial election a little more than eight months away, Democrats in the state have said they believe the federal job cuts under President Donald Trump's administration will have a ripple effect that could sway voters to flip the governor seat from a Republican to a Democrat. The Virginia gubernatorial election, which is held in an off-year cycle, is often seen as an indicator of where the political climate stands in the country.
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2 months ago | 
thepulseofnh.com | Julia Reinstein |David Brennan |Julia Cherner |MaryAlice Parks
(GUATEMALA CITY) -- At least 51 people were killed as a bus plunged into a ravine early Monday in Guatemala City, officials said. At least 20 more were seriously injured, they said. City officials said the incident occurred when the bus veered off a highway and went into a ravine. Photos released by fire officials showed the bus upside-down in the ravine as they pulled passengers from the wreckage.
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2 months ago | 
thepulseofnh.com | David Brennan |Julia Reinstein |Julia Cherner |MaryAlice Parks
(LONDON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to his U.S. and European partners not to "abandon" Kyiv in any revived peace talks with Russia, aimed at ending the war between the two nations now nearly three years old. The return of President Donald Trump to the White House has raised the prospect of renewed negotiations, with the president telling reporters this weekend he had been "making progress" in contacts with Kyiv and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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2 months ago | 
thepulseofnh.com | Julia Cherner |MaryAlice Parks |Jon Haworth |Morgan Winsor
President Donald Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign humanitarian aid and shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development is having devastating consequences globally, several humanitarian nongovernmental organization leaders told ABC News.
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2 months ago | 
abcnews.go.com | Julia Cherner |MaryAlice Parks
Millions relying on USAID face uncertainty amid Trump's funding freeze. ByJulia Cherner and MaryAlice ParksFebruary 9, 2025, 10:22 AMA worker covers the U.S. Agency for International Development sign on their headquarters on Feb. 7, 2025 in Washington.
