All-Girls Middle School Started By A Black Founder To Open In Nebraska - AfroTech

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73 Military Veterans, including 17 4-Stars, Defend Sen. Mark Kelly in Legal Fight The list of signatories include Air Force, Army and Navy veterans, 17 of whom are 4-stars.

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Trump sidelined Congress’ authority over war on Iran – and lawmakers allowed it, extending a 75-year trend Congress has refused to exercise oversight of the Iran war, with Republicans nixing Democrats’ attempts to exercise legislators’ power over military engagements. That’s nothing new.

“Americans will one day need answers to the questions: Why did the United States engage in this war with unclear political objectives? And why did Congress allow it to continue?”

'Dear America': HUD workers say they're being blocked from doing their jobs A website with anonymous employee letters accuses the Trump administration of undermining work on housing discrimination. HUD says it's restoring "sanity" to fair housing enforcement.

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3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town? Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weird...

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Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

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House Dems: OPM ‘omitted’ employee departures from retirement backlog investigation In responding to a December 2025 congressional inquiry, the Office of Personnel Management noted the separation of around 35 customer service representatives last year, but failed to mention more than...

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Catholic Leaders in U.S. Condemn Trump for Attack on Pope Leo But some MAGA Catholics say they were unbothered by the president's remarks

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Book Industry Coalition Opposes Federal Book Banning Effort More than 130 publishers, booksellers, librarians, and literary groups have signed a letter in opposition to HR 7661, a bill that would cut federal funding for K–12 classrooms and school libraries all...

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How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.

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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

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Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement. Over and over, the accusat...

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World needs to ‘get ready’ for more powerful AI, Anthropic co-founder says The company’s powerful Mythos, unveiled earlier this month, won’t be the only supercharged AI system to hit the market, Jack Clark said.

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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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Colleges are trying to boost student voting. A Trump probe freezes data for that work To figure out how to boost student voting, colleges have relied on a study about campus voter registration and turnout rates. A Trump administration investigation has cut schools off from new data.

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US Military Aircraft Hit in Iran War are First Shot Down by Enemy Fire in Over 20 Years The last time a U.S. fighter jet was shot down in combat was an A-10 Thunderbolt II during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

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Three Generals Ousted as Pentagon Shakeup Hits War Command Hegseth's move represents a rare leadership shakeup, raising questions about strategy and command stability.

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Three Generals Ousted as Pentagon Shakeup Hits War Command Hegseth's move represents a rare leadership shakeup, raising questions about strategy and command stability.

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Latest Operation Epic Fury Data: 365 US Troops Wounded in Action, 13 Dead Army troops account for more than two-thirds of reported injuries in the newly released breakdown, highlighting how losses are concentrated across the force as the operation unfolds.

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Study: Google's AI Overviews show millions of wrong answers every hour With over 4 trillion Google queries every year, the inaccuracies add up.

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513 humpback whales gather at massive Caribbean breeding ground A stunning video captures one of the largest humpback whale gatherings ever recorded.

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tRump Admin: Screw you.

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They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud. Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show.

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Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They'll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.

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Trump threatens to jail journalist who reported on crew’s rescue in Iran if they don’t reveal source The president did not identify the reporter or the media company.

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Federal appeals court supports injunction against ICE in L.A. Press Club lawsuit In September 2025, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) limit its use of force against journalists, observers, and peaceful proteste...

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Trump proposes cutting CISA election security program in FY27 budget The move is part of $700 million in proposed program cuts, resulting in a net funding reduction of about $360 million. The budget also projects eliminating some 860 positions.

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