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Fishermen want to go green but say DOGE cuts prevent that
Read full article: Fishermen want to go green but say DOGE cuts prevent thatCommercial fishermen and seafood processors and distributors seeking to convert to new, lower-carbon emission systems say they are finding federal funding they were counting on for the work is frozen or unavailable in the wake of sweeping budget cuts touted by President Donald Trump.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resign
Read full article: Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resignA judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives.
The Nobel Prizes will be announced against a backdrop of wars, famine and artificial intelligence
Read full article: The Nobel Prizes will be announced against a backdrop of wars, famine and artificial intelligenceWars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes.
Nuclear-armed nations are deepening their reliance on their nuclear weapons, watchdog finds
Read full article: Nuclear-armed nations are deepening their reliance on their nuclear weapons, watchdog findsA Stockholm-based watchdog says the world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on nuclear deterrence in 2023.
Watchdog: Nuclear states modernize their weapons, Chinese arsenal is growing
Read full article: Watchdog: Nuclear states modernize their weapons, Chinese arsenal is growingA report on the world's nuclear weapons says the nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals and several of them deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapons systems in 2022.
UF academic freedom reviewed after testimony ban
Read full article: UF academic freedom reviewed after testimony banThe University of Florida has been asked by its accrediting body to explain how denying a request by three professors to serve as paid experts in a voting rights lawsuit conforms to standards for academic freedom and avoids undue political influence.
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University of Florida prohibits professors from testifying
Read full article: University of Florida prohibits professors from testifyingThe University of Florida is prohibiting three professors from providing expert testimony in a lawsuit challenging a new law that critics claim restricts voting rights.
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'Vote and get home,' anxious voters say on Election Day
Read full article: 'Vote and get home,' anxious voters say on Election DayShe carefully planned a five-hour drive to the polling place in her Tennessee hometown to vote on Election Day. Many Americans who lined up before dawn to vote on Election Day are exhausted from constant crises, uneasy because of volatile political divisions and anxious about what will happen next. Instead, those voting in record numbers say basic democratic foundations feel suddenly brittle: Will their vote count? About 7 in 10 voters say they are anxious about the election, according to an AP-NORC poll last month. “It feels a bit different, but it also feels very much the same.”A lot of people were afraid to vote on Election Day, she said.