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New report finds apprenticeships increasing for WA; TN nursing shortage slated to continue amid federal education changes; NC college students made away of on-campus resources to fight food insecurity; DOJ will miss deadline to release all Epstein files; new program provides glasses to visually impaired Virginians; Line 5 pipeline fight continues in Midwest states; and NY Gov. Kathy Hochul agrees to sign medical aid in dying bill in early 2026.

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Legal fights over free speech, federal power, and public accountability take center stage as courts, campuses and communities confront the reach of government authority.

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States are waiting to hear how much money they'll get from the Rural Health Transformation Program, the DHS is incentivizing local law enforcement to join the federal immigration crackdown and Texas is creating its own Appalachian Trail.

Jenn Stanley

Jenn is a journalist, audio producer, and multimedia artist. She was formerly a senior producer at Rewire.News, where she created, hosted, and produced the narrative podcast, CHOICE/LESS. She was a facilitator at StoryCorps in Chicago, and her work has appeared in The Guardian US, Salon, NPR, Lena Dunham's Women of the Hour, and WBUR, among others. She holds an MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she received the Bernard Gordon Entrepreneurial Award for Magazine Journalism, and a BA from Bennington College.


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