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'Woefully insufficient': Federal judge accuses Justice Department of evading 'obligations' to comply with deportation flights request; WA caregivers rally against Medicaid cuts; NM's state methane regulations expected to thwart federal rollbacks; Governor, critics call out 'boilerplate' bills from WY 2025 session.

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Trump faces legal battles over education cuts, immigration actions, and moves by DOGE. Farmers struggle with USDA freezing funds. A Georgetown scholar fights deportation, and Virginia debates voter roll purges ahead of elections.

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Cuts to Medicaid and frozen funding for broadband are both likely to have a negative impact on rural healthcare, which is already struggling. Plus, lawsuits over the mass firing of federal workers have huge implications for public lands.

Mary Kuhlman

Managing Editor

Mary Kuhlman is Managing Editor at Public News Service. Mary is an Ohio-based broadcast journalist with over two-decades of experience, including reporting and anchoring for WHIO-AM in Dayton and WTAM 1100 in Cleveland. Since joining the PNS team in 2008, she’s produced thousands of stories across the country, helped launch the PNS Daily Newscast in 2012 and anchored the “Talks” newscast.


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