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D.C. Courts officials are asking Congress for a $35 million budget increase, citing a surge in criminal and domestic violence cases, flat funding since 2023, and heightened security needs. The article centers the courts' funding plea and notes a House appropriations proposal to cut $18 million, which officials say would force difficult trade-offs.
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A Niche analysis of federal wage data finds six-figure jobs without a bachelor’s degree are rare and mostly require federal certification or specialized training. The article pushes back on political and business claims that skilled trades routinely provide six-figure careers without college, while noting degree holders still enjoy a large lifetime wage premium.
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The piece uses a Chinese delivery worker’s grueling routine to illustrate domestic discontent as China’s leader focuses on global power. It contrasts ordinary citizens’ economic stagnation and lost opportunities with the country’s geopolitical ambitions.
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A young man with a rare brain cancer was prescribed an off-label drug that his doctors believed was biologically reasonable, but his pharmacy benefit manager and county health plan refused coverage and the manufacturer declined to donate it. The article uses his family’s story to illustrate how insurers rely on FDA labels and guidelines that often do not exist for rare cancers, leaving patients facing steep costs or going without.
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An Iowa family farm has transitioned from raising thousands of hogs for slaughter to growing specialty mushrooms. It is working with The Transfarmation Project, a Mercy for Animals initiative that helps industrial animal farmers move to sustainable crops and documents the financial and operational lessons. The article presents the switch as a replicable, profitable model for other farmers.
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Record diesel prices, driven by disruptions from the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, are squeezing farmers during harvest. John Boyd Jr. of the National Black Farmers Association describes paying about $7 a gallon and shifting money from other farm expenses to fuel. He warns many Black farmers are at risk and says the administration has offered no help.
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Thousands marched in Barcelona, Palma and Ibiza against planned airport expansions in Spain, citing overtourism and environmental concerns. Organisers and local officials demanded fewer flights and more local control, while airport authority Aena said upgrades are needed to meet changing demands. The demonstrations were described as mainly peaceful, with no arrests reported.
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A widow asks whether she can inherit any of her late husband's state pension after he died at 59. Pension expert Steve Webb explains bereavement support and the limited circumstances for inheriting protected state pension payments, while criticizing the system as unfair to those who die early. He suggests a guaranteed minimum payout for pensioners or their heirs, funded partly by savings from state pension age increases.
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Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says the UK should 'team up' with a proposed Canada-EU economic alliance, arguing shared values and strength in unity. The piece also covers Canada's tariff response to the US trade war and the EU's unprecedented associate-membership offer to Canada. It notes implications for the UK's post-Brexit positioning.
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The head of an independent UK mental health review tells the BBC that young people are not a 'snowflake generation' and that anxiety, depression, self-harm and eating disorders have genuinely risen. He points to economic uncertainty, social media, pandemic disruption and cuts to youth services, and says NHS mental health support is 'not fit for purpose.'
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A new NBC News poll finds 55 percent of voters say Trump’s policies worsened the economy, while 26 percent say they improved it. The article frames the results as a midterm warning for Trump and Republicans amid low approval, inflation concerns, and an unpopular Iran war.
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A new IPPR report identifies Rotherham as the worst UK town for youth job opportunities, with over a million young people not in education, employment or training. It cites weak hospitality and retail sectors, older workers staying in jobs, AI, and Labour's wage and national insurance costs, while proposing a youth allowance and apprenticeship reform.