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I remember the line. It ran diagonal to the grain of the library’s hardwood floor. It escapes me whether the line was black paint or black electrical tape back in the ’80s and ’90s, but it’s tape today—scuffed and trodden upon, as though it were just some line to be stepped on that didn’t matter […]
President Donald Trump has slashed the tariff on small parcels sent from mainland China and Hong Kong to the US, just hours after the world’s two biggest economies said they would cut levies on each other’s goods for 90 days. The new tariffs on small packages worth up to $800 (£606) have been cut from […]
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has learned that the United States Government will deny future funding to the organization, cutting essential support for millions of people living in humanitarian crises and for midwives preventing mothers from dying in childbirth. The US is using the Kemp-Kasten Amendment to justify the funding cuts […]
The Trump administration is reportedly eyeing dozens of grants across the National Park Service for termination, according to reporting from the New York Times, one of several moves destabilizing the US’s investment in public lands. According to the newspaper, staff members at Elon Musk’s unofficial “department of government efficiency” have created a spreadsheet of federal […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Kanawha County coal miner Harry Wiley was diagnosed with black lung last November and is still working underground where the severity of his condition could get worse. He recently filed a lawsuit against the federal government following cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an agency that could […]
Sailings cancelled, customers with reservations offered refund, alternative sailings The 90-minute ferry trip between Victoria and the U.S. will run fewer times than usual at the start of next month due to “current travel demand”. At a time when the Black Ball Ferry line regularly amps up trips aboard the M.V. Coho, it’ll instead stick to three […]
Sailings cancelled, customers with reservations offered refund, alternative sailings The 90-minute ferry trip between Victoria and the U.S. will run fewer times than usual at the start of next month due to “current travel demand”. At a time when the Black Ball Ferry line regularly amps up trips aboard the M.V. Coho, it’ll instead stick to three […]
Sailings cancelled, customers with reservations offered refund, alternative sailings The 90-minute ferry trip between Victoria and the U.S. will run fewer times than usual at the start of next month due to “current travel demand”. At a time when the Black Ball Ferry line regularly amps up trips aboard the M.V. Coho, it’ll instead stick to three […]
The 90-minute ferry trip between Victoria and the U.S. will run fewer times than usual at the start of next month due to “current travel demand”. At a time when the Black Ball Ferry line regularly amps up trips aboard the M.V. Coho, it’ll instead stick to three daily sailings until June 25. As a result, the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “ Make America Healthy Again,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that’s happening. More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts […]