Children’s author Mac Barnett wants the U.S. to appreciate picture books
For Mac Barnett, being silly is a serious craft. Last month, the two-time Caldecott Medal honoree was appointed as the ninth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. During a ceremony ...
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Miya Masaoka Will Be the Subject of a Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre
She is a composer, musician, sound artist, and the chair of visual arts at School of the Arts.
Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions
Republicans are weighing cuts to Medicaid, jeopardizing health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and ...
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America’s constitutional crisis could come to a head in four months
In the US, however, we have added a bizarre and hazardous extra step to this process: If Congress’s laws require the Treasury to borrow money in excess of a certain statutory limit, then the ...
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Trump Kicks Aside Congress With Sweeping Claims of Presidential Power
Photo: Getty Images WASHINGTON—In laying out the checks and balances of democracy, authors of the U.S. Constitution imagined that the president and Congress would wrestle for power when their ...
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Congress authorized more flights at Reagan National despite warnings
However, nonstop service is offered beyond that limit to West Coast cities such as Los Angeles and Seattle due to recent federal exemptions. Through legislation passed by Congress, the U.S ...
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Congress authorized more flights at Reagan National despite warnings
However, nonstop service is offered beyond that limit to West Coast cities such as Los Angeles and Seattle due to recent federal exemptions. Through legislation passed by Congress, the U.S. Department ...
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AI-assisted works can get copyright with enough human creativity, says US copyright office
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Library of Congress stands on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite ...
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Johnson floats possibility of working with Democrats on debt ceiling
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in a Tuesday interview with The Hill’s Emily Brooks floated the possibility of working with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling instead of including it in the GOP ...
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Why America Needs Birthright Citizenship
According to a 2018 report by the Library of Congress, practically the entire Western Hemisphere ... it is part of Trump’s ongoing attempt to limit membership in the American family. He rose to ...
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The first special elections for Congress since Trump’s return
“When President Trump asked me to run for Congress — to go to Washington and fight for him — my answer was, ‘Yes, sir,’” Patronis says in the spot. In Florida’s 1st ...
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Newbery medal for best children’s book is given to Erin Entrada Kelly’s ‘The First State of Being’
The awards were announced Monday by the American Library Association, which has gathered in Phoenix for “LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience.” Jason Reynolds’ “Twenty-four Seconds from Now ...” ...