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As Iran expands retaliatory attacks, U.S. urges Americans to leave Middle East - https://youtu.be/4Bn61NrjZ4s?si=G5Bkz6hU0cO1bPcU #PBS #PBSNews #Iran #MiddleEast
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📰 More artists cancel Kennedy Center performances after Trump renaming — #PBSNews
#convictedFelon #sexOffender #DonaldTrump's plans for the #KennedyCenter are crumbling as performers refuse to appear in the famous, revered venue now that his name is on it.
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Health care proposal floated by White House runs into familiar GOP divisions – PBS News
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) departs the House floor, following the vote of the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed the bill seeking to release files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 18, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Ernst / REUTERSBy — Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press
Health care proposal floated by White House runs into familiar GOP divisions – PBS News
Politics, Nov 26, 2025 1:48 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue — a familiar struggle for a party that has been trying to scrap or overhaul the Affordable Care Act for the past 15 years.
The tentative proposal from President Donald Trump would extend expiring ACA subsidies for two years while adjusting eligibility requirements for recipients. The plan has so far been met with a stony silence on Capitol Hill as Republicans debate among themselves whether to overhaul the law, tweak it or simply let the subsidies expire.
It’s unclear now when the White House plan might be released, or if it will be released at all.
The Republican indecision comes as the COVID-era tax credits are set to expire Jan. 1, creating sharp premium increases for millions of Americans. Democrats who shut down the government for six weeks over the issue are demanding a straight extension with no changes, though some indicated they could support a plan similar to the one circulated by the White House.
But support may be harder to find in the GOP conference, where many lawmakers say costs are still too high and have been eager to make another run at repealing the ACA. The last effort in 2017 failed when Republicans couldn’t decide on how to provide coverage to millions of Americans who depend on government-run marketplaces for their health care. It’s a dilemma that persists for the party after record numbers signed up for coverage this year.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., promised a group of moderate Democrats a vote on the ACA tax credits by mid-December in exchange for their votes to end the government shutdown. But it’s unclear, so far, whether that arrangement will lead to a solution.
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How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple – an expert explains the 8,000-year history – PBS News
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How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple — an expert explains the 8,000-year history
Science Nov 22, 2025 3:17 PM EST
This article originally appeared on The Conversation.
Pecans have a storied history in the United States. Today, American trees produce hundreds of million of pounds of pecans – 80% of the world’s pecan crop. Most of that crop stays here. Pecans are used to produce pecan milk, butter and oil, but many of the nuts end up in pecan pies.
Throughout history, pecans have been overlooked, poached, cultivated and improved. As they have spread throughout the United States, they have been eaten raw and in recipes. Pecans have grown more popular over the decades, and you will probably encounter them in some form this holiday season.
READ MORE: How science can help hack tasty side dishes for your next holiday meal
I’m an extension specialist in Oklahoma, a state consistently ranked fifth in pecan production, behind Georgia, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. I’ll admit that I am not a fan of the taste of pecans, which leaves more for the squirrels, crows and enthusiastic pecan lovers.
The spread of pecans
The pecan is a nut related to the hickory. Actually, though we call them nuts, pecans are actually a type of fruit called a drupe. Drupes have pits, like the peach and cherry.
Pecan fruits, which ripen and split open to release pecan nuts, clustered on a pecan tree. Photo by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.The pecan nuts that look like little brown footballs are actually the seed that starts inside the pecan fruit – until the fruit ripens and splits open to release the pecan. They are usually the size of your thumb, and you may need a nutcracker to open them. You can eat them raw or as part of a cooked dish.
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Trump’s deployments of National Guard troops reignite a 200-year-old Constitutional debate – PBS News
Members of the National Guard walk past a building displaying a banner with an image of President Donald Trump, in Washington, D.C., Oct. 18, 2025. Photo by Leah Millis / Reuters.By — Andrea Katz, The Conversation
Trump’s deployments of National Guard troops reignite a 200-year-old Constitutional debate
Politics Oct 22, 2025 1:15 PM EDT, This article originally appeared on The Conversation.
If you’re confused about what the law does and doesn’t allow the president to do with the National Guard, that’s understandable.
As National Guard troops landed in Portland, Oregon, in late September 2025, the state’s lawyers argued that the deployment was a “direct intrusion on its sovereign police power.”
Days before, President Donald Trump, calling the city “a war zone,” had invoked a federal law allowing the government to call up the Guard during national emergencies or when state authorities cannot maintain order.
The conflict throws into relief a question as old as the Constitution itself: Where does federal power end and state authority begin?
One answer seems to appear in the 10th Amendment’s straightforward language: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This text is considered to be the constitutional “hook” for federalism in our democracy.
The founders, responding to anti-Federalist anxieties about an overbearing central government, added this language to emphasize that the new government possessed only limited powers. Everything else – including the broad “police power” to regulate health, safety, morals and general welfare – remained with the states.
Yet from the beginning, the text has generated plenty of confusion. Is the 10th Amendment merely a “truism,” as Justice Harlan Fiske Stone wrote in 1941 in United States v. Darby, restating the Constitution’s structure of limited powers? Or does it describe concrete powers held by the states?
Turns out, there’s no simple answer, not even from the nation’s highest court. Over the years, the Supreme Court has treated the 10th Amendment like the proverbial magician’s hat, sometimes pulling robust state powers from its depths, other times finding it empty.
10th Amendment’s broad range
The arguments over the 10th Amendment for almost 200 years have applied not only to the National Guard but to questions about how the federal and state governments share powers over everything from taxation to government salaries, law enforcement and regulation of the economy.
For much of the 19th century, the 10th Amendment remained dormant. The federal government’s weakness and limited ambitions, especially on the slavery question, meant that boundaries were rarely tested before the courts.
The New Deal era brought this equilibrium crashing down.
The Supreme Court initially resisted the expansion of federal power, striking down laws banning child labor in Hammer v. Dagenhart in 1918, setting a federal minimum wage in 1923 in Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, and offering farmers subsidies in U.S. v. Butler in 1937. All these decisions were based on the 10th Amendment.
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But this resistance wore down in the face of economic crisis and political pressure. By the time of the Darby case in 1941, which concerned the Fair Labor Standards Act and Congress’ power to regulate many aspects of employment, the court had relegated the 10th Amendment to “truism” status: The Amendment, wrote Stone, did nothing more than restate the relationship between the national and state governments as it had been established by the Constitution before the amendment.
The 1970s marked an unexpected revival. In the 1976 decision in National League of Cities v. Usery, a dispute over whether Congress could directly exercise control over minimum wage and overtime pay for state and local government employees, the court held that Congress could not use its commerce power to regulate state governments.
But that principle was abandoned nine years later, with the court doubling back on its position. Now, if the states wanted protection from federal overreach, they would have to seek it through the political process, not judicial intervention.
Yet less than a decade later, the court reversed course again. The modern federalism renaissance began in the ’90s with a pair of divided opinions stating that the federal government cannot force the states to enforce federal regulatory programs: this was the “anti-commandeering principle.”
The 10th Amendment’s meandering path
In recent decades, the court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has invoked the amendment to protect state power in varied, even surprising contexts: states’ entitlement to federal Medicaid spending; state authority over running elections, despite patterns of voter exclusion; even legalization of sports gambling.
On the other hand, in 2024, Colorado was barred by the court from excluding Trump from the presidential ballot as part of its power to administer elections.
That brings us back to the present, where Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell protests against immigration enforcement, and bids to send them to Portland and Chicago as well.
From the point of view of federalism, two factors lend this conflict some constitutional complexity.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-deployments-of-national-guard-troops-reignite-a-200-year-old-constitutional-debate
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How the Trump administration is dramatically reshaping education in America – YouTube
17,516 views, Oct 19, 2025.
In March, Trump signed an executive order to begin shutting down the Department of Education, though it would take an act of Congress to actually close it. In the meantime, the department is taking dramatic steps toward fulfilling a conservative vision of a reshaped primary and secondary education system.
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Leonard Peltier is being interviewed on tonight's Cascade PBS News Hour.
To many supporters, Leonard Peltier was a political prisoner unjustly punished for his activism with the American Indian Movement. To his critics, he is a remorseless killer of two FBI agents in 1975, a charge he denies. President Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence, restricting him to home confinement.
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Liz Landers Joins ‘PBS News Hour’ As White House Correspondent
#News #Politics #ElectionLine #LizLanders #PBSNews #PBSNewsHour #PBSNewsHour #WETAhttps://deadline.com/2025/08/liz-landers-pbs-news-hour-white-houe-correspondent-1236484504/
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Zu "Allerdings wird beim Hitlergruss der Arm nach vorn ausgestreckt, bei Musk war es seitlich. Zudem hat Musk sich zuvor ans Herz gefasst.": Musk wiederholt den Gruss, nachdem er sich zum Publikum in seinem Rücken umgedreht hat, diesmal mit nach vorn ausgestrecktem Arm.#ElonMusk #Musk #Hitlergruss #Hitlergruß #HitlerSalute #NaziSalute #DonaldTrump #Trump #Amtseinführung #Inauguration #CapitalOneArena #CapitalOne #PBS #PBSNews
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'What a #joke': #Critics #blast #ADL as it #downplays Musk's #NaziSalute as '#awkwardgesture'
"Billionaire #ElonMusk gave what appeared to be a #fascist #salute Monday while making a #speech at the post-inauguration #celebration for #President #DonaldTrump at the #CapitalOne Arena." #PBSNews wrote in a #post on #X.
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I'm not sure if #Luxon believes this is getting #NewZealand back on the world stage but he's certainly getting #Aotearoa and #indigenous #Māori #TeTiriti rights noticed. #NZPol #ToitūTeTiriti #PBSNews
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Watching the #DNC on #PBSNEWS. What a treat with no yappy talking-heads or commercials. #Joy #harriswalz2024
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After Trump Shooting, PBS NewsHour Anchors Say Original RNC Coverage Plans ‘Went Out the Window’
#Variety #News #DonaldTrump #PBSNews #PBSNewsHour #RepublicanNationalConvention #TCAhttps://variety.com/2024/tv/news/trump-shooting-pbs-newshour-anchors-rnc-1236072373/
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Senate Republicans Stage Walkout After Democrats Subpoena SCOTUS' Wealthy Friends
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https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=yAgQWnD31nE
#PBSNews 5 May 2023
#GeoffreyHinton #tech #AIThe #GodfatherOfAI talks about the risks of super intelligent AI
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Why does #YouTubeTV have all these cable channels listed but nothing from #PBS or #BBC? #YamicheAlcindor #pbsnews #washingtonweek
