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Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 - Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By CHARLOTTE KRAMON, Associated Press/Report for America Minnesota officials have until next week to provide the Trump administration with information about providers and parents who receive  federal child care funds  or risk losing potentially millions of dollars in federal funding, state officials said Friday. In an email sent Friday to child care providers ...

Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 - A solo hiker who authorities believe was on a remote Colorado trail on New Year's Day was not the first person to encounter one of the predators in the area in recent weeks. Gary Messina said he was running along the same trail on a dark November morning when his headlamp caught the gleam of two eyes in the nearby brush. Messina used his phone to snap a quick photo before a mountain lion rushed him. Messina said he ...

Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 - Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A search has been suspended for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a cruise ship near Cuba on Thursday. "We are deeply saddened to confirm that while sailing in waters north of Cuba, a guest on Nieuw Statendam went overboard earlier today," Holland America Line said in a statement. "The captain and crew initiated search-and-rescue procedures and worked closely with the U.S. Coast ...

Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 - On his first day in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked all of the executive orders issued by former Mayor Eric Adams after his indictment in 2024 — including measures that sought to crack down on pro-Palestine protests and advocacy. In December, Adams signed an order that prohibited city agencies from actions like boycotting or divesting from Israel, which the office labelled as actions that ...

Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 - With the start of 2026, more than 8.3 million workers in 19 states received mandatory minimum wage increases. None of them were in Massachusetts. Despite being one of the most expensive states in the country , the Commonwealth has kept its minimum wage flat at $15 per hour since 2023. When Massachusetts first hit that level, it was one of only four states that had reached at least the $15 mark. Today, however, 11 ...

Friday, Jan 2nd, 2026 - The fiery debate about a proposed ballot measure to tax California's billionaires has sparked some soul-searching across the state. While the idea of a one-time tax on more than 200 people has a long way to go before getting onto the ballot and would need to be passed by voters in November, the tempest around it captures the zeitgeist of angst and anger at the core of California. Silicon Valley is minting new ...

Thursday, Jan 1st, 2026 - New mayor, 34, was sworn in by state attorney general Letitia James in old beaux-arts city hall subway station Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station – a prelude to daylong celebrations set to include a second, public swearing-in and a block party outside city hall. Mamdani, 34, was sworn into office by the New ...