US shutdown sends airlines scrambling as travel chaos looms; Pairing Hmong economic future in MN with historic election; MA lawmakers urged to protect higher ed jobs from federal cuts; Historic NM mission church being preserved brick by brick.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - November 5, 2025
California voters resoundingly approved Proposition 50, the ballot measure championed by Democrats to enact new congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms a fight that became as much a referendum on President Donald Trump as a question of redistricting.
Record turnout as Mamdani wins NYC Mayor's race; Virginia and New Jersey elect female Democratic governors in historic firsts; Trump administration guts finance fund that helps fuel tribal economies; SNAP benefits lapse hitting rural Montanans hard; Keystone State students confront lawmakers about their future.
Trump administration will provide only half of usual food stamp benefits in November; What's next for 600,000 Coloradans who lost SNAP food assistance; Latino advocates worry about long-term effects of racial profiling; Post-wildfires, toxic smoke a lasting health concern in CA.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - November 4, 2025
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84; Minnesotans fan out for local elections; Ohio redistricting map draws bipartisan support but deep concern; Report: Kentucky caregivers increasingly face financial hardship.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - November 3, 2025
Supreme Court confronts Trump and his tariffs in test of presidential power; OR health care workers threaten walkout, demand end to unpaid labor; WI's Door County residents call in-person CAFO hearing a 'win;' Cancellation of digital equity grants hinders ID libraries.
FBI director says 'potential terrorist attack' over Halloween weekend was averted; Dia de Los Muertos: NM celebrates, CA cancels events amid ICE fears; Cleveland retailers face new tobacco license rule; Many Virginia inpatient health care beds in flood zones, report finds.
Judge says she'll likely order Trump administration to send SNAP funds to states; IN families face food crisis as federal shutdown drags on; PA faces high-stakes retention vote for Supreme Court justices; IL conservation groups question McDonald's sustainability pledge; TN's Sevier Co. mayor backs FEMA reforms, faster disaster aid.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - October 30, 2025
Trump and Xi ease off the trade war, but new nuclear threat brings a chill; Report outlines steps to strengthen rural Michigan amid shutdown; Clinic helps North Carolinians clear criminal records for free; IN youth want answers on their path to adulthood.
Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica; Young plaintiffs take federal climate fight to appeals court; Bill aims to protect VA federal employees from evictions, repossessions; MA families face double whammy of delayed heating and food aid; Colorado voters to decide fate of 'Healthy School Meals for All' program.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - October 29, 2025
The eye of Hurricane Melissa struck Cuba's Eastern end; Wyoming ratepayers hold 'people's hearing' on PacifiCorp plan; Ohio foster care pilot returns $4 for every $1 invested; Report: Consolidation harms private medical practices in rural WA.
Hurricane Melissa plows across Jamaica, its eye now moving toward Cuba; Israel launches strikes on Gaza after Netanyahu orders 'powerful' attacks; HIV outbreak in ME shows risk of federal crackdown on homelessness; Iowans face changes to Medicare plans; WI Farmers Union calls for policy investments in rural Wisconsin.
Hurricane Melissa is now the strongest storm on the planet this year; Hoosier ranchers bristle at Trump's Argentina beef plan; Clean energy politics collide with SD rural development; Dozens of Missouri hospitals at risk as rural health crisis deepens.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - October 28, 2025
Hurricane Melissa, now stronger than Katrina, is closing in on Jamaica; Ohio teachers say investing in workers boosts rural communities; Nonprofit asks for help tracking pregnant ICE detainees; Amid SNAP trouble, tips emerge for effective food drives in MN.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - October 27, 2025
Hurricane Melissa nears Jamaica as 'Catastrophic' storm; Report: Child poverty rising in MD following federal cuts; WA county demonstrates success of science-backed youth justice; WV residents seek answers on permit for data center power plant.
Chinese and U.S. officials tentatively agree to avert 100 percent tariffs; NC can apply for rural health funding as Medicaid money dries up; NM becomes first state to adopt 'universal child care'; IN fertility advocates question Trump's new IVF policies.
Facing Medicaid cuts, OR seeks rural health funding; FBI operation in ID includes allegations of detaining, zip-tying children and expert MD adoptees need to find community, even into adulthood.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - October 24, 2025
'No Kings' organizers plan new 'rapid response network'; IL migrant clinic sees drop in patients due to ICE activity and expert MD adoptees need to find community, even into adulthood.
en-us
PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - October 23, 2025
VA lawmakers demand Trump use emergency funds for food program; clean-energy groups slam Newsom's veto of virtual power plant bills and IN nursing shortage forces creative methods to fill jobs.