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Implementation will cost around $2.8 million.
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The city’s utilities department says the system is now "fully operational."
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He will lead the upcoming Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology at UVA.
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It’s unclear why council dismissed Osuna after nearly six years in the role.
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The federal government’s decision was also a “complete surprise” to UVA.
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Almost 40% of the county’s 2024 homicides were from instances of IPV.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., about President Trump's budget bill, his own concerns about the legislation, and some of the changes he hopes to see.
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Mohammed Sabry Soliman, the man arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at people in Colorado, is facing several charges. Here's what we know about him. And, Ukraine makes a bold ask of Russia.
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In recent decades, America has seen economic opportunities concentrated in superstar cities. Manufacturing boosters hope reshoring factories could help change that. We look at the theory and evidence.
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Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice says presidential emergency powers, which President Trump has used to enact major policies, are the stuff of authoritarian regimes and should be curbed.
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A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year — almost four times the government's estimate for the cost of incarceration.