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75% of Americans oppose US attempting to take control of Greenland, CNN poll finds; Canada, China slash EV, canola tariffs in reset of ties; Trump administration announces health plan concept; Congress considers bill to make cars with electronic door handles safer; Michigan Planned Parenthood closures fuel ongoing debate.

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Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act, as Minnesotans protest ICE. A Homeland Security official announced a run for Congress and federal courts move to keep the administration from getting voter data from two blue states.

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Rural Appalachia is being eyed for massive AI centers, but locals are pushing back, some farmers say government payments meant to ease tariff burdens won't cover their losses and rural communities explore novel ways to support home-based childcare.

Dallas Heltzell

Dallas Heltzell has been an editor at Public News Service since 2010. His nearly five decades of writing, editing and producing at daily-news outlets has included work at college radio stations; KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo.; the Columbia Missourian, St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Longmont (Colo.) Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette and Denver Post. Besides his work at PNS, he's also a reporter for BizWest, which covers business news for Northern Colorado, and Prairie Mountain Newspapers.


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