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Every new year, public media reporters across the country bring us some of the new state laws taking effect where they are. Here are six in 2026.
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Which Tiny Desk made an audio engineer question everything? Which one made a producer want to cry? Touch grass? Look back on the year in Tiny Desk, with the people who make them.
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Jan. 17 screening supports local waterways and nonprofit groups
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Demand for temporary permits could rise by nearly 20 percent if every pregnant women in Florida applied, since there are about 225,000 births each year in the state, according to a lawsuit.
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New York City has a new mayor. Zohran Mamdani is the city's first Muslim mayor and a democratic socialist.
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Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., says he thinks the Senate can pass a "retroactive" Affordable Care Act subsidy extension, but "we need President Trump." -
SNAP cuts are having a disproportionate effect on one already vulnerable group — LGBTQ+ people. -
Half of the residents of a building outside of Kansas City have stopped paying rent because they say their apartments are moldy, cockroach-infested and dilapidated.
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Swiss authorities say dozens of people were killed in an overnight fire at the Le Constellation bar at the Crans-Montana ski resort.
