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Eight single beds are lined up in a room with a concrete floor and windows.

JPR news: Animal rescue scandals, housing wins, and legal upheaval

The JPR news team discusses the top news stories they've worked on this week.

Like many miners with advanced black lung disease, Tim Balthis looks healthy, sitting with his wife Fran Balthis on their porch in Pound, Va. But a scan of his lungs shows so much fibrotic tissue a doctor told Balthis he was surprised he was still alive.

Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

Preschool children line up to go outside at the Ralph Hawley Head Start Center in Emeryville on Dec. 9, 2024.

Trump administration threatens to gut Head Start rules, affecting 70,000 kids in California

Head Start is a federal childcare program that serves the country’s lowest-income families — those earning less than $33,000 a year for a family of four.

A report from Senate Democrats says big banks had concerns for years about suspicious money transfers made by Jeffrey Epstein. But in most cases those worries went unreported until Epstein was charged with sex-trafficking.

Senate Democrats say banks turned blind eye to suspicious moves by Jeffrey Epstein

A report from Senate Democrats accuses big banks of failing to report suspicious money transfers made by Jeffrey Epstein until after his arrest in 2019.

A two story grey building with large windows. A sign at the top of the building reads "city hall"

Ashland voters will decide whether utility fee hikes need voter approval

A November ballot measure would give Ashland voters more control over utility fee increases, despite opposition from several city councilors.

Then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks during a press conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Jan. 6, 2014.

Ousted Bangladeshi leader vows to return from exile despite facing a death sentence

Hasina's speech marked the second anniversary of her ouster. She fled Bangladesh by helicopter following nearly two months of protests in 2024 that left nearly 1,400 people dead, according to the United Nations.

Small Texas law firm set to receive $150M to represent unaccompanied migrant children

The firm, Houston-based Burke Law Group has only two attorneys who specialize in immigration and asylum cases. Two of its founders have ties to the Trump administration.

Dr. Erica Schwartz, who appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in July, was confirmed Wednesday as CDC director.

Dr. Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, filling a leadership vacuum

Schwartz takes command of a public health agency that has lost thousands of employees amid layoffs, resignations and leadership turmoil.

How Midwest doldrums became a gift for Kevin Morby

Morby's Little Wide Open is a love letter to a part of the country he finds endlessly inspiring.

Motorcyclists navigate through a road barricaded with concrete blocks set up by supporters of the outlawed Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) during a protest demanding greater political rights and the abolition of 12 legislative refugee seats, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026.

Pakistan's ruling party leads in Kashmir vote despite boycott call by banned group

Candidates backed by twice-elected former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party have won 24 of the 34 seats decided in the first two phases of voting, the election commission, said Wednesday.

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