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Ahead of the latest shutdown deadline, OMB circulated guidance telling agencies to submit workforce reduction strategies, a move unions and legal experts warn is a blueprint for mass layoffs during a funding lapse.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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Some experts liken it to trying to spot a snowball in a snowstorm.—
Dr. Megha Gupta,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Young professionals may seek a financial advisor to help juggle competing financial priorities while building their career.—
Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Kelli Grant, CFP®,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Freedom of speech has been top of mind for industry professionals as of late, especially after Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily pulled off the air by ABC and major TV station operators Sinclair and Nexstar Media for his controversial comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Most of the seven-track project was recorded in a 10-day period at a Los Angeles home studio, where Afrobeats superproducers GuiltyBeatz and P2J and R&B virtuosos Jack Dine and Cam Griffin congregated to craft Odeal’s vibrant, vulnerable sound.—
Heran Mamo,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
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Continuity errors like this remind us that there are truly artists at work behind the scenes.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Black lacquer furniture, Ingo Maurer light fixtures and a bar by French ceramics artists are the backdrop for the creative menu of chef Taku Mikuriya.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Evaluating performance in games such as Go is straightforward; AI was beating Go masters by 2016.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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The song’s 478 words, just 56 shy of the Newsweek article itself, told the story with both economy and feeling, two masters that are hard to please in one song.—
John U. Bacon,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Vanderbilt hospital is the only Level 1 pediatric trauma center within 150 miles, the top designation verified by the American College of Surgeons for around-the-clock specialists, a high volume of trauma cases, robust research and quality patient care.—
Beth Warren,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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Arroyo, due to her college experience, could potentially start ahead of veteran defensive specialists Naylani Feliciano and Olivia Durst.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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Not only is the work physically and mentally grueling, hotshots must dedicate at least six months of their life to their crew, sacrificing time with family and friends, along with individual autonomy.—
River Selby
August 25,
Literary Hub,
25 Aug. 2025
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In July, ProPublica reported that, according to agency data, its fire and aviation management program contained more than 4,500 active vacancies, including for such crucial primary firefighting positions as hotshots, dispatchers and engine captains.—
Abe Streep,
ProPublica,
14 Aug. 2025
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This month’s Criterion Channel collaboration is a mix of two of the streamer’s programs featuring a pair of movie maestros, Jodie Foster and Robert Altman, plus a couple of the latter’s frequent collaborators.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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