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A year after a swatting incident, UAPD is filming a new active threat safety video showing avoid, deny, defend protocols and the first responder side of an emergency.
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Images: via Renee Johns, obtained by ProPublica from Craighead County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas
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About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. -
Lawmakers are hoping to avoid a third shutdown since last September. The stopgap funding measure now heads to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain future. -
In a House DOGE subcommittee hearing, GOP representatives excoriated the director of the National Museum of American History, following a White House report earlier this month that also criticized her. -
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi as commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces following days of protests demanding his removal. Zelenskyy appointed Mykhailo Drapatyi as the new army chief.
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Courtesy/Get Loud, ArkansasGet Loud Arkansas' Summer Youth Ambassador program has high school and college students volunteering, registering voters and building leadership skills across the state. -
Courtesy/Sweet Soil NarrativesAntonio Tarrell and Castel Sweet's documentary "Evidence of Our Existence," about Holly Springs' Behind the Big House tour, premiered at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.
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