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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Bill Moyers Dies at 91

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The Best of the Week’s News
 

  • Legendary broadcaster Bill Moyers dies at 91. (AP)
     

  • Senate Republicans consider hiking federal employees’ pension contributions—except for members of Congress and their staff. (Politico)
     

  • Emil Bove told his DOJ subordinates he was willing to defy court orders to enforce Donald Trump’s agenda, now he wants to be a federal judge. (NYT, ABC)

     

  • 68-year-old Mexican man becomes the first ICE detainee in a decade to die in transit from a jail to a detention center. (Guardian)
     

  • DOGE cuts could cost the US $10 billion in lost economic activity. (CREW)
     

  • “I feel like I’ve been lied to”: Measles outbreak shakes faith in antivax platitudes as RFK takes his anti-vaccine ideology global. (NYT, NYer)
     

  • The Republican budget could kill one of the most effective tools for bird conservation. (WaPo)