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SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images/AFPPresident Trump is asking lawmakers to claw back the $1.1 billion in federal subsidies for public broadcasting that Congress approved earlier this year. His request also includes cuts to foreign aid.
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Leoneda Inge hosts an Arts & Culture encore hour, featuring Visit NC's Scott Peacock, Ella West Gallery founder Linda Shropshire and three artists featured in her latest exhibition and Carolina Ballet's Margaret Severin Hansen. -
MrBeast aims to raise millions for his charity by offering a weekend experience to six-figure donorsMrBeast plans to turn the success of his Amazon Prime Video reality competition series into millions of dollars for charity. YouTube's biggest creator is offering an exclusive weekend at his North Carolina studio to the first 40 donors who make $100,000 gifts to his registered nonprofit. -
The state Senate is expected to vote this week on new regulations for child care facilities. The proposal would allow larger class sizes, among other provisions aimed at increasing access to child care services. -
When state lawmakers expanded vouchers, Wake County private schools got a boost. Meanwhile, Wake County Schools has a budget hole the same size as the tax funds those private schools received. -
After 35 years in operation, Neo-China in Durham closed its doors at the end of May. The family-owned Chinese restaurant struggled to keep up with rising operational costs, including the increased prices of imported Chinese goods that resulted from the high tariff earlier this spring. -
Due South travels back to the land before time today. We speak with a NC researcher who helped discover a new dinosaur, and a scientist working to "de-extinct" species like the woolly mammoth and dodo bird. -
WUNC Music Reporter Brian Burns chats with Chaz Martenstein as he celebrates 20 years of operating Bull City Records -
Durham-based visual artist Raj Bunnag, a self-described “political printmaker,” creates works with a strong perspective about history and the presence of white supremacy in our society. That hasn’t posed an issue with showing his work at galleries until this year, when he had two exhibitions canceled, including at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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