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PNS Daily Newscast: Afternoon Update - May 30, 2025
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Trump makes a new push to 'decouple' U.S. from China; 'Get ready now' for active hurricane season; Third Ohio city joins global pact to strengthen food systems; Funding cuts risk care for 816,000 at PA community health centers.

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2025Talks - May 30, 2025
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Students' advocates call for free speech protections on campus. States consider funding for rape survivors and investigations and Trump administration's tariff, immigration and education policies face legal pushback.

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The Yonder Report - May 29, 2025
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Elevated gas station food is on the menu at Louisiana's T-Rey's Boudin, immigrants drive rural population growth, especially in Texas, North Carolina and Iowa, and ICE agents are targeting immigrant labor groups and their leaders.

Zamone Perez

Zamone “Z” Perez is a reporter and producer, covering the Mid-Atlantic. He previously wrote for Military Times, where he worked as a Pentagon reporter and produced a daily national security podcast. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he researched international ethics and atrocity prevention in his thesis. He is particularly fond of his home state of Illinois and Lake Michigan.


Honors and Awards: 2024 Winner: Atlanta Press Club Award of Excellence in Civil and Human Rights Reporting

Languages Spoken: English

Topic Expertise: Military service members and veterans issues, national security, social issues facing the military.

Location: Moline, IL

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Two in five speech controversies in 2023, after the Israeli-Palestinian conflict began, were about the war in Gaza, according to a report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. (Adobe Stock)

Report: Campus free speech curtailed as government punishes students

Students and faculty are increasingly being investigated and punished for exercising their right to protected speech on college campuses, according …

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A report by the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health showed only 22% of women who screened positive for depression received mental health treatment. (Adobe Stock)

Report: VA gets ‘C’ for quality of maternal mental health care

Virginia is ahead of many states in the quality of its maternal mental health care but one expert argued the Commonwealth has more work to do…

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About 7% of children in the Maryland have a family member that was undocumented and face deportation. (Adobe Stock)

Federal, state laws pull back and forth on immigration policies in Maryland

As Maryland resident Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia sits in an El Salvadorian prison camp, other immigrants in the state are caught in the middle of …

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Workers are entitled to 32 ounces of cool drinking water per hour and 15 minutes of rest every hour in the most extreme heat indexes above 100 degrees. (Adobe Stock)

New Maryland heat standards aim to protect summer workers

As the hot summer months begin, Maryland workers will operate on new standards to protect them from extreme heat. The heat standards took effect in …

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The race for Virginia governor is already set but some other local and down ballot races have competitive primaries this year. (Adobe Stock)

VA voters to decide nominees for local, statewide races in June primary

Voters in the Commonwealth have only a few more weeks to cast early ballots in the Democratic and Republican primary elections. Virginia voters have …

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On average, more than 23% of rural women of childbearing age receive health care coverage through Medicaid. (Adobe Stock)

Report: Rural women of childbearing age more often rely on Medicaid

A new report found women of childbearing age in rural areas rely more on Medicaid for health care coverage than their urban counterparts and cuts to M…

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E-cigarette use among high school students in Maryland was 15%, slightly less than the national average of 18%. (Adobe Stock)

Study: Disposable e-cigarettes bigger, cheaper and still marketed to kids

E-cigarettes in Maryland are getting cheaper and bigger, delivering higher amounts of nicotine to users, according to a new study. The study by the …

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Virginia's rate of workplace deaths has dipped year over year, with 2.7 per 100,000 workers dying on the job in 2023, compared to 3.4 in 2022. (Adobe Stock)

Virginia ranks in top 10 for lowest rates of deaths on the job

More than 5,000 workers nationwide died from traumatic injuries while on the job in 2023 and 135,000 more died from occupational diseases, according …

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More than 140,000 people are killed a year by workplace hazards. (Adobe Stock)

MD workplace deaths remain low amid anti-regulation push

More than 5,000 workers died from traumatic injuries while on the job in 2023, and 135,000 more died from occupational diseases, according to a new …

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Meat producers are only required to submit written claims ensuring their products are antibiotic free. (Adobe Stock)

Report: Federal inspectors find antibiotics in beef, despite label saying otherwise

By Grey Moran for Sentient.Broadcast version by Zamone Perez for Virginia News Connection reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration…

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