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GiveDirectly got $50 gift cards out to SNAP recipients during last month’s shutdown through a new approach to cash assistance ...

DALLAS — The Texas Comptroller’s Office on Tuesday announced it has restructured the state’s Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB) and stripped away the designation for women and ...

Amazon has brought news to its streaming platform. The Prime Video live news hub is now the one-stop destination for ...

Google Gemini voice assistant is expanding to millions of US users on smart speakers. This includes Gemini Live, Home Brief, ...

Innovation Fund for Community-Academic Partnerships will seed and sustain collaborations between the local community and ...

Nineteen Local Food Infrastructure Grant recipients received a collective $1.8 million in funding awarded in 2024 after ...

For the 2.5-million Missourians in rural areas, health care is scarce and hospitals are struggling to survive.

This past summer, the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs issued the state’s first telehealth exceptions for a licensed substance use disorder treatment provider to Gateway Rehab. The nonprofit, ...

Rashaun Agee scored a season-high 21 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Texas A&M rolled past East Texas A&M 118-77 on Sunday with the third-highest point total in program history. The ...

Tim White, senior vice president of Business Development at RIDC, said PennSTART fills a critical gap in the region’s transportation.

Those are just some of the immediate and far-reaching consequences of the Trump administration’s decision last Friday to abruptly cancel close to 20 ongoing five-year grants—collectively worth $168 ...