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WBUR TODAY: Going nuclear

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  ❤️ Donate Wednesday, September 30, 2026 🌤️ Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Good Morning Boston, Today's the final day of our Fall Fundraiser. If WBUR is part of your daily routine, we're asking: will you support the journalism you depend on? Your gift today keeps us here for Boston tomorrow. Donate here . Now, to the news: Nuclear options: Leaders from all six New England states are gathering in Lowell today to discuss what role — if any — nuclear power could play in helping to meet the region's growing electricity demands. As WBUR's Miriam Wasser reports, the one-day summit will focus on advanced nuclear technology , rather than the big, traditional plants. And it includes sessions about safety and waste. "We have a regional grid, and it's important to get together with our colleagues to talk about what we're going to do as a community of states to work on our additional resource needs in the future," said Rebecca Tepper , the state's ener...

The Hound | Aug. 7

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  Hi there, It’s Friday. A new Senate investigation by Sen. Ron Wyden has found that Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase collectively facilitated over $1.4 billion in suspicious wire transfers for Jeffrey Epstein over two decades — transactions including cash withdrawals with no clear business purpose, payments to women and girls, and tens of millions to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Every one of those executives, save one, remains employed in lucrative positions today, facing zero regulatory discipline. And CBS — now controlled by Trump ally David Ellison — killed a finished 60 Minutes segment on the investigation and fired the reporter who led it. 🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the Wyden report not as an Epstein footnote, but as the live corruption and cover-up story it is — one that runs from Wall Street boardrooms to the Treasury Department to a CBS newsroom....subscribe and join with others to speak out about important issues....

The Dumbing Down of America

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The Dumbing Down of America It’s as easy as G-O-P Dan Rather and Team Steady Nov 25 Credit: Getty Images If not for teachers who cared deeply about our education, it is unlikely that many of us would have come anywhere near to realizing our potential. Many years ago, I wrote that “the dream begins with a teacher who believes in you.” And we are a nation that knows good schools are the foundations of its strength. With those points in mind (and as many teachers along the way said to me many times), “Please pay attention!” What you’re about to read is vital. Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to America’s education system and upended this country’s dedication to educating its citizens since day one of his second term. It is a coordinated, multi-pronged assault on everyone from toddlers in Head Start programs to would-be doctors in medical school. His war plans can be found in the pages of Project 2025 . The first line of the 44-page chapter on education reads, “Federal edu...