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CNN to end HLN’s live programming as part of the network’s big job cuts

Posted on 18/03/2023

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More details about layoffs at CNN (NASDAQ:WBD) emerged Thursday, as HLN, a one-time 24-hour breaking news sister network, was set to put an end to live programming as part of a slate of job cuts and costs reductions.

According to a report from Variety, HLN will pull the plug on its signature morning news show, Morning Express with Robin Meadewhich has been on the air since 2001, and replace Morning Express with a simulcast of CNN’s CNN This Morning. As part of Morning Express’ cancellation, Meade, and all staffers tied to the program will leave HLN.

Instead of live programming, HLN will run previously produced shows, and partner with Investigation Discovery on more true-crime programs.

The moves are part of a massive cost-cutting program that CNN Chief Executive Chris Licht has implemented implementing across the network. Licht, who joined CNN (WBD) in May, has been tasked with re-making CNN in the wake of declining ratings, and criticism over what many believe has been a rise in unbiased reporting at the network in recent years.

Layoff notices began going out around CNN on Wednesday, and Variety said dozens more reporters and staffers were

New year brings new programming | News, Sports, Jobs

Posted on 18/02/2023

ABOVE: Xander-4, Gunnar-6, and Vincent Sukalski-2 play connect four at the Martin County Library during Play Cafe programming in the summer. The library plans to continue the program, plus add more in the new year. Other organizations like Fairmont Community Education and Recreation, the Fairmont Opera House and the Red Rock Center for the Arts plan to add new programs in the new year, too.

A traveling missionary’s essential tool

Posted on 06/02/2023

Africa (MNN) — Traveling from village to village, Christian missionaries across Africa are sharing the love of Jesus with an essential tool.

When these traveling evangelists depart, they don’t leave the new believers and the “Gospel curious” empty-handed. Scripture booklets from World Missionary Press are distributed to stay and keep touching hearts and lives.

World Missionary Press is the literature supplier for a ministry partner in several African countries for Gospel outreach. Believers in connection with the ministry visit villages in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, and several other African countries, equipped to share God’s Word in these well-organized Scripture booklets.

(Photo courtesy of World Missionary Press)

Helen Williams with World Missionary Press says of their ministry partner, “This ministry has a lot of new directors…. These young men are alive, enthusiastic, eager, aware, and bright. They are just ready to go!”

Williams recently spoke with one ministry director from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

“Because of the literature, he can send his people out for days and days and days. They can go to a village and then they can leave literature. Then they can go to the next village and leave literature…. Then on their way back or

Federal court strikes down Biden’s student loan forgiveness program

Posted on 27/01/2023

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A federal judge in Texas has struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, declaring it illegal.

The lawsuit was filed by a conservative group, the Job Creators Network Foundation, in October on behalf of two borrowers who did not qualify for debt relief.

Biden’s program was already on hold due to a separate legal challenge.

The Biden administration has argued that Congress has given the secretary of education the power to broadly discharge student loan debt in a 2003 law known as the HEROES Act.

But the Texas federal judge found that the law does not provide the executive branch clear congressional authorization to create the student loan forgiveness program.

“The program is thus an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power and must be vacated,” wrote Judge Mark Pittman, who was nominated by then-President Donald Trump.

“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” he continued.

The Justice Department said Thursday that it would appeal the decision, and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement that “we strongly disagree with the District Court’s ruling on our student debt relief program.”

“For the 26

A new rule for those involved in federal acquisition

Posted on 23/01/2023

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The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has been banging this particular drum for years now. Not only are agencies allowed to engage in discussions with industry before they craft procurements, doing so is usually a good thing. Now that principle is enshrined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation via a new rule issued just last week. To go a little deeper, Federal News Network Deputy Editor Jared Serbu talked with Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Jared Attack: And Larry, like we said, this has been an ongoing message from OMB for, gosh, going back at least a decade when the Obama administration was working on its Mythbusters campaign. What’s new here exactly, as a practical matter out of this new federal register notice, I guess, other than the message that “we really, really mean it this time?”

Larry Allen: Well, Jared, I think that’s a reminder, what we’re talking about here is a new FAR rule that just came out very recently that specifically promotes communication, in