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Hyperlocal

Hyperlocal

4/24/26: (Co-host Buz Eisenberg):

MTA Pres Max Page: bell to bell cell phone bans & controlling exploitive social media.

Rep Mindy Domb: a violent death at UMass & Hampshire College’s closing.

UMass Professor of Chinese History & Guggenheim Fellow (& NHS grad) Stephen Platt.

Fishwrap on Ruth Suyenaga’s powerful DHG and Recorder piece on ICE and internment camps.

Donnabelle Casis’ ArtBeat: the Easthampton Film Festival.

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23 hours ago in National

US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid

A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.

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2 days ago in National, Trending

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

President Donald Trump's acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

3 days ago in National

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80.