Segments From This Episode

• A threatened risk associated with a government shutdown

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  The Office of Management and Budget sent out a memo with stark instructions for heads of federal agencies: They should consider layoff notices for all employees in programs that haven’t been funded yet for the government’s 2026 fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1.

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• U.S. in talks to lend Argentina’s central bank $20 billion

  Argentinian President Javier Milei has thanked the U.S. for its support after the Trump administration moved to financially backstop Milei, a leader seen as a political ally. The BBC's Ione Wells reports.

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• Drought threatens this centuries-old irrigation system in New Mexico

  by Kaleb Roedel

  

  Farmers have relied on these irrigation ditches for generations. Now, climate change threatens to turn them into relics of the past.

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