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Cushla, a Catholic schoolteacher living in the dangerous world of Belfast 1975 embarks on an illicit affair with Michael, a married Protestant. As their forbidden love deepens, Cushla is pulled between duty and desire, family and freedom. Broadcast Sundays, September 20 – October 11, at 10:00 p.m. Streaming Streaming live at live.wpsu.org and next day on the PBS App Binge all four episodes of this drama series starting on the night of its broadcast premiere with Passport.

When Republican lawmakers secured cuts to the United States' largest food assistance program last year, Paige Shoemaker DeMio wasn't worried about children going hungry just at home — but at school. "Anytime we're hearing about cuts to SNAP or Medicaid, we're worried about what's going to be the domino effect of this," she says. Shoemaker DeMio is a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.

CAIRO — On the surface, Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Egypt this week is a run-of-the-mill opportunity for two countries to strengthen economic and diplomatic ties. But there is deep subtext to the meeting between Xi and President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi: China, the United States' top global rival, is cultivating an extensive relationship with one of America's key allies in the Middle East as it moves to expand its influence in the rapidly changing region.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is no longer in the Trump administration's crosshairs, according to its former leader. President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the country's top disaster agency. In the first week of his second term, he attacked FEMA, saying, "I think, frankly, FEMA is not good," arguing that the agency should be eliminated.

Two Democrats tasked with overseeing federal elections are asking why the Trump administration hasn't distributed money to protect state and local elections as directed by Congress. Sen. Alex Padilla of California and Rep.

As public sentiment sours on automatic license plate readers — particularly cameras operated by Flock Safety — state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are introducing legislation to curtail their use across the commonwealth. A trio of bills introduced recently range from an outright ban on fixed cameras to stiffened penalties for unauthorized data access. The cameras, known as ALPRs for short, capture images of passing vehicles and upload them to a database police can search.

The alleged ringleader of a cocaine trafficking operation at two Penn State fraternities is out of jail, after a judge reversed a decision denying him bail. That decision was part of an hours-long preliminary hearing Wednesday at the Centre County courthouse in Bellefonte. Jonathan Grine, the Centre County judge presiding over the case, granted Agostino Abbatiello a $250,000 secured bail, with certain conditions.

Cassandra Wilson, whose deep, dark contralto and casual disregard for musical category made her one of the most arresting and influential jazz vocalists of the last 40 years, died on Wednesday in Jackson, Miss. She was 70. Her longtime manager, Robert Torry, announced her death in a statement, without specifying a cause.

VALLETA, Malta — A jury in Malta on Wednesday acquitted the Maltese businessman accused of being the mastermind of the 2017 car bomb killing of crusading investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Caruana Galizia's killing shocked Europe, led to protests that toppled a prime minister and exposed a culture of impunity on the Mediterranean island nation, the European Union's smallest.