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SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?
The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public
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KQED · SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?By Morgan Sung

Trump’s EPA says climate pollution doesn’t endanger people : NPR

Climate

July 24, 20255:00 AM ET, Heard on Morning Edition

By Jeff Brady, 3-Minute Listen, Transcript

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency building in Washington, D.C. Jose Luis Magana /AP

The Trump administration wants to overturn a key 2009 Environmental Protection Agency finding that underpins much of the federal government’s actions to rein in climate change.

The EPA has crafted a proposal that would undo the government’s “endangerment finding,” a determination that pollutants from burning fossil fuels, such as carbon dioxide and methane, can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The finding haslong served as the foundation for a host of policies and rules to address climate change. The EPA’s proposal to revoke the finding is currently under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Already, environmentalists, climate advocates and others are bracing for what could be a fundamental shift away from trying to address the problem of a hotter climate. And the Trump administration is celebrating the proposal as a potential economic win.

“Today is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in announcing the proposal in March. “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more.”

The administration’s effort comes in the wake of the hottest year humans have ever recorded on Earth, climate-fueled wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Los Angeles and hotter ocean temperatures that made Hurricane Helene stronger and more likely to cause damage inland.

The move could still be overturned by courts. But if the decision is upheld, it would speed President Trump’s efforts to end former President Biden’s ambitious climate agenda and make it more difficult for future administrations to limit the human-caused greenhouse gas pollution that’s heating the planet.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED

By Morgan Sung, Jul 24

Various types of electronics sit on a shelf at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco on March 24, 2023. The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public. (Beth LaBerge / KQED)

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ongoing legal challenges pose an existential threat to the organization.

California Sen. Alex Padilla made the designation in a letter sent Thursday to the Government Publishing Office, which oversees the program. In the letter, shared exclusively with KQED, Padilla praised the Internet Archive for its “digital focus” and said it “is leading the way when it comes to providing online library services.”

“The Archive’s digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern federal depository library, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,” Padilla said in a statement to KQED. “The Internet Archive has broken down countless barriers to accessing information, and it is my honor to provide this designation to help further their mission of providing ‘Universal Access to All Knowledge.’”

Under federal law, members of Congress can designate up to two qualified libraries for federal depository status.

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that while the nonprofit organization has always functioned as a library, this new designation makes it easier to work with the other federal depository libraries. That, he said, is a service to everyone.

Brewster Kahle closes a storage container with books from the Allen County Public Library at an Internet Archive storage facility in Richmond on March 30. (Beth LaBerge / KQED)

“ I think there is a great deal of excitement to have an organization such as the Internet Archive, which has physical collections of materials, but is really known mostly for being accessible as part of the internet,” Kahle said. “And helping integrate these materials into things like Wikipedia, so that the whole internet ecosystem gets stronger as digital learners get closer access into the government materials.”

The Federal Depository Library Program was established by Congress in 1813, with the intention of ensuring that government records would be accessible to the American public. It includes maps, environmental reports, health studies, congressional records, newspapers and books.

These records account for “millions and millions of pages” that can take up entire floors of public libraries, Kahle said. San Diego’s public library gave up its federal depository status in 2020 because its government documents took up so much space and often went unused.

These records account for “millions and millions of pages” that can take up entire floors of public libraries, Kahle said. San Diego’s public library gave up its federal depository status in 2020 because its government documents took up so much space and often went unused.

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Watch: Newly uncovered photos show Jeffrey Epstein attended Trump’s wedding in 1993 | CNN Politics

Newly uncovered photos show Jeffrey Epstein attended Trump’s wedding in 1993.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1rFrQeyAuw&ab_channel=CNN

Erin Burnett Out Front

Photos from Trump’s 1993 wedding and video footage from 1999

Victoria’s Secret fashion show shed light on the Trump-Epstein relationship.

CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski has the story. 03:16 – Source: CNN

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Trump’s Epstein nightmare worsens amid new revelations and a GOP revolt | CNN Politics

Politics• 10 min read

Trump’s Epstein nightmare worsens amid new revelations and a GOP revolt

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, Updated 4 hr ago

Sources: DOJ told Trump his name is among many in Epstein files. 1:59.

The Jeffrey Epstein morass surrounding President Donald Trump is deepening amid growing defiance by some Republicans and despite the administration’s most inflammatory attempt yet at distraction.

New reports Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his name appeared in documents related to the case of Epstein, an accused sex trafficker, offered a plausible explanation for the president’s growing fury over the drama.

They will fuel accusations of a cover-up since the administration has refused to release the files.

And although there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any wrongdoing or that he knew of Epstein’s criminal activities when they ran in the same social circle decades ago, there is bound to be intense speculation about the nature of mentions about the president in the investigative files.

The storm is also intensifying in Congress.

A vote in the House Oversight Committee to subpoena the Department of Justice for files related to Epstein worsened Trump’s political headache, since it revealed the appetite for more disclosure among some MAGA Republicans. The GOP-majority committee also voted to subpoena testimony from Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison term.

Trump responded to the ballooning crisis with the oldest trick in his political book, pushing a conspiracy theory against Barack Obama — a decade and a half after his false claims about the 44th president’s birthplace electrified his coalition and political career. He enlisted the top US intelligence official, Tulsi Gabbard, who misleadingly claimed in a theatrical White House appearance that Obama’s handling of Russian election meddling in 2016 amounted to a coup to destroy Trump’s first presidency, a day after her boss accused his predecessor of treason.

There is no evidence that Trump did anything wrong or illegal in his interactions with Epstein. But days of stalling by the White House and new disclosures drove speculation to a fever pitch over their relationship in the 1990s and early 2000s, long before the wealthy financier was charged with sex trafficking and abuse and died in prison in 2019.

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Closer Look: Chronicling America | Teaching with the Library – Library of Congress

 Teaching with the Library Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators:

Closer Look: Chronicling America

Harris & Ewing, photographer. Newspaper Boys. United States, [Between 1915 and 1923] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016885202/.

July 22, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith

This post is part of a series taking a closer look at various resources to support teachers using the Library’s digital collections in their classrooms. 

Chronicling America is one of many digital collection gems that the Library has to offer teachers and students. The collection gives users access to selected digitized newspapers published through 1963. For long-time users of Chronicling America, you may notice the website has a new look. While the format is new, your favorite tools have been preserved and augmented: You can download and view newspapers, as well as clip, save, and share a particular section or article.

Newspapers, as a type of primary source, help students imagine what it might have been like to live in a particular time or place: consuming media of different historical eras can help to slow down the big events of history and see how they were experienced in real time. Newspapers can also be a tool for teaching different text types, media literacy, and message crafting.

Quick Ideas for Teaching with Historical Newspapers

  • Examine as type of informational text
  • Student research about a time, place, or event
  • Gaining more context about significant historical events 
  • Slow down to see big things happening in real time
  • Seeing coverage of a scientific invention or innovation from the past

You can find even more ideas for how to use Chronicling America with students in these blog posts. 

Navigating Chronicling America

There are several ways you can search Chronicling America’s collection of historic newspapers. A good place to start is in the “Collection Items,” which you can find on the Chronicling America homepage.

Selection from homepage of Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers

Once in the collection, we recommend using some or all of the filters in the advanced search field. Depending on what you or your students are researching, you can narrow results through a keyword search, by location, ethnicity group, or by date. These search tips can be helpful to both teachers and students.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Closer Look: Chronicling America | Teaching with the Library

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