The White House has formally asked Congress to claw back $1.1 billion in funding set aside for public broadcasting for the next two years. It is urgent that you contact your members of Congress to save public broadcasting.
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In 1903, on a $50 bet, Horatio Nelson Jackson set out on the first journey by car from San Francisco to New York.
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