Rachel Cohen

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Fifty-seven of 77 Forest Service labs nationwide are on a list to shutter.

Scientists at these labs study everything from pollinators to wildfires.

The agency said this week the closures don't mean an end to research.

It's just relocating small teams to other spaces.

But Carl Holtman, a union representative with the National Federation of Federal Employees, says those workers haven't been told where their jobs could be moved.

He says the changes could harm long-term projects.

For NPR News, I'm Rachel Cohen.

I'm not paying my federal income tax this year.

So a little background.

My name is Rachel.

I am an attorney.

This is obviously not legal advice.

The thing is right now, my federal income tax is going overwhelmingly to disappearing my neighbors to concentration camps and to the military industrial complex.

And so as an individual, I was like, okay, well, I'm not going to send my taxes to the federal government.

Why Americans are moving in with strangers twice their age.

Spare bedrooms are America's next housing market.

Written by Rachel Cohen for The Highlight by Vox.

Narrated by Jamie Lamchick for Apple News Plus subscribers.

Denise Poirier was facing a pivotal moment.