Add newsfragment for issue #977 timeout improvements

Author: acul71

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+Added timeouts to CI/CD pipeline to prevent hanging tests.
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+- Added 60-minute job timeout to GitHub Actions workflow
+- Added 20-minute pytest timeouts to tox.ini for all test environments
+- Updated Makefile test command with 20-minute timeout
+- Prevents tests from hanging indefinitely in CI/CD