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A ‘super ager’ shares how she thrives at 90: Trapeze school and house parties

By Maggie Penman
Sep 01, 2025 6:06 pm - There are a lot of busy people with packed calendars in D.C. Not many of them are 90. On a Tuesday I texted retired nurse and nonagenarian Ednajane Truax to see when she ...
Nationwide Labor Day protests denounce billionaires in Trump’s orbit

By Gaya Gupta
Sep 01, 2025 6:04 pm - Crowds gathered in cities like Chicago, San Diego and D.C. on Labor Day to denounce what they see as the undue influence of America’s business tycoons and corporations over the second Trump administration.
Trump plans a hefty tax on imported drugs, risking higher prices and shortages

By PAUL WISEMAN and TOM MURPHY
Sep 01, 2025 6:03 pm - President Donald Trump has plastered tariffs on products from almost every country on earth. He’s targeted specific imports including autos, steel and aluminum.But he isn’t done yet.Trump has promised to impose hefty import taxes on pharmaceuticals, a category of products he’s largely spared in his trade war. For decades, in fact, imported medicine has mostly been allowed to enter the United States duty free.
Trump says he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Sep 01, 2025 5:39 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he will award former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian hono...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says

By Kareem Fahim and Gerry Shih
Sep 01, 2025 4:37 pm - Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left swaths of the enclave in rubble, meets “the legal definition of genocide,” the oldest and largest association of genocide scholars said in a resolution passed by the group’s members Sunday.
Russia is suspected of jamming navigation on EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, official says

By SAM McNEIL and VALENTINA PETROVA
Sep 01, 2025 3:37 pm - A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday. The plane landed safely at Plovdiv airport in central Bulgaria and von der Leyen will continue her planned tour of the European Union’s eastern front line nations, said commission spokesperson Arianna Podestà.
1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows

By COREY WILLIAMS
Sep 01, 2025 3:33 pm - As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are held Monday for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation's labor force. More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents.
Army football player and his dad save a man from flames after a car crash near West Point

Associated Press
Sep 01, 2025 11:42 am - FORT MONTGOMERY, N.Y. (AP) — An Army football player and his father pulled a man from a crashed car just before it burst into flames near the U.S. Military Academy at Wes...
Earthquake in eastern Afghanistan destroys villages and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured

Associated Press
Sep 01, 2025 11:42 am - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2...
Pope demands end to the 'pandemic of arms' as he prays for victims of Minnesota school shooting

By NICOLE WINFIELD
Aug 31, 2025 7:32 pm - VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to the “pandemic of arms, large and small,” as he prayed publicly for the victims of a shooting during a Cath...

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