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‘We were shovel ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablazeJul 25, 2026 1:08 pm - Last year, the Trump administration delayed a $10 million grant that was supposed to help Minnesota thin out about 4,000 acres of dense, dry forest at high risk of burning. Most of that work never got started, according to five people familiar with the situation and a document reviewed by The Washington Post. And now, some of those areas are on fire.
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Trump orders warning signs near Smithsonian, escalating fight over historyJul 25, 2026 12:49 pm - President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that warn people that the museum does not accurately reflect American history while pointing them to material that does — a dramatic escalation in his campaign to wrest control of how the nation’s story is told.
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Trump swings back toward diplomacy in escalating war with IranJul 24, 2026 6:37 pm - President Donald Trump leaned hard on Friday into what he said were negotiations with Iranian officials, seeming to emphasize diplomacy over military escalation after days of attacks by both sides and warnings that the White House was considering a sharp escalation of the war.
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A female World Cup ref on how to navigate male-dominant fields: ‘Take up space’Jul 24, 2026 3:58 pm - The stadium seemed bigger, Tori Penso thought as she walked onto the field in Atlanta last month. It was taller, somehow. Grander. Penso knew, logically, that Mercedes-Be...
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There’s a new way to treat sprains. Hint: Ice is out.Jul 24, 2026 8:25 am - For decades, at-home treatments for common, non-traumatic sports or similar injuries, such as sprains, centered on rest, ice, compression and elevation. But there’s growing evidence that the full RICE approach may, in fact, impede recovery, not speed it.
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What a podiatrist really thinks about flip-flopsJul 24, 2026 8:19 am - A podiatrist says that having a variety of comfortable footwear options is a good strategy to maintain foot health — and for many people, that strategy can include flip-flops.
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7 things a morning headache can reveal about your healthJul 24, 2026 8:17 am - Waking up to a throbbing headache is never a pleasant way to start the day. Around one in 13 people experience recurring morning headaches, research suggests, with women and those between the ages of 45 and 64 more likely to have them.
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US intelligence agency quietly cut about 200 jobs since June 1Jul 23, 2026 8:25 pm - The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has shrunk more than is publicly known in recent weeks, losing about 200 personnel to firings and reassignments since June 1, according to data the Trump administration shared with Congress this week.
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US signs nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that gives it path to enriching fuelJul 22, 2026 6:49 pm - The Trump administration on Wednesday signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia that gives that country a pathway to enrich nuclear fuel and commits it to using U.S. firms to supply its reactors.
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James Woolsey, CIA director under Bill Clinton, dies at 84Jul 22, 2026 6:31 pm - R. James Woolsey Jr., a Rhodes scholar and lawyer who led the CIA and the rest of America’s intelligence community for two troubled years during the Clinton administration, as the nation’s spy services struggled to adapt to the post-Cold War era, died Tuesday at his home in Washington. He was 84.