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Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICEJul 17, 2025 7:10 pm - WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home address...
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Clean facts: A good shower is a simple showerJul 17, 2025 4:18 pm - You may be seeing elaborate shower cleansing routines on social media: daily exfoliation, double cleansing, antibacterial soap, loads of scented body scrubs and shower oils. Dermatologists say it's all mostly unnecessary.
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Climate change taking an emotional toll on young peopleJul 17, 2025 4:16 pm - Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people. Many worry about what the future holds, and a daily grind of climate anxiety and distress can lead to sleeplessness, an inability to focus and worse.
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Syrian forces who fought Druze militias leave Sweida province under a ceasefireJul 17, 2025 4:09 pm - DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian government forces largely pulled out of the southern province of Sweida on Thursday after days of clashes with militias linked to the Druze minor...
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Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyoneJul 17, 2025 2:45 pm - A U.S. Army veteran who was arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm last week said Wednesday he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper s...
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Trump is checked for swelling in legs and was diagnosed with a common condition in older adultsJul 17, 2025 2:09 pm - White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday read a doctor's letter about President Donald Trump that she said was intended to dispel health concerns about the swelling in his ankles and a makeup-covered hand.
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‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ shows war through one child’s extraordinary eyesJul 17, 2025 2:04 pm - “Are we racists?” That’s the blunt question posed by Bobo, a white girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified mother. It feels thoroughly organic when voiced by Lexi Venter, an extraordinary first-time actor who gives one of the more compelling child performances in recent memory in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight.”
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The House is poised to OK Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aidJul 17, 2025 1:34 pm - The House is expected late Thursday to approve President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid as Republicans target institutions and programs they view as bloated or out of step with their agenda.
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Embeth Davidtz drew on her childhood in South Africa to adapt memoir for filmJul 17, 2025 12:53 pm - In 1974, when it seemed as though everyone was leaving South Africa, Embeth Davidtz’s family was going back. And it’s where she’d return decades later to direct her first film, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” an adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about growing up during the Bush War in Zimbabwe.
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Movie review: ‘Smurfs’ has Rihanna but not much elseJul 17, 2025 10:44 am - “Smurfs” gets as much mileage as it can from its pop singer-voice actor Rihanna, who supplies a new song, giving a half-hearted injection of star power to an otherwise uninspired, modestly scaled, kiddo-friendly cartoon feature.