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National Guard troops deployed in DC add sanitation, landscaping dutiesAug 27, 2025 8:57 pm - The August air was crisp Tuesday as members of D.C’s National Guard, a key component of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District, scooped, spread and smoothed mounds of mulch around the city’s treasured Tidal Basin cherry trees.As they raked, specks of dirt and mulch floated upward into early morning sunbeams, an idyllic image starkly at odds with the president’s portrayal of Washington as a violent, lawless dystopia.
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College football Week 1: Three top-10 games so early in season is a first; Texas-Ohio St is topperAug 27, 2025 8:19 pm - Until this year, there had never been three top-10 matchups so early in a college football season. The excitement for Texas-Ohio State in Columbus on Saturday has been bu...
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Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights ActAug 27, 2025 8:16 pm - Louisiana on Wednesday abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.
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Vikings bring back veteran Adam Thielen for WR depth in trade with the PanthersAug 27, 2025 7:48 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings acquired 13-year veteran wide receiver Adam Thielen, who has the third-most catches in franchise history, in a trade with the Carolina...
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Journalist’s final images show the Gaza hospital stairwell where she was killed by an Israeli strikeAug 27, 2025 6:57 pm - The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later. Dagga,...
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Murder, she solved: Helen Mirren channels Angela Lansbury in ‘Thursday Murder Club’Aug 27, 2025 3:06 pm - In “The Thursday Murder Club,” an amiable, cozy, pleasantly entertaining adaptation of Richard Osman’s mystery novel, the four club members, led by Helen Mirren in her no-nonsense plaid blazers, depart from yoga and Sudoku each week at their retirement community to consider cold cases.
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Top Florida official says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will likely be empty within days, email showsAug 27, 2025 12:52 pm - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, eve...
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FDA approves updated COVID-19 shots but limits access for some kids and adultsAug 27, 2025 12:49 pm - U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 shots Wednesday but limited their use for many Americans — and removed one of the two vaccines available for young children.
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Prosecutors fail to indict sandwich thrower in Trump’s Washington public safety operationAug 27, 2025 10:22 am - Federal prosecutors have failed to obtain a felony indictment against a man who was seen on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation’s capital, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
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A shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school kills 2 children, injures 17 peopleAug 27, 2025 10:20 am - A shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called “absolutely incomprehensible.”