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Trump signs order aimed at ending cashless bail, flag burningAug 25, 2025 3:11 pm - President Donald Trump moved on two issues important to his conservative base Monday, signing executive orders aimed at ending cashless bail across the country and pushin...
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Frustrated, Trump signals pause in his Ukraine peace effortAug 23, 2025 8:05 pm - President Donald Trump is signaling that he would step back for now from efforts to reach a Ukraine peace deal, expressing frustration over rising casualties and the fail...
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Maxwell denies Epstein kept ‘client list’ and other takeaways from interviewAug 23, 2025 5:08 pm - The transcript of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s interview of Ghislaine Maxwell spans more than 300 pages, the audio more than six hours. Upon releasing the materials Friday, Blanche said nothing about his July conversation with the imprisoned accomplice of deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein had been removed “except for the names of victims.”
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Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say threat to deport him to Uganda is coercionAug 23, 2025 4:16 pm - The night before Kilmar Abrego García was set to be released from a Tennessee jail, federal prosecutors urged him to strike a deal: Plead guilty to two counts of human smuggling, serve his sentence, and be deported to Costa Rica, a tropical, Spanish-speaking refuge regarded as the safest country in Central America.When he declined the offer in favor of awaiting trial with his family in Maryland, officials threatened to deport him within days to Uganda, an African nation to which the State Department has discouraged travel because of the ongoing risk of terror attacks, his lawyers wrote in a filing Saturday detailing their account of those exchanges.
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A taste of cool, fall-like weather is coming. Here’s what you need to knowAug 22, 2025 12:42 pm - It’s about to feel more like late September across much of the United States.
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Potatoes are healthy, but french fries? Not so much.Aug 22, 2025 11:10 am - They’re the most popular vegetable in the United States, where people eat an average of nearly 50 pounds of them a year, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. But the humble potato doesn’t always get nutritional respect.
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Riz Ahmed rises to the occasion in ‘Relay’Aug 22, 2025 9:29 am - Until it goes kerblooey in the last 15 minutes, “Relay” is the very model of a modern genre thriller: Taut, tight, squeezing the maximum of suspense and character detail from the minimum of gestures.
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Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.Aug 22, 2025 7:15 am - Researchers say the modern-day potato evolved from hybridization of the ancestors of tomato plants and another potato-like plant, known as etuberosum, in South America up to 9 million years ago.
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Anti-sunscreen movement could cause long term health risksAug 21, 2025 9:52 pm - For years dermatologists and health experts have extolled the value of sunscreen to prevent skin cancer and protect people from the ultraviolet radiation of the sun. But a growing anti-sunscreen movement has taken hold on social media is alarming public health experts who say avoiding sunscreen increases long-term health risks.
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Eric Adams adviser suspended after giving reporter cash in potato chip bagAug 21, 2025 3:48 pm - A volunteer adviser to New York Mayor Eric Adams has been suspended from his reelection campaign after she handed a journalist an envelope of cash stuffed inside a bag of...