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Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigationsOct 08, 2025 8:35 pm - The Pentagon has investigated nearly 300 Defense Department employees, including service members, civilian workers and contractors, for comments appearing online after last month’s shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
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A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI dataOct 08, 2025 8:31 pm - Nearly a quarter of the FBI’s roughly 13,000 agents across the country are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing to upward of 40% in the nation’s largest field offices, according to data from the FBI obtained by Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and shared with The Washington Post.
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‘It’s never too late’: How to improve your health at any ageOct 08, 2025 5:47 pm - When Florene Shuber was around 82 years old, she noticed that sometimes she’d trip and fall. There was a small gym near where she lived, so she met with a trainer and started working out regularly. Shuber is 91 now and said she feels younger and stronger than she did 10 years ago.
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How to live to 117? Researchers find clues in the world’s oldest woman.Oct 08, 2025 5:34 pm - What can researchers learn from studying supercentenarians, or those who live to be at least 110. A new study looks at the life of a 117-year-old from Spain to gain clues about factors that play into “super-aging.”
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Supreme Court grapples with lawsuit challenging mail-in ballot rulesOct 08, 2025 4:52 pm - The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with whether to allow an Illinois congressman and others to go forward with a lawsuit challenging the state’s policy of counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day
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Trump hints at health care deal to end shutdown, but key hurdles remainOct 07, 2025 8:56 pm - President Donald Trump’s pledge Monday that he is open to a health care compromise that could end the government shutdown has Democrats keen to make a deal — and conservatives eager to blow it up.“I’d like to see a deal made for great health care,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, responding to questions about Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. He later wrote on his Truth Social platform that no deal would be possible until Democrats agree to end the shutdown, which Democrats say they will not do without an agreement on the subsidies.
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ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centersOct 07, 2025 8:49 pm - The Trump administration has said immigration enforcement will “remain unchanged” through the government shutdown. Officers continue to arrest migrants; detention centers remain fully operational; and the government issued new contracts for additional migrant holding facilities just last week.
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Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claimsOct 07, 2025 8:10 pm - Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office claimed in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure.
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This writer visited 21 graveyards — and dug up some deep truthsOct 07, 2025 7:08 am - I bet I know what you’re thinking: Essays about cemeteries? It would be a mistake, however, to write off Mariana Enriquez’s “Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave.”
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A distinctive Irish novelist returns with ‘The City Changes Its Face’Oct 07, 2025 6:58 am - Early in “The City Changes Its Face,” Eimear McBride’s messier follow-up to “The Lesser Bohemians,” we learn that Eily and Stephen have been living together for more than a year. Stephen has reconnected with his daughter and finished writing and directing an autobiographical film, based on his traumatic 20s. Eily, who is supposed to be in her third year of drama school, is skipping all her classes. Why?