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Trump weighs Venezuela strikes as US forces prepare for attack orderNov 14, 2025 7:11 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine returned to the White House on Friday for a second consecutive day of deliberations centered on potential military action in Venezuela, as U.S. forces in the region prepared for possible attack orders, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Trump asks Justice to examine Democrats’ ties to Epstein; Bondi compliesNov 14, 2025 6:47 pm - President Donald Trump called on the Justice Department on Friday to examine the relationships between deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and several prominent Democrats, including former president Bill Clinton, and Attorney General Pam Bondi quickly tapped federal prosecutors in Manhattan to take on the job.
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Ken Burns says Americans have been fighting each other since the beginningNov 14, 2025 10:28 am - There’s a neon sign in Ken Burns’ editing room that reads, “It’s complicated.” While Burns and co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt were working on his latest PBS docuseries, “The American Revolution,” the sign encouraged them to question the narratives they had been taught since childhood about the war.
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A dying poet embraces life in ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’Nov 14, 2025 10:12 am - Periodically, some charismatic person with a terminal diagnosis steps into the role of societal sage. The documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light” gives us a new teacher, the celebrated slam poet Andrea Gibson, who died in July at age 49, four years after an ovarian cancer diagnosis.
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A new Ira Sachs film resurrects Peter Hujar, and something far greaterNov 14, 2025 9:19 am - The quiet and compelling film “Peter Hujar’s Day” uses Hujar’s own words, discovered on a transcript at the Morgan Library in New York, to recount the minutiae of a single day in the life of the photographer who died of AIDS complications in 1987.
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3 types of hair loss and the treatments that helpNov 14, 2025 8:14 am - In a clinic north of Baltimore, Myriam Lucia Vega Gonzalez meets patients every day of the week who have all types of hair loss. The good news is: “It’s the golden age of hair,” said Shari Lipner, an associate professor of clinical dermatology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
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Congress tightens THC restrictions on hemp, closing farm bill loopholeNov 13, 2025 8:18 pm - Congress on Wednesday stiffened restrictions on hemp, a form of the cannabis plant that was legalized in the 2018 farm bill, in a provision tucked into the legislation signed into law by President Donald Trump that ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys are deadly frenemies in ‘The Beast in Me’Nov 13, 2025 3:38 pm - Matthew Rhys’ smile is a fantastic weapon, and in Netflix’s new thriller “The Beast in Me,” he uses it to maximal effect — particularly when his character is negging Claire Danes’ character, a famous writer named Agatha Wiggs.
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House effort to force vote on releasing Epstein files can advanceNov 12, 2025 7:26 pm - A bipartisan House effort to force a vote on releasing more files related to the federal government’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein can now move forward.
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Catholic bishops launch new program in defense of migrantsNov 12, 2025 6:37 pm - The Trump administration has deported 400,000 people this year and detained some 60,000 others, part of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants that has also swept up some who are in the country legally. Immigration enforcement officials have blocked priests from offering Communion to some incarcerated immigrants.