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Dead soldiers’ teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon’s armyOct 25, 2025 12:02 am - Historical accounts of Napoleon’s campaign to invade Russia have focused the brunt of the blame on a louse-borne disease, typhus. But a new study of bacterial DNA preserved in the teeth of 13 soldiers adds two new diseases — paratyphoid fever and a relapsing fever — to the ailments that plagued one of the most disastrous episodes in military history.
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US kills six in latest strike on alleged drug boat, Hegseth saysOct 24, 2025 7:07 pm - The U.S. military killed six people overnight in the 10th reported strike on a boat alleged to be involved in drug smuggling, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on social media Friday.
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Average Obamacare premiums are set to rise 30%, documents showOct 24, 2025 4:27 pm - Premiums for the most popular types of plans sold on the federal health insurance marketplace Healthcare.gov will spike on average by 30% next year, according to final rates approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and shown in documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Consumer prices in September rise to a pace not seen since JanuaryOct 24, 2025 3:53 pm - New data released Friday showed inflation heated up in September to a pace not seen since January, according to the first dataset to be released during the government shutdown.
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As Israel returns bodies, Palestinians face a grisly search through corpses for lost loved onesOct 24, 2025 3:32 pm - In photos, Wahiba Shabat immediately recognized her son’s body. A mother’s heart knows, she said. But when she finally saw his decomposed corpse, she wasn't sure. Israel had handed over her son's body naked, his hands tied behind his back with a zip tie. Scars around his ankles indicated he’d been bound there too, Shabat said.
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Trump says he’s canceling trade negotiations with Canada over antitariff adOct 24, 2025 7:40 am - President Donald Trump claimed Canada “fraudulently used” an advertisement that featured audio from a 1987 radio address by President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
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Indiana Republicans don’t have votes for new congressional map Trump wantsOct 23, 2025 7:47 pm - The Indiana legislature lacks the votes to pass a congressional redistricting plan ahead of the 2026 midterms, a senior aide said Wednesday, marking a setback in President Donald Trump’s unprecedented push for Republican-led states to change their maps to help maintain or expand a historically small GOP majority in the U.S. House next year.
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Can you pass the new US citizenship test?Oct 23, 2025 5:52 pm - Would you be able to pass a U.S. citizenship test on America’s government and history? This week, it got harder.
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Trump administration will allow controversial road through Alaskan refugeOct 23, 2025 5:32 pm - The Trump administration announced Thursday it is moving forward with a controversial land deal to allow for the construction of a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a pristine stretch of coastal wildlands in southwest Alaska.
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Mom says slain Illinois woman wouldn’t want to be tied to Trump’s immigration blitzOct 23, 2025 2:25 pm - The mother of an Illinois woman killed by an undocumented immigrant in January is speaking out against the Trump administration’s attempts to tie her daughter to the ongo...