Articles filed under Washington Post
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A surprising health benefit of drinking teaFeb 28, 2025 5:25 am - Scientists now say that brewed tea may provide a surprising health benefit: Your morning cup of tea could be removing dangerous contaminants from your water.
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Harsh findings on Trump’s aid freeze kept secret by USAID watchdogFeb 27, 2025 7:56 pm - The watchdog for the U.S. Agency for International Development has yet to release two critical reports on the consequences of President Donald Trump’s funding freeze on c...
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Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.Feb 27, 2025 4:33 pm - Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development to prevent the spread of E...
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Congress is reversing a tax on this climate superpollutantFeb 27, 2025 4:33 pm - The Senate voted Thursday to overturn a Biden-era rule that required oil companies to pay a fine for emitting methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that has significantly co...
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Katy Perry, Gayle King to fly to space on Blue Origin’s all-women flightFeb 27, 2025 2:38 pm - Pop star Katy Perry and CBS’s Gayle King are set to fly to space alongside Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, on an upcoming all-women flight of Blue Origin’s tourist rocket.
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What to know about the no-shopping ‘economic blackout’ on Feb. 28Feb 27, 2025 9:10 am - A social media campaign has sparked plans for an “economic blackout” on Friday, one of several boycotts planned by activists intent on sending a message to large corporations at a time when many Americans are struggling to keep up with costs.
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Federal agencies given deadline for plans to move offices out of D.C. areaFeb 26, 2025 8:12 pm - The Trump administration is giving federal agencies until mid-April to suggest relocations of bureaus and offices out of the D.C. region, a move that would have widesprea...
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Federal board halts firings of six probationary employees amid Trump cutsFeb 26, 2025 8:05 pm - An independent federal board on Tuesday granted a request from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to halt the termination of six probationary government employees a...
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Trump decries a ‘scam’ USAID contract. It supports a program he started.Feb 26, 2025 1:27 pm - “Here are some of the flagrant scams that, as an example, they’ve spent money on … $520 million for a consultant … you know, when I hired consultants, and they just take ...
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Trump posts video offering imagined vision of Gaza after his takeover planFeb 26, 2025 1:22 pm - President Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social account late Tuesday an apparently AI-generated video that offers a splashy vision of his plan to transform the Gaza Str...