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White House fires much of the National Council on the HumanitiesOct 01, 2025 7:02 pm - The White House on Wednesday abruptly fired a large share of the council members advising the National Endowment for the Humanities, retaining only four appointees of President Donald Trump, according to terminated members reached by The Washington Post and an updated list on the agency’s website.
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Vance downplays Trump post of Jeffries in sombrero: ‘I think it’s funny’Oct 01, 2025 6:57 pm - Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday downplayed criticism over a fake video of Democratic lawmakers that the president posted online, saying the depiction of one party leader in a sombrero and another seeming to deliver a profanity-laced tirade was “funny.”
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Why is the Ivy League’s best player taking a year off from playing basketball?Oct 01, 2025 4:42 pm - Why is Glenbard West graduate Caden Pierce -- the best basketball player in the Ivy League -- taking a year off from playing basketball at Princeton?
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Mormons raise nearly $200,000 for family of gunman who attacked their churchOct 01, 2025 3:51 pm - Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in deep grief after a gunman ambushed a worship service in Michigan on Sunday, killing four people and wounding eight others.They started fundraisers for the victims. Then they did something remarkable: They began donating money to the wife and son of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man who police say carried out the attack.
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Instant ramen is a pantry superhero that can turbocharge your cookingOct 01, 2025 5:50 am - This upgrade to instant ramen is inspired by Mexican stewed beans and requires only a handful of ingredients. It’s “an excellent canvas for a wide range of garnishes, allowing you to take it in numerous directions based on whatever you have on hand,” writes Peter J. Kim in his “Instant Ramen Kitchen” cookbook.
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Trump administration moves to defund inspector general watchdog groupSep 30, 2025 7:28 pm - The Trump administration plans to end funding starting Wednesday for an oversight group that helps inspectors general root out waste, fraud and abuse, marking the latest example of President Donald Trump’s drive to limit federal watchdog activities.
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Trump, Hegseth lecture military leaders in rare, politically charged summitSep 30, 2025 4:57 pm - Hundreds of the U.S. military’s top leaders listened in silence to highly partisan addresses from President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, with each harshly criticizing their predecessors and hyping their political objectives during a summit that was extraordinary in nature but ultimately broke little new ground.
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Trump announces drug-pricing deal with Pfizer, new ‘TrumpRx’ websiteSep 30, 2025 4:43 pm - President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer would sell its drugs to a government program at discounted rates, acceding to his long-running push to lower U.S. drug prices, and he pledged that similar deals with other companies would soon follow.
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Taylor Swift inspired this steakhouse cocktail. We re-created it.Sep 30, 2025 2:34 pm - I’m resigned to the sad fact that I will probably never get to dine at 1587 Prime, the steakhouse fronted by Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. So I’ve re-created the restaurant’s cocktail dubbed “The Alchemy,” an ode to Kelce’s fiancée, pop star Taylor Swift.
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Trump tells a roomful of silent generals to join a ‘war from within’Sep 30, 2025 11:33 am - President Donald Trump delivered a meandering address to an unprecedented gathering of the country’s top military leaders, railing against his predecessor, celebrating ta...