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What Trump’s proposed 10% cap on card rates could mean for youJan 24, 2026 1:38 pm - In a new push to address affordability concerns on voters’ minds before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump has recently called for a cap on credit card interest rates, without a clear plan on how he would do it.
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ACL tears keep sidelining women’s basketball stars. What’s going on?Jan 23, 2026 10:04 pm - JuJu Watkins, the biggest name in college basketball, won’t take the floor this season. She’s just the latest in a long line of prominent female players — in college and the pros — to fall victim to an ACL tear in recent years.
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What’s behind our love-hate relationship with football?Jan 23, 2026 3:06 pm - Though its release is timed to the height of the NFL postseason, Chuck Klosterman’s “Football” often seems inclined to put you off watching the sport. He muses at length about classic players and statistics, only to lament the dead-endedness of the debates they inspire.
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Video games may be a good way to get a cognitive boostJan 23, 2026 10:06 am - Far from rotting our brains, video games may improve our cognition. But how we play them matters when it comes to the benefits they provide. Studies have shown that, in some circumstances, playing video games can help slow brain aging.
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Does ginger really ease nausea?Jan 23, 2026 10:03 am - For more than 2,500 years, ginger has been used for its medicinal properties. But does it really help an upset stomach?
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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ — ‘Game of Thrones,’ but funnierJan 23, 2026 10:00 am - Set roughly 70 years after the events of “House of the Dragon” and nearly a century before the “Game of Thrones” saga, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” hews closer to a comedy than a work of prestige fantasy drama and consistently makes a point of undercutting any hint at excessive seriousness.
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US crime has dropped sharply since the pandemic. Here’s where it stands.Jan 22, 2026 9:17 pm - The United States remains in a multiyear trend of falling rates of homicides and other crimes in cities nationwide, ushering in a period of relative safety that rivals the years before the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from more than 100 police departments.
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FCC targets talk shows by revisiting ‘equal time’ rule for political candidatesJan 22, 2026 9:07 pm - The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that network talk shows are required to give equal airtime to all candidates intending to run for the same public office, changing course on a decades-old ruling and again raising free-speech concerns over the Trump administration’s approach to media regulation.
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Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicideJan 22, 2026 5:26 pm - The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
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White House shares doctored image portraying arrested church protester in tearsJan 22, 2026 4:51 pm - The White House on Thursday posted an altered photo of an attorney arrested after a Minnesota church protest, edited to make it look like she was crying, sparking concern among some forensic-image experts about the administration’s distortion of real-world imagery.