Articles filed under Washington Post
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Trump officials keep blaming housing costs on one group: Immigrants. Economists disagree.Dec 18, 2025 11:13 am - President Donald Trump promised Wednesday night that he’d bring down persistently high housing costs, which he said were caused by one group in particular: immigrants. But the administration’s sharp focus on immigrants contrasts with economists’ widely held view that the problem comes from housing shortages.
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The ‘Peanut Punch’ took over the NFL. Wait until you hear about its inventorDec 18, 2025 8:00 am - Charles “Peanut” Tillman’s detour into professional football — and his subsequent swerve back into public service — is the start of the explanation for how he quietly became one of the 2025 NFL season’s most influential and interesting men as a 44-year-old father of four living in Chicago, the city where he became a beloved Chicago Bear, an innovator of modern defensive technique — and a now-retired FBI special agent.
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American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.Dec 17, 2025 7:40 pm - The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for initiatives on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome and identifying autism early, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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Trump taps Yale doctor who pushed unproven COVID treatment to lead US cancer effortDec 17, 2025 7:33 pm - Harvey Risch, a Yale public health researcher long respected for his work in cancer research but who has faced controversy for promoting an unproven COVID-19 treatment, has been selected by President Donald Trump to lead the nation’s cancer initiative.
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Trump officials say they will dismantle ‘global mother ship’ of climate and weather forecastingDec 17, 2025 4:26 pm - The Trump administration said Tuesday it was breaking up one of the world’s preeminent earth and atmospheric research institutions, based in Colorado, over concerns about “climate alarmism” — a move that comes amid escalating attacks from the White House against the state’s Democratic lawmakers.
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Trump administration admits to targeting blue states for energy grant cutsDec 17, 2025 4:08 pm - The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing this week that a decision to cut energy grants during the government shutdown was influenced by whether the money would go to a state that tended to elect Democrats statewide or nationally.
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Why did we get so much snow, so fast this season? A polar vortexDec 17, 2025 9:30 am - Snow season has gotten off to a fast start across swaths of the northern United States this year. Fueled in part by an unusually early disruption to the polar vortex — wh...
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Piping impaired? ‘Embroidery’ cookies turn frosting dots into seasonal designsDec 17, 2025 5:53 am - Not great at piping on cookies? Try dots. Cookbook author Molly Yeh has perfected this technique of piping dots into a configuration that resembles embroidery. She shares some of her go-to designs, plus her version of the ideal sugar cookie cutout — sturdy enough to hold up to decorating, yet soft enough to melt in your mouth.
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How to bake your best batch of cutout cookies yetDec 17, 2025 5:38 am - Cutout cookies are a holiday baking staple. Yet it can be all too easy to watch in dismay as your dough sticks and tears or those cute little snowmen turn into a shapeless blobs. If you’re looking to take your cutout cookies to a new, neater level, here are some top tips.
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Trump expands travel ban to 39 countries after shooting of Guard membersDec 16, 2025 7:27 pm - President Donald Trump on Tuesday added 20 countries to a list whose citizens face a full or partial travel ban on entering the United States, swelling the total to 39 as his administration seeks to further restrict legal immigration after an Afghan immigrant was charged in the shooting of two National Guard troops last month.