Americans Buy Less Beef at Peak Grilling Season
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Roberts Lets $400 Million White House Ballroom Proceed
Chief Justice John Roberts signed a one-page order on Friday that lets construction continue on President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom.
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Big Bend Gets a Pause, Not a Promise
Bulldozers stopped rolling through Big Bend National Park last week after the Trump administration said it would pause construction of a border barrier there.
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Huge rolling hairball raises eyebrows, but it's not AI
If you saw a carsized ball of hair rolling through Manhattan this weekend and assumed it was AI, you're not alone. The spectacle was real, and it was a marketing stunt with a point: to make hair loss visible in a way most ads don't.
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55 archived storiesRoberts Lets $400 Million White House Ballroom Proceed
Chief Justice John Roberts signed a one-page order on Friday that lets construction continue on President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom.
Read the full story →Big Bend Gets a Pause, Not a Promise
Bulldozers stopped rolling through Big Bend National Park last week after the Trump administration said it would pause construction of a border barrier there.
Read the full story →Industry Groups Warn Trump Immigration Crackdown Undercuts Agenda
The people who build our homes and harvest our food are telling the White House that the immigration crackdown is hurting the economy and undercutting.
Read the full story →The Groceries Trump Promised to Lower Are Haunting Republicans
The tables held milk and eggs and cereal boxes, arranged like props in a school play about economics.
Read the full story →Karoline Leavitt Is Leaving the White House Podium
Karoline Leavitt will leave her role as White House press secretary at the end of the month. President Donald Trump announced Leavitt's departure.
Read the full story →Medicare Drug Subsidy Ends, and Seniors Face Higher Bills
Millions of seniors will pay more for their prescription drug coverage starting in 2027.
Read the full story →Iran Says U.S. Lost. Trump Says Pay More at the Pump.
The average price for a gallon of gas hit $4.11 last Friday. That is nearly a dollar more than a year ago. It is the highest August price on record.
Read the full story →Neutrogena Says It Made Hayden Panettiere Feel Unsupported
Neutrogena has acknowledged it made Hayden Panettiere feel unsupported after she spoke about postpartum depression.
Read the full story →Moderna's melanoma vaccine kept cancer away in a big trial
Moderna's shares jumped 177% on news that a personalized mRNA vaccine, given with Merck's Keytruda, helped high-risk melanoma patients stay cancer-free longer.
Read the full story →Seniors Face Higher Drug Plan Costs as Subsidy Ends
The federal cushion that has kept many Medicare drug plan premiums low for two years disappears after this December.
Read the full story →Kaiser Permanente mixed labels. Cassandra Barksdale lost her uterus.
The surgery happened on May 15, 2025. It was not needed. Cassandra Barksdale, fortythree, lives in the Atlanta area. She went in for a routine procedure. A lab technician attached the wrong label to a tissue sample. The report came back saying cancer was present. The path forward seemed clear. You fight what you fear. You remove what threatens you. Ms. Barksdale filed a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente on Tuesday. The paperwork is thick. The clock is ticking. The state expects answers. The stat
Read the full story →Huge rolling hairball raises eyebrows, but it's not AI
If you saw a carsized ball of hair rolling through Manhattan this weekend and assumed it was AI, you're not alone. The spectacle was real, and it was a marketing stunt with a point: to make hair loss visible in a way most ads don't.
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