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Trump’s vaccine order comes with political risks
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Vaccine policies are a political risk that Trump’s sticking with President Trump on Monday abruptly upended his administration’s reset of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). © AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin For a few months this spring and early…
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Major League Baseball has a huge problem brewing for the 2026-2027 offseason
Major League Baseball is facing growing tension ahead of the 2026–27 off-season, when its collective bargaining agreement is due to be renegotiated. The article argues that the league office and club owners are increasingly presenting payroll inequality as a central problem, potentially laying the groundwork for a push towards a salary cap and a damaging…
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Phylicia Rashad on Her Historic Career and the Current State of TV: ‘If There’s Something on That I Don’t Like, I Simply Don’t Watch It’
Phylicia Rashad reflected on her career, family heritage and approach to acting during a C-Suite Luncheon at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. She said legacy is shaped by how people live, relate to others and pass values to younger generations, while stressing the importance of finding humanity in every role. Discussing television, Rashad…
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Mamdani weighs in on ‘Woke 1 was crazy:’ ‘Sometimes, what you believe can change’
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Wednesday weighed in on the “Woke 1 was crazy” remark said by New York City councilor Chi Ossé and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and echoed that “sometimes, what you believe can change.” Mamdani, while at an event breaking ground on the long-stalled Tremont Avenue busway in the…
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Fox News Poll: New matchup, same result: Maine Senate race stays locked
A Fox News poll found Maine’s US Senate contest remains closely balanced despite a new Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, facing Republican incumbent Susan Collins. The result matters because Collins’ race could influence control of the Senate, while voters express reservations about both candidates. Concerns about Collins’ relationship with President Donald Trump were more prominent among…
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Tories demand Burnham cap student loan interest
The Conservatives have urged Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to support capping student loan interest at the rate of RPI inflation, reviving a policy announced by Kemi Badenoch in February. They argue this would reduce graduates’ repayments substantially and form part of a wider plan to improve routes into work for young people. The party…
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Millions in UK and Europe left wowed by once-in-a-generation solar eclipse
Millions of people across the UK and Europe watched the most dramatic solar eclipse seen from Britain in nearly 30 years. The event mattered because it offered a rare shared view of a major astronomical phenomenon, with partial coverage across the UK and totality visible in parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain. In most of…
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Gasoline prices stick at $4 per gallon as war drags on
Prices that U.S. consumers are paying at the gas pump have stubbornly stuck around $4 per gallon, a high price for this late in the summer, as the Iran war’s trajectory remains uncertain. “We’re paying more than we’ve ever paid this time of year,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at Gulf Oil. “For August,…
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Bush Hager on how her father’s presidency helped her career: ‘You can own that’
Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former President George W. Bush, discussed how her father’s presidency helped her career during a Wednesday segment of “TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle.” “I haven’t asked my boss, and I’d rather not — I got this interview… I was on the show because my dad was president,” Bush Hager confessed…
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MI London hold on to beat Phoenix but fail to progress to eliminator
MI London beat Birmingham Phoenix by two runs at Edgbaston in the Men’s Hundred, but the narrow margin was insufficient to lift them into the top three. As a result, MI London were eliminated from the competition despite winning their final match. The result means MI London miss out on the eliminator, with qualification determined…