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Suspicious mailings to election officials, congressional offices under investigation

Eric McDaniel, Hansi Lo Wang, Ryan Lucas

The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into the mailings, some of which included an unidentified powdery white substance.
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U.S. historic preservation law faces the most serious threat in its 60-year history

Rachel Treisman

Congress and a federal agency are threatening to weaken the country's historic preservation law, fueling a backlash that critics say is as fiery as the one that led to the law's creation 60 years ago.

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Inside a Chicago home, a photographer documents the life her family built

Jennifer Teresa Villanueva

For eight years, photographer Jennifer Teresa Villanueva has documented her Mexican American family's everyday life in Chicago, capturing intimate moments of love, labor and sacrifice.
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After booting 760K off ACA health plans, the Trump administration adds some people back

Julie Appleby

The Trump administration provided few details about its process for canceling hundreds of thousands of Affordable Care Act enrollments — even as the next stage of the anti-fraud effort is underway.
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Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian oil refineries, officials say, after brief truce

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Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in Russia's Ryazan region early Thursday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a brief truce spurned by Moscow was over.
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Greetings from Mexico City, where a bullfighting ban doesn't stop this matador training

Eyder Peralta

One plays the bull, the other the bullfighter, as a pair practices a dance of death in a sport that's prohibited in the Mexican capital city.

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Make a 'sick day' kit for cold and flu season before your household gets hit

Andee Tagle

Cold and flu season is here. Before someone in your household gets hit, make sure you have these essential meds and comfort items in your medicine cabinet.

A person walks past a voting sign at the East Point Library on Tuesday, the first day of early voting, in Atlanta.

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These swing voters regret voting for Trump and it's influencing their midterm choices

Ashley Lopez

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks at the Association of the United States Army 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14.

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Trump cancels public execution, but a line may already have been crossed

Odette Yousef

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School roof collapse kills at least 29, injures more than 3 dozen in Pakistan

The Associated Press

The roof of a private school collapsed in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 28 children and a female teacher and injuring more than 50 other people.
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Aboard an icebreaker, a writer got a closer look at the Arctic's 'Sea Change'

Dave Davies

As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition. Writer Rana Foroohar explains the stakes in Sea Change.
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'New Yorker' cartoonists admit to having 'The Two Saddest Kitchens'

Maureen Corrigan

The Two Saddest Kitchens is a comic conversation between Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein. Book critic Maureen Corrigan says it made her laugh and feel better about her own (lack of) cooking.
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Inflation sizzled in September — and Social Security benefits will get a boost

Scott Horsley

Consumer prices in September jumped 3.7% from a year ago. The Social Security Administration said benefits will increase next year to help keep pace with the rising cost of living.
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Hands-on with the Ocarina of Time remake, the most ornate Zelda game ever made

James Perkins Mastromarino

We got to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time early. Here are our impressions of the remake and its elaborate new style.