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February 24 | The trade war plot just thickened. 

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February 23 | Whatever you do, don’t mess with Americans’ ability to avoid the minor inconvenience of standing in a long line.

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February 21 | One recipe, one book, and one travel destination worth your time.

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February 20 | The shocking arrest of a member of the British royal family continues to reverberate around the world — testing accountability and the monarchy itself. 

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February 19 | California dreamin’ might’ve reached new heights — at least when it comes to the ballot.

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February 18 | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might be pulling the plug on AI at the Pentagon.

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February 17 | In a move straight out of Animal Farm, President Donald Trump announced last week that his administration repealed the scientific “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gases harm human health. 

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February 13 | A recap of the week’s most fun and interesting stories.

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February 14 | One recipe, one book, and one travel destination worth your time.

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February 13 | You worked hard enough this week. Let us plan your weekend.

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February 13 | After 10 weeks, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is wrapping up. 

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February 12 | The economy has entered its “sources say” era — plenty of numbers, not much clarity.

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February 11 | Bipartisan calls for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s resignation intensified this week after newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents showed he remained in contact with the convicted sex offender as recently as 2018. 

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February 10 | That quick brain game you play with your morning coffee promises to keep you sharp. 

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February 9 | Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s federal vaccine panel has prepped two more targets for its examination table. 

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February 8 | A recap of the week’s most fun and interesting stories.

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February 7 | One recipe, one book, and one travel destination worth your time.

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February 6 | Ciao to our old personalities, the Milano Cortina Olympics have arrived — and Team USA’s women’s hockey team wasted no time setting the tone.

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February 6 | You worked hard enough this week. Let us plan your weekend.

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February 5 | President Donald Trump recently suggested Republicans should “nationalize” elections — then left everyone guessing what that actually meant. 

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February 4 | For over a year, French prosecutors have been investigating Elon Musk’s X for fraudulent data extraction.

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February 3 | It’s not every day that a special election makes headlines, but when it produces one of the biggest upsets in decades, the story tends to linger.

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February 2 | South Carolina just hit a grim milestone: It now has the largest measles outbreak in the US since the disease was declared eliminated more than 20 years ago. 

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January 30 | You worked hard enough this week. Let us plan your weekend.

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January 30 | With the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics a week away, Italians aren’t worried about having enough snow for “skimo,” but rather what to do about ICE. 

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January 29 | With tensions high after deadly federal shootings in Minnesota, a letter Attorney General Pam Bondi sent Gov. Tim Walz (D) has raised new questions.

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January 28 | So, just how addictive is social media? We may be about to find out — at least in court.

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January 27 | Across the country, nurses have hit a breaking point, initiating strikes that are impossible to ignore.

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January 26 | In the past three weeks, federal agents in Minneapolis have killed two US citizens. 

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January 25 | A recap of the week’s most fun and interesting stories.

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January 23 | A 5-year-old in Minnesota spent Tuesday at preschool.

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January 22 | President Donald Trump covered a lot of ground in his Davos speech — from ruling out military force in Greenland to trashing European countries and taking a jab at French President Emmanuel Macron’s “beautiful sunglasses.” 

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January 21 | The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, often feels like a borefest for anyone who doesn’t own a Patagonia vest. 

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January 20 | As tensions over federal immigration enforcement continue to rise in Minnesota, there’s a growing flashpoint: hospitals.

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January 19 | One book, one movie, and one travel destination in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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January 17 | One recipe, one book, and one travel destination worth your time.

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January 16 | Sometimes life imitates art. In season four of One Tree Hill, teen basketball star Nathan Scott was caught up in a sports-betting scheme to shave points off the state championship.

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January 16 | America may not agree on much right now, but one thing feels universal: The cost of living is out of control. 

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January 14 | For the past two weeks, Iran has been rocked by unprecedented protests — the greatest challenge to the government in years.

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