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August 19, 2025

TODAY'S BIG QUESTION

Inflation derailed Biden. Is Trump next?

'Financial anxiety' rises among voters

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in the spotlight

The red state push to join the DC occupation

Republican governors are increasingly eager to volunteer their state's National Guard troops for Trump's ostensibly anti-crime siege of the nation's capital

quote of the day

'It's a real insult to the brave men and women who are protecting our shores that she thinks that house belongs to her.'

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), in a statement to The Washington Post, about Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noel living rent-free in a home typically reserved for the head of the U.S. Coast Guard — one of several controversies she's involved in

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talking points

Costco is at the center of an abortion debate

The decision to no longer stock the abortion pill came following a pressure campaign by conservatives

UNDER THE RADAR

Atoms into gold: alchemy's modern resurgence

The practice of alchemy has been attempted for thousands of years

Picture of the day

Raise the lord

An employee of state-owned mining company LKAB watches on as trailers prepare to move a 113-year-old wooden church in Kiruna, Sweden, to make way for the expansion of an iron-ore mine. The three-mile journey to its new site will take two days.
Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Getty Images

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