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Sep 3, 2026
The Seven-Step Machine That Turns a Food Stamp Cut Into an Empty School Lunch Tray
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Sep 2, 2026
County Bought Out Flood-Prone Mobile Home Park in 2004 to Prevent Future Deaths. New Tenants Now Renting the Same Lots.
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Sep 1, 2026
A $25 Billion Health System Discovers It Can Afford a Birthing Center After All
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Aug 27, 2026
$100K Club Built Its Kitchen on Temporary Visas, Shocked When Workers Had to Leave
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Aug 26, 2026
HHS Secretary Defends His Vaccine Record While Two Die of Measles in Pennsylvania
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Aug 26, 2026
Jeffries Says He Hasn't Decided on Impeachment After Saying Exactly What He'll Do
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Aug 24, 2026
Crime's Down — And One of the Explanations Is a Technology No One Will Name
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Aug 24, 2026
Pentagon Admits Blacklist on Phone, Denies It Exists in Email
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Aug 21, 2026
White House Raised $400 Million for a Ballroom Through a Donation Channel That Can't Accept Cash
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Aug 21, 2026
ICE Published a Procurement Notice for Electric Shock Gloves. Democrats Wrote a Letter.
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Aug 20, 2026
Senior Official Pleads Guilty to Hiding Covid Records Using Personal Email After Knowing 'People Would Ask Questions'
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Aug 20, 2026
Trump Signs His Name on the Back of a Helipad Eagle — and the Funding Story Changed Between July and Now
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Aug 19, 2026
RFK Jr.'s Agency Cut 75% of Staff, Canceled $250M in Grants — While $330M in Funding Sits Unspent
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Aug 19, 2026
Pentagon Spent $6.27 Billion on GPS System, Canceled It, Paid Contractor Anyway
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Aug 19, 2026
One Building, 65 Companies, $35 Million: Law Enforcement Suspended One
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Aug 17, 2026
Wisconsin Schools Get 100% Public Funding, Zero Public Oversight — and Call It 'Private'
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Aug 17, 2026
Mining Executives Made Their Biggest Stock Purchases Ever Days Before Trump Shrank the Monument Around Their Mill
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Aug 17, 2026
Trump Blames Vandals for Dead Grass in Exact Shape of His July 4th Stage
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Aug 14, 2026
Trump Orders Pentagon to Replace Half-Installed Catapult System After Nine Years of Complaints
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Aug 13, 2026
$900 Million in White House Projects Routed Through 'Modest Maintenance' Accounts While Courts Debate Approval
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