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• China's trade surplus nears record as pressure mounts from trading partners

  14-10-2026 16:52 via washingtontimes.com
  China's exports surged 36.3% in September from a year earlier, its customs agency said Wednesday, putting the country on track to surpass last year's record trade surplus even as pressure mounts from trading partners, including the European Union, to rebalance trade.
  
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• Hilary Swank, 52, announces she is pregnant with third child

  14-10-2026 23:20 via washingtontimes.com
  Oscar-winning actress HILARY SWANK is expecting her third child at 52 years old.
  
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• Spain's King Felipe VI says migrants who entered Ceuta must go home

  14-10-2026 23:05 via washingtontimes.com
  King Felipe VI said Tuesday that people who entered Spain irregularly during this summer's mass crossing into Ceuta should return to their places of origin ASAP through established legal procedures.
  
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• Danny Trejo's son says actor is 'handcuffed' to Ben Shapiro film

  14-10-2026 22:56 via washingtontimes.com
  Danny Trejo's son says the veteran actor is stuck in a Ben Shapiro-backed movie that has drawn heavy criticism, claiming his father had never heard of the conservative commentator when he took the role.
  
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• Religious preschools want public funding but exemptions from nondiscrimination rules

  14-10-2026 22:54 via washingtontimes.com
  When Colorado launched its Universal Preschool Program in 2023, the goal was simple: Give every 4-year-old in the state access to free, publicly funded education. To deliver on that promise, the state allowed both public and private providers - including faith-based preschools - to participate, provided they abide by the program's rules.
  
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• Natalie Maines of The Chicks says she'd now 'give George Bush a big wet kiss' compared with Trump

  14-10-2026 22:37 via washingtontimes.com
  NATALIE MAINES of The Chicks: "Now I'd give George (W.) Bush a big wet kiss. ... Now we're ashamed the president of the United States is from the United States."
  
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• Bigger than Trump: Social Security's looming bankruptcy drives voters in New Hampshire

  14-10-2026 22:27 via washingtontimes.com
  In New Hampshire, where most voters are older than 50, Social Security, not President Trump, tops the list of voters' concerns.
  
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• Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, D.C., Philadelphia under temporary power grid emergency

  14-10-2026 22:21 via washingtontimes.com
  The Department of Energy has ordered the power grid operator covering all or part of 13 states and the District of Columbia to get equipment and backup power generation ready to prevent blackouts.
  
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• Ukrainian drones lose some speed after SpaceX imposes restrictions on use of Starlink

  14-10-2026 22:17 via washingtontimes.com
  Ukrainian drones lost some of their speed after restrictions were suddenly imposed on battlefield use of the country's U.S.-made Starlink communication terminals, officials said Wednesday as the capital endured a second consecutive night of missile attacks.
  
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• Chick-fil-A CEO sidesteps LGBTQ rights question on 'Today' as celebrities pile on

  14-10-2026 22:04 via washingtontimes.com
  Chick-fil-A CEO Andrew Cathy repeatedly declined to say where the company stands on LGBTQ rights during a Wednesday interview on NBC's "Today," drawing criticism from celebrities including Katie Couric and Valerie Bertinelli.
  
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• Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer called adenocarcinoma. Here's what that means

  14-10-2026 21:37 via washingtontimes.com
  Pope Leo XIV had the lower section of his right lung removed after doctors diagnosed him with the most common form of lung cancer. While lung cancer is a leading killer, survival rates can be high if it's caught early, as the pope's tumor appears to have been. Here are some things to know.
  
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• D.C. officials fire and fine ex-public schools' attorney who worked two jobs at the same time

  14-10-2026 21:17 via washingtontimes.com
  A former D.C. Public Schools lawyer who worked a second job in Maryland during her full-time employment has lost her city government job and will pay a $20,000 fine for violating ethics rules, following a report by The Washington Times.
  
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• Army's chief tech officer underscores U.S. dominance on modern battlefields

  14-10-2026 20:51 via washingtontimes.com
  Vital U.S. Army weapons and communications tools are undergirded by lightning software, crucial in keeping the nation's largest military service's systems from becoming obsolete on modern battlefields, according to the Army's chief technology officer.
  
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• What is bemotrizinol, and why does the new sunscreen ingredient matter?

  14-10-2026 20:21 via washingtontimes.com
  Shoppers can now buy sunscreens made with the first new active ingredient to reach the U.S. market in more than 25 years, a filter that guards against both major types of UV radiation without the chalky residue common to mineral products.
  
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• New sunscreen ingredient reaches U.S. shelves for the first time in over 25 years

  14-10-2026 20:21 via washingtontimes.com
  Shoppers can now buy sunscreens made with the first new active ingredient to reach the U.S. market in more than 25 years, a filter that guards against both major types of UV radiation without the chalky residue common to mineral products.
  
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• Indiana Democrat's forum remarks on Republicans, ICE go viral: 'We have guns too'

  14-10-2026 19:49 via washingtontimes.com
  A Democratic candidate for a county council seat in eastern Indiana is drawing national attention after telling viewers of a televised forum that she would "fire all Republicans" and closing with the warning, "We have guns too."
  
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• Did you buy a MAGA hat after the 2020 election? Jack Smith's team had your info

  14-10-2026 19:40 via washingtontimes.com
  Former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump scooped up information on 639,000 Republican supporters and everyday voters, the Senate's top lawmaker revealed Wednesday.
  
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• Woman accused of killing husband, 3-year-old son in room at Great Wolf Lodge resort in Pennsylvania

  14-10-2026 19:30 via washingtontimes.com
  A woman is in custody, accused by police of killing her husband and 3-year-old son while staying at a Great Wolf Lodge resort about 75 miles north of Philadelphia.
  
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• California can't make ICE wear ID, federal appeals court rules

  14-10-2026 19:17 via washingtontimes.com
  A federal appeals court issued an injunction Wednesday blocking California's law requiring national law enforcement officers to wear identification tags so their activities can be tracked.
  
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• No decision after Family Federation head attends appeal hearing in Seoul court

  14-10-2026 18:56 via washingtontimes.com
  Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, the 83-year-old spiritual leader of the global religious organization known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, returned to prison Tuesday after a hearing in a Seoul courtroom regarding her appeal of the sentence she received in August.
  
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• Washington state high school girls walk off cross-country race over runner's move to girls' team

  14-10-2026 18:49 via washingtontimes.com
  About a dozen girls on a Washington state high school girls' cross-country team walked away from a race Tuesday rather than compete against a runner who started the season on the boys' team and later moved to the girls' team.
  
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• Anti-war protesters repeatedly disrupt Hegseth's autonomous-warfare panel at Army conference

  14-10-2026 18:36 via washingtontimes.com
  Anti-war demonstrators repeatedly interrupted War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday during a panel on autonomous weapons at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual meeting, shouting at him over the Iran war until security removed them from the room.
  
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• Suspected cop killer in Philly escaped prior murder conviction due to bad casework, DA says

  14-10-2026 18:30 via washingtontimes.com
  The man charged with killing a Philadelphia police officer in a deadly ambush over the weekend has a criminal record that includes a prior murder accusation, but the city's top prosecutor said faulty casework by detectives prevented them from locking him up sooner.
  
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• Protesters try to derail Hegseth's remarks at major Army conference

  14-10-2026 18:11 via washingtontimes.com
  Antiwar protesters tried to disrupt the U.S. Army's annual convention Wednesday as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared on stage at the event in downtown Washington to express confidence that Congress will deliver on President Trump's historic Pentagon budget request, regardless of how the November midterm elections play out.
  
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• Is Katie Zacharia a lawyer? Watchdog wants California State Bar to confirm

  14-10-2026 18:11 via washingtontimes.com
  The newly appointed White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, says she's a lawyer, and an ethics watchdog is asking the State Bar of California to verify that.
  
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• Netflix cuts 1,000 jobs, 6% of workforce, in largest layoff since 2022

  14-10-2026 18:07 via washingtontimes.com
  Netflix is laying off about 1,000 employees, roughly 6% of its workforce, in its largest round of job cuts since 2022.
  
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• From a thrown sandwich to a House probe: D.C. groups accused of coaching jurors to acquit

  14-10-2026 17:41 via washingtontimes.com
  A House committee says two D.C. groups train residents to join juries and vote to acquit. Rep. James Comer says they may have helped train a juror in the Sean Dunn trial.
  
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• Chuck Lorre's billion-year Scientology contract lasted two days

  14-10-2026 17:41 via washingtontimes.com
  Chuck Lorre, the television producer behind "The Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men," says he once signed a one-billion-year contract with Scientology's Sea Org and lasted two days.
  
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• Trump says oil, gas and mineral exploration in Greenland is set to begin. It's not that simple

  14-10-2026 17:36 via washingtontimes.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said that "massive" oil, gas and mineral exploration is set to begin in "our new and beautiful Greenland," though it wasn't clear what developments he was referring to on an island where resource extraction has stymied companies for decades.
  
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• In Seoul, Democratic hopeful Harris sounds a Trumpian note on defense-cost sharing

  14-10-2026 17:20 via washingtontimes.com
  Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her political vision in Seoul Wednesday -- a vision that, rather than being a scathing assault on the Trump administration, was aligned in some ways with the MAGA playbook.
  
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