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• Study: Taylor Swift's most devoted fans more likely to rationalize her jet emissions

  30-09-2026 21:32 via washingtontimes.com
  STUDY: Young adults who strongly identify as Taylor Swift fans were more likely to make excuses for the singer's private-jet carbon emissions.
  
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• Son of Baltimore prosecutor's office employee accused of raping two 13-year-old girls

  30-09-2026 21:28 via washingtontimes.com
  The adult son of a Baltimore City State's Attorney official will appear in court Thursday on charges that he raped two 13-year-old girls, impregnating one of the victims.
  
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• Trump, AI executives sign voluntary safety pledge that misspells 'United States'

  30-09-2026 21:15 via washingtontimes.com
  President Trump and the leaders of six major technology companies signed a voluntary pledge Tuesday to police their own advanced artificial intelligence systems. The copy the president posted online misspells "United States" as "Unites States" directly beneath his signature.
  
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• Night of the rising costs: Halloween industry predicts record revenues as tariffs jack up prices

  30-09-2026 21:15 via washingtontimes.com
  Aspiring ghouls and goblins may feel an unearthly chill as they budget for Halloween festivities, industry analysts say.
  
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• Trump wants more credit for economic gains among Hispanics

  30-09-2026 21:12 via washingtontimes.com
  President Trump hosted a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration Wednesday at the White House, an event that also underscored the GOP's hemorrhaging of Latino support ahead of the midterm elections.
  
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• FTC probes AI giants over consumer safety risks

  30-09-2026 21:02 via washingtontimes.com
  The Federal Trade Commission is probing artificial intelligence giants Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs over the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers.
  
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• Independence Blue Cross to pay $22.5 million to settle Medicare Advantage fraud claims

  30-09-2026 20:53 via washingtontimes.com
  Independence Blue Cross (IBX) has agreed to pay $22.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to withdraw inaccurate diagnosis codes for its Medicare Advantage enrollees and improperly retaining Medicare overpayments, the Justice Department announced.
  
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• Trump marks withdrawal of American forces in Iraq: 'We are going home'

  30-09-2026 20:40 via washingtontimes.com
  President Trump on Wednesday hailed the complete withdrawal of American forces and equipment from Erbil Air Base in Iraq, ending Operation Inherent Resolve, which was launched under the Obama administration.
  
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• U.S. can deport the leader of Wisconsin's largest mosque on national security grounds, judge rules

  30-09-2026 20:34 via washingtontimes.com
  The U.S. can deport the leader of Wisconsin's largest mosque - an outspoken advocate of Palestinian rights - on the grounds that he is a threat to national security, an immigration judge ruled Wednesday.
  
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• Will you benefit from the $500 Obamacare refunds? Find out here

  30-09-2026 20:28 via washingtontimes.com
  Will you benefit from the $500 Obamacare refunds? Find out here.
  
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• Senate committee leaders announce permitting overhaul deal to spur energy development

  30-09-2026 20:22 via washingtontimes.com
  A bipartisan group of senators announced a deal on Wednesday to overhaul federal permitting laws and regulations to speed up development of crucial energy projects.
  
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• Maryland to start enforcing penalties against residents whose vehicles have out-of-state plates

  30-09-2026 20:22 via washingtontimes.com
  Starting Thursday, Maryland residents with vehicles registered outside the state will have 60 days to register their vehicle in-state or face penalties.
  
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• Sunken fishing trawler exposes offshore wind's safety risks

  30-09-2026 20:21 via washingtontimes.com
  An expedition team this week identified the wreck of the Mistress, a fishing vessel that sank next to a wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island on Jan. 1, 2019, taking with it the captain and his nephew.
  
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• New York's film and TV business is growing as the state expands its tax credit

  30-09-2026 20:17 via washingtontimes.com
  NYC's film and television industry is growing while much of the country's production base shrinks, and a richer state tax credit is one of the factors the industry points to.
  
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• Senate Dems block bill to protect consumers from data center-driven electricity price hikes

  30-09-2026 20:09 via washingtontimes.com
  Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a House-passed bill to protect consumers from data center-driven electricity rate increases, arguing it was "toothless" and that Republicans have already agreed to stronger language in a separate deal.
  
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• IG report finds no misconduct around Fed building renovation

  30-09-2026 20:02 via washingtontimes.com
  An inspector general report says the Federal Reserve did a poor job of keeping construction costs in check during a major renovation of its Washington buildings, but there's no evidence of misconduct.
  
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• Republicans aren't trying to make voters like the GOP. They're making them dislike Democrats

  30-09-2026 19:57 via washingtontimes.com
  Republicans are leaning hard into a simple idea this fall: the best defense is a political takedown.
  
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• Lee's moves to defang DMZ leave Seoul with fewer options after bloody North Korean landmine incident

  30-09-2026 19:57 via washingtontimes.com
  Seoul has fewer options for responding to North Korea's involvement in a DMZ explosion that injured three South Korean soldiers after the Lee administration over the last year mothballed some of the tools used by previous administrations -- including covert drone flights and the blaring loudspeakers that were aimed at the North for years.
  
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• Seattle's minimum wage headed to $22.14 as job market, downtown office sector struggle

  30-09-2026 19:48 via washingtontimes.com
  Seattle's minimum wage will rise to $22.14 an hour in 2027, up from $21.30 this year, an increase of about 3.9%. The city's economy is showing strain in hiring and downtown real estate.
  
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• Inflation, not immigration, chasing Hispanic voters away from GOP

  30-09-2026 19:38 via washingtontimes.com
  Whether the midterm elections prove to be a devastating wipeout for Republicans largely depends on Hispanic voters - a voting bloc that shifted rightward in 2024 but now appears to be slipping through the GOP's fingers.
  
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• Sen. Blackburn sues Jack Smith for obtaining her phone records

  30-09-2026 19:37 via washingtontimes.com
  One of the senators whose phone records were obtained by Jack Smith during his ill-fated probe of President Trump sued on Wednesday, asking a court to reprimand the former special counsel for his aggressive actions.
  
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• Climate-disaster satire 'Digger' faces a chilly box office opening as Tom Cruise gambles on WB

  30-09-2026 19:24 via washingtontimes.com
  Tom Cruise plays an oil baron at the center of an ecological catastrophe in "Digger," a satire that some have billed as a climate disaster comedy. The bigger crisis may be at the box office, where the film opens Friday tracking for just $12M to $15M in North America.
  
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• Democrats block congressional stock-buying ban, objecting to attached voter ID provision

  30-09-2026 19:23 via washingtontimes.com
  Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a House-passed bill to ban the purchase of individual stocks by members of Congress.
  
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• America formally ends military presence in Iraq after 2 decades

  30-09-2026 19:22 via washingtontimes.com
  The last remaining American troops and equipment on Wednesday pulled out of Erbil Air Base in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the final U.S. military outpost there.
  
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• Sunny Hostin defends DA's 2024 decision in Cornell fraternity case, criticizes coverage

  30-09-2026 19:11 via washingtontimes.com
  "The View" co-host SUNNY HOSTIN, a former prosecutor, said Tuesday that media coverage of the Cornell University fraternity case is inaccurate and unfair.
  "The pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated, are being plastered all over the internet," Hostin said.
  
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• Arizona CEO pleads guilty to stealing $8.8M from employee benefit plan

  30-09-2026 19:09 via washingtontimes.com
  A Scottsdale, Arizona, man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Maryland to embezzling more than $8.8 million from an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) benefit plan, the Justice Department announced.
  
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• DOJ seeks penalties for Minnesota judges who gave press interview criticizing Trump on immigration

  30-09-2026 18:48 via washingtontimes.com
  The Justice Department filed a misconduct complaint Wednesday against a group of federal judges in Minnesota who publicly complained about President Trump's immigration policies, which the government said ruined their ability to be impartial.
  
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• Report: Diddy lives in relative comfort at Fort Dix, with paid inmate help and contraband

  30-09-2026 18:31 via washingtontimes.com
  REPORT: Sean "Diddy" Combs is living far more comfortably inside a New Jersey federal prison than most inmates.
  
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• Tennessee was about an hour from executing Christa Pike. Then a federal court stepped in

  30-09-2026 18:24 via washingtontimes.com
  A federal appeals court halted Christa Pike's execution about an hour before it was set to begin. She would have been Tennessee's first woman executed in at least 200 years.
  
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• Sen. Tim Scott wants 20% federal film tax credit passed by this Congress

  30-09-2026 18:14 via washingtontimes.com
  Sen. Tim Scott said he's aiming to pass his federal film tax incentive this Congress -- a tall order for a lame-duck session with a growing priority list.
  
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