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Joe Walsh, who has Alzheimer's disease, is accompanied by his wife, Karen Walsh, to an appointment at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Joe is receiving an experimental therapy to treat Alzheimer's.

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  • Science

Can this nasal spray slow down Alzheimer's? One couple is helping scientists find out

Joe Walsh is the first Alzheimer's patient to be treated with an experimental nasal spray designed to reduce inflammation in the brain.

May 31, 2025
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
A federal court blocked President Trump's sweeping tariffs on imports this week, but the administration has promised to appeal.  The on-again-off-again import taxes have been a source of frustration for many businesses that don't know what their costs will be from day to day.

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  • Business

Sellers of dog leashes and mom gear hope court rulings lead to tariff relief

Court rulings against President Trump's tariffs could spell relief for many American importers — if the decisions hold. For now, the uncertainty remains.

May 31, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Scott Horsley
Cory Michael Smith, left, Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef and Jason Schwartzman star in HBO's <em>Mountainhead.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

'Mountainhead' skewers the tech elite — and it's very satisfying

Four super-rich tech leaders gather for a poker weekend in a mountain mansion while AI technology leads to global chaos in the new HBO film from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.

May 31, 2025
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  • Linda Holmes
Jessica Slice with her two children.

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  • Health

A disabled mom's message to parents: We all need help, and it's OK to ask for it

Raising two kids while living with an autonomic nervous system disorder taught Jessica Slice to embrace interdependence. Her story is a reminder to parents of the power of asking for help.

May 31, 2025
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  • Mara Gordon
President Trump speaks after signing executive orders in the Oval Office in March 2025, including terminating the security clearances of those who work at the law firm Perkins Coie.

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  • Law

Trump's deals with law firms are like deals 'made with a gun to the head,' lawyers say

The White House said it's reached deals with nine law firms to provide about $1 billion in pro bono services. But the details of those agreements remain murky.

May 31, 2025
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  • Carrie Johnson
The CDC's vaccine schedule recommends COVID vaccines for children through 'shared clinical decision-making.' There is no recommendation for pregnant women.

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  • Health

CDC recommends parents talk to a doctor about getting COVID-19 shots for kids

RFK Jr. announced this week that the federal government is removing the recommendation that kids and pregnant women get routine COVID-19 vaccines. But CDC advice is more nuanced.

May 30, 2025
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  • Pien Huang and
  • Rob Stein
A woman walks past a Google logo at the Google Campus in Warsaw on Feb.13, 2025.

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  • Technology

Should a court break up Google? The tech giant made its final stand today

Last summer a federal judge ruled that Google had monopolized the search market. Now the Justice Department and the tech giant had one last chance to argue over what the penalties should be.

May 30, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp. They were determined to rescue them.

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  • Investigations

Their son joined ISIS. Then they learned he had kids in a Syrian detention camp

Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp. Bringing them home was complicated — and took years.

May 30, 2025
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  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Valerie the mini dachshund, at home in mid-May.

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  • Animals

After 529 days alone in the Australian bush, Valerie the mini dachshund is home

Valerie ran off while she was on a camping trip with her owners back in 2023 on a remote island in Australia. They had lost hope until locals spotted her more than a year later, surviving in the wild.

May 30, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
Paul Ingrassia, who is currently serving as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, has been nominated to the lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.

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  • Investigations

Trump nominates official with ties to antisemitic extremists to lead ethics agency

President Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency that enforces ethics law and protects whistleblowers, despite Ingrassia's links to extremists.

May 30, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
Displaced Palestinians, including women and children living in tents, receive food distributed by aid organizations in al-Mawasi district of Khan Younis, Gaza, on May 30. In Jordan, tens of thousands of boxes of food aid for Gaza are moldering in warehouses.

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  • Middle East

Food for Gaza decays in Jordan warehouses as Israel restricts aid

Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

May 30, 2025
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  • Jane Arraf
President Trump issued an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television stations to withhold funds from PBS. On Friday, PBS — led by Paula Kerger (right) — and Lakeland PBS of Minnesota sued.

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  • Media

PBS and Minnesota public TV station sue Trump White House

PBS and Lakeland PBS in rural Minnesota are suing President Trump over his executive order demanding that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting kill all funding for the public television network.

May 30, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end humanitarian status for some migrants

The move to grant a stay in the case means that the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted temporary parole under the program known as CHNV would lose their temporary legal status to be in the U.S.

May 30, 2025
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  • Nina Totenberg
Cows are milked at the Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn at Cornell University on Dec. 11, 2024, in Ithaca, N.Y., shortly after the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a federal order requiring testing of the nation's milk supply amid increasing concerns over avian flu.

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  • Politics

Exodus of USDA veterinarians and others drives fears that U.S. farms are at risk

More than a thousand people who worked to keep American agriculture free of pests and disease have left the federal workforce in President Trump's massive government downsizing.

May 30, 2025
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  • Andrea Hsu
President Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk listen to a question from a reporter in the Oval Office on Friday, as Musk concludes his role leading Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

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  • Politics

Elon Musk is leaving the federal government. What's next for DOGE?

Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency effort. His 130 day tenure was marked by legal setbacks, overstated savings claims and little evidence DOGE made things more efficient.

May 30, 2025
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  • Stephen Fowler
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