© Jamie Smart / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Rutting Call. Highly Commended, 10 Years and Under. Jamie Smart portrays a red deer stag as it gives a mighty bellow during the autumn rut in Bradgate Park in Leicestershire, England. Jamie walked up and down a path in the park at a safe distance from the stag. She stretched herself up tall to avoid any long grass in the foreground spoiling her view.© Leana Kuster / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Pink Pose. Highly Commended, 15–17 Years.

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If you’re looking for reasons to be skeptical about the FBI’s raid on John Bolton’s home last week, you don’t have to look very hard.

Let’s be honest: We all knew they were getting engaged when she went on his podcast. In 2025, that’s as good as a diamond ring.
Even more tellingly, when Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce sat next to each other earlier this month on the video feed of New Heights, telling the story of how they met, they looked like one of the old couples in When Harry Met Sally. They finished each other’s sentences. They gently mocked each other.

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One of the more surreal knock-on effects of the gutting of USAID is that the U.S. government is now holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, iPads, chairs, generators, defibrillators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, motorbikes, mobile health clinics, and more. Until recently, these items supported the 5,000-plus foreign-aid projects that the Trump administration has now canceled.

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“The era of big government is over,” Bill Clinton declared 29 years ago. Donald Trump never got the memo.
In his second term, the president is embracing perhaps the most sweeping expansion of federal power since that of Franklin D.

After Donald Trump left the presidency in 2021, he was indicted for retaining dozens of government documents, including some containing nuclear secrets. He was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records. His company was convicted of criminal tax fraud.
When Trump returned to the presidency this year, he sought payback by accusing others of the crimes for which he’d been indicted or convicted.

If you are like me, you brush your teeth—too vigorously, I’m told—with a plastic rack of plastic bristles. You use your plastic brush to lather a paste pushed from a plastic tube. When you have a cavity, you go to a dentist who might fill the hole with a plastic composite then sand it flush right there in your mouth. Say you grind your teeth at night.