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Premiums for Medicare Part D drug coverage could rise next year because subsidies to insurers are set to end.
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The Trump administration's move to end subsidies for Medicare drug plans could cost consumers
Sydney Lupkin
Federal subsidies that have helped defray insurers' Medicare drug costs will disappear at the end of the year. Millions of beneficiaries could face higher premiums in 2027.
An air tanker drops retardant while battling the Bench fire on Saturday, July 25, 2026, in Jefferson County, Ore.
Noah Berger
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Oregon is on track for its worst wildfire season yet
Kirk Siegler
Copies of the novel Taiwan Travelogue, which received the International Booker Prize this year, are seen at a bookstore in Taipei on May 21, 2026.
I-HWA CHENG
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'Taiwan Travelogue' rethinks history, colonialism, and identity
Jan Camenzind Broomby
Classicist and translator Emily Wilson published a critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in the London Review of Books. Wilson has loved Greek myths since childhood and has translated both the Iliad and Odyssey. She has tattoos of a spear on one leg and a bow on the other — she says they represent Achilles and Odysseus.
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'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn't have written the movie himself
Dave Davies
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A glimpse of the future of Texas wolves in a Navasota sanctuary
For almost 25 years, the Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary in Navasota has advocated for wolves and wolfdogs. While extirpated from the state since the late 20th century — could increased...
Data centers are being built across Texas every day. Here’s what goes on inside one in Austin
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Texas Standard for July 29, 2026: A peek inside a Texas wolf sanctuary
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