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Executives at Disney, ABC’s parent company, pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air last week, shortly after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, suggested that his agency could take action against the network.

On Tuesday, Mr. Kimmel said he disagreed with Disney’s decision to pull his show. But he also credited the company, where he has worked for 22 years, for defending his right to poke fun at the powerful.

“Unfortunately, and I think unjustly, this puts them at risk,” Mr. Kimmel said. “The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.”

During his monologue, which was frequently interrupted by a cheering crowd, Mr. Kimmel thanked several Republican officials, including Senators Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, and Rand Paul, who had expressed misgivings about the F.C.C. pressuring ABC. “I want to thank the people who don’t support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway,” he said.

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“A government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American,” said Mr. Kimmel, hugging Guillermo Rodriguez on Tuesday.Credit…Randy Holmes/Disney, via Getty Images

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You’re unlikely to open a medicine cabinet in the U.S. without seeing a bottle of Tylenol, the brand name of a pain reliever and fever reducer also sold generically as acetaminophen. A health care trade association estimates that 52 million consumers use a product containing acetaminophen every week in the U.S. The drug is in the news today after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, implied that acetaminophen, that is taken when a person is pregnant, can cause autism in that person’s offspring. His statements run counter to the most conclusive scientific evidence to date.

The drug is safe and effective when used as directed, but there is something surprising about it: no one is certain how acetaminophen works to relieve pain and fever.

There are at least two theories about the mechanism of the drug, which was first synthesized in the late 1800s. One is that the medication works by interfering with cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes, which ultimately lead to the formation of prostaglandins, substances that can heighten pain sensations and drive inflammation and fever. By interfering with one of those COX enzymes, acetaminophen inhibits these prostaglandins from forming, says Steven Dudley, a clinical toxicologist and pharmacist, who directs the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center at the University of Arizona. “So it’s probably an indirect effect on prostaglandins,” Dudley says.

The other idea is that the medication acts on body chemicals called endogenous cannabinoids, says Alex Straiker, a neuropharmacologist at Indiana University’s Gill Institute for Neuroscience. Straiker has researched the mechanism and found that acetaminophen inhibited cannabinoid production in rodents and that this reduced their pain response.

“Pain pathways are very complicated,” Straiker says. “So acetaminophen is likely to have multiple targets.” It could affect both prostaglandins and cannabinoids, or it could act on other substances involved in pain perception, such as the neurotransmitter serotonin. Both he and Dudley say the medication’s excellent performance may have reduced scientific interest in understanding the mechanism in order to improve it. “There could be no big incentive to figure out how it works,” Straiker says.

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If you’ve been looking for a place to store your savings and earn interest in the short term, you’ve probably considered a high-yield savings account or a 1-year CD.

These are both good options. But there’s another short-term investment class you should consider: Treasury bills.

Among bills auctioned on a regular schedule, there are six maturity terms: four weeks, eight weeks, 13 weeks, 17 weeks, 26 weeks, and 52 weeks, according to Treasury Direct.

You’ll receive an interest payment once your bill matures. Lately, Treasury bill yields have been hovering around 4%.

If you’re looking for a risk-free way to earn interest on your cash over a short period of time, a T-bill is a good choice.

When are Treasury bills a good investment? 

Treasury bills are good investments for individuals looking to make a large purchase in a short timeline, as the money will only be tied up for at most a year.

Although T-bills don’t typically earn as much as other securities, or in some cases CDs, they still offer higher returns than traditional savings accounts.

Plus, they’re one of the safest places you can save your money.

The support of the full faith and credit of the U.S. government makes them a great fit for conservative investors who want to avoid risk while still putting their money to work earning interest.

How to buy a Treasury bill

You can either buy a Treasury directly from the government through TreasuryDirect.gov or through a broker. The minimum purchase is $100.

To start an account with TreasuryDirect, you’ll need to provide a U.S. address, a Social Security number and a bank account.

Afterwards, since T-bills are sold on auction, those looking to invest will need to place a bid. Once it’s accepted, it will arrive in your TreasuryDirect account.

If you use a brokerage account, T-bills can also be bought through ETFs and mutual funds.

If you’re looking to buy a T-bill for your IRA, you’ll need to go through a broker, as you can not do so on TreasuryDirect.

How a Treasury bill works

A Treasury bill, or T-bill, is a short-term debt obligation issued by the Department of the Treasury.

Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, T-bills top the list of the safest places you can save your cash.

T-bills are auctioned off at a discount and then redeemed at maturity for the full amount.

Interest on T-bills is the difference between how much you pay and how much value you get when the bill matures. The most common maturities for T-Bills are four, eight, 13, 26, and 52 weeks.

In addition to Treasury bills, there are other Treasury securities to invest in as well .

Compare Treasury bills vs Treasury bonds, which pay a fixed interest rate every six months and have the longest maturity periods, either 20 or 30 years.

Treasury notes also pay a fixed rate of interest every six months but have shorter maturity periods than T-bonds, ranging from two to 10 years.

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ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show in the wake of criticism over his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, officials with the network said Monday.

“We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday,” ABC said a statement.

ABC suspended Kimmel indefinitely on Wednesday after comments he made about Kirk, who was killed Sept. 10, in a monologue. Kimmel said “many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk” and that “the MAGA gang” was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

Kimmel has hosted “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC since 2003 and has been a fixture in television and comedy for even longer. He is also well known as a presenter, having hosted the Academy Awards four times.

Backlash to Kimmel’s comments was swift. Nexstar and Sinclair, two of ABC’s largest affiliate owners, said they would be pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from their stations. Others, including several fellow comedians, came to his defense.

Sinclair said Monday that it would not air Kimmel’s show Tuesday and would broadcast news programming instead. “Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” the company said. There was no immediate comment from Nexstar on its plans for Kimmel’s return.

Andrew Kolvet, a spokesperson for Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Kirk and now headed by his widow, posted on X about Kimmel’s reinstatement: “Disney and ABC caving and allowing Kimmel back on the air is not surprising, but it’s their mistake to make. Nexstar and Sinclair do not have to make the same choice.”

Stephen Colbert joyfully reacted to the news during the opening of his “Late Show,” telling his audience that “our long national, late nightmare is over.”

Colbert, whose late show is being canceled by CBS after this season, said he was happy for his friend and the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” staff. Grabbing his recently-won Emmy Award for outstanding talk series, the comedian could hardly contain his glee. He added, “Once more, I am the only martyr on late night!”

President Donald Trump, one of Kimmel’s frequent targets, posted on social media that Kimmel’s suspension was “great news for America.” He also called for other late night hosts to be fired. He has yet to comment on Kimmel’s reinstatement.

Kimmel’s suspension arrived in a time when Trump and his administration have pursued threats, lawsuits, and federal government pressure to try to exert more control over the media industry. Trump has reached settlements with ABC and CBS over their coverage.

Trump has also filed defamation lawsuits against The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Republicans in Congress stripped federal funding from NPR and PBS.

Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, issued a warning prior to Kimmel’s suspension that criticized Kimmel’s remarks about the Kirk assassination.

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

Carr denied on Monday that he threatened to revoke ABC’s local station licenses because of Kimmel’s remarks.

“Jimmy Kimmel is in the situation he’s in because of his ratings. Not because of anything that’s happened at the federal government level,” Carr said at the Concordia Annual Summit.

Kimmel’s suspension has cast a spotlight on the web of business interests that require approval from the U.S. government. Disney, for instance, needs approval from the Trump administration for ESPN to complete its acquisition of the NFL Network, while Nexstar needs the administration’s approval to complete its $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna. Sinclair has petitioned the FCC to relax rules limiting broadcaster ownership of stations.

The suspension also happened at a time when the late night landscape is shifting. CBS announced the cancellation of Colbert’s show over the summer.

Kimmel’s contract with The Walt Disney Co.-owned network had been set to expire in May 2026. His representative did not return a message seeking comment Monday.

Word of the reinstatement came as hundreds of Hollywood and Broadway stars — including Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep — urged Americans “fight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights” in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension

More than 430 movie, TV, and stage stars, as well as comedians, directors, and writers added their names to an open letter Monday from the American Civil Liberties Union that argues it is “a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation.”

Also, on Monday, ABC’s “The View” weighed in on the controversy after not raising it for two episodes after Kimmel was suspended. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg opened the show saying, “No one silences us” and she and her fellow hosts condemned Disney’s decision.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said Monday evening he’s willing to appear at a town hall hosted by a local ABC station after earlier canceling his appearance due to Kimmel’s suspension.

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Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars in Los Angeles on Feb. 26, 2017. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) © The Associated Press

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When Juli comes home after work, her husband doesn’t regale her with stories about his photography business the way he once did. Instead, he proudly shows her a pill container emptied of the 20 supplements and medications he takes every day. Rather than griping about traffic, he tells her about his walk. When they go out to a favorite Mexican restaurant, he might opt for a side salad instead of tortilla chips with his quesadilla. “He’s actually consuming green food, which is new,” says Juli, who asked to be identified by only her first name to protect her husband’s privacy.

Over the past year, Juli’s husband has agreed to change his daily habits in hopes of halting the steady progression of Alzheimer’s disease, which he was diagnosed with in December 2023 at age 62. Juli and her husband are both self-employed, and their insurance plans didn’t cover the positron-emission tomography scans for disease tracking that a neurologist prescribed, which would have cost thousands of dollars. So they decided to spend that money on a doctor who promises that diet and lifestyle changes can treat Alzheimer’s. He recommended a keto diet, along with light cardio exercise and strength training. He also prescribed a bevy of supplements, such as creatine, which Juli’s husband takes alongside the memantine and donepezil prescribed by his neurologist. Juli doesn’t expect the diet and daily walks to cure her husband, but she hopes the healthy lifestyle will help manage and even improve his condition. It feels like common sense. “You stop eating fried food, you move your butt, and you feel better,” she says.

Increasingly, evidence suggests that addressing health problems such as vision and hearing loss, stress, poor diet, diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure can help slow or even prevent Alzheimer’s symptoms. It’s a tantalizingly simple solution to a complicated condition that has proved difficult to treat. For families like Juli’s that have been left with a grim diagnosis and few options, lifestyle changes bring a much-needed sense of hope and agency. But researchers worry about overpromising on the efficacy of these changes, especially for people already experiencing dementia symptoms. Evidence around the importance of different diets, exercises, and activities—when to start them and which to prioritize—is mixed, and only in a few high-quality studies have researchers examined large, diverse groups of people. It’s a promising but nascent field of research, one that scientists worry gives patients dangerous and heartbreaking hope for a cure that doesn’t exist.

“There are a lot of claims,” says Miia Kivipelto, a dementia researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. She worries about expensive but unproven regimens that promise to reverse cognitive decline, restore and protect the brain, or significantly improve cognition for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s or other dementias. “Of course, people want to have hope,” she says. But she cautions against making promises that can’t be upheld. “It’s risk reduction,” she says. “That’s maybe what we can promise.”

Kivipelto led the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER), a trial that enrolled more than 1,200 residents of Finland between the ages of 60 and 77. Results were published in 2017. They showed that after two years, participants who were given nutritional advice, exercise regimens, and brain-training games had improved their executive function, processing speeds, and complex memory by about 83, 150, and 40 percent, respectively, compared with those who didn’t take those measures. Kivipelto has continued to follow that initial FINGER cohort and found that several years after the initial trial, their health in general continues to be better than that of their counterparts. The participants had a lower risk of stroke, had fewer medical emergency room visits, and needed less inpatient care. Now Kivipelto is running World Wide FINGERS, a global network of studies investigating the same interventions in different countries and populations.

It’s not clear whether these interventions prevent disease onset or simply delay it.

 

Similarly encouraging data have come from the Systematic Multi-Domain Alzheimer Risk Reduction Trial (SMARRT), a two-year randomized, controlled study. Researchers tested the effect of treating modifiable risk factors such as uncontrolled hypertension, social isolation, and physical inactivity with more than 170 septuagenarians and octogenarians at high risk for dementia. Participants chose a few interventions to prioritize out of eight options, such as improved physical fitness or social connection. After two years, no matter which intervention people opted for, those who received individualized treatments had reduced risk factors for dementia and a 74 percent greater increase in cognition compared with their counterparts in the control group.

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Bahjat Madi, 34, from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, has been in Belgium since 2022 and has been a resident since 2024. He is witnessing the fallout firsthand: Mr. Madi’s father is still in Gaza, he said, struggling to get out.

“I want to do anything for my father to be alive,” said Mr. Madi, who is bringing a court case to get his father’s visa application accepted remotely.

His father is seeking a humanitarian visa but is required to apply at the consulate in Jerusalem, which is all but impossible for someone trapped in Gaza. If he can get the visa, he might eventually be added to an evacuation list. It is a long shot and could take years.

“I want to talk to myself at night and say, ‘I do my best,’” Mr. Madi said. “But it’s not enough.”

For policymakers, the question is whether Europe will turn words of condemnation and concern into more powerful action. European public opinion has turned against the Israeli conduct of the war, but longstanding alliances and fraught political histories have kept nations like Germany and Italy from supporting major action.

“I haven’t seen any moment where such international momentum has built up in such a short time, so I think there’s a real opening,” said Kristina Kausch, deputy managing director for the German Marshall Fund South, a think tank focused on international relations. “But we will have to see what tangible commitments come, beyond the wording.”

“This is not only about Palestinians,” she added. “This is about whether the West, and Europe, can uphold international law and uphold multilateralism.”

Luxembourg announced last week that it would join Belgium, Britain, and a raft of other nations in recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. meeting in New York, a push spearheaded by President Emmanuel Macron of France that is meant to increase pressure on Israel. Last Tuesday, a United Nations commission investigating the war in Gaza said Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians, a topic poised to be prominent at the U.N. meeting. Israel calls such an accusation “distorted and false.”

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A rally in Brussels this month in support of Palestinians. European efforts to punish the Israeli government for its actions in Gaza have stalled amid opposition, notably from Germany.Credit…Marius Burgelman/Belga, via Agence France-Presse

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Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995, scientists have sought the telltale glimmers, flickers, and wobbles that denote a distant world. Now, NASA has announced the number of confirmed exoplanets has cracked 6,000, reaching a total of 6,007.

The batch of 18 planets that bring us to this milestone are mostly rocky orbs between the size of Earth and Neptune—the most common type of planet found so far. Astronomers identified them with ground telescopes and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is currently orbiting Earth, and even by combing through data from the U.S. space agency’s Kepler space telescope, which hasn’t operated in seven years.

“Everywhere we look, we find planets,” says Jessie Christiansen, chief scientist of the NASA Exoplanets Institute at the California Institute of Technology. “Every time you turn on a new telescope and point it at stars, we find planets—and that’s amazing. That could have not been the case; it could have been that the solar system was a weird fluke.”

The first exoplanets were found mostly by the gravitational pull they exert on their host stars: that pull causes a star to wobble, and this movement can be observed visibly or (far more often) detected via a change in the wavelength of stellar light. With the Kepler mission’s launch in 2009, more and more exoplanets were discovered via the so-called transit method: a regular flicker in a star’s light that occurs when its planet happens to pass between it and a watching telescope. The TESS mission, which launched in 2018, surveys the entire sky for transiting exoplanets and brought the number up even higher: nearly half of the 1,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed since 2022 were spotted by TESS. Less commonly, planets can also be imaged directly (if they’re bright enough and orbit far enough from their stars) or detected through changes in how light curves around a star because of its planet’s gravity.

“For the last year, we’ve basically been rewriting our software under the hood to cope with thousands of planets coming in at once,” Christiansen says. She predicts that the tally will hit 10,000 planets within a few years—and that soon more finds will come from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, which will release a batch of exoplanet data in 2026. NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which could launch as early as next year, is set to survey the entire sky for even more worlds, potentially bringing the total to 100,000 exoplanets within the next six to seven years, she estimates. “And that’s partly why we’re madly redesigning all of our software so that we can accommodate trying to jam in 100,000 planets into an archive that’s only held a few thousand until now,” Christiansen adds.

But discovering planets is not just a numbers game. At a certain point, scientists begin to care more about understanding planets than finding them—even as the database keeps growing. NASA’s current flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, doesn’t scan the sky for new planets; it follows up to try to glimpse evidence of particular planets’ atmospheres and compositions. And the major telescope NASA envisions after Roman, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, will search candidate planets for signs of life.

“We’re kind of evolving out of the stamp-collecting phase of exoplanets and into the physics phase,” Christiansen says. Researchers hope to learn about planet populations: How do they form? How do they evolve? How do they migrate? “When we have a big enough sample, you actually start to be able to identify the dominant physics that’s happening,” she says. You’re no longer just asking “what”; you’re asking “why”—“and that’s, for me, where it gets exciting.

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If you type “defense.gov” into a browser to check the status of America’s military might, you’ll be redirected to “war.gov.” The country’s ability to project force around the world is again under the control of the Department of War — sort of. The return to the old name was accomplished by presidential executive order and could be undone by the next White House resident. Until then, or unless a court nixes the change, the rebranding from “Defense” to “War” will continue at great expense. The Trump administration and its recent predecessors have done much of their work through decrees issued by chief executives who have little patience for the legislative process. On Sept. 5, President Trump ordered that “the Department of Defense and the Office of the Secretary of Defense may be referred to as the Department of War and the Office of the Secretary of War, respectively.” The Pentagon is now changing seals, signage, and letterhead, to comply. The odd “referred to” language in the order acknowledges that the Department of War and the Department of the Navy were rolled into the then-new Department of Defense by law in the late 1940s . It would take another act of Congress to revert to the old name. The president can’t undo legislation, but he can order executive branch employees to change the website and adopt a nickname.

Of course, the next president could undo all of that just as easily — and expensively.

President Trump did much the same when he insisted that he’s outlawed burning the American flag via executive order. “You burn a flag, you get one year in jail,” he claimed in the Oval Office.

But the president has little power to make laws — especially those that clash with First Amendment protections. And the U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear that burning the flag is a protected form of expression . So, the executive order really only specifies that, if “an instance of American Flag desecration may violate an applicable State or local law, such as open burning restrictions, disorderly conduct laws, or destruction of property laws,” local authorities should be notified so they can pursue a prosecution.

This administration issues a lot of executive orders. On Sept. 6, the White House boasted that “No president has signed 200 Executive Orders this quickly since President Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

That’s a familiar message. In 2021, NPR noted that “In his first two weeks in office, President Biden has signed nearly as many executive orders as Franklin Roosevelt signed in his entire first month.”

Before that, The Washington Post acknowledged then-President Barack Obama’s similar flurry of executive actions. Some “have the force of law — unless they are repealed by another president.”

How can a note from the president of a republic have the force of law? It’s because executive orders, memoranda, and other actions are basically memos from the boss to employees of the executive branch. Modern laws are usually written so vaguely that details are left to be filled in by the agencies responsible for enforcement. Those agencies lie within the executive branch, and the president can direct his employees to reinterpret statutes so that what was once considered perfectly legal is now interpreted as a crime or vice versa. On hot-button issues like guns or the environment, that means business as usual can become a felony by order of a new president. And then it can be perfectly legal again four years later, with no change in the law — only in how it’s interpreted according to presidential decree.

There’s a lot of power inherent in turning people into felons on a whim. And there are votes to be gained by promising new interpretations of old laws.

“The last three presidents in particular have strengthened the powers of the office through an array of strategies,” Harvard Law School’s Erin Peterson  wrote  in 2019. “One approach that attracts particular attention — because it allows a president to act unilaterally, rather than work closely with Congress — is the issuing of executive orders.”

But what is done with a stroke of the pen can often be undone just as easily. On March 14, President Trump issued an executive order rescinding 19 of his predecessor’s actions . “This is in addition to the nearly 80 executive actions President Trump rescinded on Day One,” the White House commented. Then-President Biden did the same during his presidency sandwiched by Trump’s terms. The arbitrary nature of executive actions and their vulnerability to reversal once bothered the current president.

“I don’t like executive orders,” Trump  told Face the Nation’s John Dickerson in 2015 when Barack Obama was in office. “That is not what the country was based on.” He added, “So now (President Obama) goes around signing executive orders all over the place, which at some point they are going to be rescinded or they’re going to be rescinded by the courts.”

Since then, though, President Trump has gained a taste for ruling by decree. That started during his first term but really took off during the second. Not that unilateral actions from on-high go unchallenged. So far, BallotPedia counts almost 40 executive orders, memoranda, and proclamations regarding trade and tariffs. Those are headed to the Supreme Court after lower courts found the president exceeded his authority. Trump’s deployment of National Guard Troops to Los Angeles was  described  by U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer as “a serious violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.”

Former President Joe Biden also got pushback from the courts — repeatedly, when it came to forgiving student loans . So did Obama before him when he tried to enact immigration policy on his own say-so. U.S. presidents sometimes seem to forget that their efforts to turn the country into an elective monarchy may be gaining traction but haven’t yet fully succeeded. The courts have been pretty good at reminding them about the facts of constitutional life.

It would be helpful if Congress would also remember that it has a role to play. Our lawmakers appear to have become so accustomed to being bypassed that they’ve forgotten their jobs involve more than fulminating in front of television cameras and calling each other names. Congress is almost vestigial.

Maybe lawmakers could weigh in on what to call our military establishment. If they decide one way or the other, they could save a lot of wasted stationery and spare the country a good amount of expense.

If that helps to revive the legislative branch so that it asserts its prerogatives, slaps down the White House, and starts writing laws that aren’t so subject to presidential interpretation, so much the better.

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President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate instances of flag burning, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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