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16 hours ago | 
usatoday.com | Kailey Hagen
Many people are mentally ready to start receiving Social Security checks long before they become eligible for them at 62. But wanting checks and actually applying for them are two separate things. If you want to get the most out of the program, there are a few key steps you need to take before you sign up so you can complete your application quickly and optimize your lifetime benefit. If any of the following three things apply to you, you may not be ready to claim yet.
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17 hours ago | 
usatoday.com | Scooby Axson
The 2025 PGA Championship, the season's second major golf tournament, is coming to Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. Xander Schauffele will be looking for his third major championship after taking home this tournament last year and winning the British Open. Justin Thomas won with a two-shot victory the last time Quail Hollow hosted the PGA in 2017. Thomas also won this tournament in 2022.
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18 hours ago | 
usatoday.com | Eduardo Cuevas |Lauren Villagran
The Trump administration has levied federal smuggling charges against Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova as the Russian national fights for her freedom from immigration detention. Prosecutors filed the charges in U.S. District Court for Massachussetts, made public on May 14, the same day a federal judge in Vermont heard arguments in Petrova's case against the U.S. government for wrongful detention.
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20 hours ago | 
usatoday.com | Scooby Axson
The 107th PGA Championship is again coming to Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the world's best golfers will compete to take home the Wanamaker Trophy and the 750 FedExCup points that come along with the victory. Quail Hollow hosted the PGA in 2017, when Justin Thomas scored a two-shot victory.
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22 hours ago | 
usatoday.com | Scooby Axson
The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs will meet in a rematch of Super Bowl 59 during Week 2 of the 2025 NFL season, according to multiple media reports. The game will be held on Sept. 14 at 4:25 p.m. ET at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. The full 2025 NFL schedule will be officially announced on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET.
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1 day ago | 
usatoday.com | Scooby Axson
The Dallas Cowboys will host the Kansas City Chiefs in their annual Thanksgiving game this season. The game will be broadcast on CBS, and kickoff is set for Nov. 27 at 4:30 p.m. ET from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The last time the two teams met was on Nov. 21, 2021, in Kansas City, with the Chiefs going on to win 19-9. The NFL has already announced that the Cowboys will take on the Eagles in Philadelphia on Sept.
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1 day ago | 
usatoday.com | Marc Siegel
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for emergency response, told me in a recent interview on Fox News that she and her colleagues lacked enough information during the COVID-19 pandemic to make critical decisions. “As you go through any outbreak, you constantly are looking to see, what can we be doing better?” Van Kerkhove said. “Certainly in the beginning, we did not have all of the information that we wanted.
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1 day ago | 
usatoday.com | Zach Wichter
• Air traffic control staffing shortages and outdated technology are causing flight delays and cancellations. • Transportation Secretary Duffy acknowledges the long-term neglect and underinvestment in the FAA. • Funding and bureaucratic obstacles could hinder the implementation of these improvements. For at least the last few years, and possibly much longer depending on who you ask, air traffic control has been at the heart of summer flying headaches.
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1 day ago | 
usatoday.com | Ingrid Jacques
I realize we increasingly have become a society that embraces a “my way or the highway” attitude. Both sides are guilty of that way of thinking. Yet, it seems especially egregious from those on the left. Progressives’ lack of tolerance for other views has presented itself in different iterations, from the cancel culture phenomenon to angry demonstrations on college campuses when a conservative dares to speak.
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1 day ago | 
usatoday.com | John Diedrich |Daniel Bice |Mary Spicuzza |Vanessa Swales
MILWAUKEE — A federal grand jury indicted a Wisconsin judge on May 13 on charges that she tried to assist an undocumented immigrant escape arrest from her courtroom last month, putting her at the center of the growing dispute between President Donald Trump and the judicial system. The two-page indictment accuses Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, 66, of obstructing a U.S. agency and concealing an individual to prevent an arrest.