Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Reading archive 2025-07-15

‘Ticks EVERYWHERE?’: Sightings and bites in the D.C. region heighten worries Tick-related emergency room visits are at the highest since 2019, CDC data shows. The Northeast region has seen the most this summer.

Scrape, paint, repeat: D.C.’s never-ending war on graffiti and stickers: Illegal signs, graffiti and stickers keep going up and the District has boosted its efforts to take them down.

Selling public land won’t solve the housing crisis. Here’s what would. Creative solutions to build more affordable housing in the United States can be found in places such as your state and your backyard.

See images of solar eruptions on the sun in unprecedented detail: NASA released images showing three eruptions from the sun.

Democrats face another split over age and values in Arizona: Adelita Grijalva is the front-runner to replace her father in Congress but faces an unexpectedly competitive primary featuring a young social-media-savvy newcomer.

Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans break with Trump on Epstein: Democrats also also seizing on an issue championed by the president’s base and forced a nearly successful vote Tuesday to take up the issue on the House floor.

U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a week Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

As Trump turns toward Ukraine, Russians wonder if an opportunity was missed: President Donald Trump’s new weapons deal and his increasing criticism of Vladimir Putin have sparked fear among some Russians that Putin could overplay his hand.

D.C. landlord seeks to evict congressman, alleging $85,000 in unpaid rent: In a lawsuit, Rep. Cory Mills’s landlord said the Republican congressman from Florida owes months of rent for his Southwest Washington luxury apartment.

The ghostly white plant that has sparked a war among foragers Monotropa uniflora — a.k.a. ghost pipe — is having a moment on social media. Not everybody is happy about it.

Senate Republicans divided over looming vote to rescind $9 billion in spending: The rescissions bill to claw back funding approved for foreign aid, NPR and PBS is a top Trump priority, but some Senate Republicans have raised concerns about the cuts. - "Democrats have cautioned that if Republicans cut spending that both parties have agreed to, it will make it much harder to strike a deal to fund the government in September, since Republicans could later rescind Democrats’ priorities unilaterally."

What causes obesity? A major new study is upending common wisdom.: Many people assume obesity is caused by too little exercise and too many calories. But researchers have found inactivity is not the main cause.

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