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Ever wonder what that sinking feeling in your gut is trying to tell you? There's a science-backed reason you feel that way, but it's not what you might think.

Maryland native Stefon Diggs officially signed with the Washington Commanders and practiced for the first time today. “I want to put on for my city,” Diggs said. “It definitely means a lot to me." https://wapo.st/4fKGbtH

Amid high gas prices — an average of more than $4 per gallon across the country — a gas station in Upstate New York offered 20 percent off to customers who were down to bust a move. Read more: https://wapo.st/4wMHsX6

Local news anchor Dominique Dillon instinctively laughed, but under the desk, she pinched her right arm. Ouch. So this was real. The lights, the cameras, the mortifying fact that she had just fallen asleep on air. “Sleeping Beauty over here,” her co-anchor playfully jabbed. “What are you talking about?” she joked back. The night before, Dillon’s husband had pulled a double shift. Otherwise, he would have been around to help when her younger daughter resisted bedtime. Dillon didn’t make it to bed until nearly 11 p.m. Two and a half hours later, her alarm sounded. Commercial break. “You’re going viral right now,” a producer brightly informed her. The clip was all over Facebook and Dillon was mortified. But as the clip went viral, so did the support. Read more: https://wapo.st/3RValBq

For weeks, U.S. immigration officials alerted their colleagues about dangerous overcrowding at 26 Federal Plaza, where detainees were held in small rooms with no beds, showers or full-time medical staff. In the first four days of June 2025, the number of detainees in Hold Room 1, one of four holding rooms on the building's 10th floor, jumped from approximately eight to more than 80. The room is a square cell roughly 30 feet on each side, with hard floors, concrete benches and three metal toilets. The spaces reeked of unwashed bodies. People slept sitting up because there wasn’t enough space to lie down. And because of a shortage of medical staff, people with serious health conditions, including tuberculosis, an ovarian cyst and kidney failure, lacked proper care, texts and emails among ICE officials show. DHS declined to answer a detailed list of questions about its treatment of detainees at 26 Federal Plaza and temporary holding rooms around the country, citing the ongoing litigation. There are no laws governing the amount of space immigrant detainees must be provided within ICE field offices.

Hyper-realistic toy babies, called "reborn dolls," have spurred a lucrative and controversial cottage industry. Style reporter Shane O'Neill spoke to a collector about her initial discomfort with reborns and the role grief has played in her hobby.

As the Spokane area fires burned across the county, a local crew of partially incarcerated firefighters responded to help their community. The firefighters in the elite group are paid state wildland firefighter wages, receive benefits, and become members of the union. Read more about the fires: https://wapo.st/3UbbTry

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While ordering coffee in a drive-through line, a woman heard an animal crying from inside her car. A tiny kitten was trapped inside the car’s grille and seemed to be suffering. An Iowa towing company came to the rescue. https://wapo.st/4xeY2im

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