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The restoration industry faces years-long waiting lists and a disappearing labor force. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No pairs, no flushes, no full houses, no complicated order of hands. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gray Chang was branded a traitor for exposing Taipei’s covert weapons program. Many now view him as a hero. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bending the rules for beginners could make game play fairer, and faster. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Models are getting better at winning, but not necessarily at following the rules See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a new book, Amy Odell writes that the actress and businesswoman used her fame “to commodify her taste and lifestyle, and sell it back to us." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Doodles—labradoodles, goldendoodles, bernedoodles—are everywhere. They’re now also a high-stakes, billion-dollar business. By Allie Conti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He could have been an artist, or a builder or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing. By Susan Berfield, Margi Murphy & Jason Leopold See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Junglia is less than an hour’s drive from US military bases where marines train for jungle warfare. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For Austrian heiress Marlene Engelhorn, exiting the 1% is about more than just money. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Each year, thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with hundreds of millions in wages from blue-chip IT jobs. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s American pawns tells all. By Evan Ratliff See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fresh off a tour for his second novel, the author is learning to live with being seen as a translator of the immigrant experience. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The history of nutrition science in the US suggests that MAHA would make more sense without the ‘A.’ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A massive database of medical images is offering an unprecedented window into how diseases take hold. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The shape-shifting telehealth company has spent the past year trying to cash in on GLP-1s, the hottest drug to hit weight loss in decades. It could all slip away.  By Madison Muller and Devin Leonard See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To succeed, Washington will need to look outward not inward. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A quest for eternal vigor led to less drinking, more exercise and an epiphany about learning to let go. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Military and medical science brought federal funding to campuses, but student tuition helped keep it there See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Demand for the Instagram-friendly nuts have driven up margins for farmers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Washington DC chef is working to banish plastic from his restaurant entirely. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The author of The Idea That Is America explains how the US lost its moral footing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A sports startup that allows performance-enhancing drugs is brash, confrontational, and perfect for the Trump era. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The tech company’s theatrical programming business is in need of a win. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Surreal conversations are prompting introspection about what it means to be human. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.