{"id":90584,"date":"2025-08-17T23:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90584\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:29:06","slug":"swifties-rejoice-and-kennedy-centers-class-of-2025-week-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90584\/","title":{"rendered":"Swifties rejoice, and Kennedy Center’s class of 2025: Week in review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taylor Swift appears with Kelce brother on ‘New Heights’ podcast<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift covered a wide range of topics during a two hour appearance on the “New Heights” podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n

Yes, the humidity has been off the charts<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the heat, it\u2019s the humidity\u201d is not just a time-worn cliche \u2212 this summer, it\u2019s been the reality. Air masses that have been just \u201csitting and festering\u201d<\/a> have created record-high dew points for tens of millions of Americans in parts of the country, said Owen Shieh of the National Weather Service, pushing up heat indexes and making it harder to cool off, especially at night. Meanwhile, however, the 209th Farmers\u2019 Almanac is out, and its editor, Sandi Duncan, tells USA TODAY that before too long we can expect \u201can old-fashioned winter\u201d<\/a> \u2212 or, as the almanac predicts: \u201cChill, snow, repeat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dry vs. humid: Watch a video to see how both can be dangerous<\/a><\/p>\n

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President Trump may reclassify marijuana under federal law<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump said a decision on marijuana reclassification is coming in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

Trump giving marijuana another look<\/p>\n

In the uproar over President Donald Trump<\/a> sending the National Guard to Washington, DC<\/a>, to help fight crime in the capital, another law-enforcement-related headline may have fallen under the radar: Trump\u2019s announcement that he is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug<\/a>. Despite loosening laws and attitudes over pot, the government still labels cannabis a Schedule 1 drug \u2212 dangerous, addictive and lacking any recognized medical application \u2212 a classification it has held since 1970. The debate over the drug is complicated<\/a>, Trump said: \u201cSome people like it, some people hate it. Some people hate the whole concept of marijuana.\u201d A decision could come in just a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

After 40 years, AOL\u2019s dial-up is going silent<\/p>\n

AOL\u2019s old signature \u201ceeeeeeeeyaaah\u201d<\/a> will soon be no more. More than 40 years after its dial-up modem protocol became the calling card for internet newbies, the company announced it\u2019s shutting down the service<\/a>. It will go the way of Skype<\/a> on Sept. 30, the company said, after what it called a routine review of its products and services. In AOL\u2019s heyday in the \u201980s and \u201990s, connecting to the World Wide Web was just starting to click for regular folks, but would-be web surfers needed patience: A dial-up connection back then could handle up to 56 kilobits a second, if you were lucky. Today, we\u2019re talking megabits and gigabits.<\/p>\n

The man behind \u2018You’ve Got Mail\u2019: Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL, dies at 74<\/a><\/p>\n

Kennedy Center gala will sure look different<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Kennedy Center Honors class is in \u2212 and the host is making headlines along with the honorees. The artist honorees: Sylvester Stallone, country singer George Strait, British stage actor Michael Crawford, disco star Gloria Gaynor, and glam rockers KISS. And presiding over the ceremony: not a singer, not an actor, not an artist, but President Donald Trump himself, who also happens to be performing arts center\u2019s self-appointed new chairman. Trump, who announced the nominees, said he personally rejected \u201ca couple of wokesters\u201d on the list of prospects. The ceremony will air later this year on CBS.<\/p>\n

MLB umpire breaks the grass ceiling<\/p>\n

Another sports barrier has bitten the dust. Jen Pawol, 48, made baseball history by becoming the first woman to umpire a Major League game<\/a> \u2212 twice \u2212 when she took the field as a first-base umpire and then, the next day, called balls and strikes at Truist Park in Atlanta as the Braves faced the Miami Marlins. And by all accounts, she did fine<\/a>. Perhaps there\u2019ll come a time when a woman behind the plate is no big deal, as Marlins pitcher Cal Quantrill told MLB.com: \u201cI think she did a quality job. … But yeah, just another day.\u201d \u2212 Compiled and written by Robert Abitbol, USA TODAY copy chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift appears with Kelce brother on ‘New Heights’ podcast Taylor Swift covered a wide range of topics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[52494,42603,61792,991,23503,236,17590,23501,14804,12,88,2741,4874,31437,5967,9465,51879,6149,363,6377,57124,8456,24030,34645,3,573,13470,34647,111,61789,10822,61791,99,22620,61790,31783,22093,4915,1596,3479,21206,2986],"class_list":["post-90584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-aol","tag-cal","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-cbs","tag-cbs-corp","tag-celebrities","tag-center","tag-corp","tag-donald","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-george","tag-george-strait","tag-guard","tag-heat","tag-kennedy","tag-kennedy-center","tag-marijuana","tag-mlb","tag-national","tag-national-guard-of-the-united-states","tag-national-sports","tag-national-weather-service","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-of","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-politics","tag-quantrill","tag-service","tag-skype","tag-sports","tag-states","tag-strait","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the","tag-trump","tag-united","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}