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Can you cook play dough in the oven?

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I put the play dough in the oven at 200 degrees on a baking sheet for about 30 minutes. I checked on them every 5-10 minutes and took them out after it started to look and feel dry. I also used silicone hearts to bake some heart shaped play dough. Those were left in longer than the ones on the baking sheet.Click to see full answer. Also question is, how do you bake Play Doh in the oven? Read More...

Ruidoso battles flash floods again after wildfires scar landscape

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The alpine resort village of Ruidoso, N.M., was pummeled by flash floods again Tuesday, after “burn scars” from the South Fork and Salt wildfires left the soil unable to absorb rainfall, upending recovery efforts and underscoring the growing climate risks to tourist-dependent towns. Burned soil can be as water-repellent as pavement, according to the National Weather Service, and it doesn’t require a lot of rainfall to produce a flash flood. Tuesday’s deluge isn’t the first Ruidoso has encountered: Evacuation orders were issued for flash flooding in June as authorities were still battling blazes in the area. Read More...

Lisa Gartner joins The Post as Deputy Editor on Long-Term Investigations

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We are thrilled to announce that Lisa Gartner will be joining The Washington Post as a deputy editor on the long-term investigative team. Lisa comes to us from the San Francisco Chronicle, where she has served as investigations editor since 2020, overseeing a group of reporters on a string of high-impact, award-winning stories and projects. In 2022, she edited a devastating examination of San Francisco’s use of taxpayer money to shelter its homeless population in dilapidated and run-down hotels with little oversight and disastrous results. Read More...