Ambiguous headline

AP headline this morning:

Obama ventures back to hurting region _ with money

I think that underscore was intended to be a dash, but either way, I initially read the headline as saying that, having stopped his hurting of a region at some previous time, Obama had now started hurting that region again, and this time he was hurting it using money.

I suppose the word "ventures" should've prevented my misinterpretation; maybe it's just that I'm not entirely awake yet.

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