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E.U. Foreign Ministers Hold Surprise Summit in Wartime Kyiv

Nearly all of the European Union’s top diplomats met in the Ukrainian capital, convening to reassert the bloc’s commitment against Russia’s invasion.

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Trump’s Fraud Trial Begins

Also, a threat to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

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The Best Tip of Paris Fashion Week? Avoid Bedbugs.

There’s an infestation in the City of Lights, and fashion folks are not immune.

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Echo Brown, Young Adult Author and Performer, Dies at 39

A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.

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A Couple Revives a Scottish Villa After Accidentally Buying It

After becoming the inadvertent owners of a crumbling building in rural Scotland, a couple spent five years reviving it. With a little help.

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What We Know About the NY Trump Fraud Case Ruling

New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, sued the former president using a state law that grants her wide powers to pursue corporate wrongdoing.

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UN Approves Kenya’s Mission to Stabilize Haiti

Kenyan security forces are expected to head to Haiti for a year to combat gang violence that has killed thousands.

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Democrats Weigh Whether to Rescue McCarthy From G.O.P. Ouster Bid

Party officials said that without promises to address their policy priorities, the speaker should not count on Democratic votes to save him.

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On First Day of New Term, Justices Hear Debate Over Reducing Mass Incarceration

The justices heard arguments about how to interpret part of the law aimed at reducing prison sentences for people convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes.

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Ethnic Serbs in Northern Kosovo Feel ‘Trapped’ by Politics

A deadly gunfight in a Kosovar village raised worries that the troubled Balkan region would be plunged into another conflict, with confusion and fear running high among residents. “I’d like to know who runs this place,” a mechanic said.

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Trump’s Fraud Trial Starts With Attacks on Attorney General and Judge

Donald J. Trump appeared in court as lawyers for New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, painted him as a fraudster. His lawyers said she was out to get the former president.

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The Americans Most Threatened by Eviction: Young Children

About a quarter of Black babies and toddlers in rental households face the threat of eviction in a typical year, a new study says, and all children are disproportionately at risk.

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Horace Ové, Pioneering Black Filmmaker in Britain, Dies at 86

His feature-length film, “Pressure,” mapped the struggles of Black Britons in an era of unyielding racism. He was knighted in 2022.

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Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge to New York’s Rent Regulations

Landlords had argued that a rent-stabilization law that covers about a million units is an unconstitutional government taking of private property.

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What to Know About Laphonza Butler, Newsom’s Appointee to the Senate

Ms. Butler, 44, was chosen on Sunday to fill the vacancy created by the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein.

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Secretary of State Blinken Plays the Guitar to Launch “Music Diplomacy” Initiative

A viral video of Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken introduced Americans to the guitar geek hidden within.

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Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is Ubiquitous

Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is the government’s biggest-name witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google.

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Swifties Watch Their Hero and Learn to Love the N.F.L.

As two of America’s biggest fandoms collide, the pop star’s biggest fans are studying up and cheering along.

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Swifties Watch Their Hero and Learn to Love the N.F.L.

As two of America’s biggest fandoms collide, the pop star’s biggest fans are studying up and cheering along.

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Clarence Thomas Recuses as Supreme Court Rejects Trump Lawyer’s Appeal

John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who had advised President Donald J. Trump, had sought to wipe out a decision that he said had harmed his reputation and that of his client.

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NYC Schools Began to Recover From the Pandemic. Now They Face a Financial Crisis.

The city faces billions in financial pressures in the coming years that threaten to worsen inequality across the nation’s largest school system.

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Putin’s Next Target: U.S. Support for Ukraine, Officials Say

Russian spy agencies and new technologies could be used to push conspiracy theories, U.S. officials say.

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Met Museum’s Great Hall Store to Become Gallery

A renovation will create more exhibition space for the popular Costume Institute show as well as a new store and restaurant at the plaza level.

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Kenya’s Plan to Help Stabilize Haiti Goes to U.N. Security Council Vote

With hundreds killed, abducted and injured in a worsening cycle of gang violence in Haiti, Kenya has offered to lead a mission to help stabilize the country.

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India’s Early Electronic Music From the ’70s Is Finally Being Released

A trove of tapes discovered in a cupboard at the country’s National Institute of Design showcases artists composing early synth recordings on their own terms.

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‘We Taylor-gated’: Taylor Swift Fans Descend on a Jets Game

Football fans mingled with Swifties, on public transit, in the parking lot and at the game. Everyone was dressed for the occasion.

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China Evergrande’s Founder: The Rise and Fall of Hui Ka Yan

Hui Ka Yan, who grew up poor in the countryside, was a symbol of China’s economic rise. With Evergrande teetering, his future is uncertain, too.

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Lise Meitner, the ‘Atomic Pioneer’ Who Never Won a Nobel Prize

Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly translated letters show.

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He Announces Baseball Games in Spanish. It is Not His First Language.

Bill Kulik, a Spanish-language radio broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies, mixes in English and Spanglish to the delight of some listeners, but the irritation of others.

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Wildfires in Canada Expected to Cause Hazy Skies Over New York

The impact on air quality was expected to be mild, but New Yorkers sensitive to air quality should take extra care, officials said.

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