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New E.P.A. Rules Aim to Minimize Damage From Chemical Facilities

The rules require facilities to explicitly address threats such as wildfires or flooding, including those linked to climate change.

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Prosecution of Trump in Georgia Hangs in Balance at Hearing

Lawyers will sum up their arguments on Friday about whether Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, has a conflict of interest and should be disqualified.

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Book Reviews: ‘Swamp Monsters,’ by Matt Dixon; ‘The Rebels,’ by Joshua Green; ‘The Truce,’ by Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen

Three new books look at the tensions — left, center, right and further right — in the Democratic and Republican parties.

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How Their Corporate Speak Turned Into a Language of Love

Andrew McCaskill was happy to provide career advice when Marcus Johnson reached out, but he was also hoping for something more.

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‘This Is For Gaza’: George Galloway, Leftist Firebrand, Wins Rochdale By-Election

As the Mideast conflict reverberates through British politics, the populist politician with a history of inflammatory statements about Israel won a special election in northern England.

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Republicans Who Like Putin

The Putin-friendly faction of the party is ascendant, while some of his biggest critics are retiring.

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Elon Musk’s Feud With OpenAI Goes to Court

The tech mogul wants to force the A.I. start-up to reveal its research to the public and prevent it from pursuing profits.

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Claudia Sheinbaum podría arrasar en las elecciones en México

Claudia Sheinbaum, la protegida del presidente de México, mantiene una amplia ventaja en las encuestas. Pero para muchos en México, sigue siendo un misterio.

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How Germany’s Most Wanted Criminal Hid in Plain Sight

Daniela Klette, a militant from the Red Army Faction, was on the run for decades. Yet with publicly available digital recognition tools, German police could probably have found her much sooner.

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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for Violating the Company’s Principles

Musk said the high-profile A.I. startup had prioritized profit and commercial interests instead of seeking to benefit humanity.

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Gaza Aid Dropped Significantly in February

The deaths of dozens of people amid a rush for aid trucks in Gaza City showed the degree of hunger in the territory.

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Crowds Gather for Navalny’s Funeral, and Gazans Killed Near Aid Convoy

Plus, a federal court blocks a Texas border law.

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Biden, Trump and a Split Screen at the Texas Border

The president and his likely election opponent visited the political hot spot on the same day and gave dueling speeches.

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Eurozone Inflation, Continuing to Ease, Rose 2.6% in February

Prices in the countries that use the euro trended downward in February. But the European Central Bank remains cautious about lowering interest rates.

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Gemini’s Culture War, Kara Swisher Burns Us and SCOTUS Takes Up Content Moderation

We finally invited someone on the podcast who is meaner to Casey than Kevin is.

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Jewish Students Describe Facing Antisemitism on Campus to Members of Congress

At a discussion led by a House panel, students criticized their universities for not cracking down on antisemitism. An antiwar group pointed out that Muslim and Arab students are facing harassment, too.

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How Gretchen Whitmer Met the Moment

The Michigan governor knows that abortion could decide the presidential race.

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Daddy Longlegs Have Been Hiding Extra Eyes From Us

The arachnids, which are not spiders, were thought to have only two eyes, compared with many more on spiders.

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Claudia Sheinbaum Is Turning Mexico’s Presidential Election Into a Blowout

Claudia Sheinbaum, a protégée of Mexico’s current president, holds a commanding lead in the polls. But to many in Mexico, she is still an enigma.

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Why More American Weapons Will Soon Be Made Outside America

With the wars in Ukraine and Gaza straining U.S. arsenals, Washington is seeking to expand production with global partners like Australia.

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Shrinkflation 101: The Economics of Smaller Groceries

Have you noticed your grocery products shrinking? Here’s how that gets counted — and what gets missed — in inflation data.

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The Oscars Give Hollywood a Chance to Celebrate. After That? It’s Grim.

Forget Barbenheimer and the Oscars. This year the movie business will find out what the future really holds. And right now it’s looking pretty grim.

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Judge to Decide Timing of Trump Classified Documents Trial

Judge Aileen Cannon has already indicated that she will push back the start of the proceeding from the initially planned date in May. Prosecutors want to begin in July, and the former president in August.

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Developers Got Backing for Affordable Housing. Then the Neighborhood Found Out.

The push from an affluent community in South Carolina to kill a plan for 60 subsidized apartments brought into public view how hard it is give low-income families access to opportunity-rich neighborhoods.

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Moral Hazard Has No Place in Drug Addiction Treatment

Though moral hazard is a powerful concept for thinking about risk in economics, it’s a flawed approach to designing drug policy.

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Murder and Magic Realism: A Rising Literary Star Mines China’s Rust Belt

In gritty tales from China’s northeast, Shuang Xuetao chronicles a traumatic chapter of Chinese history with fresh resonance today: the mass layoffs that afflicted the region in the 1990s.

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Israel Is More Fortress Than Home Right Now

Will exhaustion and despair lead to some kind of resolution for Palestinians and Israelis?

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Meet Joan Jonas, One of America’s Most Elusive Artists

Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything.

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What to Do in Miami, According to the ‘Griselda’ and ‘Narcos’ Creator Eric Newman

Eric Newman, who created the Netflix show “Narcos” and produced his new show with Sofia Vergara, shares his love for a lesser-known side of the South Florida playground.

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Meet Frankey, the Street Artist Delighting Amsterdam

Thanks to a street artist named Frank “Frankey” de Ruwe, a wander through the Dutch capital may lead to a playful discovery or two.

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