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Trump’s Request to Delay $83.3 Million Payment to E. Jean Carroll Is Denied

The money or a bond is due Monday as Donald J. Trump faces a daunting array of legal and financial challenges.

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George Santos Says He’s Running for Congress Again

Mr. Santos, who was expelled from the House in December, filed paperwork to run in a different district held by Representative Nick LaLota, a Republican.

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Review: In ‘Doubt,’ What He Knows, She Knows, God Knows

Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.

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Lewiston Shooting Panel Presses Army Reservists on Maine Gunman

A commission in Maine asked former colleagues of the shooter about key moments of inaction before the rampage.

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Ronny Jackson, Former White House Physician, Was Demoted by the Navy

Now a Republican member of the House and a Trump ally, his previously unpublicized demotion from rear admiral to captain came after a Pentagon investigation found misconduct on the job.

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Public Workers Joined Ring That Stole IDs of Homeless People, D.A. Says

Eighteen people, including nine New York City public employees, were charged with joining a conspiracy that made ghost guns and defrauded a state Covid relief program.

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An unusual collision: The general election season began before the State of the Union.

President Biden isn’t the first sitting president to know his fall rival before he gives his speech to Congress: In 1800, John Adams did, too.

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We Need to Talk About This Republican Candidate’s Antisemitism

Mark Robinson has a history of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. His party doesn’t care.

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Do You Have to Let the National Guard Search Your Bag on the NYC Subway?

Gov. Kathy Hochul would not say how long she planned to keep hundreds of soldiers and state police officers in the subway system.

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José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen, Central to U.S. Gaza Aid Plan, Aims to Ramp Up

The organization, founded by the Spanish chef José Andrés, has served more than 32 million meals in Gaza, and he hopes to do more.

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Female Genital Cutting Continues to Increase Worldwide

Campaigns in some countries have reduced the practice, but it remains widespread in those with high rates of population growth.

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Reminder: Trump’s Last Year in Office Was a National Nightmare

And he made the nightmare much worse.

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Surviving the Ugliness of It All

Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt offered the confidence in our country that we need right now.

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Steve Lawrence, Who Sang His Listeners Down Memory Lane, Dies at 88

With his wife, Eydie Gorme, and sometimes on his own, he kept pop standards in vogue long past their prime. He also acted on television and on Broadway.

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Hochul’s NYC Subway Plan Aimed to Ease Fears. The Blowback Was Immediate.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s subway safety plan was meant to show how Democrats can take action on crime, but the response illustrated how the issue divides her party.

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U.S. Military to Build Floating Pier to Ferry Gaza Aid, White House Says

U.S. officials said that a temporary port, built from ships and then moved close to shore, would allow hundreds of truckloads of aid to reach Gazans on the brink of starvation.

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City Inquiry: Uvalde Officers Made Mistakes, but Did Not Violate Policy

An investigator for the city of Uvalde found that despite the many failures from police officers during a 2022 school shooting, they did not violate protocol and acted in good faith.

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Haiti Crisis: Who Are the Gangs That Have Overrun the Capital?

The Caribbean nation has plunged into disorder and violence with gangs controlling access to the main airport and seaports, and taking command of many parts of Port-au-Prince.

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Judge’s Order Will Prevent Trump From Revealing Names of Jurors

Donald J. Trump’s legal team agreed with the restrictions regarding his hush-money trial. The judge also ruled that only the lawyers in the case will know the jurors’ addresses.

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Trump’s Secret Files Case ‘Starkly Different’ from Biden’s, Prosecutors Say

The special counsel, Jack Smith, filed an array of rebuttals to motions by former President Donald J. Trump to dismiss his documents case.

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Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster

Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, brought questions about Mr. Altman’s management to the board last year before he was briefly ousted from the company.

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State Investigations Create More Peril for Trump Prosecutor in Georgia

A claim made about the prosecutor, Fani Willis, at a State Senate hearing proved false, but it hinted at the turbulence she might face even if an effort to disqualify her fails.

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Tonight’s State of the Union Is a Big Moment for Biden

Also, a plan to help get aid into Gaza. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

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Rupert Murdoch Is Engaged Again

The media titan Rupert Murdoch, 92, is engaged once more. This time it is to Elena Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist.

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Katie Britt, Alabama Senator, to Deliver GOP Response to State of the Union

Republicans are turning to one of their youngest members of Congress to burnish the image of their aging, male-dominated party and draw a contrast with a president nearly 40 years older.

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Biden’s Gaza Port Is Not Enough

This looks more like a photo op than an all-out effort to address a humanitarian crisis that the United States has helped to create.

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Here Are the Bidens’ Guests at the State of the Union

The sister of a 9-year-old girl killed in the Uvalde school shooting is set to attend the speech, along with the head of the U.A.W. and business owners focused on the environment.

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National Guard in the Subway? New Yorkers Have Their Doubts.

Some commuters said they felt safer after learning that heavily armed soldiers would patrol the subway system. Others were critical of the governor’s plan.

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Zelensky Names Ukraine’s Ex-Top General Ambassador to U.K.

The former top general, Valery Zaluzhny, was dismissed last month amid tensions with the civilian leadership. He has been a very popular figure in Ukraine.

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Biden Makes the Case on Climate

The president’s campaign is eager to tell the story of his first term’s accomplishments.

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