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Olga Fikotova Connolly, Olympian in a Cold War Romance, Dies at 91

She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron curtain.

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Richard Tandy, Keyboardist for Electric Light Orchestra, Dies at 76

He helped shape the band’s futuristic sound, which blended Beatles-esque pop with orchestral arrangements.

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UCLA Cancels Classes After Violent Clashes Between Protesters and Police

The school was ill prepared when protesters blocked students from accessing parts of campus and counterprotesters violently attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment.

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Trump Refuses to Commit to Accepting Election Outcome in Milwaukee Interview

“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Donald Trump told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”

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Trump Acknowledges He Wanted to Go to the Capitol on Jan. 6

The former president recalled a key detail central to testimony before the Jan. 6 committee during a campaign event in Wisconsin.

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Armed Student Is Killed Near Wisconsin Middle School, Officials Say

School officials in Mount Horeb, Wis., southwest of Madison, said that no one else was harmed and that schools were placed on lockdown.

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Blinken Turns Up Pressure on Hamas to Accept Gaza Cease-Fire Deal

“The time is now,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken declared, urging Hamas to accept the terms of a proposed truce. He also made clear that he expected more from Israel.

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Senate Democrats Reintroduce Legislation to Legalize Marijuana

The bill, which reflects growing support for legalization, would end the federal prohibition on cannabis. But it is unlikely to pass in an election year and a divided government.

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Kamala Harris Isn’t Americans’ ‘Momala.’ She’s Our Vice President.

In her conversation with the vice president, Drew Barrymore allowed informality to veer into disrespect.

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How Protesters Can Actually Help Palestinians

I worry that the more aggressive demonstrators may be hurting the Gazans they’re trying to support.

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Republicans Step Up Attacks on Scientist at Heart of Covid Lab Leak Theory

A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.

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Schneider Sues ‘Quiet on Set’ Producers for Defamation

In the suit, lawyers for the former Nickelodeon producer called the documentary a “hit job” that had falsely painted him as a “child sexual abuser.”

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Fed Holds Rates Steady, Noting Lack of Progress on Inflation

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for a sixth straight meeting and suggested that rates would stay high for longer.

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Pasteurized Dairy Foods Free of Live Bird Flu, Federal Tests Confirm

But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.

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How Six-Week Abortion Bans Went From Fringe to Reality

Even opponents of abortion saw such curbs as too controversial just over a decade ago. Times have changed.

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Kamala Harris Looks to Make Trump the Face of Florida’s Abortion Ban

The vice president sought to tie former President Donald J. Trump to the state’s six-week abortion ban, which took effect on Wednesday.

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Arizona Abortion Ban: What We Know

Lawmakers voted to repeal an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. Here’s what to know about the fight over the law.

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Arizona Lawmakers Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban

Two Republican state senators broke with their party to ensure final passage of the repeal. Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is expected to sign it.

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Arizona Voted to Repeal Its Abortion Ban

Also, the Fed eyes a longer period of high rates. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

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Giant Pandas Are Returning to San Diego, China Announces

“Panda diplomacy” has represented an area of cooperation between the United States and China despite tension over weighty issues of trade and national security.

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Veteran Collected Benefits After Lying About Purple Heart, U.S. Says

Sharon Toney-Finch, who served in Iraq in 2010, was charged with fraudulently claiming to have a Purple Heart and with defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Colombia Will Sever Ties With Israel Over Gaza War

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president, made the announcement in front of cheering crowds in the capital that had gathered for International Workers’ Day.

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In Bid to Oust Johnson, Greene Tries to Reclaim a Powerful Perch on the Fringe

The Georgia Republican’s doomed push to remove the speaker has placed her at odds with most in her party, but it has brought her back to her roots as a norm-busting provocateur.

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Duane Eddy, Whose Twang Changed Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 86

A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god.

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The Words That Have Defined This Week in Trump’s Hush-Money Trial

Witnesses discussed the salacious and the banal, and the judge warned the defendant he could go to jail.

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Colombia’s president says the country will sever ties with Israel, calling its government ‘genocidal.’

President Gustavo Petro announced on Wednesday that the South American nation planned to break diplomatic ties with Israel.

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The 63-Year-Old Career Activist Among the Protesters at Columbia

Videos show Lisa Fithian, whom the police called a “professional agitator,” working alongside protesters who stormed Hamilton Hall.

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Giuliani’s Bankruptcy Creditors Demand to Know His Spending

The former New York mayor and Trump lawyer actually spent nearly $120,000 in January, and his creditors say he is still not turning over required financial information.

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It’s Not Just Gaza: Student Protesters See Links to a Global Struggle

In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.

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Bird Flu Highlights Concerns Around Raw Milk

Testing suggests that pasteurization inactivates the virus. But what about raw milk and cheese?

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