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Winter Storm Brings Snow to Texas and Louisiana

“So many of you have never seen an event like this,” Louisiana’s state climatologist warned, with New Orleans facing possibly the most snow it has ever seen.

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Southport Killer Had ‘Sickening and Sustained Interest’ in Violence, U.K. Officials Say

Axel Rudakubana, who killed three young girls in the Southport attack, appeared to have no particular ideology but was obsessed by death and genocide, investigators said.

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Trump Pardons Nearly All Involved in Jan. 6 Attack

On his first day back in office, President Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for The New York Times, describes what’s behind those pardons.

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What Trump Did on Day 1: Tracking His Biggest Moves

President Trump made major policy moves immediately after taking office, withdrawing from major international agreements, promising steep tariffs and pardoning nearly all of the Jan. 6 rioters.

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Specialty Coffee Shops and Parisian Cafes

The city’s traditional cafes and bistros are staking out their cultural territory in an emerging duel against highly caffeinated upstarts serving up latte art.

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Thomas Sondergard Brings Nordic Music and Hygge to Minnesota Orchestra

With the Nordic Soundscapes Festival, Thomas Sondergard puts his stamp on the Minnesota Orchestra (and its interior spaces).

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Against All Odds, a Vegas Theater Scene With a ‘Sense of the Wild West’

Local artists straddle aesthetic and artistic worlds in the land of mega-spectacles and oversize flash.

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C.E.O.s, and President Trump, Want Workers Back in the Office

Amazon, JPMorgan and others have been telling their employees that remote work is over. Now federal employees have been ordered to come to work in person, too.

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Loving an ‘Untouched’ Modernist House, and Then Getting Down to Work

A couple bought a home in Palo Alto, Calif., that was designed by an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright. Happily, they were also smitten with the two-year renovation.

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Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons Erase Justice Department’s Investigation

President Trump’s pardons in the Jan. 6 case abruptly ended the most complex investigation in U.S. history. It also raised questions about what he will do next against a department he has said is full of his enemies.

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Jimmy Fallon: Melania’s Hat Is Her ‘Very Own Border Wall’

The “Tonight Show” host donned his own version of the first lady’s inaugural hat, which seemed to prevent the president from kissing her.

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The Voices in His Head Would Not Stop. Then a Boy Was Stabbed to Death.

Waldo Mejia’s psyche had been showing cracks, a longtime friend said. Now he is charged with killing 14-year-old Caleb Rijos at random.

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The Dark Roots of Donald Trump’s Obsession With Panama and Greenland

He is tapping into a vision of a United States that is forever growing, forever moving outward.

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President Trump, You Can Remake the Middle East if You Dare

While the wages of success in the region will be enormous, the consequences of failure will be utterly hellish.

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2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Are Freed in Prisoner Swap

In exchange, the Biden administration released an Afghan man convicted on narcotics charges in 2008.

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Han Kang Talks About Her Jeju Book, ‘We Do Not Part”

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said.

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Israel’s Mixed Mood Over Cease-Fire

More than 30 hostages are set to be released during the cease-fire in Gaza. But many Israelis have mixed feelings about the deal because they feel it came at a high price.

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India’s Economy Slows Down Just When It Was Supposed to Speed Up

Industrial growth, the stock market and the rupee are sinking, and most consumers earn too little to buoy them, stymieing India’s drive to become a developed economy.

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Trump Starts Immigration Crackdown, Enlisting the Military and Testing the Law

The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.

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Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters

The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.

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Trump’s Opening Act of Contempt

To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.

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The King of Gilt Kicks Off the Golden Age

A boast and a warning as the 45th president becomes the 47th.

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‘A Quiet Force’: Harris Returns Home After Making History in Washington

The former vice president’s first acts as a nonelected official for the first time in decades could be a sign of what comes next.

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Packed In for Trump’s Indoor Inauguration, Awkwardness Abounds

Tech billionaires, foreign leaders, ex-presidents and political nemeses. How did everyone behave?

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Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Delay TikTok Ban

Shortly after taking office Monday, the president issued the order to delay the app’s ban for 75 days. The law went into effect on Sunday.

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Enrique Tarrio, Pardoned by Trump, Helped Initiate Capitol Riot

Until President Trump’s pardon, Enrique Tarrio was serving a 22-year prison term, the longest sentence handed down to any of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with Jan. 6.

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Border Patrol Shooting Is Under Investigation in Vermont

Officials said the agent was shot “in the line of duty” on Interstate 91, which was closed for several hours near the border with Canada.

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A Day of Triumph, Jubilation and Gloating in Washington

There were Proud Boys, billionaires, stiletto heels, cowboy hats, the Village People, icy cold and happy Canadians at President Trump’s inaugural.

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Trump Commutes Sentence of Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers Founder

The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.

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Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

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