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Myanmar Rebels Are Opening Colleges
As Myanmar’s civil war heads into a fifth year, anti-junta forces are opening universities and colleges as part of their pursuit of a federal democracy.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesIn China, Rare Dissent Over a Program to Save on Drug Costs
Top doctors raised concerns about domestically made drugs, saying Beijing’s effort to lower costs is sacrificing quality.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge
The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Military Planes Carrying Migrants Land in Guatemala
The Department of Defense said this week that it would provide planes for deportation flights.
New York Times Top StoriesHegseth Is Second Cabinet Secretary to Need Tiebreaker Vote, After DeVos
In 2017, Betsy DeVos barely survived her confirmation vote to become President Trump’s secretary of education.
New York Times Top StoriesAmid Trump Immigration Crackdown, Deportation Fears Spread Among Immigrants With Provisional Legal Status
President Trump is targeting people who have been living in the country under Biden immigration programs that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work.
New York Times Top StoriesIdaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision
A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.
New York Times Top StoriesLast 4 Monkeys That Escaped in South Carolina Are Captured
Finally, all 43 of the rhesus macaques have been found, according to the primate research facility in Yemassee, S.C., from which they fled in November.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Officials Pause Programs to Let In Immigrants, Including Ukrainians
The pause on several initiatives that allowed immigrants to enter the country temporarily will block the entrance of people fleeing some of the most unstable and desperate places in the world.
New York Times Top StoriesDerek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, Dies at 94
His own experience assisting his terminally ill wife in ending her life set him on a path to founding the Hemlock Society and writing a best-selling guide.
New York Times Top StoriesFitbit Agrees to Pay $12 Million for Not Quickly Reporting Burn Risk With Watches
After consumer complaints of overheating batteries, the company did not immediately report the defect with its Ionic smartwatches, according to a settlement with the U.S. government.
New York Times Top StoriesIsrael Says UNRWA Has 6 Days to Halt Operations in East Jerusalem
The directive came in a letter to the U.N., after the Israeli Parliament banned the relief agency that has aided Palestinian refugees for decades.
New York Times Top StoriesSenate to Vote on Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation, With Outcome Uncertain
With two G.O.P. senators opposed, Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s pick for defense secretary, can afford to lose only one more. If he is confirmed, it is likely to be by the smallest margin for that post in modern times.
New York Times Top StoriesReports of Immigration Agents at Chicago School Set Off Fear, but Are Proved False
The agents turned out to be unrelated to immigration, officials said hours later. They were from the Secret Service, investigating a threat.
New York Times Top StoriesNew Luxury Hotel in Serbia Will Be a Trump-Kushner Joint Project
The plan illustrates the continued ambitions of the Trump family to forge new international deals even as President Trump has returned to the White House.
New York Times Top StoriesNancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer.
New York Times Top StoriesImmigration Arrests Prompt Fear that Mass Deportations Loom
The arrest of three people at a seafood distribution warehouse in Newark has led to a heightened sense of alarm in the region.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump is touring Pacific Palisades. Altadena residents wonder why not them.
Residents of Altadena have expressed frustration that their town and their losses have been overshadowed by those in Pacific Palisades.
New York Times Top StoriesInterior Department Says Gulf of Mexico Is Now ‘Gulf of America’
Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.
New York Times Top StoriesThomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No Bail’ — and energized a movement.
New York Times Top StoriesContenders to Lead the Democratic Party Scramble to Show Momentum
As two Midwesterners battle for control of the Democratic National Committee, they are making loud yet unverifiable claims about their levels of support.
New York Times Top StoriesAppeals Court Upholds Injunction on Iowa’s State-Level Immigration Enforcement Law
A lower court had blocked the Republican-backed law that made it a state crime to enter Iowa after being deported or denied entry to the United States.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat’s That Stench? A Corpse Flower Blooming at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh.
New York Times Top StoriesWhile Visiting Flood Survivors, Trump Suggested Eliminating FEMA
Also, egg prices are high. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesHonduras Says Trump’s Deportation Plan Could Push It Closer to China
Many Latin American countries are trying to distance themselves from Beijing. But in response to President Trump’s sweeping deportation plans, Honduras is doing the opposite.
New York Times Top StoriesArrest Made in Connection With Shooting Death of Border Patrol Agent
The shooting on Monday in Vermont near the Canadian border followed the surveillance of an armed couple who dressed in black tactical-style clothing.
New York Times Top StoriesSupreme Court to Hear Oklahoma Religious Charter School Case
The proposal to create the nation’s first religious charter school paid for by taxpayer funds could move the line between church and state in education.
New York Times Top StoriesN.Y. Migrants Fear Expulsion After Trump Expands Deportation Targets
Those who followed Biden-era guidelines are dismayed that the rules have changed. The app that helped them enter the country now may make them targets.
New York Times Top StoriesSenate to Vote on Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation, With Outcome Uncertain
With two G.O.P. senators opposed, Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s pick for defense secretary, can afford to lose only one more. If he is confirmed, it is likely to be by the smallest margin for that post in modern times.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Is the Future of the Paris Agreement?
On President Trump’s first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times, explains what this decision means for the rest of the world.