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Republican Lawmakers in Florida Rebel Against DeSantis in Rare Power Move

In a special session on Monday, leaders seemed to be declaring their independence from a governor who has wielded so much power that legislative sessions have become largely predictable rubber stamps.

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What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?

How did a little-known Chinese start-up cause the markets and U.S. tech giants to quake? Here’s what to know.

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Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics

There were no Situation Room meetings and no quiet calls to de-escalate a dispute with an ally. Just threats, counterthreats, surrender and an indication of the president’s approach to Greenland and Panama.

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Nvidia Reels After DeepSeek’s A.I. Breakthrough

The tech industry has had an insatiable appetite for Nvidia’s chips over the last two years. But the feast may be over sooner than many had expected.

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What’s Next in the Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations?

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians trekked for hours toward their homes in northern Gaza on Monday, nearly 16 months after Israel launched an offensive there in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks. The returnees confronted wastelands of rubble after the Israeli military destroyed entire neighborhoods and Hamas booby-trapped buildings. Adam Rasgon, a New York Times correspondent, explains why the road to permanent peace remains complicated and elusive despite significant progress in the temporary cease-fire.

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Kennedy Center’s Leader to Step Down, Adding to Uncertainty

The announced departure of Deborah F. Rutter, the center’s president since 2014, comes as the center continues to search for a new board chair while navigating a second Trump term.

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Denmark and Other Nations Under Pressure Seek Lobbyists With Trump Ties

The president’s confrontational foreign policy has created opportunity for his allies on K Street who are willing to take on clients he has targeted.

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Florida Is Scouring College Textbooks for Antisemitism

State university officials began the effort in response to social media outrage over test questions about terrorism. The effort has infuriated professors.

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Oil Companies Embrace Trump, but Not ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

Oil and gas executives welcomed President Trump’s early moves on energy policy, but many said they did not plan to increase production unless prices rose significantly.

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Inside a $35 Billion Loan Project, Led by World Bank, Aims to Expand Electricity in Africa

Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.”

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Trump’s Colombia Tariff Threat Startled Companies Trying to Rely Less on China

By declaring he’d put tariffs on goods from the South American country, the president imperiled a growing influx of foreign investment there.

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Tennessee Legislature Meets With Trump Playbook on its Agenda

A special session set to start Monday afternoon pairs disaster aid with two priorities for both the president and Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee: tougher immigration laws and school vouchers.

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Progressives Are Done With Eric Adams. Can They Elect One of Their Own?

Five New York City Democrats are competing to become the left-leaning candidate of choice in the June mayoral primary.

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3.8-Magnitude Earthquake Felt in Boston and Maine

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage after the light but rare earthquake on Monday morning.

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Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’

His comments to the hard-right Alternative for Germany party escalated efforts by the billionaire to influence the country’s election for chancellor next month.

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Trump’s Acts of Retribution Aim at the Future as Well as the Past

The president made good on promises to seek revenge against enemies during his first week back in power, signaling in the process that anyone who crosses him in the future could also suffer.

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Standoff at Ukrainian Procurement Agency Threatens to Disrupt Weapons Supply

Ukraine’s defense minister fired the head of a state agency that procured over $7 billion in armaments last year, citing “unsatisfactory” results. She says the move is illegal and vows to stay in her post.

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‘Firewall’ Around the Far Right Wobbles in Germany

Responding to the killing of a child, the poll-leading Christian Democrats are pushing to overhaul migration laws — possibly with votes from the Alternative for Germany.

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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Race: A Pivotal Battle Over Abortion

A contest for control of Wisconsin’s top court may be even nastier and more expensive than its bitter 2023 predecessor, with the fate of an 1849 abortion ban and other policies at stake.

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Gazans Crowd the Road North, Joyful but Anxious

For nearly 16 months, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have lived in tents, barred from returning to northern Gaza. On Monday, Israel allowed them to walk back.

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DeepSeek Prompts a Reckoning Across Wall Street and Silicon Valley

The fast-growing popularity of the Chinese artificial intelligence software hit shares in tech giants like Nvidia, as Silicon Valley worried about what comes next.

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Stocks Markets Fall Sharply as Investors Worry About China’s AI Advances

Premarket trading implied steep declines for U.S. markets, with the pain concentrated at companies at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom.

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Sweden Suspects ‘Gross Sabotage’ After Damage to Cable Under the Baltic Sea

The Nordic country has opened an investigation into the damage, just weeks after NATO stepped up its military presence in the area following a series of similar incidents.

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Strong Dollar vs. Weak Dollar

President Trump is of two minds when it comes to America’s currency.

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Gazans Trek Home, and Trump’s Tariff Spat With Colombia

Plus, a Super Bowl three-peat?

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Anti-Immigrant Rioters Set a UK Library on Fire. The Community Rallied.

After the Spellow Library in Liverpool was targeted during England’s unrest last summer, more than 10,000 people donated to its restoration.

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Trump Explodes Out of the Gate

For the president’s opponents, it was a week that felt like a decade.

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7 Surprisingly Busy Days in the Life of an Experimental Theater Maker

Peter Mills Weiss shared details of a week of “everyone doing everything all the time, and by the seat of everyone’s pants.”

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5 Dumpling Recipes in Time for Lunar New Year

Just in time for Lunar New Year, Cooking’s recipe creators share the ones they love most.

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E.V. Owners Don’t Pay Gas Taxes. So, Many States Are Charging Them Fees.

States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming.

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