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Trump Administration Fires Prosecutors Who Aided Jack Smith Investigations

The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.

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Caution Ahead! Vietnam’s Drivers Are Suddenly Following the Rules.

Steep new fines — more than many people make in a month — have made the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi less freewheeling than they used to be.

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Trump Administration Puts Dozens of U.S.A.I.D. Officials on Paid Leave

An email to the aid agency’s employees cited actions “that appear to be designed to circumvent” an executive order by President Trump.

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Whole Foods Workers in Philadelphia Vote to Form Chain’s First Union

The union win comes as Amazon, which owns the grocery chain, is also fighting labor organizing in its warehouse and delivery businesses.

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Trump Administration Fires Prosecutors Who Aided Jack Smith Investigations

The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.

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Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: An Emergency Pod

“I think this is a big moment in the history of A.I. development”

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Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations

When Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, refused military planes carrying deportees, infuriating President Trump, he revealed how heated the question of deportations has become.

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DNA Match Yields Murder Arrest in 2005 Utah Cold Case

Mark Munoz, 53, a homeless man, was charged in the killing of Jason Royter, 33, a father of two from Magna, Utah.

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Trump Argues That His Immunity Extends to E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuits

The president and the writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he sexually abused, are fighting over whether he has to pay the $83 million he owes for defaming her.

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How Does DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Compare to ChatGPT and Other Competitors?

The chatbot from China appears to perform a number of tasks as well as its American competitors do, but it censors topics such as Tiananmen Square.

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A Chinese A.I. Company Rattled the Tech World

Also, bird flu has entered a new phase. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

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U.S. Attorney Opens Investigation Into Justice Dept.’s Jan. 6 Cases

The move was the latest example of how the prosecutor in charge in Washington, Ed Martin, has sought in recent days to wind down the office’s sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack.

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Trump Paralyzes Independent Rights Watchdog, Firing Members Selected by Democrats

The move removed three of the four sitting members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, leaving it unable to act as the Trump administration begins reshaping intelligence agencies.

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Fired Inspectors General Raise Alarms as Trump Administration Moves to Finalize Purge

The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a never-ending cycle of politicization.”

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Israeli Forces Again Open Fire in Lebanon

For a second day, Lebanese were defying Israeli warnings and attempting to reach southern border towns that remained occupied by Israeli troops. At least two people were killed, officials said.

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World Bank Warns Colombian Staff Against U.S. Travel After Trump Visa Edict

Several Colombians whose visas were revoked were World Bank employees traveling in the United States at the time. They were deported.

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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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