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After Israel-Hezbollah Truce, Lebanon Ponders How to Clear Debris

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has left behind lots of rubble. Some experts fear that much of it will be dumped into the environment without controls.

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Kentucky’s Strip Mines Get Turned Into Neighborhoods

As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors to unique higher ground.

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Bans, Fees, Taxes. Can Anything Stop Overtourism?

Efforts to limit visitors in tourist hot spots have had mixed results, at best. Competing interests have a way of impeding attempts to stem the tide.

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R.F.K. Jr.’s Excited Fan Club: Conservative Christian Moms

These parents believe in home-schooling and distrust food and drug companies. In Kennedy, they see “a bull in the china shop.”

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Jon Stewart Can’t Keep Up With the Purges

As many as 17 inspectors general were fired by President Trump. “That only leaves — no one knows how many left,” Stewart said. “I have no idea.”

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Schiaparelli and Dior: The Joy of Escapism

Amid the fantasies of Schiaparelli and Dior.

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New York City Landlord Wants You Out? There Had Better Be ‘Good Cause.’

Renters are feeling emboldened by a new law that can help them hang onto their homes and fight bank-breaking rent increases during lease renewals.

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For Children in Rural Mozambique, the Future Comes Into Focus

One doctor is showing nurses, teachers and parents how to spot eye problems, many of which can be easily treated. Surgery, and even just glasses, can be life-changing, and keep kids in school.

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India, China to Resume Direct Flights After Nearly Five Years

It was the latest thaw in relations between the two countries, whose troops were involved in deadly skirmishes high in the Himalayas in 2020.

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Japan Stocks Sink as Rout in Technology Shares Spreads to Asia

U.S. markets sold off on Monday after a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up ignited concerns about the valuations of technology companies.

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White House Budget Office Orders Pause in All Federal Loans and Grants

The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.

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Trump Moves Toward Pushing Openly Transgender People Out of Military

The president also ordered the Pentagon to end diversity programs, reinstate many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine and create a new missile defense system.

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Elon Musk’s Bizarre, Frightening Obsession With Britain

The billionaire’s interest goes beyond trolling.

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Why China Loves Trump’s Right-Wing Wokeism

The president’s energy policies may not make America great again, but they will definitely help make China great again.

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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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