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Gilgo Beach Killing Suspect Moves to Have Key DNA Evidence Thrown Out

The suspect’s lawyer has also called for the case against his client, Rex Heuermann, to be split into five trials. On Wednesday, the judge agreed to hold hearings to consider both requests.

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Tesla’s Profit Fell Sharply Last Year

The electric car company run by Elon Musk is facing increasing competition, but investors have focused mostly on the prospects for Tesla’s self-driving technology.

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Trump’s Firings Could Bring Court Cases That Expand His Power

The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping presidential authority.

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How Menendez Destroyed His Legacy With Gold Bars and a Halal Hustle

The former New Jersey senator was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted of bribery and corruption.

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Microsoft Continues A.I. Spending Growth as Profit Grows 10%

The tech giant’s revenue was up 12 percent to $69.6 billion, but investors are showing their nerves after a long boom for tech stocks.

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William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.

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The Hearing Confirmed That R.F.K. Jr. Is Trump’s Kind of Guy

At this point, whether a nominee can explain himself coherently, much less convincingly, may not matter for the votes he needs.

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DeSantis Says He Will Veto Immigration Bill in Clash With Lawmakers

The veto pledge capped a dramatic few days in which Republican legislators publicly criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis and portrayed themselves as truer allies of President Trump.

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‘Dean of American Historians’: Ken Burns on William E. Leuchtenburg

One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.

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Rebel Leader Who Overthrew al-Assad is Declared Syria’s President

The new leadership of the country said the rebel coalition leader, Ahmed al-Shara, would serve as president during a transitional period.

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Farage Says He Talked to Musk Last Week. Relationship is ‘Fine.’

Three weeks after a rift, the head of the populist Reform U.K. party said Elon Musk remains open to a donation that could shake up British politics.

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As Establishment Warms to Trump, Elite Law Firm Takes On His Appeal

The involvement of Sullivan & Cromwell in the appeal of President Trump’s criminal conviction underscored how New York’s legal power players have moved toward Mr. Trump.

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Hamas Is Expected to Release 8 Israeli and Thai Hostages

The release planned for Thursday would be the third so far as Israel and Hamas observe a six-week truce, part of a multiphase agreement that mediators hope will end the war in Gaza.

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Prosecutors Move to Drop Classified Documents Case Against Trump’s Co-Defendants

If the appeals court agrees, it would be the formal end of the case in which Donald J. Trump was accused of illegally holding onto classified materials after he left office.

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OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data

The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.

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At Gabbard’s Confirmation Hearing, Edward Snowden May Loom Large

Senators are expected to ask about her defense of the former government contractor, who released reams of data on U.S. surveillance programs and fled to Russia.

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Lutnick Grilled on Trump’s Tariffs and China During Confirmation Hearing

Howard Lutnick, the wealthy financier Trump has picked to lead the Commerce Department, said he favored “across the board” tariffs and faced grilling about his financial ties in a nomination hearing Wednesday.

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Elon Musk and His Friends Help Trump Shake Up the Government

The billionaire and his Silicon Valley associates landed in the capital and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government, reprising the playbook he used after buying Twitter in 2022.

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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning employees have objected with subtle acts of defiance.

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Frontier Airlines Offers to Buy Spirit Airlines, Again

Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy protection after a court blocked its acquisition by JetBlue, says it has rejected the new Frontier overture but would be open to a higher offer.

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Life’s Building Blocks Lurked Inside NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Samples

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

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Student Threatened With Expulsion Over Social Posts Gets $250,000 Settlement

The University of Tennessee threatened to expel Kimberly Diei over posts the school said were inappropriate. She sued on First Amendment grounds.

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Who Is Liang Wenfeng, the Founder of A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek?

The Chinese company DeepSeek seemed to have come out of nowhere this week when it upturned markets. Here’s what to know about the engineer who started it.

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Democrats to Question Commerce Nominee’s Web of Financial Interests

Howard Lutnick, the wealthy financier Trump has picked to lead the Commerce Department, is set to be questioned by the Senate in a nomination hearing Wednesday.

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Maha Kumbh Mela: World’s Largest Gathering Begins in India

About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe gathered to bathe in and around the Ganges in the religion’s biggest display of unity.

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How Dozens Fled an Inferno on a South Korean Plane

A month after the deadliest aviation disaster on South Korean soil, a fire destroyed another passenger jet in the country.

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Trump’s Middle East Envoy Visits Israel in Show of Support for Gaza Cease-Fire

Steven Witkoff, who played an important role in brokering the truce between Israel and Hamas, was expected to meet with Israel’s prime minister and to visit Gaza.

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A Tropical, Chewy Lunar New Year Dessert

The writer and curator Su Wu’s version of tang yuan reflects her family’s history and her life in Mexico City.

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U.K. Government Backs Heathrow Expansion in Push for Faster Growth

The country’s top finance official supported adding a third runway to the London hub, a decision that has been held up for decades, and other measures intended to strengthen economic growth.

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Millions of Federal Workers Offered Payouts, and Kennedy’s Senate Test

Plus, Mona Lisa makes moves.

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