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Modi to Meet Trump With Eyes on Trade and Immigration

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, who has a warm relationship with President Trump, may try to ease friction over migrants and trade.

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Behold the Strange Spectacle of Christians Against Empathy

There is nothing woke about medicine or food.

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Legal Roadblocks Slow Trump’s Removal of Federal Employees

President Trump and Elon Musk, who is leading the administration’s downsizing efforts, are pushing for quick and widespread layoffs. But the blitz has run into a complicated set of restrictions.

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Liberal Vets Group Gives Spanberger Boost in Virginia Governor’s Race

The $500,000 donation to the campaign of Abigail Spanberger, a former representative and C.I.A. officer, is the largest direct contribution in VoteVets’ 20-year history.

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Trump Dares the Courts to Stop Him

The president is challenging the constitutional order.

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Since Trump’s ‘Emergency,’ What Is Actually Happening on the Border?

Bored troops are standing watch, shelters have emptied from McAllen, Texas, to Tucson, Ariz., and border patrols speed through miles of frontier, finding no one in sight.

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D.C. Plane Crash Warnings Were Years in the Making

Concerns that a deadly collision could occur at Reagan National Airport had long been building. But attempts to draw attention to potentially dangerous conditions sometimes went unheeded.

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Trump’s D.E.I. Ban Has Been Open to Interpretation in Schools

Some universities are scrubbing websites and canceling events to comply with executive orders targeting diversity efforts. Other schools are promising to resist.

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Linda McMahon Faces Confirmation Hearing for Education Secretary

The former wrestling executive will speak about her priorities for the Department of Education. But she will also likely be questioned on White House discussions to close it.

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Inside Fashion’s Mysterious St. Catherine’s Day Celebrations

How a tradition that started off as a way to find a partner became a day for the industry to celebrate itself.

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Now It’s the Republicans Who Are Being Held Hostage by Fringe Groups

Will these strategies do to Trump’s presidency what they did to Biden’s?

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A New York Restaurant, a Texas Farm and Their Plant-Based Brawl

They shared the same name, Dirt Candy, and a devotion to healthy food. But a trademark dispute turned into an urban-rural standoff.

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As Salaries Boom, It’s a Good Time to Be an NFL Coach

Pay packages, even for first-time coaches, have risen sharply since the 1990s as teams seek those who can turn their franchises into perennial Super Bowl contenders.

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How Not to Be Cynical About Valentine’s Day

While Valentine’s Day is often centered on romantic love, some singles — including those who have never experienced it — find joy in celebrating love in other forms.

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Putin’s Call With Trump Delivers a Victory for Russian Leader

Vladimir Putin’s call with President Trump reinforced the Russian leader’s view that Moscow and Washington should decide the fate of Ukraine — and other weighty matters.

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Taiwan Prepares for Trump’s Tariffs, and a Changed Washington

Taiwanese officials, facing a more transactional U.S. relationship, have traveled to Washington to float energy deals and defend the island’s semiconductors.

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New York Fashion Week Street Style: Quiet Luxury Is Dead

It is far less quiet, if the clothes on and off runways at New York Fashion Week were any indication.

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Fake IDs Are Really, Really Good Now

Holograms, engravings and just the right polycarbonate make a perfect driver’s license from anywhere you want. The cards are bedeviling bouncers.

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It’s Bring a Kid to Work Day on ‘The Tonight Show’

Elon Musk took his son to the Oval Office, so Jimmy Fallon saw no reason not to walk onstage with a child, too.

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Honda and Nissan Scrap $50 Billion Merger Plan

The Japanese companies’ decision to call off negotiations highlights the challenges legacy automakers face in partnering to tackle new technologies.

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Chrystia Freeland on the U.S. Tariffs on Canadian Steel and Aluminum

Retaliation is a must. One hundred percent tariffs on Teslas, imposed by every country in the world, would be a good place to start.

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State Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups

The move against a half-dozen organizations followed an executive order from President Trump that said the United States would ensure their “total elimination.”

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USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise

A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.

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Some Migrants Sent by Trump to Guantánamo Are Being Held by Military Guards

The Times has obtained a list of 53 Venezuelan men the Trump administration has put in a wartime prison built to hold Al Qaeda suspects.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Overhauls the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The upheaval at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers a glimpse into the playbook that Elon Musk and other Trump allies seem to be writing in real time.

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Woman Gives Birth to Baby Girl on NYC Subway

A 25-year-old woman from Florida gave birth on a W train in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning. She had been missing since last summer, her sister said.

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Myanmar Refugees’ Dreams of Living in America Dashed by Trump Orders

President Trump’s moves to pause refugee resettlement, freeze foreign aid and suspend funds to promote democracy have added more chaos to one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises.

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Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own.

The dam project, drafted in 2018 and based on a former military training site south of Prague, had been delayed by land negotiations. Local beavers built several dams, saving the government more than one million euros.

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Bondi Announces Lawsuit Against New York Over Immigration

The attorney general, citing a law allowing New Yorkers to get a driver’s license regardless of citizenship or legal status, accused the state of “prioritizing “illegal aliens over American citizens.”

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OpenAI Questions Rationale of Elon Musk’s Bid to Control the Company

The company answered the billionaire’s offer in a legal filing, accusing him of hypocrisy.

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