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Southwest Layoffs Will Take 15% of Its Work Force

The company said the cuts, the first round of broad layoffs in the airline’s 53-year history, would affect mostly corporate employees.

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An Invisible Medical Shortage: Oxygen

Oxygen is vital to many medical procedures. But a safe, affordable supply is severely lacking around the world, according to a new report.

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Can the Federal Reserve Look Past Trump’s Tariffs?

Top officials are grappling with how to handle potential price increases caused by the administration’s policies.

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Who Are the 4 Key Officials Leaving City Hall?

Four deputy mayors in the Eric Adams administration — all respected veteran public servants — are resigning.

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Thousands Gather on Presidents’ Day to Call Trump a Tyrant

Thousands of protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump’s agenda took to the streets across the country, including outside the U.S. Capitol.

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Education Dept. Gives Schools Two Weeks to Eliminate Race-Based Programs

The department’s Office for Civil Rights warned that it would penalize schools that consider race in scholarships, hiring and an array of other activities.

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Paquita la del Barrio, Whose Songs Empowered Women, Dies at 77

In unflinching ballads that spoke of the pain men can cause women, the Mexican singer often relied on what she learned in her own relationships.

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What We Know About the Kentucky Floods

Storms have overwhelmed the state in recent years. On top of the floods, snow is expected soon.

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N.Y.C. Council Speaker Calls on Mayor Eric Adams to Resign

The push by the speaker, Adrienne Adams, a Democrat, signals the mayor’s loss of one of his principal partners in government.

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No Evidence of Hate Crime in Transgender Man’s Killing in Upstate N.Y., Investigators Say

Law enforcement officials in upstate New York say that the torture and killing of Sam Norquist, 24, did not appear to be a hate crime.

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Delta Plane Crashes at Toronto Airport While Landing

The airport said on social media that emergency teams were responding and that all passengers and crew were accounted for.

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Washington Post Cancels Ad From Groups Calling for Trump to Fire Musk

The newspaper told Common Cause, an advocacy group, that it was pulling its special ad, which would have covered the front and back pages of some Tuesday editions.

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Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump’s Idea Favors Democrats.

Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely to cost Republicans.

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4 Top Officials Expected to Resign Over Adams’s Cooperation with Trump

Four deputy mayors to Eric Adams are planning to leave in coming days after Eric Adams embraced President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

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Why Everyone Is Still Talking About ‘Paddington 2’

With the third movie now in theaters, let’s look at how the 2018 film became a sleeper hit, thanks to Hugh Grant’s villain and its showstopping end credits.

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Trump Pushes Business Interests in Golf, Mideast and New York as Conflicts Abound

Norms recognized for decades in Washington by both parties no longer appear to apply to the Trump White House, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say.

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The Land Ukraine Could Be Forced to Give Up to End the War

President Trump has promised to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine, suggesting that Russia could keep at least some of the Ukrainian territory it had captured. Andrew Kramer, the New York Times bureau chief in Kyiv, explains how this would leave Ukraine divided in two: one side with its government in Kyiv, and the other a battered Russian satellite to the east.

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Ed Martin, Trump Loyalist, Is Nominated as U.S. Attorney in Washington

The nomination of Mr. Martin, who stood in the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, is a full reversal for an office that formed the core of one of the Justice Department’s most complex investigations.

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Israel Says It Will Keep Troops ‘Temporarily’ in 5 Points in Lebanon

The announcement raised the specter of renewed fighting in southern Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia.

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The New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards

The Times was honored for an investigation into extremism in Israel, coverage of the civil war in Sudan and a narrative about a Russian soldier who defected from the war in Ukraine.

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California’s Push for Electric Trucks Sputters Under Trump

The state will no longer require some truckers to shift away from diesel semis but hopes that subsidies can keep dreams of pollution-free big rigs alive.

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Trump’s USAID Cuts Halt Agent Orange Victims Program in Vietnam

Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended, President Trump’s gutting of foreign aid has halted American efforts to address a toxic legacy and build a strategic partnership.

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Pope Francis Will Remain in Hospital for ‘Complex’ Clinical Issue

Pope Francis was admitted on Friday with a respiratory infection. The announcement on Monday did not provide further detail, but raised fresh concerns about the pontiff’s health.

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Republicans Want Lower Taxes. The Hard Part Is Choosing What to Cut.

House Republicans are preparing to adopt a plan that puts a $4.5 trillion limit on the size of the tax cut, but even that will not be enough for some of President Trump’s promises.

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What to Know About Buprenorphine, Which Could Help Fight Opioid Crisis?

This medicine may be one of the best tools doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis.

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Supreme Court Considers Trump’s Power, and Musk’s Team Wants Access to I.R.S. Records

Plus, how to remember everything.

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European Leaders Meet in Paris as U.S. Pushes Ahead With Ukraine Plan

The hastily called gathering was part of a flurry of diplomacy expected to center on Ukraine this week as Trump officials prepare to start talks with Russia on their own.

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Cutting Red Tape

We’re covering a major policy challenge for Democrats.

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South Korea Bans Downloads of DeepSeek, the Chinese A.I. App

Regulators said they would suspend the app until they could be sure it complied with the country’s data protection laws.

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Rubio Lands in Saudi Arabia for Talks on Gaza and Ukraine

Marco Rubio’s visit to Riyadh, his first as secretary of state, came amid uncertainty about the future of Gaza and Ukraine and criticism of unilateral U.S. moves over the wars in both places.

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