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President Trump Is Making Foreign Stocks Great Again

For years, the S&P 500 soared above the stock indexes of other countries. But since Trump’s inauguration, it has fallen 6 percent and is now trailing major markets in Europe and China.

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Can Trump and Musk Convince More Conservatives to Buy Teslas?

President Trump rallied support for Elon Musk’s car company, but there may not be enough conservatives willing to buy electric cars to make up for the Democrats who now shun Teslas.

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How Trump’s Crackdown Is Drastically Driving Down Migration

Building on Biden-era policies, President Trump is strong-arming regional leaders, deploying military force and shredding decades of precedents when it comes to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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How Some Investors Are Protecting Their Money Amid Stock Market Woes

Some people are shifting their investment strategies as the stock market sours on President Trump, despite advice to maintain their savings and wait out the angst.

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‘The Interview’: Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat

The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.

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His Death Was Interrupted, Just as He Had Planned

Brendan Costello’s family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.

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Michael Waltz, Trump’s National Security Adviser, Is Taking Fire From Both Sides

Mr. Waltz has worked hard to burnish his credentials among the president’s supporters, in the process dismaying his former associates while not convincing his new ones.

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Black Lives Matter Plaza Is Gone. Its Erasure Feels Symbolic.

The movement that prompted “Black Lives Matter” to be painted in bold yellow near the White House is in retreat. Its leaders are asking what comes next for social justice.

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Israel’s Newest Army Recruits: the Ultra-Orthodox

Israel’s Newest Army Recruits: the Ultra-Orthodox

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Why the Arabic ‘Sesame Street’ and Other Cuts Are Not Really About Fraud

As President Trump and Elon Musk cut federal programs, they often equate political and policy differences with corruption.

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Van Gogh or Faux? Weeding Out Fakes Is Starting to Take a Toll.

Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of requests have made it reassess that role.

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How Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia Student Activist, Landed in Federal Detention

Mahmoud Khalil never shielded his face with a mask the way some protesters did. That made him a target when President Trump decided to move aggressively against campus activists.

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Glimpsing a Ferry Terminal’s Faded Grandeur Before Beauty Is Restored

Hoboken’s busy transit hub, which dates to a time when railroad companies built lavish structures to serve passengers, is being renovated.

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Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil

Events at Columbia show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.

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Why Can’t I Just Burn My Diaries If I Don’t Want Anyone to Read Them?

It could be that keeping a diary — “keep” being the operative word — is how we stay true to ourselves, even the embarrassing bits.

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East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.

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Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Domestic Worker Abuse in Saudi Arabia

Housekeepers from East Africa suffer beatings, starvation and sexual assault in Saudi Arabia. Here’s what else we learned about the cross-border trade in domestic workers.

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The 95-Year-Old Japanese Man Who Is the World’s Oldest Speedskater

Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a kamikaze mission during World War II.

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At Gridiron Dinner, Jokes About Trump, Musk and Russia Abound

But President Trump wasn’t around to hear any of the barbs thrown at the annual D.C. event.

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What Is Tren de Aragua?

A gang with roots in a Venezuelan prison, the criminal group was at the center of President Trump’s order invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

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‘It Got Everything’: Oklahoma Residents Who Escaped Fires Brace for Losses

Hundreds of homes and other buildings were destroyed in Oklahoma, as fierce winds and wildfires swept the region.

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Trump Seeks More Sway in Picking Kennedy Center Honorees

The president, who recently had himself installed as the center’s chairman, has called a meeting of its board to approve changes that would give him more input in the process.

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Protest Against Serbian Leader Draws 100,000 in Biggest Crowd Yet

The rally on Saturday in the capital, Belgrade, came as protests have spread to towns around the country and have drawn increasingly insistent calls that President Aleksandar Vucic step aside.

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Rejected by Washington, Federal Workers Find Open Arms in State Governments

Seeking to serve as a counterweight to the Trump administration, a flurry of mostly blue states has created initiatives — and ad campaigns — to lure federal employees to state government jobs.

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Kash Patel Pushes Command Changes at F.B.I.

The move means almost all top agents in the field will no longer answer to the deputy director, a significant departure from the way the F.B.I. has worked.

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Junior Bridgeman, N.B.A. Player Turned Mogul, Dies at 71

He became an entrepreneur during a solid career with the Milwaukee Bucks. He later bought hundreds of fast-food outlets, a Coca-Cola bottling business and Ebony and Jet magazines.

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Trump Signs Spending Bill to Fund Government

The bill was passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avoid a lapse in funding, which would have shut down the government.

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U.S. Launches Broad Attack on Militant Sites in Yemen

The air and naval strikes on targets controlled by Houthi fighters were intended to open up international shipping lanes in the Red Sea.

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Fear of Trump’s Tariffs Ripples Through France’s Champagne Region

Merchants worried that a trade war could wreak financial havoc in a region that has a robust business exporting the world’s finest bubbly to the United States.

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Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments

In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.

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