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Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’

Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

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Tracking Each Party’s Early Turnout for Tuesday’s Special House Elections

Voters in two heavily Republican House districts in Florida will decide who to send to Congress. See which party is ahead in turnout so far.

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University of Minnesota Student Detained by Immigration Agents

University officials said they had not been informed of the federal agents’ plans and called the situation “deeply concerning.”

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Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave

Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.

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Columbia University’s President Resigns

Katrina Armstrong is leaving the post a week after the university agreed to a list of demands from the White House.

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In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race, Republicans Shrug at Democrats’ Focus on Elon Musk

Both Republicans and Democrats think Elon Musk will help them win a key race the Wisconsin Supreme Court next week.

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Trump Is Giving Europe Vertigo, and Not Just About Ukraine

The split between Europe and the United States over how to end the war is exposing a new, disorienting reality for an alliance in trouble.

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Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Dismantling CFPB

The bureau has been in turmoil as the Trump administration moved to fire hundreds of employees, ordered the rest to stop working and closed offices.

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Trump Takes Aim at California Six Times in 24 Hours

The Trump administration seemed to hold back immediately after the January wildfires. But its multipronged assault on California has now begun in earnest.

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Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to xAI

Mr. Musk said the deal valued xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, at $80 billion, and X at $30 billion.

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A Powerful Earthquake Devastated Myanmar

Also, JD Vance went to Greenland. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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80,000 Pounds of Beef Stolen From a Tennessee Slaughterhouse, Sheriff Says

The sheriff’s office in Grainger County, Tenn., is investigating the theft after shipments from a meat processing facility were loaded onto trucks and never reached their destinations.

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Trump’s Deportation Efforts Hit Roadblock After Judge Issues Temporary Order

A temporary order will give some migrants a chance to convince the government that deporting them to “third countries” such as El Salvador would put them at risk.

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Trump Administration Moves to Eliminate USAID With Final Cuts

The staff of U.S.A.I.D. will be reduced to some 15 legally required positions. The agency employed about 10,000 people before the Trump administration entered office.

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Sludge-Fertilizer Giant Leaves Texas Town Amid ‘Forever Chemicals’ Crisis

Ranchers claim livestock has been sickened by toxic chemicals in fertilizer made from sewage. Now Synagro, a Goldman Sachs-backed firm, has lost a deal to make sludge fertilizer there.

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Visiting Greenland, Vance Finds the Weather and the Reception Chilly

The trip was both a reconnaissance mission and a passive-aggressive reminder of President Trump’s determination to fulfill his territorial ambitions, no matter the obstacles.

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Cornell Student Facing Deportation Felt Drawn to Protest

Momodou Taal is from a political family and found his muse in Malcolm X. He joined a pro-Palestinian movement that led to his suspension. Now, he is fighting to stay in the United States.

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L.A. Firefighters Who Fought Blazes Show Elevated Mercury and Lead Levels

The findings, which compared the firefighters’ blood samples against those taken from other firefighters after past fires, suggest unique risks to blazes that burn in populated areas.

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Dachshund Lost on Australian Island Is Still Alive, but Elusive

A year after getting loose on Kangaroo Island, Valerie is still out there.

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Elise Stefanik Is the First Casualty of the Great Trump Disillusionment

Republicans may seem oblivious to voter discomfort with the administration’s excesses, but Elise Stefanik’s pulled nomination shows they see trouble ahead.

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High Toll Is Feared After Earthquake Batters Myanmar and Thailand

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts warned there could be tens of thousands dead.

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Judge Expected to Rule Within Days on Moving Mahmoud Khalil’s Case From Louisiana

The government wants the detainee’s case heard in Louisiana, where an appellate judge may be friendlier. At a hearing in Newark, one of his lawyers called the situation “Kafkaesque.”

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Charlie Javice Found Guilty of Defrauding JPMorgan in $175 Million Acquisition

Federal prosecutors convinced a jury that Ms. Javice faked much of her customer list before selling her start-up, Frank, to the bank.

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CoreWeave Disappoints on Opening of Trading

The start-up, which provides the processing power to help develop A.I. systems, faces questions about its debt and the overall economy.

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Law Firms Jenner & Block and WilmerHale Sue Trump Administration to Block Executive Orders

The president has targeted firms that he claims have “weaponized” the legal system. On Friday, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale fought back in court, while Mr. Trump said he’d reached a deal with Skadden to avert an executive order.

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CoreWeave Disappoints on Opening of Trading

The start-up, which provides the processing power to help develop A.I. systems, faces questions about its debt and the overall economy.

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Candy Clark Captured Some of the Most Famous Faces. Then She Put Them in a Drawer.

The actress Candy Clark documented her unlikely journey through 1970s Hollywood in a series of Polaroids, now published in a memoir.

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In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far

A divide between Oklahoma’s governor and schools chief over undocumented students may mark the outer limits of acceptable immigration enforcement, or the next frontier.

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Assessing Elon Musk’s Misleading Claims About Fraud in Government Spending

The world’s richest man made inaccurate claims about entitlement fraud, how a government payment system works and government survey costs.

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Stocks Fall as Inflation Anxiety Dampens Mood on Wall Street

The S&P 500 index dipped as investors weighed new hotter-than-expected inflation data and braced for President Trump’s next round of tariffs.

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