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In Singapore’s Election, All Eyes Are on the Margin of Victory, Not the Winner

The People’s Action Party is widely expected to continue its six-decade reign. But discontent with its policies is fueling a growing opposition.

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Newark Airport Is Experiencing Major Flight Delays. What’s Causing Them?

Staffing shortages at an air traffic control center have added to the effects of a runway closure, prompting United Airlines to cut flights at the hub.

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Weinstein Accuser, Miriam Haley, Breaks Down During Intense Cross-Examination

Miriam Haley and a defense lawyer clashed repeatedly as the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s retrial on sex crime charges continued.

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C.I.A. to Cut Over 1,000 Staff Positions, Using Attrition

The agency plans, for now, to use attrition, including retirements and voluntary resignations, to reduce the size of the C.I.A. instead of more mass firings.

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George Ryan, Illinois Governor Who Halted Prison Executions, Dies at 91

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life.

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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let DOGE View Social Security Data

A federal judge in Maryland found that scrutiny of the agency’s sensitive information systems by Elon Musk’s team appeared to violate federal privacy laws.

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Trump Proposed Slashing $163 Billion in Spending

Also, universal antivenom may grow out of a Wisconsin man. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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Trump Says He’s ‘Taking Away’ Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status

President Trump on Friday said he would be “taking away” the university’s status, renewing a threat he made last month. It was not immediately clear if the I.R.S. was moving forward with a change.

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Trump Seeks to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts

The president’s budget proposal also called for getting rid of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.

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Trump Budget Cuts Funding for Chronic Disease Prevention

Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.

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Former Abercrombie C.E.O. Ruled Unfit to Stand Trial for Sex Trafficking

Michael S. Jeffries had been accused of luring male models to secret sex parties. He has dementia, and a judge ruled him to be “mentally incompetent.”

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Temu Stops Shipping Products From China to U.S. Customers

The e-commerce site acted after the Trump administration said it would close a loophole that allowed low-cost Chinese-made items to enter the U.S. without import fees.

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Mohsen Mahdawi: I Never Lost Hope in the Principles of Democracy

Detained at his citizenship interview, the Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi speaks of his ordeal.

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Australia Election 2025: Voters Focus on Cost-of-Living Concerns Amid Global Turmoil

Voters will decide who can turn Australia around from the throes of inflation and a housing crisis, and navigate relations with a volatile Washington.

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Former Fetterman Aide Expressed Concern to Doctor About Senator’s Mental Health

The former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman last year wrote to a doctor who had treated him, pointing to “warning signs” that suggested the senator could be backsliding on his recovery from a mental health crisis.

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RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination

Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.

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Paramilitary Fighters Massacre More Than 100 Civilians, Doctors’ Group Says

The Sudan Doctors Network said that the Rapid Support Forces had killed at least 21 children on Thursday, the latest violent spasm in Sudan’s civil war.

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Stock Market on Track to Erases Losses From Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariff Rollout

Wall Street has recovered from April’s sharp sell-off, buoyed by hope for trade talks. But the economic fallout from President Trump’s policies still has investors on edge.

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US Hiring Stayed Strong Amid Early Days of Tariff Policy, Jobs Report Shows

The picture of a steady job market, even if backward looking, reassured investors worried about a trade-induced economic slowdown.

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Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13

The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.

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7 Killed in Crash Involving a Tour Van and a Pickup Near Yellowstone

The crash in eastern Idaho killed six people in a van who had been part of a tour group, as well as the driver of a pickup truck, the State Police said.

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Trump Gets a Slow Start on Judges After Setting a Record Pace in First Term

The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.

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Illinois Man Sentenced to 53 Years in Prison in Killing of Palestinian American Boy

A jury in suburban Chicago convicted the man of murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 killing of Wadee Alfayoumi, 6. He was the boy’s landlord.

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Prince Harry Says He Would ‘Love Reconciliation’ With Royal Family

In a BBC interview, Harry said he didn’t know how long King Charles, who has cancer, had left to live, and he expressed a desire to make peace with his family.

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Wants to End With a Message of Hope

In interviews, Elisabeth Moss and other stars and creators of the groundbreaking drama discuss its impending conclusion and ongoing connection to American politics.

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Waltz’s Use of Messaging Platform Raises New Security Questions

A Reuters photographer captured an image of Michael Waltz’s phone screen during a White House cabinet meeting, a day before he was ousted from his job as national security adviser.

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How About We Don’t Bring Our Whole Selves to Work?

Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.

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Justice Dept. Lawyers Say US Wants to Break up Google’s Ad Technology

In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for the Justice Depart. indicated the government would double down on its requests to break up the tech giant’s business.

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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

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Ruth Buzzi, Purse-Wielding Gladys of ‘Laugh-In,’ Is Dead at 88

She had other roles onstage and on TV, but none more memorable than the wary spinster fending off male advances on that raucous sketch show.

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