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4 Takeaways From the Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Case

The question before the justices was whether a single district court judge has the power to block a policy across the country.

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Israeli Woman On Her Way to Give Birth Killed in West Bank Attack

After the shooting in the West Bank, doctors were able to save the baby, a boy, who was taken to a neonatal intensive care unit.

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Florida Just Banned Fluoride From Public Water. Here’s What to Know.

Medical experts have warned that ending fluoridation will have negative consequences for oral health.

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Book Review: ‘Apple in China,’ by Patrick McGee

In “Apple in China,” Patrick McGee argues that by training an army of manufacturers in a “ruthless authoritarian state,” the company has created an existential vulnerability for the entire world.

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Supreme Court Rejects ‘Moment of Threat’ Limit in Excessive Force Suits

Lower courts had been divided over whether judges must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to the seconds preceding them.

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S.E.C. Investigating Whether Coinbase Misstated Its User Numbers

The inquiry continued even after the commission dropped a lawsuit accusing Coinbase of illegally marketing digital currencies to the public.

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Colorado Air Traffic Control Facility Lost Contact With Pilots

Controllers switched frequencies and planes were “safely separated,” officials said. The 90-second outage on Monday followed communications problems at Newark airport.

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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases.

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Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens in Gaza, Health Ministry Says

Israel intensified its military campaign against Hamas, despite a U.S.-backed push for the two sides to agree a new cease-fire.

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Andrew Cassell, Daring Sailor Who Won Paralympic Gold, Dies at 82

He survived the deadliest race in modern yachting history, won the first Paralympic sailing contest and founded a nonprofit for sailors with disabilities.

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Live by the Loomer, Die by the Loomer

Nasty MAGA infighting means trouble for Trump.

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How Small Business Owners Are Handling Tariffs on China

An easing in President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods gave businesses some breathing room. Long-term planning, though, is still on pause.

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An Iranian Student in U.S. Detention Makes a Hard Choice: Stay or Go Home

Few rallied around Alireza Doroudi, who spent weeks detained on murky charges. With hope he might win, but facing extended detention, he had to decide whether to keep fighting his case.

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Wisconsin Judge Accused of Obstructing Federal Agents Pleads Not Guilty

Judge Hannah C. Dugan claimed judicial immunity this week after a federal grand jury indicted her.

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Ben of Ben & Jerry’s Is Arrested at Senate Hearing After Protesting War in Gaza

Ben Cohen, a co-founder of the ice cream brand, was among a group that interrupted a Senate hearing on Wednesday, protesting Congress’s funding of Israel’s military.

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Judge Dismisses ‘Trespassing’ Charges Promoted by Trump in Border ‘Defense Area’

A newly designated “military installation” that stretches the length of the frontier in New Mexico has made trespassing a novel criminal charge at the border, bringing turmoil to the state. A judge says migrants couldn’t know they were trespassing.

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Pope Leo’s Classmates Drew Ire of Church With Protest for Women

“It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a Catholic church,” one protester recalls.

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Trump Budget Cuts Hobble Antismoking Programs

The elimination of a key C.D.C. office has slashed funding to states for help lines used by thousands to stop smoking and vaping.

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Can a New Public Safety Plan Lift Adrienne Adams’s Campaign for Mayor?

Ms. Adams, the City Council speaker, is releasing a crime plan that creates hiring and retention incentives for police officers while also investing in diversion programs.

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Stephen A. Smith’s Relentless, Preposterous, Probably Inevitable Road to Political Clout

America’s best-known sports-talker is hosting boldface Democrats and MAGA luminaries and teasing a 2028 run. But what he really wants is Joe Rogan-like influence, and things of that nature.

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MSNBC Poaches Politico Editor Sudeep Reddy for New Washington Bureau

The cable channel, which is set to be spun off from NBC, is starting its first stand-alone D.C. office with Sudeep Reddy at the helm. It also plans to hire 100 new journalists.

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Trump Visits U.S. Air Base in Qatar Amid Plan to Accept Plane Donation

The president addressed troops at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, a hub for U.S. air operations across a vast region from Northeast Africa to Central and South Asia.

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Which Trump Policies Have Been Blocked by the Courts?

President Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship is one of many aggressive policies that judges have blocked with sweeping orders.

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Is This Supreme Court Case About Birthright Citizenship? Yes and No.

A case focused on birthright citizenship could come later, but the bulk of the argument is expected to concern whether a single judge can freeze a policy nationwide.

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Terrorists Continue to Pay for Check Marks on X, Report Says

Elon Musk’s social media company has continued to accept payments for subscriptions from entities barred from doing business in the U.S., a nonprofit found.

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Bond Traders Enter the U.S. Budget Fight

Concerns about the deficit-stretching potential of President Trump’s tax plan is spooking some investors, even as Republicans argue over its particulars.

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Walmart Warns About Ability to ‘Absorb’ Tariff Costs to Keep Prices Down

The retailer reported sales growth, especially in its e-commerce division, but also cautioned about economic uncertainty in the quarters ahead.

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A ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

We look at Trump’s agenda in Congress.

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How to Win Eurovision in 7 Easy Steps

It pays to be spectacular, inspiring and just weird enough. But, please: no key changes.

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A New Test of Federal Judges’ Power, and Overdose Deaths Plummet

Plus, the campy singing contest the whole world watches.

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