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Trump’s Threat to N.Y.C. Finances Dominates Comptroller’s Race

The Democratic primary for comptroller, to fill the seat now held by Brad Lander, will most likely boil down to Mark Levine or Justin Brannan.

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Jillian Sackler, Philanthropist Who Defended Husband’s Legacy, Dies at 84

Though the Sackler name was tarnished over Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, Arthur Sackler’s should not be, she insisted; a company leader, he died well before the trouble began.

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Trump’s Ambition Collides With Law on Sending Migrants to Dangerous Countries

Previous administrations usually considered whether a transfer would endanger the migrant or create risks for the United States and its allies.

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Hong Kong Looks for Ways to Win Back Big-Spending Tourists

A city with an image dented by protests, pandemic restrictions and a security crackdown hopes to broaden its appeal beyond budget-minded visitors from mainland China.

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London’s ‘Little America’ Is No More. What’s Taking Its Place?

Grosvenor Square is being recast for a new era, with the former U.S. Embassy transformed into a Qatari-owned luxury hotel and F.D.R.’s square into a haven of biodiversity.

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Abrego Garcia Charges: What We Know

Three months after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was flown back to the United States on Friday to face federal charges.

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Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid

Armed agents in tactical gear threw flash-bang grenades to disperse a crowd that converged on the raid in Los Angeles’s Fashion District.

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Return of Abrego Garcia Raises Questions About Trump’s Views of Justice

For the nearly three months before the Justice Department secured an indictment against the man, it had repeatedly flouted a series of court orders to “facilitate” his release from El Salvador.

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‘Devil in the Ozarks' Escapee Is Caught Near Arkansas Prison

Grant Hardin, who came to be known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was captured on Friday, nearly two weeks after his May 25 escape from a maximum-security prison.

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Weinstein Juror Complains to Judge About ‘Playground Stuff’ by Others

A member of the jury at Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan retrial on sex crime charges said that another had become the subject of a “bit of a shunning” during deliberations.

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Trump Has Options to Punish Musk Even if His Federal Contracts Continue

The president could tighten federal oversight of the tech titan’s businesses, even if heavy reliance by the Pentagon and NASA on them makes terminating Mr. Musk’s contracts less feasible.

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Sunny Jacobs, a Celebrity After Freed From Death Row, Dies at 77

Her story, fashioned into an Off Broadway play and television movies, was later questioned by an investigator in a 2021 book.

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Trump Is Helping Human Rights Abusers. I’m Suing to Stop Him.

A Trump executive order is undermining the International Criminal Court’s work to pursue justice for crimes against humanity.

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D.C. Hosts WorldPride Parade in the Shadow of Trump

Washington is hosting WorldPride, a global celebration of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, but the event has been made more difficult by shifts in U.S. policy.

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Mistakenly Deported Man Returned to U.S.

Also, the Tony Awards are Sunday. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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A Tennessee County Is ‘Fascinated’ as an Escaped Zebra Runs Wild

The zebra, which residents have named Ed, has gained a following, with memes and A.I.-generated images springing up as it continues to elude capture.

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How North Korea Salvaged a Capsized Warship

Satellite images show the unconventional strategy engineers used to get the 5,000-ton vessel afloat.

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AMC Says It Will Show More Ads Before Movies

The theater chain’s decision brings it in line with what its biggest competitors, Regal and Cinemark, have been doing since 2019, but it risks irking loyal customers.

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Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner

The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.

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Supreme Court Lets DOGE View Social Security Data

In a second order, the court ruled that, for now, DOGE does not have to hand over internal records to a government watchdog group as part of a lawsuit.

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Democrats Threaten Trump Prosecutor Picks, Pointing to Past Vance Blockade

The top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee said Vice President JD Vance had set a precedent for derailing U.S. attorney candidates during his time in the Senate.

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The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute

The last 24 hours should be a lesson to all the other billionaires who lined up with the new administration.

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The Rich Compensation for Being the C.E.O.

The chief executives at Palantir, which scoops up data for the government, and Veeva Systems, a cloud-computing company, topped two lists of the highest-paid C.E.O.s.

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Proud Boys Convicted in Jan. 6 Attack Sue Government on Claims of ‘Political Persecution’

Much of the lawsuit sought to re-litigate legal questions that sided against the group during a lengthy pretrial period and a multiweek trial in Federal District Court in Washington.

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Harvard’s Legal Battles With Trump: What to Know

This week, a federal judge sided with Harvard in one of its two lawsuits, blocking an order by President Trump to prevent international students from enrolling.

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Buildup to a Meltdown: How the Trump-Musk Alliance Collapsed

President Trump’s decision to pull a close associate of Elon Musk’s out of the running to lead NASA helped doom an extraordinary partnership.

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Air Quality in Toronto and Montreal Suffers From Canada’s Wildfire Smoke

Parts of Canada are seeing some of their most unhealthy air yet, and the smoke is likely to move over the United States again this weekend.

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Documentary Series Goes Inside Trump’s Bubble

Advance episodes of “Art of the Surge” offer a rare behind-the-scenes look at the adulatory environment in which Mr. Trump has moved since regaining power.

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Paul Weiss Loses Another Prominent Lawyer in Wake of Trump Deal

Damian Williams joined Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison in January shortly after stepping down as one of the nation’s top federal prosecutors. He is taking a job with Jenner & Block.

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Palantir’s Collection of Disease Data at C.D.C. Stirs Privacy Concerns

U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients and will delay analysis of long-term trends.

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