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Energy Department to Gut Funding for Solar and Wind Projects

Stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from renewable energy and efficiency initiatives is part of a broader move to undo efforts to wean the United States off fossil fuels.

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‘They Kept Coming’: Hundreds of Packages Pile Up Outside Woman’s Home

A year ago, misdirected Amazon returns began arriving at Karen Holton’s house in California. Eventually, she said, they were stacked so high that she could not easily use her door.

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Trump Visited Flood Sites in Texas

Also, Earth is spinning a bit faster. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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Air India Plane Crash Report Says Fuel to Engines Was Cut Off

The focus on the fuel switches on Air India Flight 171 raised questions about the pilots’ actions.

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David Gergen, Washington Veteran Who Advised Four Presidents, Dies at 83

After serving in the government, he became a prominent political commentator. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said in 2020.

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Son of El Chapo Pleads Guilty to Sweeping Drug Charges

The plea came at a vulnerable moment for the Sinaloa drug cartel, the organization Ovidio Guzmán López’s father helped found.

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Before the Central Texas Floods, the Owners of Camp Mystic Were a Fixture

For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.

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Immigration Arrests in Los Angeles Spike Amid Aggressive Enforcement

Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.

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Immigration Arrests in Los Angeles Spike Amid Aggressive Enforcement

Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.

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Amanda Anisimova Makes Wimbledon Final Years After Taking Extended Break

The 23-year-old star could be the first American woman to win the tournament since 2016. A self-imposed sabbatical may have helped her get there.

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Pam Bondi and FBI’s Dan Bongino Clash Over Handling of Epstein Case

An irate attorney general is said to have confronted the deputy director of the F.B.I. at a tense White House meeting earlier in the week.

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Trump Says NATO Countries Will Buy Weapons to Give to Ukraine

If the plan is finalized, it would allow critical aid to flow to Ukraine as it endures one of Russia’s heaviest assaults of the war.

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Can ‘Superman’ Fly Above Today’s Polarized Politics?

The director of the reboot, James Gunn, called the superhero from the planet Krypton “an immigrant,” thrusting the summer popcorn movie into an Earthbound culture war.

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2 Arkansas Prison Workers Are Fired in Wake of Convicted Murderer’s Escape

The employees unwittingly helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief, walk out of a prison in May, dressed in a fake law enforcement uniform, officials said.

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Rebekah Del Rio, Mournful Singer of ‘Mulholland Drive’ Fame, Dies at 57

Her pivotal role performing a Spanish-language cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” in the 2001 David Lynch movie raised her profile, but her career was marked by misfortune.

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Novak Djokovic, I Was Wrong About You

We never really gave him his due. Maybe the problem was us.

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The Danger of a Stock Market Melt-Up

Traders have repeatedly shrugged off President Trump’s disruptive tariff wars and fiscal policy, pushing U.S. stock prices back into expensive territory, our columnist says.

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Judge Signals She Will Protect Abrego Garcia From Hasty Second Deportation

The judge, Paula Xinis, said some legal safeguard was needed because the Trump administration had already shown in this and other deportation cases that it could not be trusted.

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Netanyahu Ends Washington Trip Without a Gaza Truce

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, met several times with President Trump, amid rising hopes of a cease-fire in Gaza, but there are still obstacles to a truce with Hamas.

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Have Christians Finally Had It With Trump?

The irreconcilable difference between Trumpian politics and Christianity.

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Texas Flood Survivors Recount Night of Terror at Waterfront Campgrounds

The half-mile stretch occupied by two campgrounds appears to have been one of the deadliest spots along the Guadalupe River in Central Texas during last week’s flash floods.

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Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

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S.E.C. Accuses Prominent Georgia Republican of Running Ponzi Scheme

Edwin Brant Frost IV, a well-known Republican, is accused of defrauding 300 investors of $140 million, and using some funds for political donations. He said he took “full responsibility.”

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It’s Time to Let Go of ‘African American’

Why not just say what we mean?

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Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses

The tech giant has quietly shed warehouse employees whose work authorizations were revoked after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era immigration program.

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Policy or Cudgel? A Trade Economist on Trump’s Hardball Tariffs.

In 2005, the economist Pietra Rivoli followed the production of a T-shirt from a cotton farm to a Walgreens to understand global trade. Today, she sees a new system arising.

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‘Buy the Dip’ Wins Again for Stock Investors

Individual investors were the ones who piled into stocks when they plunged in early April, while big Wall Street institutions missed out on the gains.

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Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow

The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there.

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Strava Fitness App Revealed Locations of Swedish Leaders

Secret meetings and private holidays of the royal family and prime minister were inadvertently made public on Strava, which has raised security concerns in other instances.

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As Climate Change Heats Up Europe’s Summers, Avignon Festival Tries to Adapt

Rising temperatures pose an existential threat to the theater extravaganza, where extreme heat is making it tough for the audience.

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