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A New York County Will Let Officers Wear Masks When Working With ICE

Nassau County, which recently barred residents from wearing masks in many circumstances, will allow police officers to wear them during immigration enforcement and other actions.

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Columbia and Trump Near a Deal, With School Possibly Paying Millions

In return, the White House would restore some of the more than $400 million in federal research funding it canceled, according to people familiar with ongoing discussions.

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Google Hires Top A.I. Leaders From Windsurf, Which OpenAI Was Courting

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.

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Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids

A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.

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Farmworker Dies After Fleeing a Federal Raid in Southern California

During a chaotic raid in Ventura County on Thursday, the worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm, suffered spinal and skull injuries, and died on Friday.

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After Texas Disaster, Trump Shifts His Tone on FEMA

Earlier this year, President Trump suggested he wanted to shutter the agency. Now, he says his aides “fixed it up in no time.”

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Heat Warnings Issued for Parts of Eastern Canada

Warnings were issued for southern Ontario and southwest Quebec as hot and humid weather is expected to linger through Thursday.

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U.S. Subpoenas Governor Who Said He Would House Migrant at His Home

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are investigating remarks that Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, made in February.

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Judge Orders Los Angeles Police to Stop Shooting Projectiles at Journalists

Los Angeles Police Department officers fired foam projectiles and flash-bang devices at reporters and photographers who were covering the immigration protests in June.

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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

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Man Had 14 Toucans Stashed in His Volkswagen Dashboard, U.S. Says

Carlos Abundez, 35, is facing federal smuggling charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery. The birds, a threatened species, were in stable condition.

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Mark Snow, Who Conjured the ‘X-Files’ Theme, Is Dead at 78

It took a misplaced elbow, a quirk of Los Angeles geography and some whistling from his wife to produce one of television’s most memorable melodies.

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Support for Immigration Rebounds as Trump Cracks Down on It, Poll Finds

In a marked reversal from a year ago, more Americans now have positive views about immigration, and a record high believes it is good for the nation.

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Russia Sees France as Its Main Enemy in Europe, French General Says

During a rare news conference on Friday, the head of the French military, Thierry Burkhard, said Russia remains a “lasting, close” threat.

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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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