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Syria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval

The government announcement came hours after a top U.S. envoy to the region said that the country and Israel had agreed to a truce after sectarian-tinged clashes had left hundreds dead.

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Wall Street Wants to Make Private Markets a Little More Public

As value grows in private markets, fund managers, brokerage houses, and savvy start-ups are building products that aim to expand access to them.

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MAGA’s New Target: Trump

The president is in a deep-state fugue.

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A Pro-Trump Community Reckons With Losing a Beloved Immigrant Neighbor

Republicans had a point when they complained that Democrats overreached on immigration. But that’s what the G.O.P. is doing now.

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The ‘Little Epstein Theory’ vs. ‘Big Epstein Theory’

“The Opinions” round table discusses Trump and MAGA’s very bad week.

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The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us

It is impossible to separate our language from its island at the edge of the Arctic.

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Open Season

The popular notions of summer fun and the things we actually feel like doing can sometimes be at odds with each other.

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More Than 20 Injured in Los Angeles as Vehicle Drives Into Crowd

At least four people were in critical condition, the Los Angeles Fire Department said early Saturday.

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Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death

An audit being conducted by the D.N.C. is not looking at Joe Biden’s decision to run or key decisions by Kamala Harris’s team, according to six people briefed on the report.

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Why Are More Than 100 People Still Missing in Texas, 2 Weeks After the Floods?

The number of people unaccounted for dropped this week but remains stubbornly high as some searchers lose hope of finding them.

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The Kurosawa You May Never Have Heard Of

The great Japanese genre director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose latest film is “Cloud,” has mastered the cinema of psychological fright. Here’s why you should watch his work.

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Vance Boelter’s Life Before the Minnesota Shootings

Periods of religious zealotry and an unsettled professional career were intertwined for years before he was accused of murder.

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How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics

Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.

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Russia Makes Gains in Ukraine in Summer Offensive

The most important factors may be far from the battlefield.

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Should Food Stamps Pay for Soda?

Colorado and Texas are among the states aiming to change what food and drink can be bought with SNAP benefits.

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An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How.

The growing battle over how to manage sea level rise turns partly on a legal principle set down in Roman times.

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Scams and a Rent Spike Follow New York City’s New Broker Fee Law

The law mostly shifts fees from tenants to landlords. But since it took effect, some landlords have raised rents, and tenants say some brokers still try to make them pay fees.

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Japan Election 2025: What to Know

Shigeru Ishiba of the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party could face calls to resign if his party fares poorly in Sunday’s Upper House elections.

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Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.

Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.

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Sohei Kamiya Brings Trump-Style Populism to Japan’s Election

With his calls to limit foreign workers, fight globalism and put “Japanese First,” Sohei Kamiya has brought a fiery right-wing populism to Japan’s election on Sunday.

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Astronomer CEO Andy Byron Placed on Leave After Video at Coldplay Concert Exposes Alleged Affair

A video from a concert dominated internet discourse as people joked about a man and woman who appeared very upset to be shown on camera.

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Trump Sues Wall Street Journal for Article on Note to Epstein

The lawsuit argues that The Journal falsely claimed President Trump “authored, drew and signed” a lewd birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant

A little-noticed plan for an “infertility training center” signals that the administration intends to take a new approach with Title X, which has long helped low-income women access contraception.

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Jane Austen’s Best Books

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.

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NY Agrees to Settle Ex-Cuomo Aide’s Harassment Claims for $450,000

The former executive aide, Brittany Commisso, accused Andrew M. Cuomo of groping her when he was governor. The state did not admit wrongdoing.

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Gabbard Claims Obama Administration Tried to Undermine Trump in 2016

Democrats denounced a report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as politically motivated and error-ridden.

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Bill Dellinger, Runner and Track Coach Who Mentored Stars, Dies at 91

After running the 5,000 meters in three Olympics, he coached the likes of Steve Prefontaine and Joaquim Cruz at his alma mater, the University of Oregon.

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Trump Administration Requests Release of Epstein Grand Jury Records. What’s Next?

The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.

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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections

A State Department cable telling officials to avoid comments on the “fairness or integrity” of most elections continues a U.S. turn away from promoting democratic values abroad.

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Trump Asked a Court to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony

Also, Americans were released in a prisoner swap with Venezuela. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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