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Aldi’s Passionate, Cultlike Following Fuels Its Rapid Expansion Plans

“It feels like I’m at a bougie store, but I’m not paying bougie prices,” one shopper said of the discount grocer, which is set to open hundreds of stores as consumers look to save and buy organic.

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Wildfire In Wet Washington State Is Changing Under Climate Change

The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. All the state can do is prepare.

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The ‘Hamilton’ Effect: 10 Revolutionary Years on Broadway

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s much-loved musical opened on Broadway a decade ago, ushering in a new era of race-conscious casting, audience outreach and even stardom.

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Trump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges

Under Obama, federal rules pushed universities to build new bureaucracies to address sexual misconduct. Trump is doubling down on that tactic for antisemitism claims.

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Senator Mark Kelly: Don’t Gut NASA

Before he was a senator, Mark Kelly was an astronaut. He’s worried about America’s leadership in space.

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How Epstein Mania Finally Let Democrats Talk (and Meme) Like the Right

Hoping to widen the rift between Trump and his supporters, a few Democrats are dabbling in the kind of messaging that usually punches left.

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Is the Tampa Bay Rays’ Owner Brilliant or a Failure?

Stu Sternberg used quantitative wizardry to turn the Tampa Bay Rays into a perennial contender. But the fans were the one equation he could never solve.

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Sudan’s Civil War Shifts Toward Kordofan

Since the Sudanese Army drove its paramilitary rival from the capital in March, the two sides are battling for territorial gains in the Kordofan region.

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Kennedy’s Crusade Against Food Safety Rule Threatens Supplement Industry

By going after an obscure regulatory designation he describes as a “loophole,” Mr. Kennedy has put an industry he champions on the defensive.

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Their Last Love Token: A Dinosaur Rebuilt From Its Excavated Bones

When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.

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How One Company Maintained a Monopoly on U.S. Fire Retardant

Perimeter Solutions sought to undercut rivals, leaving federal officials worried about their reliance on a single company for a crucial product.

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War Shattered His Face. Technology Helped Reconstruct It.

Volodymyr is a Ukrainian marksman whose face was shattered by a Russian bomb in 2023. After multiple surgeries and titanium implants, he has returned to active duty near the closest point of the front line of the war with Russia. Calling in from there, he describes his recovery to Marc Santora, an international editor for The New York Times.

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Stephen Colbert Says Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Could Cost the G.O.P. Its Popularity

“When they learned that, Republicans immediately saw the light, sprang into action, promised to tax the rich and restore people’s health care,” he joked.

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Trump Sends His Envoy to Russia With Sanctions Deadline Looming

The envoy, Steve Witkoff, is making his fifth visit this year. He has managed to secure some prisoner exchanges but made no clear progress so far on ending the Ukraine war.

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Legionnaires’ Outbreak in Harlem Kills 2 and Sickens More Than 50

The source of the illness has not been conclusively identified more than a week after people began getting sick.

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Video Forces Pakistan to Confront ‘Honor Killings’ and Gender Violence

Women in Pakistan die every day for supposedly dishonoring their families, and arrests are rare. But Bano Bibi’s defiant last words were caught on video.

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Eighty Years of Nuclear Weapons Is Enough

The nuclear taboo is on the verge of collapse.

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The Promise of Palestinian Statehood Is Ringing Hollow

Recognition will come with strings attached and little chance for holding Israel to account.

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Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. Advance in Detroit Mayoral Election

Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. will face off in a November election. Mike Duggan, Detroit’s mayor for a dozen years, is not seeking re-election.

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China Is a Nation of Savers. Many Are Drowning in Debt.

As Beijing pushes consumer lending to stimulate the economy, millions of Chinese borrowers, especially the young, are falling into debt spirals.

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RFK Jr. Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

That kind of shot was first used during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the health secretary has been sharply critical of the technology.

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Cuomo Calls for Gaza Aid and Says ‘Some People’ Blame Israel for Crisis

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo appeared to criticize Israel over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Hours later, he distanced himself from his remarks.

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Trump Threatens Federal Takeover of D.C. After Member of DOGE Assaulted

President Trump shared a photograph that appeared to show a 19-year-old software engineer shirtless and bloodied, after an attempted carjacking.

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3 Years Before Midtown Manhattan Shooting, Nevada Police Had Gunman Committed

The Las Vegas police released documents and records describing the mental health breakdowns that the man who killed four people in a New York building had faced earlier.

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4 Dead After Medical Transport Plane Crashes in Arizona

The plane was landing at Chinle Municipal Airport in the Navajo Nation in Arizona to pick up a patient for a medical transfer. It was not immediately clear what had caused the crash.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Contracts

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NFL Will Get a Stake in ESPN in a Complex Deal

The network and sports league announced a deal that gives the N.F.L. an ownership stake in ESPN. In exchange, the network will control some of the league’s media outlets.

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New York City Carriage Horse Collapses and Dies on Manhattan Street

The death of the 15-year-old mare named Lady was being investigated by the city’s health department, officials said.

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Why Are Earthquakes Happening in New York and New Jersey?

The recent temblors were classified as “weak,” and may have been connected to a bigger earthquake last year in the area.

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Officials Move to Open Inquiry on Trump’s ‘Russia Hoax’ Grievance

Such an investigation would have to overcome a number of legal and practical hurdles, but an order by Attorney General Pam Bondi asking for a grand jury inquiry in Florida accomplishes political objectives.

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