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Why Are Tariffs on Switzerland So High?

President Trump sees Switzerland as doing too little to address its trade deficit with the U.S., a gap he focused on as he imposed a 39% tariff on Swiss goods.

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Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.

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Trump Is Replacing Billy Long as I.R.S. Commissioner

The change comes just two months into the former Republican congressman’s tenure leading the tax agency.

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Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.

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Texas Redistricting Fight: Is Any of This Legal?

Democrats have left the state, the Republican governor and attorney general have vowed to remove them from office, and a senator has called in the F.B.I.

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War of Words Erupts Between Colombia and Peru Over Island in Amazon

Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a thousand miles from their capitals.

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Seven Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to Connecticut

The nonnative species from Europe, Latin America and Eastern Africa reached the United States by latching on to travelers, a study by researchers in the state shows, offering clues about how ticks spread in a warming world.

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‘Hunting Wives,’ a Raunchy and Pulpy Drama, Is Netflix’s Most Popular Show

The drama has all the ingredients of a binge-watch: culture wars, murder and sex.

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India’s Modi Left Soul-Searching After Failed Courtships of Xi and Trump

The collapse of the prime minister’s high-stakes efforts to transform ties with the world’s two superpowers has exposed the limits of India’s leverage.

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Putin Briefs Leaders of China and India on Talks With U.S. on Ukraine

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may be seeking to build support among countries that have backed Moscow or remained neutral in the conflict.

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Appeals Court Ends Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry of Trump Officials

The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s verbal order that they return to the United States.

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Mexico’s President Says U.S. Forces Are Unwelcome in Her Country

The Mexican government thought it had turned a corner in cooperating with the Trump administration on combating the cartels, having launched an aggressive crackdown of its own.

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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the Florida Everglades Is Testing Environmental Law

Officials building a Florida detention center appear to be skipping environmental reviews made mandatory decades ago after a fight over an airport at the very same spot.

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Seed Oils Are Fine, Really

Nutrition science demonizing individual foods or ingredients is often based on flawed science and misses the bigger picture.

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Justice Department Subpoenas Office of Letitia James, a Trump Nemesis

Ms. James, New York’s attorney general, won a civil fraud case against President Trump that is on appeal. One of the two subpoenas is related to that case.

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New Jersey Synagogue Burns to Ground as Rabbi and Family Escape

Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, more than a century old, was destroyed. The mayor said there was no indication of arson so far.

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Possible Planet Spotted Around Alpha Centauri A by NASA’s James Webb Telescope

Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting Alpha Centauri A, one of three stars in the solar system closest to our own.

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How Three Journalists Tracked the Deadly Aid Crisis in Gaza

Interviews, data, witness footage, satellite imagery, photography and more helped the reporters capture a deteriorating situation.

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Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels

The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.

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Senate Heads for a ‘Nuclear’ Showdown on Trump Nominees

Republicans say they are preparing to impose rules changes to speed confirmations after Democrats thwarted them before Congress headed into recess.

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Truck Companies Sour on California’s Strict Clean Air Rules

A deal designed to force compliance with tougher emissions standards is at risk after the Trump administration intervened.

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What if You Can’t Believe the Official Numbers?

By besmirching the integrity of government statistics, President Trump is endangering an underappreciated treasure, our columnist says.

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Stephen Miran, Trump’s Temporary Pick at the Fed, Could Have a Lasting Effect

Stephen I. Miran may spend only a few months on the central bank’s board of governors, but in that time he can influence the discussions around interest rates and who will become the institution’s next leader.

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Stephen Miran, Trump’s Temporary Pick at the Fed, Could Have a Lasting Effect

Stephen I. Miran may spend only a few months on the central bank’s board of governors, but in that time he can influence the discussions around interest rates and who will become the institution’s next leader.

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Bears Are Terrorizing Romania. It’s Humans’ Fault.

Romania’s growing bear population has turned conservation into confrontation for people living in the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains.

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Intel’s CEO Defends Himself After Trump Calls For Resignation

Lip-Bu Tan, Intel’s top executive, said he was committed to the company after Mr. Trump called for him to step down over reported Chinese investments.

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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.

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Netanyahu Broadly Criticized at Home and Abroad After New Gaza Plan

International allies and families of hostages condemned Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to take control of Gaza City, with the British prime minister calling it “wrong.”

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The U.S. Says Britain Is Chilling Free Speech. Many Britons Point the Finger Back.

To some in the U.K., the criticisms from the American right over arrests of people for hate speech seem hypocritical, given President Trump’s attacks on those who disagree with him.

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Russian Strikes Kill 3 in Ukraine, Which May Be Left Out of Peace Talks

“Here on the ground, we don’t feel any real changes from all these high-level meetings and statements,” a soldier said.

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