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A Right-Wing Wave in Britain Produces a Teenage Civic Leader

As Reform U.K. meets for its annual conference, the experience of its youngest municipal leader, George Finch, shows a party trying to combine caution and provocation.

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A Right-Wing Wave in Britain Produces a Teenage Civic Leader

As Reform U.K. meets for its annual conference, the experience of its youngest municipal leader, George Finch, shows a party trying to combine caution and provocation.

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Justice Barrett Argues Her Own Case, and the Court’s, in New Book

In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little.

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Health Dept. Plans Vaccine Poll Run by Trump Ally’s Firm

The no-bid contract was published amid Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to move the nation’s health infrastructure away from some vaccines.

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Venezuelan Jets Fly Over U.S. Navy Ship in Show of Force

The flyover took place two days after the United States carried out a military strike on a boat in the Caribbean that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs.

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Meet the Artist Behind Naomi Osaka’s Custom Labubus at the U.S. Open

Every match of a thrilling U.S. Open run has featured a custom crystal-clad creation. Kerin Rose Gold took us behind the scenes.

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Hochul to Sign Order to Get Around U.S. Limits on Covid Vaccine

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York plans to authorize pharmacists to provide the vaccine to almost anyone who wants it without a prescription.

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Biden Has Surgery to Remove Skin Cancer

Three months earlier, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

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At Harvard, Judge’s Ruling on Funding Gives Students One More Thing to Ponder

Many students were cautiously hopeful after a judge said the Trump administration could not freeze research funding to the university. But they also had other things on their minds.

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Pennsylvania Couple Kept 5 Children in ‘Deplorable’ Conditions, Police Say

The children, between the ages of 5 and 14, were locked in a room that the authorities said “functioned as a dungeon,” with no beds and boarded-up windows.

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Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War

The president is turning back the clock to the name the agency held until shortly after World War II.

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Trump Administration to End Security Programs Protecting European Allies From Russia

Ending the longstanding program is expected to impact hundreds of millions of dollars that have gone toward countries that border Russia.

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N.Y.C. Elections Board May Block Ballot Proposals on Housing

The City Council opposes the measures, which would curtail its power. The Board of Elections, appointed by the Council, could prevent voters from weighing in.

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U.S. Agents Raid Upstate N.Y. Plant and Detain More Than 70 Migrants

Local law enforcement officers helped federal agents carry out an immigration raid near Syracuse. Witnesses said the agents used police dogs in the raid and wielded crowbars to gain entry.

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Trump Officials Ask Military Lawyers to Serve as Immigration Judges

Emails sent out call for volunteers to take six-month assignments hearing asylum and deportation cases.

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New Congressional Map Clears First Hurdle in Missouri

A legislative committee took a first step to redraw the state’s congressional map in a Republican effort to gain a new seat.

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Melania Trump Has a Warning for Humanity: ‘The Robots Are Here’

The first lady has shown herself to be captivated by the wonders and dangers and opportunities of modern technologies.

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Barneys’ Gene Pressman Remembers Giorgio Armani

Fred Pressman respected no brand as much as the ultimate brand: quality. And that, Giorgio delivered in spades.

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Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has told confidants that he would consider abandoning his re-election bid, despite his public denials.

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Senators Grilled R.F.K. Jr. On Vaccines

Plus, the life of Giorgio Armani. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

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AI Influencers Like Lil’ Miquela and Mia Zelu Are Redefining Fame

Influencers like Lil’ Miquela and Mia Zelu have millions of followers and generate serious income, despite being created with artificial intelligence.

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Kavanaugh Acknowledges ‘Difficult Job’ of His Lower-Court Colleagues

Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.

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Quakes on Mars Reveal New Features of the Planet’s Interior

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle and a solid inner core.

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College Board Cancels Tool for Finding Low-Income High Achievers

After the Trump administration criticized the use of what it called “racial proxies,” the group behind the SAT shut down a way for universities to identify promising applicants from disadvantaged communities.

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Appeals Court Says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Can Stay Open

The court paused a federal judge’s ruling that no additional detainees could be sent to the center, and that much of it had to be dismantled within 60 days.

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The Armani Look

Few designers really change the way people dress. He did it twice.

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Kennedy Sounded Different on Agriculture Than He Did on Vaccines

Unlike his combative exchanges with senators about vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was conciliatory and accommodating about agriculture interests.

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Harvard Won Its Money Back, but Will It Actually Get It?

A judge ruled that the Trump administration broke the law in canceling billions in federal funds for Harvard. Whether the money is returned matters for the rest of higher education.

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America’s War on Terror Comes to the Caribbean

The Trump administration seems to be betting that Americans are so inured to the war on terrorism that they’ll be indifferent to extrajudicial executions.

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Time Is Running Out for Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah, U.S. Officials Warn

The United States, Israel and the Gulf Arab states are pressuring Lebanon’s government to act decisively against the group.

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