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Chicago Could Be a Powder Keg

Many residents are willing to endorse or participate in violent resistance.

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Mounting Deportations Meet Slow Hiring in a ‘Curious Kind of Balance’

An influx of immigrants helped ease worker shortages, and now their expulsion is helping to mask the country’s weakening demand for labor.

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The Trump Administration Wants to Switch Off Climate Satellites

The Trump administration wants to switch off and possibly destroy the climate-monitoring technology.

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Carlo Acutis, a Saint for the Modern Age

Nicknamed God’s influencer, Carlo, who died at age 15, used technology to express his religious beliefs. The church sees him as a way to connect to the young.

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Trump’s Lonely Trade Crusade

A sign of the folly of Trump’s trade policy is that it has inspired no apparent envy among other nations.

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The Climate Change Playbook No Longer Works. What Can Activists Do?

Activists are hoping to recreate the magic of 1970’s Earth Day — at a moment when the movement’s future is cloudier than ever.

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The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds

Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products.

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‘Something Is Wrong With My Brain’: A Police Officer’s Descent

Brent Simpson is the first police officer known to have C.T.E. He showed signs of the disease in the last few years of his life.

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Putin Warns Western Troops in Ukraine Before a Peace Deal Would Be ‘Targets’

The Russian leader made the threat a day after European leaders said they were willing to deploy forces on the ground to secure an agreement to end the war.

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How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart

The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.

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Stephen Colbert Sounds the Alarm on ‘Death by Florida’

He said that Florida’s decision to stop vaccine mandates would affect not just schoolchildren but also “America’s most vulnerable population: Disney adults.”

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The N.Y. Assembly’s Most Powerful Democrat Has Been Slow to Back Mamdani

Carl Heastie, the speaker of the Assembly, has not yet endorsed his fellow lawmaker. He’s not the only prominent Democrat to hold back support.

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Kim Jong-un Leaves Beijing With Big Diplomatic Wins

Mr. Kim’s presence at a Chinese military parade was a sign of his growing geopolitical ​leverage and that North Korea was being accepted as a de facto nuclear power.

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Why I Am Not a Liberal

I don’t think the left grasps reality in all its fullness.

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China, Russia, Iran and North Korea Sense Their Moment

There may never be a better moment for China, Iran, North Korea and Russia to challenge the U.S.-led global system.

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With Trump and Ukraine, Europe’s Leaders Are Playing a Long Game

Leaders on the continent are trying to show the U.S. president that they are serious about laying the groundwork to end the war — and that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is not.

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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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