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How 106 People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting — Before It Happened

A threat on a school bus from an alienated young man united dozens of agencies to answer a single question: Is it possible to stop potential mass shooters before they commit a crime?

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F.B.I. Fires More Agents, Including Those Who Knelt During Racial Justice Protests

Agents group says the latest dismissals are part of a “dangerous pattern” of weakening the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

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Oura Heath’s C.E.O. Knows the Secret to Better Sleep

Oura Health makes a pricey smart ring that busy executives, celebrities and others use to track health measures like their sleep patterns. It expects $1 billion in sales this year.

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Doctors Without Borders Closes in Gaza City as Israel Intensifies Offensive

Doctors Without Borders pulled its staff from Gaza City as the medical system buckled. The U.N. has warned that more hospitals may have to close.

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Trump’s Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey

The president’s voluble vitriol could provide defense lawyers with an avenue to protect the very people he most wants to punish.

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Why Comey Should Not Have Been Indicted, According to Trump

The best case against indicting James Comey is the one the president made for firing him.

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We’re All Going to Die — Soonish!

Even with big blue eyes or amazing pecs, A.I.’s allure can be deadly.

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What a Book of Excuses Reveals About the Democrats’ Future

Three Opinion writers weigh in on Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir.

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Banner Year

Milestone birthdays occasion consideration of what we’ve done with our lives, and what we want to do with the time to come.

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Netanyahu’s Defiant U.N. Speech Aimed at Home as Well as the World

The Israeli prime minister faced walkouts and protests at the United Nations but sent a message to his political base that he won’t bend to international pressure.

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Trump Displays Little Interest in Fostering Unity Amid Political Violence

After an assassination attempt, Gov. George Wallace, the segregationist, got a surprise visitor: Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. Could this happen today?

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Unexpected Critics of Trump’s Attacks on Wind Energy: Oil Executives

Business leaders and trade organizations have been especially worried by attempts to stop work on wind farms that had already secured federal approval.

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Iowa Matters Less Than Ever for Democrats, but They Can’t Quit It

The state no longer goes first for the party’s presidential nomination process, but ambitious politicians with an eye toward 2028 keep showing up. It’s “the gravitational pull,” as one Iowa Democrat put it.

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Jeanne Shaheen Wants to Make Foreign Policy Bipartisan Again

The Democrat from New Hampshire has worked to find common ground with the Trump administration on foreign affairs.

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Frida Kahlo’s Prequel: A New Museum Shows Her Family Roots

In a former residence in Mexico City, passed down through the Kahlo family, it presents an intimate side of the Mexican painter’s life.

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New Retail Leaders Confront Trump’s Tariffs, Policy Shifts and Weak Spending

New retail C.E.O.s are facing unexpected challenges, like tariffs and worried shoppers, as they try to address existing ones.

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Onstage, Chappell Roan Is a Powerhouse. And Exactly Where She Wants to Be.

The singer’s Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Tour highlights how she continues to deviate from the rising pop star’s expected playbook.

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Restoring the Sound, if Not the Fury, of William Faulkner’s Piano

Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Miss., a group helped refurbish its piano.

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For Want of a Ferryman, a Two-Century U.S.-Canada Link Is Severed

With the closing of a crossing between a sleepy Ontario island and a village in New York State, islanders face modest inconvenience — and the end of an era.

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Hawaiian Village Rebuilds With Modular Tiny Homes After Maui Wildfire Destruction

After Lahaina burned in August 2023, Hawaii invested in a modular home development, hoping to build community and leave behind permanent infrastructure.

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Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners

A rule requiring many storm-damaged homes to be demolished or rebuilt to the latest flood-resistant standards has exacted personal and cultural costs.

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U.S. Says It Will Revoke Colombian President’s Visa

The State Department called President Gustavo Petro of Colombia reckless after he called for U.S. soldiers to disobey President Trump at a pro-Palestinian rally.

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His Parents Disappeared. In a TV Studio, He Confessed to Killing Them.

After investigators came looking, Lorenz Kraus told a reporter he had strangled Franz and Theresia Kraus eight years ago. Two bodies were buried in their backyard.

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Catholic School Teacher Says She Was Suspended for Surrogate Pregnancy

Jadira Bonilla, a kindergarten teacher at a Catholic school in southern New Jersey, was told she might have violated her contract, according to an email shared with The New York Times.

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Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.

The University of California, one of the Trump administration’s biggest targets so far, is in an uproar over how to respond to the president’s attacks. So is the rest of higher education.

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Fire at South Korean Government Building Causes Nationwide Outages

Hundreds of state services were offline the day after a lithium battery exploded during maintenance work at a data center, officials said.

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Russia Steps Up Provocations in Europe, Alarming Leaders There

European officials fear that Moscow is escalating its antagonism of Europe as U.S. support recedes. A focus of worry now: election interference in Moldova.

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China’s Small Steps Look Bigger Next to Trump’s Retreat

Beijing’s climate and trade pledges at the U.N. highlighted how modest moves can stand out when the United States is pulling back from global leadership.

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You Asked for More of Mel Taub’s Puzzles. Here Are Three.

With his Puns and Anagrams puzzles, Mr. Taub made solvers groan and grin for decades. After he died this month, readers expressed appreciation for his work.

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Justice Dept. Agents to Protect ICE Facilities, Bondi Says

Pam Bondi, the attorney general, announced the deployment two days after a gunman opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas, killing one detainee and injuring two others.

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