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Tariffs Are Reshaping China’s Trade. This Tanzanian Sees an Opportunity.

An interview with a 26-year-old entrepreneur, who has taken seven trips to China to buy handbags, clothes and jewelry. “China is the center of everything,” she said.

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A Flat $40 Train Ticket From NYC to Albany? It’s Happening Next Year.

For the first time, Metro-North will run trains past Poughkeepsie through the Hudson Valley to Albany. Some Amtrak service will also be restored.

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White House’s East Wing Partially Demolished to Build Trump’s Ballroom

The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans.

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All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding

One of the two, Vanderbilt University, signaled it had reservations.

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Iranian Wedding Video Plunges Top Official Into Scandal

Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani oversaw a brutal crackdown on women, but traditional notions of Islamic morality were little on display at his daughter’s wedding.

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Justice Department Scrutinizes a Trip Fani Willis Took to the Bahamas

President Trump has said that Ms. Willis, the prosecutor who brought election interference charges against him two years ago in Georgia, “should be prosecuted.”

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To Counter China’s Hold on Rare Minerals, Trump Turns to Australia

The United States hopes to become less dependent on China by increasing access to mineral-rich countries. Rare earth metals are vital to an array of modern industries.

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Your November Election Guide (Yes, This November)

It’s not a presidential election year, or even the midterms, but races this fall will offer a sense of voters’ moods in the first year of the new Trump administration.

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White House Scrambles to Preserve Gaza Deal Amid Concerns About Netanyahu

The Trump administration strategy is to try to keep Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel from resuming an all-out assault against Hamas, U.S. officials said.

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With SpaceX Behind Schedule, NASA Will Seek More Moon Lander Ideas

Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, and Lockheed Martin are among the contractors that may compete with Elon Musk’s company in the race back to the lunar surface.

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Trump’s Lust for Desecration

A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.

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Appeals Court Lifted a Block on Trump’s Deployment to Oregon

Also, the search is on for the Louvre jewel thieves. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

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Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29

He earned the highest title in the chess world as he built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.

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Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Open Fire at Atlanta Airport, Police Say

The man, Billy Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Will Appeal His Conviction and Prison Sentence

The mogul’s defense team notified the appellate court that it will challenge the jury’s verdict on prostitution-related charges and the four-year prison term he received.

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George Santos and President Trump’s Theory of Mercy

More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are.

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Appeals Court Ruling Allows Trump to Deploy National Guard Troops to Portland

Deployment can move forward, for now, under a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But legal wrangling will likely continue.

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The Origins of Zohran Mamdani’s Long Game

For Mr. Mamdani, his time at the elite Bronx High School of Science expanded and helped shape his views of New York, from the cricket pitch to politics.

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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Operations Unravel

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has suspended its aid operations because of the cease-fire, but it is also running low on funds and faces logistical obstacles to resuming its work.

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Fallen Confederate Statues Take Center Stage in the Year’s Boldest Show

“Monuments,” a group exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, places contemporary art face to face with statuary removed in the last decade.

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Can an Israel Philharmonic Concert Be Just About Music?

In the days following a cease-fire in Gaza, the orchestra returned to New York under circumstances that were more tense than usual.

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Airlines Told to Disregard Gender- Neutral ‘X’ on U.S. Passports and Add ‘M’ or ‘F’

Although passports with an “X” marker remain valid, a new federal rule requires airlines on their internal information system to mark passengers with an “M” or an “F.”

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A Boston Restaurant Displayed Whitey Bulger’s Mug Shot. An Uproar Ensued.

The owners of Savin Bar & Kitchen have so far rejected requests from residents to remove photos of gangsters who terrorized the city for decades.

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Disney+ Cancellations Jump After Kimmel Suspension

Roughly three million Americans canceled the streaming service in the month that it temporarily suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show. About 4.1 million people canceled Disney-owned Hulu.

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Running a Local Paper? In This Economy?

They were journalists at major news outlets in New York and D.C. before taking big pay cuts to run the Midcoast Villager, a paper covering a rocky, coastal part of Maine.

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Colin Jost, Pete Davidson and the Staten Island Ferry Fiasco

Nearly four years after they bought an out-of-service ferryboat for $280,100, their plans for a floating event space may be running aground.

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Other Brazen Art Heists Like the Louvre Jewelry Theft

The robbery at the Paris museum on Sunday is only the latest in a long line of breaches.

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Louvre Robbery May Have Been More About Stones Than Art, Experts Say

Sunday’s robbery at the Paris museum could be the latest example of thieves targeting museums for jewels and precious metals to break down and sell on.

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Prison Guard Convicted in Fatal Beating Caught on Video, With 2 Acquitted

Footage of a group of guards punching, choking and stomping Robert L. Brooks ignited an outcry. Six guards pleaded guilty to charges.

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Supreme Court Will Weigh Gun Restrictions for Drug Users

The Second Amendment case tests a federal law used to convict Hunter Biden that bars drug users and addicts from possessing guns.

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