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Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes

The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.

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Trump Official Says U.S. Can House Migrants at All of Its Overseas Bases

A Justice Department lawyer made the claim in response to a challenge to the administration’s use of the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold detainees designated for deportation.

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Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy

While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.

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Musk Attacks NASA Leader Over Threat to Reconsider Lunar Contract

The billionaire’s swipes at Sean Duffy are the latest example of his tangling with members of the Trump administration.

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Trump Calls Off Federal Operation in San Francisco

President Trump said he had halted a planned federal deployment of immigration agents to the city. It was not clear what that meant for the rest of the Bay Area.

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After Remark About Mamdani and Sept. 11, Cuomo Faces Democratic Rebukes

When a radio host suggested that Zohran Mamdani would celebrate another Sept. 11-style attack, Andrew Cuomo chuckled. Democrats denounced the exchange as Islamophobic.

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NBA Gambling Scandal: What We Know

Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches.

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U.S. Charges N.B.A. Figures in Gambling Schemes That Tainted Games

Terry Rozier, a Miami Heat guard, and Chauncey Billups, coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, were among those arrested. Two indictments spanned the worlds of professional sports, Mafia families and online betting.

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Here Are the Defendants Named in the N.B.A. Gambling Indictments

More than 30 people were charged in what prosecutors said was a gambling scheme involving N.B.A. players and coaches.

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Ruth A. Lawrence, Doctor Who Championed Breastfeeding, Is Dead at 101

As a pediatrician, she helped elevate breastfeeding from a medical afterthought to a specialty of its own. As a mother of nine, she practiced what she preached.

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N.B.A. Figures Charged in Gambling Schemes

Also, Trump halted his plan to send federal agents to San Francisco. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

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The U.S. and Europe Are Trying New Ways to Pressure Russia

For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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A Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone

Mourners are outraged over President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing to make way for his $300 million ballroom. Others say it was time for change.

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How Mamdani Has Evolved in the Mayoral Race

Zohran Mamdani entered the final debate in the New York City mayoral race ahead in the polls. Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The New York Times, describes Mr. Mamdani’s strategy to appeal to the wider electorate before early voting begins.

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The Death of Democracy Is Happening Within You

Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the convictions and norms that undergird democracy.

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Trump’s Sanctions on Russian Oil Sector Ratchet Up Economic War

After months of restraint, President Trump’s move to blacklist Lukoil and Rosneft will hit Russia where it hurts.

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Archbishop of U.S. Anglican Church Is Accused of Sexual Harassment

Another leader in the breakaway denomination has been accused of responding slowly to accusations of abuse and grooming against a lay leader.

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Kim Kardashian Says She Was Diagnosed With a Brain Aneurysm

About one in every 50 people has an unruptured brain aneurysm. It was not clear whether Ms. Kardashian had experienced symptoms.

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Trump Opens ANWR to Oil Drilling

The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.

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Gambinos and Other NYC Mob Families Are Still in Business

The criminal organizations were mentioned prominently in a charging document that accused N.B.A. stars of recruiting players for illegal poker games.

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Trump Officials Shoot Down Israeli Aspirations of Annexing West Bank Land

Vice President JD Vance calls symbolic votes in Israel’s Parliament to annex West Bank territory a “very stupid political stunt.”

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Construction Worker Dies in Fall at NYC Site for Hudson Tunnel Project

The man, who was working at a site at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, fell 60 feet into a pit below, according to the New York Fire Department.

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A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.

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Reviving California’s Kelp Forests, One Dive at a Time

Cove by cove, scientists, divers and volunteers are hauling up urchins to protect kelp.

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Here’s How the Poker Scheme Worked, According to Prosecutors

The players cheated with sophisticated technology, and those who lost faced the threat of violence and extortion.

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Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance

Changpeng Zhao, the richest man in crypto, had admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance.

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‘Brother Wang,’ Accused of Being Drug Cartel Fixer, Is Arrested in Cuba

Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico this summer, is accused of supplying cartels with fentanyl from China, smuggling and money laundering millions under the alias “Brother Wang.”

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Staghorn and Elkhorn Coral Are Functionally Extinct Off Florida, Researchers Say

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.

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Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On

A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.

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Trump Supporters Are Uneasy About Military Actions Against Venezuela

Some conservative policy advisers and commentators, including Laura Loomer and Stephen K. Bannon, are raising questions about the administration’s policy in the region.

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