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Top Trump Aides to Meet With Ukrainians in Florida on Sunday

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to discuss peace terms again after an uproar over a 28-point proposal drafted with Russian input.

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Afghans Who Assisted U.S. During the War Underwent Rigorous Vetting

Former officials said the C.I.A. diligently assessed those who partnered with its forces, like the man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington.

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Several Arrested as Protesters Block ICE Agents From a Potential Raid in NYC

The confrontation appeared to foil a possible ICE raid nearby, underscoring the numerous challenges the federal government faces in trying to stage raids in a dense city like New York.

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Targeting Venezuela and Pardoning Honduran Ex-President, Trump Contradicts Himself

President Trump’s statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.

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U.S. Black Friday Sales Defy Tariffs and Economic Woes

Data on spending this week shows that consumers are shopping big for the holidays despite inflation and economic worries.

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Political Confusion as Texas Awaits Supreme Court’s Ruling on Redistricting

A decision on the state’s new congressional map will affect five House seats and could help determine control of the chamber next year.

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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Mourners Honor Victims of Hong Kong Apartment Fire

The police said they expected the death toll of 128 to rise as the authorities began combing through the charred apartment towers.

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F.D.A. Seeks More Oversight of Vaccine Trials and Approvals

The agency’s top vaccine regulator proposed broad changes, claiming that a new review linked 10 children’s deaths to the Covid vaccine. But public health experts questioned the findings, wanting to examine the data.

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Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed

President Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.

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Did Pope Leo Pray in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque? Not Visibly, at Least.

Leo XIV is being closely watched on an inaugural trip to Turkey and Lebanon to spread a message of peace and outreach.

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A Classical Pianist’s Plea: Make Messy Art

It is not only classical musicians who are being stunted by the search for perfection. It is harming many aspects of our lives and sectors of our society.

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How I Began to Love Reading Again

I needed to stop thinking that I knew more than the author and give in to whatever ride they had spent years planning.

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In Firing His No. 2, Zelensky Loses Both a Negotiator and an Enforcer

Andriy Yermak had ensured internal discipline in Ukraine’s wartime politics. He also led the country’s peace negotiations, which now must go on without him.

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Highlight Reel

As the year comes to a close, we want to know your highly specific, idiosyncratic bests of 2025.

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Latin American Leaders Face Both Trump and Voters Deported by the U.S.

The upcoming election in Honduras shows how politicians must balance cooperation with the Trump administration with their obligation to undocumented citizens in the United States who may be deported.

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Ahead of Primary Elections, Time Is Running Out in the Fight Over Congressional Maps

As partisan battles rage and courts wrangle proposals, the relentless pace of the calendar will force states to act — or land in murky legal ground.

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Republicans Flipped South Texas. Can a Moderate Tejano Singer Take It Back?

The star power of Latin Grammy Award-winning Bobby Pulido has Democrats dreaming of taking a U.S. House district in South Texas, even though Republicans have redrawn it in their favor.

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Israeli Hostage Recounts Beatings and Starvation During Hamas Captivity

Segev Kalfon said he endured physical abuse and mind games during 738 days in the hands of Hamas. Now, he asks why it took so long for Israel to bring him home.

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Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible

President Trump’s ever-growing vision has caused tension with contractors. His architect has taken a step back as the president personally manages the project.

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How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch

Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.

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The Ukrainians Stuck in Russia’s New Gulag

Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.

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Syria Tiptoes Toward Transitional Justice One Year After Assad’s Ouster

Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The abuses of the old Assad regime still await a reckoning.

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Russia Bombards Ukraine for Nearly 10 Hours in a Deadly Assault

The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.

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As Cyclone Deaths Pass 120, Sri Lanka Is Overwhelmed by Rescue Demand

Rescue efforts across the nation of 23 million have been hampered by disruptions in transport and telecommunications.

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N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation’s Next ‘Big Battleground’

The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.

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Deadly Hong Kong Fire Is a Test of Beijing’s Rule in the City

After Beijing reshaped the political order in Hong Kong in its image, the fire has become a test of how well that new system can govern in a crisis.

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State Department Boosts Resources to Process Business Visas for South Koreans

The Trump administration has been trying to repair the damage from the detention of hundreds of South Koreans in an immigration raid in Georgia.

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South Africans Were Promised Job, but Ended Up ‘Going to War’ for Russia

The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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Where Hundreds of Undocumented Migrants Have Died in Custody

Malaysia launched a “year of enforcement” in response to a surge in undocumented migrants, many of them from Myanmar. Some faced nightmarish fates.

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