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Australia to Crack Down on Hate Speech After Bondi Attack

New legislation will be drafted to target those who promote violence and to increase penalties for hate speech, the prime minister said Thursday.

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Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech on the Economy

The president sharply attacked his predecessor while insisting that his own record contained nothing but victories.

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Peter Arnett, Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent, Dies at 91

He won the prestigious award for his daring coverage of the Vietnam War for The Associated Press, and went on to cover conflicts for CNN for nearly two decades.

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U.S. Government Admits Liability in Deadly D.C.-Area Air Collision

A federal court filing says the Army crew piloting a Black Hawk helicopter could have avoided the nighttime accident in January if it had been able to see and avoid a commercial jet.

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Trump Pressed Georgia Speaker to Overturn State’s Election Vote in 2020 Call

During much of the 12.5-minute call, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia, a state he lost by more than 11,000 votes that year.

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For Hegseth, There Is One Boat Strike He Doesn’t Want the Public to See

The Pentagon has released plenty of video clips that show American missiles blowing boats suspected of carrying drugs out of the water. But the “double tap” strike on Sept. 2 is being kept under wraps.

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Trump Unveils Presidential ‘Walk of Fame’ With Jabs at Biden and Obama

The White House unveiled plaques near the Oval Office that describe U.S. presidents with varying levels of accuracy, depending on President Trump’s opinion of them.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Asks a Judge to Throw Out Her Sex-Abuse Conviction

Ms. Maxwell, who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein in a sex-trafficking scheme, argued that she had been denied a fair trial.

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ICE Must Allow Lawmakers to Inspect Detention Centers, Judge Rules

Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote that two policies announced in June appeared to unlawfully bar members of Congress from making unannounced visits at immigration detention facilities.

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Search for Unidentified Killer at Brown University Stretches to 4th Day

Officials said that they were working with physical evidence, including DNA, and that they were seeking a second man who appeared to have crossed paths with the possible suspect’.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump Jr. and More Conservative Figures Announce Their Engagements

Several prominent conservative figures have announced that they are engaged this week, news often celebrated by President Trump.

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Twelve Men Saturated East Harlem Housing Project With Drugs, U.S. Says

For more than three and a half years, officials said, the men used the Johnson Houses as “an open drug market” to sell crack cocaine and fentanyl.

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Bodies of Rob and Michele Reiner Were Found in Master Bedroom, Police Say

After finding the slain couple, investigators focused on their younger son, Nick, as a suspect. He was formally charged with murder on Tuesday.

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Trump’s Claim That Venezuela ‘Stole’ U.S. Oil Fields Sets Off a Nationalist Reaction

President Trump said the United States wanted to reclaim expropriated oil assets, setting off a nationalist reaction in a country where the resource holds a mythical status.

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House Rejects Measure to Bar Strikes Inside Venezuela

The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the military’s escalating campaign of boat attacks.

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Dan Bongino to Step Down as FBI Deputy Director

The departure of Dan Bongino had seemed inevitable since August, when the White House hired Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, to share his job as deputy director.

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Trump Finds That Retribution Isn’t Always So Easy

In some ways, Trump’s broader flexing of power has achieved what he set out to do. But his attempts to push prosecutions of rivals have been far less successful.

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The U.S. Seeks to Increase Denaturalizations

Also, New York will allow the terminally ill to end their lives. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

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Jack Smith Defends Trump Prosecutions in House Deposition

Even adversaries of Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conceded that his tight-lipped, painstaking approach made tripping him up particularly difficult.

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Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship

An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would prioritize “those who’ve unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship.”

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Canada’s Population Shrinks Amid Tightened Immigration

The government has greatly restricted the number of work and study permits issued to foreigners following an unpopular immigration boom during the pandemic.

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Let’s Go Beyond Trump’s Vile Words About Rob Reiner

We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

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Fani Willis Calls Trump and Allies ‘Criminals’ in Hearing Before Georgia Senate Committee

The district attorney in Atlanta addressed a Republican-led committee created to investigate her conduct during her prosecution of President Trump last year.

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Video Footage Shows Nick Reiner Enter Store an Hour Before His Arrest

Mr. Reiner was filmed entering a gas station’s store in South Los Angeles to buy a sports drink roughly an hour before he was arrested by the police across the street.

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The New Flu Variant Could Spread Widely This Year. Here’s What to Know.

Scientists have expressed alarm about the dominant version of the virus that’s circulating now.

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Christine Choy, Documentarian of Asian American Life, Dies at 76

Her film “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” earned an Oscar nomination in 1988 and was inducted into the National Film Registry for its cultural significance.

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California’s Endless Fog Is Finally Clearing

An unrelenting gloom has blanketed much of the state’s Central Valley since late November.

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Stabbing Near Chabad Headquarters Investigated as a Possible Hate Crime

A dispute on a Brooklyn street appeared to explode after the perpetrator accosted the victim with antisemitic statements, the police said.

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Storm Knocks Out Power for Hundreds of Thousands in the Pacific Northwest

The region has faced significant flooding in the last week. Powerful winds from another storm have compounded the misery.

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The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing

Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?

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