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I.C.C. Judges Denounce Effect of Trump’s Sanctions

President Trump’s retaliation against top officials at the International Criminal Court has shut them out of American services and made even routine daily tasks a challenge.

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Volkswagen Suffers More Than Rivals From Auto Industry Woes

The German automaker’s sales in the United States plunged last year, hit by tariffs and the end of tax credits for electric vehicles.

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Trump Calls for 10 Percent Credit Card Interest Cap, After Killing Other Fee Limits

The president revived a campaign promise he has not actively pursued since taking office.

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After President’s Capture, U.S. and Venezuela Explore Restoring Diplomatic Ties

In moves that embodied the contradictions and fast-changing nature of the two countries’ relationship, both said on Friday that they were eyeing reopening embassies and restoring long-severed diplomatic ties.

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What It Takes to Drill Into an Antarctic Glacier

Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong meets with Paul Anker, a drilling engineer aboard the icebreaker Araon, to discuss the stakes, preparations and pressure of the mission to drill a hole in the Thwaites Glacier to measure the water beneath.

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Rare Comic Introducing Superman Sells Privately for $15 Million

The copy of Action Comics No. 1, published in 1938, was stolen from the actor Nicolas Cage in 2000 and recovered more than a decade later.

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Minnesota Woman Dies After Shark Bite in U.S. Virgin Islands, Authorities Say

People at the beach went to the woman’s rescue and helped her ashore, the authorities said, but she died at a hospital.

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Gavin Newsom on Democrats, 2028 and His Fruit-Only Breakfasts

The California governor is powered by smoothies and bursting with thoughts about U.S. politics.

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Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota

The move was part of a broader effort to to freeze social services to some Democratic-led states amid a fraud investigation in Minnesota.

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Trump’s $100 Billion Venezuela Oil Plan Gets a Cool Reception

President Trump met with oil and gas executives on Friday in an effort to push them to invest money in Venezuela, a plan many of them are reluctant to embrace.

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Judge Blocks Trump Officials From Freezing Billions in Social Services Funds

The ruling temporarily halted plans to freeze more than $10 billion in funds for anti-poverty programs bound for five Democratic-led states.

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New Cellphone Video Shows ICE Agent’s Perspective Before Minneapolis Shooting

The Department of Homeland Security posted a clip of the video on social media and said it was taken by the agent, who killed a 37-year-old woman in the shooting.

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Trump Urges Oil Companies to Speed Work in Venezuela

The president met with executives on a day when the U.S. seized another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil.

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Iran Convulsed in Second Night of Nationwide Protests

Large marches against the government occurred despite an internet blackout and threats of a severe crackdown.

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Outside Prisons in Caracas, Venezuelans Anxiously Await Release of More Political Detainees

Venezuela’s interim government said it would release an “important number” of imprisoned people, but only nine have been confirmed freed.

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Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center

The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.

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Joel Habener, Whose Research Led to Weight-Loss Drugs, Dies at 88

His discovery of the protein fragment GLP-1 was crucial in the development of Ozempic, Wegovy and other blockbuster obesity and diabetes treatments.

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Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91

Without her parents’ knowledge, her portrait was entered as a prank in a contest in 1935 to represent the ideal Aryan infant — and she won.

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Trump Threatens to Take Greenland ‘the Hard Way’

The president continued to advance an imperialist vision of American foreign policy, where the U.S. can dominate neighboring countries “whether they like it or not.”

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Trump Pressures Oil Giants to Invest in Venezuela

Also, protests spread across Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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Mamdani’s First Big Move to Help Renters Is Dealt a Blow by Court

Summit Properties USA won an auction on Friday to buy more than 5,000 apartments out of bankruptcy from the Pinnacle Group despite City Hall’s efforts to intervene.

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Mamdani Condemns Slurs and Pro-Hamas Chant at Heated Queens Protest

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators hurled threats at each other outside an event promoting real estate sales in Jerusalem. The mayor said those actions had “no place in our city.”

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A Look at Iran’s Antigovernment Protests

Protests have rocked Iran in recent weeks, and the country’s supreme leader has threatened to escalate a crackdown on demonstrators. Erika Solomon, our bureau chief for Iran and Iraq, discusses what’s fueling the protests with our senior writer Katrin Bennhold.

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Trump Officials Reopen Thousands of Refugee Claims in Minnesota

The review comes as the federal government escalates its immigration enforcement in the state.

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Mamdani Responds Cautiously After the Police Kill 2 People in One Night

Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not call the shootings justified, but said New York Police officers were placed in “incredibly difficult and dangerous circumstances.”

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Jobs Report Shows U.S. Hiring Slowed One Year Into Trump’s Second Term

As economists pointed to some of the president’s policies to explain the latest Labor Department data, White House aides sought to make the case for optimism in the new year.

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GOP Seeks Some Distance From Trump as Midterm Election Year Opens

The vote to open a war powers debate, a pair of attempted veto overrides and a split on health care suggested a greater appetite among Republicans to challenge the president.

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Trump Is Threatening Greenland and Europe

Any attempt to seize Greenland from Denmark would fatally undermine the world’s most successful military alliance.

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Man Charged With Stealing Dozens of Skeletons From a Pennsylvania Cemetery, Authorities Say

Investigators recovered what was believed to be more than “100 full or partial sets of human and skeletal remains” from the man’s home and storage unit in Lancaster County, the district attorney said.

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Christopher Raia to Be FBI Deputy Director After Bongino’s Departure

Even as the selection of a career agent, Christopher G. Raia, leaves an unusual three-person leadership structure in place, it returns a career agent to the second highest-ranking post.

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