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None of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. It Has Become a Problem.

Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.

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Big Plan for Fannie and Freddie I.P.O. in Flux as Trump Pushes Affordability

Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare a swift stock offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.

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Did a Supreme Court Loss Embolden Trump on the Insurrection Act?

In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.

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Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020

Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.

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Jim Hartung, Gymnast Who Helped Deliver U.S. Gold, Dies at 65

In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.

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Nydia Velázquez Gives Mamdani a Warning as She Endorses a Successor

The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should lay off political races.

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Alexander Brothers Accuser Was Found Dead Last Year, Authorities Say

The death of Kate Whiteman, whose accusation of sexual assault against Oren and Alon Alexander opened a floodgate of similar allegations, is under investigation.

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Mamdani’s Consumer Protection Commissioner Vows More Aggressive Action

“I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

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Florida Corporal Handcuffs a Runaway Emu After a 45-Minute Chase

A corporal in St. Johns County had responded to what he thought would be a straightforward call about an animal on the loose. Nearly an hour later, he was putting handcuffs on an emu named Tina.

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Trump Outlines Health Care Proposals as Prices and Premiums Rise

The long-awaited plan would leave much to Congress and calls for payments to health savings accounts rather than insurance subsidies, among other broad proposals.

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Weather Detours a Scientific Expedition to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local.

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Why Israel Is Wary of Intervening in Iran

Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.

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Inside an ICE Confrontation in Minneapolis

Our visual journalists David Guttenfelder and Todd Heisler describe a dramatic incident in which federal agents dragged a woman out of her car in Minneapolis near where Renee Nicole Good had been killed days before.

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Earnings Fall Short at Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo

This week, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo released fraught earnings reports as President Trump’s threatened cap on credit card rates loomed large.

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‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Will End Broadway Run and Open Overseas

Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.

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The Truth About Weight-Loss Drugs Like Ozempic: You Probably Need Them Forever

Many people who use these medications don’t want to stay on them long term. But research has repeatedly shown that quitting the drugs means gaining back weight.

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For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now many studies are being scuttled or scaled back.

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Coinbase, the Biggest U.S. Crypto Company, Asserts Its Power in Washington

The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of the company’s clout.

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The Priest, the Financier and the $10 Millon Townhouse

When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.

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U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments

The Trump administration has signed $11 billion in agreements with African nations, in deals tied to foreign policy goals.

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Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE

Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort.

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Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE

Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort.

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Appeals Court Opens the Door to Mahmoud Khalil’s Rearrest

Any new detention would not come immediately, and Mr. Khalil’s lawyers plan to appeal. But the ruling is a major blow to Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian movement.

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Abolish ICE? It’s a Slogan Some Democratic Critics of ICE Would Abolish.

As Democrats grow more alarmed about the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids in American cities, some worry that calls to eliminate the agency will distract from efforts to rein it in.

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Why Trump Always Thanks You ‘For Your Attention to This Matter’

How a simple catchphrase sums up the president’s theory of executive power.

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Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.

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‘Squished Between Chairs’ on a Train: How Some Passengers Survived a Crane Collapse

Some travelers were able to squeeze out of mangled cars and others were rescued by residents, after the accident in northeastern Thailand. Dozens did not survive.

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NASA Astronauts Return to Earth After Medical Evacuation From International Space Station

The members of Crew-11 — two American, one Russian and one Japanese — splashed down after one became ill, prompting an early return.

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2 Polling Experts on How the ICE Shooting Is More Trouble for Trump

The general sense of the world being chaotic does not necessarily help Trump.

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Iran Says It Will Not Execute Protester Amid International Outcry

The judiciary said that Erfan Soltani was not sentenced to death, Iranian state media reported. His case has drawn attention to the fate of the arrested demonstrators.

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