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After Naval Drills With Iran, South Africa Faces New U.S. Attacks

The exercises were the second time in six months that President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to be blindsided by his own military regarding relations with Tehran.

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Esther Perel on Why A.I. Intimacy Feels Safe but Isn’t Real

Perel, a renowned psychotherapist, doesn’t really think society can — or should — fall in love with a machine.

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As Minneapolis Rages, Legislators Move to Restrict ICE in Their States

Efforts to curtail federal law enforcement tactics began last year, but with the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, Democratic lawmakers are pushing harder.

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How We Tracked Down Thousands of Police Misconduct Files

Freedom of Information requests led to the discovery of varied offenses by officers around New York State.

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In Nigeria, a Catholic Bishop Tries to Tone Down the Uproar After U.S. Missile Strikes

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, often called “the conscience of the nation,” has been trying to tone down the uproar after President Trump bombed a region in his diocese.

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A Municipal Debt Boom Is Driving Public Projects and Tax Breaks for Investors

Municipal debt issuance surpassed $500 billion last year, a record that’s found a deep pool of buyers.

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How the Online SAT May be Vulnerable to Cheating

Sites in China are selling test questions, and online forums offer software that can bypass test protections, according to tutors and testing experts raising alarms.

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Loose Rules Let New York State Police Hand Out Lax Penalties for Serious Misconduct

New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, they remained on the job, an investigation found.

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Did a Luxury Nursing Home Hold a 91-Year-Old Woman Captive?

Her memory was failing, and the $28,000-a-month assisted living facility wouldn’t let her leave. Was it protecting her from an untrustworthy guardian?

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Desi Lydic Says Gregory Bovino Got ‘Iced Out’

“We’re not throwing you under the bus — we’re throwing you onto a bus, and sending it far, far away,” the “Daily Show” host said of the recalled Border Patrol official.

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The Rise and Fall of South Korean First Lady Kim Keon Hee

Kim Keon Hee was unlike any presidential spouse South Korea had seen. Her downfall, on corruption charges, came after her husband declared martial law.

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Man Rushes Ilhan Omar at Minneapolis Town Hall and Sprays Her

A man who had been sitting in the front row rushed at the Democratic representative and sprayed her with a strong-smelling liquid. He was removed by security and later booked into jail.

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Tails of the City: San Francisco’s Latest Animal Sensation Is a Mountain Lion

The 2-year-old male was safely captured after he got stuck between two apartment buildings.

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Dozens Arrested After Anti-ICE Protest at a Manhattan Hilton

The demonstration at the TriBeCa hotel followed a similar targeting of a Hilton property in Minneapolis on Sunday.

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Republicans Shift Tone After Killings, Criticizing Trump’s Immigration Push

With the president signaling a pivot in his crackdown, G.O.P. lawmakers have felt freer to express concern. But it’s not clear what they are willing to do about it.

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Why Did the Trump Administration Silence Bovino on Social Media?

When the border chief got yanked from Minnesota, he lost access to his X account, too.

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Democrats Restore Minnesota House to Even Split Amid Immigration Turmoil

In special elections on Tuesday, Democrats won two left-leaning districts, preventing Republicans from holding a majority in the State House of Representatives.

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U.S. Expects to Finish Review of Epstein Files Soon, Bondi Says

By law, the government was required to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein in December. Now the attorney general said they will be out “in the near term.”

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D.H.S. Review Does Not Say Pretti Brandished Gun, As Noem Claimed

An initial report from an internal agency watchdog says the Minneapolis man was shot by law enforcement after resisting arrest, but makes no mention of the allegations leveled by a Trump administration official.

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Noem’s Handling of Shooting Put Her in Trump’s Penalty Box, but Just Briefly

Kristi Noem’s aggressiveness has sometimes given President Trump heartburn. She got a rebuke after a second killing by federal immigration agents but soon seemed to be back in his good graces.

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Trump Suggests He Will ‘De-Escalate’ in Minneapolis, Without Offering Details

President Trump continued to put the blame on Alex Pretti for legally carrying a weapon with a permit, saying, “You can’t walk in with guns.”

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Trump Threatens to Pull U.S. Help From Iraq if Former Leader Returns

Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a former prime minister, has been nominated to the post by the main Shiite Muslim bloc in the Iraqi Parliament.

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Who Decides When a Home Is Safe? A California Bill Says Science, Not Insurers.

Following a Times investigation, a state lawmaker is proposing the first health-based standards for assessing smoke contamination after wildfires.

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U.S. Population Growth Slows Sharply

Also, some good news for a Broadway musical. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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Democrats Push to Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem After Minneapolis Shooting

Following the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a drive to impeach the homeland security secretary has drawn dozens more Democratic supporters, including the party’s top three leaders.

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Southwest Begins Assigned Seating, Scrapping a Signature Quirk

The airline said its new policy, rolled out on Tuesday, responded to passengers’ preferences, but some customers said the scramble was part of the charm.

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Virginia Judge Blocks Democrats’ Efforts to Redraw Congressional Maps

Democratic leaders vowed to appeal the lower court ruling, which found that the legislative process behind the redistricting push was improper.

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Judge Revives Wind Farm That Trump Halted Off Martha’s Vineyard

The project, known as Vineyard Wind, was already 95 percent complete when the Trump administration ordered construction to stop.

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Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.

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Storm Deaths Reach 10, Testing Mamdani’s Handling of a Weather Emergency

After first saying that it did not appear that the dead were homeless people, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has vowed to do more to get people into shelters.

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