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Sheriff in California Seizes More Ballots, Ignoring State Attorney General

Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff and a Republican running for governor, is examining votes from 2025 after unsubstantiated claims of fraud.

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High School Athlete Is Shot Dead While Playing With Friends

A boy, the son of a New York police officer, may have been playing with a gun when it accidentally went off, killing Ka’Mardre Coleman, 16, according to prosecutors and the boy’s lawyer.

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Wall St. Bonuses Soared to $49.2 Billion. New York Hoped for Even More.

The city was counting on a 15 percent rise in bonuses to produce tax revenues to fill its budget gap. The actual increase was 9 percent, the state comptroller said.

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G.O.P. Senator Weighs Forcing Congress to Vote to Authorize the Iran War

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is drafting a formal authorization for the use of military force in Iran, seeking to put some parameters around the operation as the Trump administration has boxed out Congress.

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Trump Gives Iran More Time to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Also, transgender athletes were barred from women’s Olympic events. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

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Iran Keeps a Tight Grip on Strait of Hormuz, Pressuring Shipping and Energy Sectors

Iran has allowed a small number of vessels to pass, but that won’t alleviate pressure or risk for the shipping industry and energy markets any time soon.

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Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.

The episode, involving a group of sperm whales, adds to evidence that humans aren’t the only species that gets some form of assistance during and after delivery.

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Standoff With Iran Raises Fresh Doubts About Trump’s Freestyle Diplomacy

A jumble of emissaries — a friend, a family member, a dove and a hawk — on the Iran crisis reflects President Trump’s improvisational approach.

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Air Canada C.E.O. Apologizes for English-Language Condolences After Plane Crash

Michael Rousseau said he was “deeply saddened” that his ​inability to speak French had diverted attention from the families’ grief.

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U.S. Stocks Have Their Biggest Drop Since Start of Iran War

The S&P 500 tumbled 1.7 percent on Thursday and oil prices continued rising as investors fret about when the war would end.

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Judge Questions Why U.S. Is Blocking Maduro’s Defense Funding

The U.S. government has blocked Venezuela from paying for its former leader’s defense lawyers. In a hearing, a judge said repeatedly that the former president’s right to his own defense was “paramount.”

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The Disgusting Reason a Staten Island Creek Turned Bright Green

The emerald tint to the Clove Lakes Park stream helped confirm long-held suspicions about what might be leaking from toilets.

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Seeking a Sounding Board? Beware the Eager-to-Please Chatbot.

A new study of popular AI models shows that their feedback on social situations is far from impartial.

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Safety Experts Considered LaGuardia Challenging but Not an Outlier

Regulators, pilots and others in aviation have worried about the kind of runway accident that happened at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday.

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Trump Defends His Use of Mail-In Voting: ‘Because I’m President’

President Trump wants to restrict voting by mail, which he says amounts to “cheating.” But he defended his own use of the practice in a special election this week.

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Oscars Will Move to a Venue Outside Hollywood

The event will be held in downtown Los Angeles starting in 2029 as part of a deal between the academy and AEG, a developer of entertainment venues.

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Trump Administration Begins Investigations Into Three Medical Schools

The Justice Department’s demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego, represent a flex of federal power.

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European Allies Worry Russia Is Preparing to Deliver Drones to Iran

The drones are an improved version of a weapon that Iran sent to Russia for use in its war in Ukraine.

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Trump Eyes White House Treaty Room for Latest Renovation Project

President Trump is making new plans in one of the most significant renovations in the history of the White House.

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Mortgage Rates Jump Again as Iran War Effects Ripple Through Housing Market

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States hit 6.38 percent, the fourth increase since the war began.

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Dash Crofts, of the Soft-Rock Duo That Sang ‘Summer Breeze,’ Dies at 87

Seals & Crofts had a number of Billboard Top 20 songs in the 1970s before their chart topper brought them global fame.

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Roman Catholic Churches See a Surge of New Converts

Bishops are trying to understand what’s behind the wave. People joining the church described their reasons as highly personal.

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Four Problems for Trump in Birthright Citizenship Case

The president must confront a 1952 federal law, the possibility that millions will lose their citizenships, stateless foundlings and a fluid future.

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Under Carney, Canada Finally Hits NATO’s 2% Spending Target

Trump and other American presidents have criticized Canada for failing to meet the alliance’s military spending minimum of 2 percent of gross domestic product.

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How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich?

The just resentments of a shrinking middle class.

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After Wooing Trump With Deals, Pakistan Gets a Seat at the Table

Steve Witkoff, a diplomatic envoy, used the Board of Peace to announce an agreement that could raze a Pakistan-owned Manhattan hotel. Now the country is involved in negotiating peace talks with Iran.

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Cannonball with Wesley Morris: ‘Love Story’ Is Actually a Horror Story

The nightmare began when she said, “I do.”

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South Dakota Governor Signs Bill Requiring Citizenship Proof to Vote

The law, which mirrors national Republican priorities, requires newly registered voters to show that they are U.S. citizens in order to cast a ballot in state or local races.

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Binance Under Fire After Reports That $1.7 Billion in Crypto Flowed to Iran

The world’s largest crypto exchange is under fire after investigators found accounts moving $1.7 billion to Iranian entities. Clues about those accounts were in plain sight for over a year.

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Local Opposition Is Slowing A.I. Data Centers. Wall Street Has Noticed.

Tech companies are running into resistance from neighbors and may not be able to build at the pace they promised investors.

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