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Surgeon Who Removed Wrong Organ From Patient Is Charged in His Death

Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky tried to persuade his colleagues in the operating room that the liver he removed from a 70-year-old patient was a spleen, according to Florida’s Health Department.

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Trump’s Blasphemy Is a Warning

Presidents can fight with popes. God is another matter.

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Justice Dept. Moves to Vacate Jan. 6 Convictions for Far-Right Extremists

Defending the convictions would likely have required administration officials to assert that far-right groups were acting on behalf of President Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Carney Suspends Gas Tax in Canada as War Drives Up Fuel Costs

The prime minister said that his government was also investing in ways to boost oil and gas production.

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Israel and Lebanon Talk, but Fighting Continues

Also, a Ukrainian city is bouncing back with Denmark’s help. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines

Hundreds of small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase.

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In ‘Famesick,’ Lena Dunham Diagnoses Celebrity, Illness and Herself

This unusually unfiltered memoir takes us to the hospital, to therapy and to the sometimes hostile set of “Girls.”

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N.F.L. Reporter Resigns From The Athletic Amid an Investigation

The publication, which is owned by The New York Times, was investigating the conduct of Dianna Russini after photographs showed her with the head coach of the New England Patriots.

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla Will Visit D.C., New York and Virginia

The planned four-day state visit comes at a fraught time in the U.S.-U.K. relationship, following President Trump’s frequent belittling of the British prime minister.

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How Trump Can Wrap Up the Iran War

He can offer the regime a series of fundamental choices.

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Designer Fashion Hits the 2026 WNBA Draft

Fashion brands have taken note of the WNBA draft, described by Lauren Betts, the No. 4 draft pick, as the Met Gala of women’s basketball. Vanessa Friedman, our chief fashion critic, was there.

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Resignations of Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales Set Up Special Election Fights in Texas and California

Aides to Greg Abbott and Gavin Newsom were weighing whether to call quick elections to replace two House members accused of sexual misconduct.

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Central U.S. Braces for Yet Another Wave of Severe Storms

More than 125 million people face some risk of severe weather on Tuesday, forecasters warned, amid a multiday outbreak of storms.

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A New Accuser Says Eric Swalwell Sexually Assaulted Her

The woman said Mr. Swalwell, who resigned from Congress on Tuesday afternoon, raped her in a West Hollywood hotel room in 2018. She said she believed she was drugged.

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Inside the Radical Zionist Group Linked to an N.Y.C. Assassination Plot

The Jewish Defense League had long been largely inactive. But an arrest in a plan to kill a Palestinian activist shed light on an apparent resurgence of far-right Zionism, inspired by the J.D.L.

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51 Percent of Americans Think Trump’s Military Action in Iran Has Not Been Worthwhile

A survey from Ipsos and Reuters, released on Tuesday, found few Americans — 24 percent — think the war in Iran has been worth the costs and benefits.

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Maryland Governor and State Democrats Fail in Redistricting Effort

State Democrats butted heads over a gerrymandering plan that could have eliminated the state’s lone Republican seat in the U.S. House.

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How Peter Magyar Defeated Viktor Orban, a Former Ally, In Hungary’s Election

For years, Peter Magyar was a loyal ally of Viktor Orban, the far-right Hungarian leader. Then he changed sides — and defeated his former boss in a landslide victory on Sunday. Does he represent real change?

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The $40 Half Chicken That Ruffled Brooklyn

A New York City councilman’s Instagram post is just the latest entry in a fierce debate about the price of dining out.

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Camp Mystic Hearing in Texas Weighs Reopening After Deadly Flooding

Testimony at a hearing this week has focused on what camp leaders knew and did as floodwaters rose in July, killing at least 116 people.

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Trump Administration Accuses Biden DOJ of Unfairly Prosecuting Anti-Abortion Activists

The report is part of the president’s effort to claim anti-conservative and anti-Christian biases in federal law enforcement, even as he pushes to wield the legal system against his political enemies.

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Appeals Court Ends Contempt Inquiry Into Trump Administration’s Deportation Flights

A federal judge’s nearly yearlong effort to investigate whether the Trump administration had violated his order had become a point of contention in the president’s battles with the courts.

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Amazon Buys Globalstar for $10.8 Billion, Movingto Expand Its Satellite Internet Service

The e-commerce giant is buying Globalstar, a satellite communications company, as it aims to expand its own satellite internet service to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink.

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I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses

Plenty of people hate Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligent, supercharged spectacles. I was ready to hate them, too.

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Bessent Questions the Cause of Climate Change and Its Economic Toll

The Treasury secretary said it is “difficult to deconstruct” the reasons for global warming, which he described as a belief of the “elite.”

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Texas A&M Picks an Insider for President After Months of Conflict

Debates over how to teach about gender, sexuality and other topics have shaken the school, and lead to the ouster of the previous president at the College Station campus last summer.

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House Republicans Step Up Scrutiny of ActBlue Over Foreign Donations

Three Republican-led committees, responding to a New York Times report this month, accused the Democratic fund-raising organization of withholding documents from a subpoena request.

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Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

The new law signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger is the culmination of a long, Democrat-led push to distance Virginia from its Confederate past.

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Have Mental Health Concerns Influenced Your Choice to Have Children?

If you are on the fence, or have already made a decision, we want to hear about it.

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How Stephen Miller Is Adjusting Trump’s Immigration Agenda

After the chaos and death that ensued during the deportation raids in Minneapolis, Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, is changing course on immigration. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs explains how the administration’s strategy is shifting.

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