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In Sudan, a Preventable Atrocity

Hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan are bracing for their city to be overrun by a militia notorious for committing atrocities.

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‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics.

What America’s embarrassments have in common.

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We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War.

With ticks, we’ve barely begun to fight back. The longer we wait, the more territory they will claim across both our geographic and psychic maps.

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The Population Forecasts Are Grim. They’re Still Too Optimistic.

America is not prepared for population decline.

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Iran’s Top Diplomat in Oman for Talks on Strait of Hormuz

The Iranian foreign minister landed in Muscat on Saturday. A standoff over the strait this week set off heavy clashes between the U.S. and Iran.

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An American Politician is Blocked by Israeli Settlers in the West Bank

Representative Ro Khanna was barred from leaving for 90 minutes. Where past U.S. leaders toured the region to show support for Israel, today’s Democratic presidential aspirants are going to bolster their credentials as critics.

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Gravitational Pull

We think and dream and fuss and project entire worlds into existence. Meanwhile, the earth’s orbit continues and the sun goes on shining.

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Mick Jagger Isn’t Sure He Ever Lets the World See the Real Him

The legendary rock star, now 82, on how fame, touring and aging have changed him.

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How The Times Reported on Graham Platner

Two senior editors discuss the difficult effort to track down allegations against the leading Democrat for Senate in Maine and the questions that soon followed.

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The University Where Kirk Died Ponders How to Remember His Killing

Utah Valley University doesn’t want to be known as the place where Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and even a discussion of memorializing that day has provoked division.

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Trump Justifies $2 Billion Made as President With Inaccurate Claims

President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.

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Platner’s Rise and Fall Revives Old Questions About ‘Bernie Bros’ and Women

The collapse of Graham Platner’s Senate bid in Maine after a rape allegation renewed attention to a movement built by Senator Bernie Sanders that some say is too forgiving of male misconduct.

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Whistle-Blowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Contracting Flaws Under Trump

Documents submitted to Congress detailed concerns about competitive bidding processes and a White House order to tear up new bathroom tile because of its color.

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Whistle-Blowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Contracting Flaws Under Trump

Documents submitted to Congress detailed concerns about competitive bidding processes and a White House order to tear up new bathroom tile because of its color.

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How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar

The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in the Trump era.

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Non-Disclosure: In Roswell, New U.F.O. Docs Are a Declassified Bummer

Roswell’s annual U.F.O. festival was supposed to be full of triumphant “told you so’s” after the Trump administration declassified its alien files. Instead, apparently, the coverup continues.

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Kansans Will Vote on an Elected Supreme Court. The Target: Abortion.

Frustrated by the appointed court’s support of abortion rights, which has been affirmed resoundingly by voters, Republicans are pushing an Aug. 4 referendum to elect Kansas justices.

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Israel Struck an Iranian Steel Facility. Was It a Valid Military Target?

During the war, Israel attacked Iran’s steel plants, saying they provided forces with revenue and the means to make weapons, but it also hurt the civilian economy.

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Developer of Troubled Midtown High-Rise Had Tried to Avoid the Spotlight

Nathan Berman has shied away from the showy ways necessary to succeed in New York real estate. Now, his largest project is in limbo.

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Randolph Mantooth, Who Played John Gage in ‘Emergency!,’ Dies at 80

His portrayal of the firefighter and paramedic in the 1970s television hit helped expand the American public’s familiarity with emergency medicine.

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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

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‘They Don’t Need People’: The Workers Left Behind by China’s Robot Drive

For out-of-work factory workers in Kunshan, a region made rich by electronics manufacturing, a park is the only place to go.

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U.S. Employers Told to Dismiss Thousands of Immigrant Workers

Shifting deadlines are confusing businesses as the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and others looms, making them ineligible to live and work in the United States.

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Trump Tried to Block Canada’s New Bridge to Detroit. It’s Opening Anyway.

A deal ended the Trump administration’s blocking of a new bridge that will ease congestion at the busiest trade corridor between the United States and Canada.

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D.S.A. Members Blast Mamdani Adviser for Elevating Graham Platner

A letter circulated by Democratic Socialists of America members asked that candidates sever ties with Morris Katz, a consultant for Mr. Platner and Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire

Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.

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Buckling Manhattan High Rise Becomes Focus of Criminal Investigation

The inquiry, being conducted by the New York City Department of Investigation and the Manhattan district attorney’s office, was in an early stage, and its focus was unclear.

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New York Times Accuses Federal Employment Agency of Retaliation

A May lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims the newspaper discriminated against a white male employee who did not get a promotion.

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Charlie Cunningham, Mountain Bike Innovator, Dies at 77

In the late 1970s, he built what is considered the first off-road bicycle with a frame that was aluminum rather than steel, one of his many inventions.

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What China’s Successful Rocket Launch Means for the Future of the Space Race

A space neophyte not long ago, China is now the United State’s main competitor for supremacy throughout the solar system.

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