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Trump Heads to Ireland for the Irish Open at His Golf Course

President Trump’s trip comes after a two-day Republican rally in Dallas, where he tried to energize voters amid fears that the party could face losses in the midterms.

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Federal Judge Poised to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Library

The judge, in halting the pretrial fact-finding process, said President Trump’s claim of immunity could “dispose of the entire case” involving the library to be built in Miami.

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Women Special Operations Veterans Remember Their Battles

The only fraternal organization for women special operations veterans held a gala to mark the wars that began 25 years ago. It came as the Pentagon questions women’s roles in the military.

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Donald Trump Is Not Going Anywhere

A dispatch from Dallas 2026.

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Chaos, Confusion and Court Dockets: The Fight for Missouri’s House Map

After the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a congressional map used in the primary, election officials, candidates and voters are scrambling to adjust before November.

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For the 25th Time, New York Marks the Shattering Loss of 9/11

At a ceremony in Lower Manhattan, elected officials and loved ones of those killed in the 2001 terror attacks gathered in solemn remembrance.

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America Gathers to Remember, 25 Years After 9/11

Also, an Iranian-backed militia seized a key Red Sea island. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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Fact-Checking Trump’s Attacks on Democratic Senate Candidates

The president attacked three Democrats running for Senate this week with inaccurate claims to portray them as too extreme.

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Facing Islamophobia, Mamdani Keeps Focus on 9/11 Victims

In recent weeks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has visited firehouses around New York City as part of an effort to direct the public’s attention toward the victims, and away from himself.

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A Tale of Two U.S. Opens: $20,000 vs. $100 (Yacht Not Included)

If money is no object, the luxury options are plentiful. But if you take the subway and don’t mind watching the match on a screen, a budget day at the finals is possible.

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Saudi Oil Exports Face Heightened Threats After Attacks on Pipeline

Ship operators already faced severe risks in navigating the region, and now the danger is higher as Houthi militias assert control in the Red Sea.

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Energy Markets Rattled After Saudi Pipeline Attacks

The price of U.S. diesel fuel hit a new high over mounting fears that fighting in the Middle East could further threaten oil supplies.

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Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running

The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.

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Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy’s Mistrial Highlights a Divide in America

The nation’s reaction to the 11-1 deadlock that resulted in a mistrial for Lindsay Clancy was, like the jury itself, fiercely and unbridgeably divided.

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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage

The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.

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AARP Projects 2027 Social Security COLA at 3.6%

If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.

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C.I.A. Releases Intelligence Sent to Clinton and Bush on Al Qaeda Before 9/11 Attacks

The spy agency released dozens of intelligence documents it had sent to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, outlining what was known about Al Qaeda.

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The Incredible Art of Being Jeff Koons

For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own.

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Elevated Inflation Keeps Pressure on Fed to Raise Rates

The odds of a quarter-point rate increase at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week surged to 90 percent after August’s Consumer Price Index report.

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Are Our Expectations Too High for Democracy? Adam Przeworski Thinks So.

What is democracy, and is it in crisis?

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What Are Kalshi and Polymarket?

Prediction markets have taken off in popularity, drawing billions of dollars in trades. Some states have tried to ban them.

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How Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets

The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.

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Trump’s ‘Midterm Convention’ Tried to Reach Die-Hard Republican Voters, but Lacked Oomph

The long, odd two-night TV production hoped to reach a select audience of die-hard voters (if football didn’t intercept them).

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A Promising Heart Drug Failed. What Went So Wrong?

Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.

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Influencers Invited to the Republican Midterm Convention Largely Avoided Talking About The Economy

Online media stars eager to promote President Trump and Republicans worked to find a message that would resonate with an audience that is struggling with an affordability crisis.

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Israel Destroys Underground Hezbollah Base in Southern Lebanon

The complex sat below Ali al-Taher ridge, a strategic hilltop that overlooks the region and that has seen intense fighting.

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Houthis Capture Crucial Red Sea Island Off Yemen, Officials Say

The Iran-backed militia’s ground offensive has reached the Bab al-Mandab, a Red Sea strait that is a choke point for global trade.

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Twenty-Five Years

We look back at Sept. 11, 2001.

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Was Francis Fukuyama Right All Along?

The political scientist Francis Fukuyama looks back on his 1992 book, “The End of History and the Last Man,” and what it has predicted about the state of liberalism today.

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What JD Vance Knew About the War, and New Warnings About A.I.

Plus, your Friday news quiz.

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