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Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Heads to Secular France
After touring Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day visit to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds....
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Cambridge Abandons Plans to Fully Investigate Its Hiring of Jason Arday
The professor became a flashpoint in debates over diversity efforts in higher education....
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Flyovers and Pandas Masked Divides in Trump and Xi’s U.S.-China Summit
President Trump pressed his personal brand of diplomacy as President Xi Jinping of China made his first trip to the White House in more than a decade....
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Hurricane Nolo Takes Aim at Hawaii
Though likely to avoid a direct hit, parts of the state could receive nearly three feet of rain, forecasters warned....
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Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases
Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated....
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Edward Lehner, Who Made Dog Owners Pick ‘It’ Up, Dies at 93
Before the law passed, navigating New York was a harrowing exercise in dog-feces avoidance. As he put it, sometimes “you would come home and have it all over you.”...
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‘America’s Bishop’ Was Beatified. 50,000 Catholics Showed Up.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, who was the country’s most visible Roman Catholic clergyman of the 20th century, is one step closer to sainthood after a ceremony in St. Louis....
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Iran Proposes 7-Day Plan to End War
Under the offer, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and nuclear talks would be revived....
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Full Guest List for Trump’s State Dinner With Xi
Tech titans including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Tim Cook were among those invited to the event, hosted by President Trump and Melania Trump....
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About 100 Are Arrested in Protests Against Netanyahu
Large groups gathered in Midtown Manhattan to demonstrate as the Israeli prime minister spoke to the General Assembly....
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Dale Caldwell, New Jersey’s Lt. Governor, Violated Workplace Policies, Report Finds
Lawyers hired by Gov. Mikie Sherrill found Dale Caldwell sought promotion for his girlfriend and made a sexually charged comment to a staff member. Ms. Sherrill has called for his resignation....
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White House Restores Access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
A judge ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on three media outlets, but it took several hours for them to get back in. The White House TV pool remains suspended....
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Deportations to Third Countries
A lower federal court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on deporting migrants to countries other than their own....
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Mamdani Accuses Netanyahu of Spreading ‘Baseless Lies’ After U.N. Speech
The Israeli prime minister accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, of antisemitism. The mayor has become a political foil for the prime minister....
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In a New Anthropic Lab, A.I. Turns to Biology
Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown....
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Haiti Turns to Roger Stone To Lobby Trump Administration
The Haitian government hired Mr. Stone, a confidant of President Trump, weeks after hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost deportation protection. The contract is worth nearly $800,000, a document sho...
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Weeks Before the Election, Susan Collins’s Ties to a Fund-Raiser Are Under Scrutiny
Scott Reed, a longtime Washington lobbyist who has a close relationship with Senator Susan Collins of Maine, leads a super PAC backing her campaign....
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Senate Defeats Bid to Direct Trump to End Iran War or Seek Approval
The vote came as a growing number of Republicans has broken from President Trump on the conflict, reflecting voters’ concerns ahead of midterm elections....
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Abbas Presses Case for Palestinian State in Taped General Assembly Address
The Palestinian leader renewed his call for a two-state solution on Thursday, as he accused Israel of prosecuting “a genocidal war” against Palestinians....
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South Asians Face Surging Racism in America
Social media posts, including from the Department of Homeland Security and a Texas Republican candidate, have helped stir fear among people of South Asian heritage....
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Nor’easter Could Bring Heavy Rain, Winds, and Flooding to East Coast
Rain, flooding and gusty winds are all in the forecast for the Northeast this weekend, but just how much is still a little uncertain....
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Trump Struggles to Find Leverage With Xi Over Chinese Exports
The Trump administration, like its predecessors, has struggled to deal with China’s excess industrial capacity....
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Carney’s Big Challenge: Time
As he tries to break Canada’s dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he knows Canadians will feel pain from the trade war....
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The ‘Monster’ Behind Russia’s Global Effort to Evade Western Sanctions
A Moscow firm uses shell companies and cryptocurrency to launder money, and a custom app to forge trade records, to help Russia bypass sweeping financial restrictions....
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San Francisco Is Making News on Many Fronts. It’s Also Ripe for Mocking.
Artificial intelligence companies are becoming pervasive in the city, and a humorist finds this is a good time for a little satire....
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Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced.
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?...
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Mortgage Rates Hit 7% as Iran War Fallout Crushes a Weak Housing Market
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States jumped to 7.03 percent, putting pressure on housing affordability....
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Trump’s Failure to Lead Is Costing America and the World
Trump’s flailing presidency leaves Americans with the thinnest of hopes for this week’s summit: that he does not further damage the national interest....
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare....
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Son of Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Critically Hurt in West Bank Attack, Officials Say
Neria Leiter, a reserve soldier, sustained life-threatening injuries after a Palestinian man drove into a military checkpoint in the West Bank, the Israeli military said....
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White House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Ruling
A federal court ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on the three news outlets around 1 a.m. Thursday, but none were granted entry later that morning....
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Saudi Arabia Downs Houthi Missiles Targeting Kingdom, Officials Say
The Iran-backed militia in Yemen fired six ballistic missiles at cities deep in Saudi Arabia, the authorities said, in what appeared to be a sharp escalation in fighting between the two sides....
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Can Tech Companies Like Google Really Put Data Centers in Space?
Google is preparing to launch a satellite that can run its A.I. technologies from the heavens. But this is just a first step....
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When U.N. Protesters Denounce Netanyahu, Mamdani Won’t Be Among Them
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York continues to call the Israeli prime minister a war criminal. But Mr. Mamdani won’t join demonstrations against the prime minister on Thursday....
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Beleaguered at Home, a Bellicose Netanyahu Heads to the U.N.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will take to the world stage while fighting for his political future in a critical national election....
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‘Survival Mode Time’: Republicans Accelerate Their Break With Trump
The dissent reflects growing unease about the party’s prospects in November, as the G.O.P. struggles to overcome the president’s unpopularity....
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A Corruption Scandal Is Reshaping Brazil’s Presidential Election
Explosive allegations are embroiling a Supreme Court justice, Alexandre de Moraes, and reshaping a presidential election with high stakes for Latin America and Washington....
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care....
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Oil Prices Rise and Bond Markets Remain on Edge
The rise came a day after a sharp sell-off in government debt....
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Ban on Reporters, and How A.I. Is Driving Up Health Care Costs
Plus, the undamming of U.S. rivers....
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A Powerful Nor’easter Is Taking Shape. How It Could Affect Your Forecast.
The forecast for this weekend became a lot clearer on Thursday, but meteorologists warned that the storm’s exact path was still uncertain....
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How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?
And how we learn to trust elections again....
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U.S. and China Agree to Extend Trade Truce by 2 Months, Bessent Says
The Treasury secretary, who is leading talks with China, said the countries had agreed to extend a trade truce until January....
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Hayden Panettiere Was Found Surrounded by Drugs, Report Details
The actress had completed a stint in rehab before she died last month from an overdose, the coroner’s office said. Her death was ruled an accident....
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Court Blocks Trump’s White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico
Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a temporary restraining order and told the White House to immediately restore the press credentials for the employees of the three news outlets....
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Australia Investigates OpenAI Hack on Public Health Care Site
Australia is exploring potential legal action after an artificial intelligence agent accessed nonpublic information on the country’s universal health care system....
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The U.S. and China Are Far Apart on A.I. Safety
Beijing and Washington may use the same language of A.I. safety, but they are trying to protect very different things....
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From a Nepal in Pain, a Young Leader Makes a Case for Climate Reparations
Balendra Shah, 36, comes to the U.N. as a sun-glassed symbol of Gen Z political power. But concerns about his style are growing at home after devastating floods left thousands dead or missing....
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Trump Aides Seek to Jump Start Diplomacy With Iran as Crisis Widens
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that U.S. negotiators had restarted conversations about Iran’s nuclear program, but that there were no breakthroughs....
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