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Outrage After Alabama 3-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car While in State’s Care

25 juillet 2025 à 15:44
The boy, who was in foster care, was being transported between a supervised visit and day care, his aunt said. State lawmakers said they were seeking answers and the police were investigating.

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Trump Administration to Release $5.5 Billion in Frozen Schools Funding

25 juillet 2025 à 15:23
The Trump administration had faced growing bipartisan pressure, including from 10 Senate Republicans.

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The Department of Education said that it would begin sending the money to states next week.

The Senate, Once Insulated From Trump, Has Remade Itself in His Image

25 juillet 2025 à 14:27
The president has had a consequential impact on the Republican membership of the Senate as resistors are replaced by devotees. Most incumbents, even those not inclined to, have fallen in line.

The Senate, Once Insulated From Trump, Has Remade Itself in His Image

25 juillet 2025 à 14:27
The president has had a consequential impact on the Republican membership of the Senate as resistors are replaced by devotees. Most incumbents, even those not inclined to, have fallen in line.

9-Year-Old Girl Dies in Wave Pool at Hersheypark in Pennsylvania

25 juillet 2025 à 14:11
Lifeguards noticed that the girl was in distress and tried to rescue her, according to the park, which said that the pool remained closed on Friday.

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The water park at Herseypark in Hersey, Pa., in 2016. The amusement park said it had 100 trained life guards on duty in the water park at the time of the child’s death.

Justice Dept. Officials File Suit, Saying They Were Dismissed Unlawfully

25 juillet 2025 à 12:53
The lawsuit argues that employees who were fired for political reasons have no recourse, after President Trump neutralized a board that handles federal labor disputes.

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The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington.

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

25 juillet 2025 à 12:30
Scrambling to pay legal fees, Media Matters has dialed back its criticism, trimmed its staff and contemplated closing entirely.

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Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Matters, at his office in 2019. The liberal advocacy group has been hobbled by a legal onslaught from Elon Musk and investigations by President Trump’s Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.

U.S. Conducts Rare Raid in Syria, Killing a Senior Islamic State Leader

25 juillet 2025 à 12:03
The military gave few details on the ground operation, but counterterrorism raids have typically involved helicopter-borne Special Operations commandos.

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Near the Citadel of Aleppo in May.

First Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

25 juillet 2025 à 10:38
Gov. Ron DeSantis said hundreds of immigration detainees had departed a state-run detention center in the Everglades on planes, some for federal facilities, and others out of the country.

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An aerial view of the state-run detention center built on the site of a former training airport in Ochopee, Fla.

Texas Democrats Confer With California and Illinois Governors on Redistricting

25 juillet 2025 à 15:27
Two groups of Democrats left Texas to meet with Govs. Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker, who have suggested their Democratic-controlled states could counter a Texas Republican gerrymander.

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A Texas House Committee on Congressional Redistricting hearing at the Capitol in Austin on Thursday.

Trump Flies to Scotland, Leaving Chaos Swirling in Washington

25 juillet 2025 à 13:21
The five-day visit will be a mix of personal business and golf, with some diplomacy thrown in.

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President Trump departed Friday morning for Scotland.

6 Trump Voters on If They Trust President’s Handling of Epstein Case

25 juillet 2025 à 14:35
President Trump and his allies stoked conspiracy theories around Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, but then backtracked and declared an end to the investigation. Backlash ensued.

States Look to Europe to Improve U.S. Prison Conditions

States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in Germany in search of ways to improve conditions for American inmates.

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At Tegel Prison in Berlin, maximum-security prisoners have many of the same freedoms as minimum-security prisoners in the United States.

Ahead of Shutdown Deadline, Democrats Face a Dilemma on Spending

25 juillet 2025 à 03:00
Democrats are leery of supporting Republican spending measures after the White House forced through clawbacks of funding already approved by Congress.

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“No one wants a shutdown, and the way we avoid that shut down is by working together,” said Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee.
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She Tended to Patients Across 4 States. But She Wasn’t a Nurse, Police Say.

24 juillet 2025 à 20:03
A woman who the Pennsylvania State Police say worked under multiple aliases faces multiple criminal charges. The authorities still aren’t sure of her real name.

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The Pennsylvania State Police say this woman used aliases and fake documents to pose as a nurse at four states across the country.

Trump’s Name Is on Contributor List for Epstein Birthday Book

The Times also reviewed other records of the president’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, including an inscription in which the future president called him “the greatest.”

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She Tended to Patients Across 4 States. But She Wasn’t a Nurse, Police Say.

24 juillet 2025 à 20:03
A woman who the Pennsylvania State Police say worked under multiple aliases faces multiple criminal charges. The authorities still aren’t sure of her real name.

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The Pennsylvania State Police say this woman used aliases and fake documents to pose as a nurse at four states across the country.

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow NIH to Cut DEI-Related Grants

24 juillet 2025 à 19:53
A district court judge declared some of the administration’s cuts ‘void and illegal.’

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A rally against the Trump administration’s health care policies in front of the National Institutes of Health Gateway Center in Bethesda, Md., in May.

Powell Tells Trump He Was Wrong About Renovation Costs During Fed Visit

24 juillet 2025 à 19:54
President Trump is used to world leaders bowing down to him, and to cabinet members fawning over him. Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, took a different approach.

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President Trump toured the Federal Reserve’s renovation site on Thursday with Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair.

Fired FEMA Official Files Suit, Saying Board to Hear Worker Disputes Is Paralyzed

24 juillet 2025 à 19:05
Fired employees have struggled to get a judge to hear their cases because Congress set up a separate system to referee such employment disputes.

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The headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington.

Texas Legislature Special Session: Democrats Attack Silent Republicans

24 juillet 2025 à 18:54
President Trump wants Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s House maps to nab as many as five seats now held by Democrats. But no new maps have been publicly proposed yet.

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Demonstrators gathered in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol as the special session began on Monday.

Supreme Court, for Now, Pauses Lower Court Decision Limiting Voting Rights Act

24 juillet 2025 à 18:36
The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.

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Voters filling in their ballots at voting booths in Bismarck, N.D., in 2022. If the justices agree to hear the North Dakota matter, it will be the second major voting rights case in the upcoming term, which begins in October.

Ken Paxton Claimed Three Houses as His Primary Residence, Records Show

25 juillet 2025 à 00:01
The attorney general of Texas, who is challenging Senator John Cornyn, could have secured favorable mortgage rates, and may have violated the law if he knowingly falsified loan documents.

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Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, at the White House earlier this year.

Justice Kagan Urges Supreme Court to Explain Itself in Emergency Decisions

24 juillet 2025 à 18:03
In remarks before judges and lawyers in California, the justice said she believed the court had a responsibility to share its reasoning.

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In an appearance on Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan discussed the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency docket rulings and said the court could be doing more to explain its reasoning on such cases.

Lake Tahoe Boaters Died Without Life Jackets, Review Finds

24 juillet 2025 à 18:28
The eight people who died in a June accident were found without flotation devices, according to a new report. The two survivors relied on the devices to stay afloat.

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The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office conducted a search near D.L. Bliss State Park after a boat capsized and eight people died in June.

Roy Black, Defense Lawyer for William Kennedy Smith and Epstein, Dies at 80

25 juillet 2025 à 00:01
With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein.

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Roy Black spoke to the news media outside the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach in 1991 after his client William Kennedy Smith was acquitted of sexual assault charges.

Idaho Murders Case Investigators Dispel Baseless Rumors and Theories About Bryan Kohberger

24 juillet 2025 à 17:32
In an interview, the lead prosecutor, Bill Thompson, decried how some of the wild speculations surrounding the case made life “hell” for innocent people.

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Bryan Kohberger at the Ada County Courthouse after his sentencing hearing, in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday.

The Justice Dept. Interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell, While Opposing Her Appeal

24 juillet 2025 à 17:55
Even as top Justice Department officials brokered an interview with a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s, they asked the Supreme Court to reject her appeal.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen from Capitol Hill.

Israel and the U.S. Pull Back From Cease-Fire Talks With Hamas

24 juillet 2025 à 19:51
President Trump’s special envoy said that “we will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home,” though it was not clear that negotiations had halted.

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The aftermath of an Israeli military operation in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on Wednesday. Israel’s military campaign has continued and expanded even as negotiations were underway in recent weeks.

Shaheen Backs Trump U.N. Pick After Deal to Release Frozen Foreign Aid Funds

24 juillet 2025 à 16:00
The top Democrat on the foreign affairs panel cast the deciding vote to allow Michael Waltz’s nomination to go to the floor in exchange for a promise from the administration to release money for Haiti and Nigeria.

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Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, at the Capitol in June.

How a Frantic Scouring of the Epstein Files Consumed the Justice Dept.

25 juillet 2025 à 09:50
There was a single goal in mind: find something — anything — that could be released to the public to satisfy President Trump’s supporters.

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Justice Department officials diverted hundreds of F.B.I. employees and federal prosecutors from their regular duties to go through the Jeffrey Epstein files at least four times — including once to flag any references to President Trump and other prominent figures.

Columbia and Penn Made Trump Deals. More Universities Could Be Next.

24 juillet 2025 à 14:48
Trump officials hope deals with two Ivy League schools create a template that others, including Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern, will follow.

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The University of Pennsylvania reached an agreement with the Trump administration in which, among other things, it agreed to comply with White House demands on the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports.

Pentagon Suspends Its Participation in Think Tank Forums

24 juillet 2025 à 14:43
For years, Republican and Democratic administrations have sent officials to national security and foreign policy conferences around the world.

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According to a statement on Thursday, the Pentagon is suspending its participation in all national security events held by think tanks.

Agriculture Department to Move Most Remaining Washington Workers Out of City

25 juillet 2025 à 00:22
The employees More than half of the agency’s 4,600 Washington employees will be spread across five regional hubs. The agency is also shuttering regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service.

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Brooke L. Rollins, the agriculture secretary, said workers will be relocated.

Appeals Court Blocks California’s Background Checks for Ammunition Buyers

24 juillet 2025 à 13:31
The law violates the Second Amendment, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision.

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California voters approved a ballot initiative in 2019 to require background checks for ammunition buyers.

New Judge Assigned to 9/11 Case Ahead of 24th Anniversary of Attacks

24 juillet 2025 à 13:37
Lt. Col. Michael Schrama is the fifth judge in the case. He was playing college football during the year of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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The case will be Lt. Col. Michael Schrama’s second stint as a military judge.

Venezuelan Migrant Takes First Step Toward Suing the U.S. Over Detention in El Salvador

24 juillet 2025 à 13:53
Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, who was held in a prison in El Salvador, filed a claim Thursday against Homeland Security, accusing it of wrongful detention.

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Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel was held for four months at the Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, in El Salvador.

Tony Evers Declines to Run for 3rd Term as Wisconsin Governor

24 juillet 2025 à 13:56
The decision is likely to invite a wide-open race for the Democratic nomination in a battleground state the party hopes to control.

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Gov. Tony Evers, Democrat of Wisconsin, campaigning for former Vice President Kamala Harris last year.

MyPillow Founder, Mike Lindell, Will Not Pay out ‘Challenge’ Winnings, Appeals Court Rules

24 juillet 2025 à 11:56
A court overturned a previous ruling requiring Mike Lindell to pay out $5 million to a software engineer who had entered Mr. Lindell’s challenge to skeptics of his election interference claims.

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Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder. At a symposium he hosted in South Dakota in 2021, Mr. Lindell invited skeptics to disprove what he called evidence of interference in the 2020 presidential election.

Justice Dept. Interviews Epstein Associate Maxwell

24 juillet 2025 à 20:55
It is unclear what information Ghislaine Maxwell provided that would go beyond what is already in the public record.

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Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.

Josh Shapiro Says Zohran Mamdani Fails to Condemn ‘Blatantly Antisemitic’ Rhetoric

24 juillet 2025 à 18:07
Two top Jewish Democrats, Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, criticized Mr. Mamdani for not condemning those who use the slogan “globalize the intifada.”

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Rahm Emanuel, left, and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. Democratic leaders have yet to unite behind Zohran Mamdani’s bid to be mayor of New York City.

Trump to Visit Federal Reserve As Campaign Against Powell Intensifies

24 juillet 2025 à 09:49
The administration has repeatedly criticized Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, for his handling of the economy and the cost of renovations at the institution’s headquarters.

Epstein’s Estate Includes Book Said to Have Note From Trump, a Lawyer Says

24 juillet 2025 à 11:14
The lawyer, who represents victims of Jeffrey Epstein, said he believed the estate would turn the book over to the authorities if asked.

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Brad Edwards, a lawyer for hundreds of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, spoke to the media after the sentencing of the Ghislaine Maxwell in 2022.

Michael Whatley, R.N.C. Chairman, to Run for Senate in North Carolina

24 juillet 2025 à 21:43
His entry will pave the way for a marquee contest in 2026, with former Gov. Roy Cooper planning to seek the Democratic nomination.

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President Trump has long spoken favorably of Michael Whatley, a Republican operative he chose to lead the Republican National Committee last year.

In Epstein, Democrats Find Weapon Against Trump and Republicans

24 juillet 2025 à 13:20
Working to exploit a G.O.P. rift, Democrats are aggressively pushing charges of a coverup in the case of the accused pedophile, which many of them once dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

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Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, and Representative Katherine Clark, Democrat of Massachusetts, arriving for a news conference on Wednesday.
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