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At Trump’s Summit, No Deal on Ukraine, and No Consequence for Putin

15 août 2025 à 23:36
President Trump’s failure to reach an accord on Ukraine only made his warm welcome for the Russian leader more striking.

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President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin during a joint news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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At Nationals Park, It Was Game Time as Usual

15 août 2025 à 22:37
A warm and muggy Friday night seemed to have a typical ballgame atmosphere in Washington.

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A Metropolitan Police Department vehicle outside Nationals Park in Washington on Friday.

6 Takeaways From Trump’s Meeting With Putin

15 août 2025 à 22:13
While no deal was announced, the Russian leader secured some wins and left on good terms with the U.S. president.

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President Trump meeting President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia along the tarmac in Alaska. They left with no announced deal but a warm rapport.

Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children

15 août 2025 à 21:54
Court-mandated oversight will remain in place for migrant children in custody. Lawyers have reported poor medical care and lack of sunlight and showers.

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Unaccompanied minors wait for U.S. Border Patrol agents after being allowed in at El Paso, Texas.

Trump and Putin Put on a Show in Summit, but No Ukraine Deal Emerges

15 août 2025 à 21:51
President Trump gave President Vladimir Putin a warm public reception, effectively ending his diplomatic isolation over the past three years for his invasion of Ukraine. But Mr. Putin did not agree to stop the war.

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President Vladimir V. Putin and President Trump on Friday. They exchanged pleasantries, but revealed few details about their talks.

Newsom’s Gerrymander of California Has a Formidable Foe: Schwarzenegger

15 août 2025 à 21:19
The actor-turned-governor helped overhaul how California draws political maps. In an interview with The New York Times, he said he would fight to preserve that legacy.

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In 2019, Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke at a rally against gerrymandering on the steps of the Supreme Court.

California Lawmakers Release a Proposed House Map Favoring Democrats

15 août 2025 à 20:57
The plan would help Democrats flip five seats, offsetting the gains Republicans hope to make by redrawing maps in Texas.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom held a campaign-style rally in Los Angeles on Thursday to urge voters to approve a redrawn congressional map in California.

4 Takeaways From the Week Trump Took Control of D.C.’s Police

15 août 2025 à 19:21
The administration’s grip on the city has only tightened as the week has worn on, while pushback has begun to intensify.

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The impression of a major military presence across the city has yet to materialize.

D.C. Police Chief Retains Control of City Police After Court Hearing

15 août 2025 à 21:16
After a judge threatened to block an order federalizing Washington’s police, the Justice Department issued a new directive leaving the city’s police chief in charge, for now.

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Chief Pamela A. Smith is set to remain in command of the Washington police department.

Trump Welcomes Putin With B-2 Bomber Flyover and Red Carpet

15 août 2025 à 21:11
President Trump clapped for his guest, Vladimir V. Putin, as he stepped off the plane. But their visit ended with little but an agreement to see each other again — perhaps, Mr. Putin said, “in Moscow?”

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President Trump’s welcome for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia revealed just how much of a stake Mr. Trump had placed in a greeting he felt was worthy of Mr. Putin.

Sean Kingston Is Sentenced to 3½ Years in $1 Million Fraud Scheme

15 août 2025 à 18:24
A Florida jury convicted the hip-hop artist and his mother in a federal fraud case that centered on luxury goods, which prosecutors said that Mr. Kingston did not pay for.

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The rapper Sean Kingston was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on Friday for fraud scheme in which he used his celebrity status to obtain $1 million in high-end merchandise from sellers whom he never paid.

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

15 août 2025 à 16:10
In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field.

Appeals Court Paves Way for Mass Layoffs at C.F.P.B.

15 août 2025 à 15:51
In a 2-to-1 ruling, a federal appeals court said a lower court could not block the Trump administration’s plans to reduce the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s staff by nearly 90 percent.

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The seals on the entrances to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington have been scraped off. The Trump administration wants to lay off most of the agency’s workers.

Officers Clear More Homeless People from Sites Around Washington

15 août 2025 à 15:21
Local police now under federal oversight dismantled encampments, discarding tents and other belongings.

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Workers with Washington’s Department of Public Works loaded a tent into a garbage truck after Metropolitan Police cleared a homeless encampment in Washington Circle.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans Is Indicted on Corruption Charges

15 août 2025 à 19:39
LaToya Cantrell was charged with going to criminal lengths to carry out, and cover up, a romantic relationship with a city police officer assigned to protect her.

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LaToya Cantrell took office in 2018 as the first Black woman elected to lead New Orleans.

Trump Depicted Youth Crime in D.C. as Rampant. Here’s What the Data Shows.

Concerns came to a head during the pandemic, when carjackings surged and many of those arrested were children. Carjackings and other crimes have declined considerably.

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President Trump during a news conference in the White House Briefing Room on Monday.

Congressional Democrats Move to End Trump’s Control of D.C. Police

15 août 2025 à 12:30
The legislation has little chance of success, given that Republicans control Congress.

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Officers with the Department of Homeland Security and Washington Metropolitan Police Department at a traffic checkpoint Wednesday in Washington.

Man Rescued From Behind California Waterfall After 2 Days

15 août 2025 à 11:16
The man, who was found with minor injuries and suffering from dehydration, was located by rescue crews operating a drone near where he had last been spotted.

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A man who was trapped behind a waterfall for two days in Sequoia National Forest was rescued on Tuesday.

Trump Administration Backs Off New Attempt to Widen Control of D.C. Police

15 août 2025 à 23:57
The chief will remain after a lawsuit challenged the Justice Department’s attempt to install a new leader as part of an effort to put the agency under federal control.

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Amtrak police officers and National Guard troops patrolling at Union Station in Washington on Thursday.

How Trump’s Meeting With Putin Could Unfold, as Trump Seeks Cease-Fire in Ukraine

15 août 2025 à 05:03
A sudden feud, an impasse or a first step toward a cease-fire are all possible at the summit in Alaska as the two leaders navigate thorny issues such as Ukraine’s territory and NATO expansion.

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President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018. The summit on Friday will be their first face-to-face meeting since Mr. Trump’s first presidency.

Feds Turn Into Beat Cops in Trump’s D.C. Policing Surge

15 août 2025 à 05:03
In the nation’s capital, federal agents have operated a sobriety checkpoint, made gun and drug busts and carried out other day-to-day police work. Some residents are uneasy.

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Federal agents detained a man in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night.

How Ambitious Democratic Governors Are Navigating Trump’s Redistricting War

15 août 2025 à 05:02
Some have emerged as a front line against Trump’s push to grab more seats in Congress, putting the issue at the center of their party’s politics. Others are ceding the spotlight.

With a Shovel and a Dream, a Woman Finds a 2.3 Carat Diamond in Arkansas

15 août 2025 à 11:20
After three weeks, with bug bites and tattered hiking boots, Micherre Fox found the stone at Crater of Diamonds State Park.

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Micherre Fox, who lives in Manhattan, holds a 2.3-carat uncut white diamond she dug up at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park after three weeks of searching.

The Last Refugees Let Into the U.S. Wonder if Their New Country Wants Them

15 août 2025 à 05:00
After President Trump suspended the refugee admissions program, some new arrivals found themselves out in the Wisconsin cold. With help, they have survived.

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Luismar Liendo and Edwin Perez.

Tribal Colleges Rely on Federal Funding. Their Leaders Fear the Trump Years.

15 août 2025 à 05:00
As the Trump administration has publicly targeted elite universities, it has also quietly pursued funding cuts for the nation’s tribal colleges, which rely on federal dollars to operate.

Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Neb. Many tribal colleges are hubs of Native culture. Little Priest, for example, promotes itself as the only college in America that teaches the Ho-Chunk language.

Trump-Putin Meeting: What Time, Where and How to Watch

15 août 2025 à 03:00
The leaders of the United States and Russia will hold talks at an American military base in Alaska and are expected to hold a news conference afterward.

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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on Wednesday.
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Man Fleeing an Immigration Raid Dies After Running Onto an L.A. Freeway

14 août 2025 à 23:08
The man was hit by a vehicle. It happened about a month after an immigrant fell from a greenhouse and later died following a raid in Ventura County.

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An immigration raid at a Home Depot in Monrovia, Calif., on Thursday caused a man to flee onto a freeway. He was struck by a vehicle and died, officials said.

Newsom Kicks Off California Redistricting Campaign and Calls for Special Election

14 août 2025 à 21:34
The governor kicked off his campaign for a proposition asking California voters to approve a new congressional map, a move that comes with both opportunity and risk.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom called on voters to approve a ballot measure redrawing the state’s congressional map at an event in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Thousands Ask Harvard Not to ‘Give in’ and Pay Fine to Trump

14 août 2025 à 20:42
In a petition, alumni, faculty and members of the public asked Harvard to stand up to the White House. The school has signaled a willingness to pay $500 million to restore research funds.

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Many at the university had praised the school for suing the Trump administration in the spring over funding cuts and pushing back against other demands.

Phil Knight, Ex-Nike Chief, and His Wife Pledge $2 Billion to Oregon Cancer Center

14 août 2025 à 20:24
Oregon Health & Science University said the couple’s donation would be the largest single gift to a higher-learning institution in the United States.
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  • Federal Raids Target D.C. Homeless Camps
    It was unclear how widespread or effective the raids were, after district officials and advocates had spent much of the day trying to clear the camps, urging people to go to shelters ahead of the raids.
     

Federal Raids Target D.C. Homeless Camps

It was unclear how widespread or effective the raids were, after district officials and advocates had spent much of the day trying to clear the camps, urging people to go to shelters ahead of the raids.

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Metropolitan Police Department personnel stood by as a shelter hotline van arrived near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington on Thursday.

Judge Halts White House Effort to Defund Schools With D.E.I. Programs

14 août 2025 à 21:15
The Trump administration had asked states to certify that their schools did not practice “illegal D.E.I.” and threatened to cut off billions of dollars from schools that did not comply.

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The Supreme Court in Washington, where affirmative action in college has already been ruled unconstitutional.

Dale Webster, Who Surfed Every Day for 40 Years, Dies at 76

14 août 2025 à 18:05
He braved frigid waters and sharks and surfed even when he had a kidney stone while breaking the record for the most consecutive days surfed.

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Dale Webster, who became known as Daily Wavester for his surfing streak, at Salmon Beach in Bodega, Calif., in 2000.

Gerry Spence, a Canny Courtroom Showman in Buckskin, Dies at 96

14 août 2025 à 21:56
Calling himself America’s best trial lawyer, he won justice for Karen Silkwood and successfully defended Imelda Marcos. He also wrote best sellers.

Minnesota Assassination Suspect Indicted on First-Degree Murder Charges

14 août 2025 à 17:38
State prosecutors had previously charged the man with second-degree murder in the deaths of State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband.

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State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were honored at the Minnesota State Capitol in June after they were killed.

Texas Democrats Will Return Home, Allowing Vote on Redistricting Plan

14 août 2025 à 18:08
The leader of Democrats in the Texas House said the battle over redistricting, which could determine control of Congress, is likely to continue in the courts.

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State Representative Gene Wu, leader of the Democrats in the Texas House, speaking at a news conference in Chicago, where lawmakers from his party have fled.

Woman Claims Marine Laced Her Drink With Abortion Pills

14 août 2025 à 17:18
A Texas woman said in a lawsuit that a U.S. Marine got her pregnant and then, after she chose to keep the pregnancy, dissolved abortion pills in her hot chocolate.

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Medical abortion pills. A wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Liana Davis claims that Christopher Cooprider dosed her with 10 abortion pills after she rebuffed his requests to end her pregnancy.

As Trump Seizes D.C.’s Police, Critics Say He’s Undercut Its Ability to Fight Crime

14 août 2025 à 18:00
The Trump administration has taken steps that have hobbled Washington’s efforts to reduce crime, such as gutting its U.S. attorney’s office and enacting budget cuts of more than $1 billion.

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President Trump has deployed 800 members of the National Guard to Washington to assist local and federal law enforcement.

Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally

14 août 2025 à 20:42
The armed and masked agents assembled outside a museum where the governor was speaking in what Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles called “a provocative act.”

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More than a dozen Border Patrol agents turned up in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday outside a museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference.

A 500-Year-Old Receipt for Supplies to Conquer an Empire Is Returned to Mexico

14 août 2025 à 16:41
The document describes payments made for expedition supplies, and was signed by Hernán Cortés, who conquered the Aztecs.

Federal Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty in Fatal Shooting of Border Patrol Agent

14 août 2025 à 18:54
A federal grand jury in Vermont indicted Teresa Youngblut, 21, on murder and other charges, seven months after a violent encounter during a traffic stop.

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U.S. Border Patrol vehicles blocking Interstate 91 a day after a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed on the highway in Coventry, Vt.

In L.A., Fear of ICE Raids Put the First Day of School On Edge

14 août 2025 à 16:11
Officials and volunteers patrolled areas around schools, part of an effort to warn families about potential raids and reassure them that their children were safe at school.

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As more than half a million students headed back to Los Angeles Unified School District campuses this week, the mood was tense amid the Trump administration’s immigration raids.

All National Guard Troops Sent to Washington Are Mobilized, Pentagon Says

14 août 2025 à 14:31
The 800 soldiers, in round-the-clock shifts of 100 to 200, will support Washington police and federal law enforcement officers.

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The Pentagon said the National Guard troops ordered into Washington’s streets by President Trump would “remain until law and order is restored in the District.”
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  • Fact-Checking Trump on Epstein
    For the most part, President Trump has ignored questions about Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender who paid teenage girls for sex. He has brushed off the matter as a “hoax” without elaborating, and he has tried to deflect by attacking his political enemies. But there are a few instances when the president did address questions about Epstein. Here’s an assessment of some of those claims.
     

Fact-Checking Trump on Epstein

14 août 2025 à 13:43
For the most part, President Trump has ignored questions about Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender who paid teenage girls for sex. He has brushed off the matter as a “hoax” without elaborating, and he has tried to deflect by attacking his political enemies. But there are a few instances when the president did address questions about Epstein. Here’s an assessment of some of those claims.

Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police and Names ‘Emergency’ Commissioner

15 août 2025 à 00:49
The attorney general cleared the way for the police to aid in immigration enforcement and named an “emergency” commissioner, setting the stage for a conflict with local authorities.

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Department of Homeland Security agents joined Washington police officers at a traffic checkpoint on Wednesday.

Fact-Checking Trump’s Epstein Defenses

14 août 2025 à 17:05
In the face of mounting discontent over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump has turned to deflection, denial and downplaying.

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While President Trump socialized with Jeffrey Epstein decades earlier, they had a falling out in the 2000s and there is no public evidence that the president was involved in any of Mr. Epstein’s illegal activities.

Judge Orders Liquidation of Infowars to Pay Sandy Hook Families

14 août 2025 à 12:12
The order comes after a series of legal setbacks for the families of Sandy Hook victims as they tried to collect money owed to them by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

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Alex Jones entering a courthouse to testify in Waterbury, Conn., in 2022. For years, Mr. Jones claimed that the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut was a hoax.

Florida to Open Second Immigrant Detention Center Called ‘Deportation Depot’

14 août 2025 à 12:02
The state says it will run the new center from an empty prison that could hold 2,000 federal detainees. This one will be called “Deportation Depot.”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed to help the Trump administration enforce immigration laws.
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