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Two Big Law Firms Said to Be Doing Free Work for Trump Administration

Par :Michael S. Schmidt · Matthew Goldstein and Maggie Haberman
20 août 2025 à 15:38
After making deals with the president to avoid punitive executive orders, Paul Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis are helping the Commerce Department.

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The firms are working on a range of matters for the Commerce Department, including trade deals, according to one of the people briefed on the matter.
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Social Media Figure Is Killed by Stray Bullet in Road Rage Episode, Police Say

Par :Christine Hauser
20 août 2025 à 14:51
Yarely Hermosillo, 27, was in a car struck by a bullet fired by a man who was arguing with another driver in Glendale, Ariz., the police said.
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Senate Adds Guardrails in an Effort to Force Trump to Obey Spending Bills

Par :Carl Hulse
20 août 2025 à 14:52
Leaders of the Appropriations Committee are trying to tighten up funding legislation to give the Trump administration less leeway to refuse to spend federal money.

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Senator Patty Murray of Washington joined other Appropriations Committee members in a letter to Russell T. Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to protest his decision to not spend nearly $3 billion in emergency funds.
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Judge Halts Texas Law Mandating the Ten Commandments in School

Par :Pooja Salhotra
20 août 2025 à 13:46
The state law had said public schools would have to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous” location in every classroom in Texas by Sept. 1.

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A poster of the Ten Commandments in a classroom in Willis, Texas.
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Frisbee, Seth Meyers’s Dog and Andy Samberg’s Archenemy, Dies

Par :Aishvarya Kavi
20 août 2025 à 11:45
The “Late Night” host announced her death on Instagram. Fans mused that the comic Andy Samberg, who famously hated his friend’s scrawny pet, was rejoicing.

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Seth Meyers with his Italian greyhound, Frisbee, during a taping of his show, “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” in 2021.
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N.S.A.’s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge

Par :Julian E. Barnes
20 août 2025 à 12:50
Vinh Nguyen, an expert in artificial intelligence and advanced mathematics, was among the current and former officials whose security clearances were revoked by the president.

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Lt. Gen. William J. Hartman, the acting N.S.A. director, asked to see evidence that the agency’s chief data scientist had done anything to merit the revocation of his security clearance.
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Trump Calls for Fed Governor Lisa Cook to Resign Amid Campaign to Remake Central Bank

Par :Tony Romm · Ben Casselman and Colby Smith
20 août 2025 à 15:38
The administration accused the official, Lisa Cook, of mortgage fraud and said it would refer the matter for criminal investigation.

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Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, at an event at Spelman College in Atlanta in 2023.
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Texas Republicans Poised to Pass New Redistricting Maps, Just as Trump Wanted

Par :J. David Goodman
20 août 2025 à 12:23
The effort is intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. California will counter on Thursday.

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Texas lawmakers on the floor of the State House on Wednesday in Austin.
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5 Takeaways From the Times Analysis of Democratic Decline in Voter Registration

Par :Shane Goldmacher
20 août 2025 à 05:01
Thirty states, as well as Washington, D.C., allow voters to register with a political party. Here’s what the data shows.

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The Democratic edge for voter registration in swing states like Nevada has been vanishing as the Republican share continues to grow.
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Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus

Par :Anemona Hartocollis
20 août 2025 à 05:01
Students from some countries won’t make it to class this fall because of President Trump’s travel ban. Others can’t get visa appointments. Some are simply scared. Universities are panicking.

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Arizona State University has one of the highest proportions of international students, but their numbers are set to drop this fall.
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Where Democrats Lost on Voter Registration

Par :Shane Goldmacher · Claire Hogan · David Jouppi and Zach Caldwell
20 août 2025 à 05:00
If you want to understand the health of a political party, take a look at their voter registration numbers. And for the Democrats, it’s not looking good.
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The Democratic Party’s Voter Registration Crisis

Par :Shane Goldmacher and Jonah Smith
20 août 2025 à 05:00
The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.

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Florida has had a significant shift of registered voters in the Republican direction, a remarkable inversion that explains the state’s transformation from a perennial battleground to the new symbol of red America.
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Pirro Orders Office to Maximize Criminal Charges on Street Arrests

Par :Devlin Barrett
19 août 2025 à 15:33
The instruction amounts to a declaration that the understaffed U.S. attorney’s office will seek to ramp up criminal charges arising from the president’s takeover of law enforcement in the capital.

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A new directive from Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, comes as hundreds of federal agents are deployed in the city.
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Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’

Par :Zolan Kanno-Youngs
19 août 2025 à 21:05
The remark, made as the president has ordered a wide-ranging review of museum exhibits, added to his pattern of minimizing Black history.

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.
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Susan Collins to Get Hollywood Treatment at Fund-Raiser Featuring Democrats

Par :Theodore Schleifer and Brooks Barnes
19 août 2025 à 20:39
Democrats hoping to retake the Senate in the midterm elections next year are targeting the seat of Senator Collins, a Maine Republican who is seen as a moderate.

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Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, is expected to attend fund-raising events in Northern California around the time of the Hollywood event.
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Trump’s White House Joins TikTok

Par :Chris Cameron
19 août 2025 à 20:29
The move continues a remarkable turnabout toward the app for President Trump, who tried to ban TikTok in his first term.

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President Trump’s personal TikTok account, shown here, has been inactive, but the president started a White House account on Tuesday.
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For Trump, Flashy Summits Come First. Grunt Work Comes Next.

Par :Zolan Kanno-Youngs
19 août 2025 à 19:04
Diplomats scrambled to come up with detailed proposals for security guarantees and other sticking points following two high-level summits in Alaska and Washington.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arriving at the White House for talks with President Trump on Monday.
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Stabbing at Arizona High School Leaves 1 Student Dead, Officials Say

Par :Alexandra E. Petri
19 août 2025 à 20:15
A fight between two students at Maryvale High School in Phoenix on Tuesday left one fatally stabbed and the other with non-life-threatening injuries and in custody, officials said.
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What’s Next for the Ukraine Peace Talks?

Par :Neil MacFarquhar
19 août 2025 à 18:09
President Trump says President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has agreed to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, but Mr. Putin has not confirmed.

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia arrived at an Air Force base on Friday in Anchorage for a meeting with President Trump.
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Abrego Garcia’s Lawyers Accuse Trump Administration of Vindictive Prosecution

Par :Alan Feuer
19 août 2025 à 18:10
It was the second time that Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have sought to hold the Trump administration accountable over its handling of his expulsion to El Salvador and its aftermath.

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Lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia leaving court in Nashville last month after a hearing.
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Attacker Stabs Colorado Park Ranger and Flees

Par :Neil Vigdor
19 août 2025 à 17:09
A manhunt was underway for the attacker as the ranger was airlifted to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after the episode at Staunton State Park, the authorities said.

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Law enforcement officers searching for the man who attacked a wildlife ranger at Staunton State Park in Colorado on Tuesday.
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Manhunt Underway After Texas Jail Mistakenly Releases Inmate

Par :Rylee Kirk
19 août 2025 à 16:36
The release of a man who had been serving a five-year sentence for assault is the second time the jail has released someone prematurely this year.

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The Harris County jail in Houston. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is searching for an inmate who was mistakenly released early Sunday morning.
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Trump Revokes Security Clearances of 37 Former and Current Officials

Par :Julian E. Barnes and Maggie Haberman
19 août 2025 à 17:53
The move is the latest effort by the Trump administration to shift the public’s attention to the 2016 election.

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Voters casting their ballots in Brooklyn in November 2016. The Trump administration has been trying to shift the public’s attention to the 2016 election and away from questions about the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Texas Rep. Nicole Collier Slept on the House Floor in Protest

Par :J. David Goodman
20 août 2025 à 05:23
Nicole Collier, a state representative, slept in the Capitol rather than agree to police surveillance imposed by Republicans after a Democratic walkout. “I am resisting,” she said.

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State Representative Nicole Collier, a Fort Worth Democrat, at right, in the State House chamber on Monday.
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Trump Wants Universities to Show Him the Money, or No Deal

Par :Michael C. Bender · Alan Blinder and Michael S. Schmidt
19 août 2025 à 15:55
President Trump has personally stipulated that hefty financial penalties be part of agreements his administration is negotiating with the elite universities. Critics call it extortion.

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Harvard University is poised to spend $500 million on vocational and educational programs.
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Richard Lee, Activist Who Founded a Pot ‘University,’ Dies at 62

Par :Alex Williams
19 août 2025 à 15:06
After he was paralyzed in an accident, his use of marijuana for medical purposes led him to become one of the nation’s most influential cannabis activists.

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Richard Lee spoke at a news conference in Oakland, Calif., in 2010 to bring attention to Proposition 19, a measure to legalize marijuana in California. He became a national face of the legalization movement when he spent more than $1.3 million of his own money to support the proposition.
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Pirro Orders Office to Maximize Criminal Charges on Street Arrests

Par :Devlin Barrett
19 août 2025 à 14:37
The instruction amounts to a declaration that the understaffed U.S. attorney’s office will seek to ramp up criminal charges arising from the president’s takeover of law enforcement in the capital.

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A new directive from Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, comes as hundreds of federal agents are deployed in the city.
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National Guard Troops in Washington Stick to Tourist Areas

Par :Helene Cooper
19 août 2025 à 14:05
The number of troops in the city is expected to grow. But Army officials appear to be trying to keep them on the sidelines of President Trump’s mission.

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‘I Want to Try and Get to Heaven’: Trump Gets Reflective on ‘Fox & Friends’

Par :Shawn McCreesh
19 août 2025 à 13:56
President Trump cast his effort to broker peace in Ukraine in existential terms.

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President Trump at a White House Faith Office luncheon last month.
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Mike Castle, Bipartisan Delaware Congressman, Dies at 86

Par :Sam Roberts
19 août 2025 à 13:50
A fiscal conservative who supported gun control and other liberal causes, he was the last Republican elected to serve his state as governor and to represent it in the House.

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Mike Castle in 2010, the year he was defeated by a Tea Party candidate in his primary campaign for the United States Senate.
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Tennessee Becomes Latest Republican-Led State to Send National Guard to D.C.

Par :Katie Glueck and Anushka Patil
19 août 2025 à 13:45
The chair of the Democratic Governors Association, however, warned Republican governors against supporting “a dangerous, politically motivated agenda.”

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President Trump has deployed members of the National Guard to Washington in an effort to crack down on crime.
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Pirro has ordered her office to maximize criminal charges on street arrests.

Par :Devlin Barrett
19 août 2025 à 13:17
The instruction amounts to a declaration that the understaffed U.S. attorney’s office will seek to ramp up criminal charges arising from the president’s takeover of law enforcement in the capital.

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The new directive from Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, comes as an influx of hundreds of new federal agents are deployed in the city.
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Tennessee Becomes Latest Republican-Led State to Send National Guard to D.C.

Par :Katie Glueck and Anushka Patil
19 août 2025 à 13:04
The chair of the Democratic Governors Association, however, warned Republican governors against supporting “a dangerous, politically motivated agenda.”

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President Trump deployed members of the National Guard to Washington in an effort to crack down on crime.
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Amid Threats From Trump, Adam Schiff Forms Legal Defense Fund

Par :Shane Goldmacher
19 août 2025 à 13:25
President Trump suggested this month that his Justice Department should investigate Mr. Schiff, who served on the Jan. 6 committee.

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As a member of the U.S. House, Adam Schiff, now a senator, led congressional inquiries into President Trump during his first term in the White House.
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California Republicans File Suit Seeking to Block Newsom Redistricting Plan

Par :Laurel Rosenhall
19 août 2025 à 12:42
Republican state lawmakers argue that Democratic lawmakers violated 30-day disclosure rules in the California Constitution.

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James Gallagher, the Assembly Republican leader, criticized the Democrats’ plan to redraw the California congressional map. California Democrats have said that they were responding to redistricting changes by Republicans in Texas.
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Russia Plays Down the Prospect of a Putin-Zelensky Meeting

Par :Ivan Nechepurenko
19 août 2025 à 11:11
President Trump had suggested a meeting between Russia and Ukraine’s leaders could be a potential next step on the path to peace. Russian state news media barely mentioned the idea.

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The Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, left, and Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, second left, accompanied President Vladimir V. Putin to Alaska on Friday.
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He Tried to Endorse From the Pulpit. He Wound Up Without a Church.

Par :David A. Fahrenthold and Elizabeth Dias
19 août 2025 à 23:12
The I.R.S. says churches can now support candidates during services, but many denominations still forbid it. A Wisconsin pastor learned the hard way.

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The Rev. Jonathan Barker resigned from his post at Grace Lutheran in Kenosha, Wis., because of pressure for preparing a sermon urging Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, to run for president in 2028.
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In Battle Over D.C. Police, Federal Prosecutors Open Inquiry Into Crime Data

Par :Devlin Barrett
19 août 2025 à 09:04
The same U.S. attorney’s office that praised a drop in crime in the capital in April has begun an investigation into the Police Department resisting President Trump’s takeover.

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City officials have challenged the rationale of such an aggressive assertion of power, noting that most major categories of crime have been falling since 2023.
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Russia Strikes Ukraine Hours After White House Meetings

Par :Matthew Mpoke Bigg
19 août 2025 à 07:47
Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. The attacks came after European leaders met with President Trump to try to find a path toward peace.

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Rescue workers at the site of a Russian strike on a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.
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Why European Leaders Want a Cease-Fire in Ukraine Before a Peace Deal

Par :Jim Tankersley
19 août 2025 à 06:58
Ukraine and its European allies are seeking to persuade President Trump that a cease-fire is a prerequisite for peace talks with Russia.

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A soldier from Ukraine’s 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade ran at the site of a Russian glide bomb strike minutes earlier, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on Sunday.
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In Pursuing Trump Rival, Weaponization Czar Sidesteps Justice Dept. Norms

Par :Jonah E. Bromwich · Glenn Thrush · Alan Feuer and Michael S. Schmidt
19 août 2025 à 05:03
Edward R. Martin Jr.’s conduct is part of a pattern in which top administration officials try to use the vast powers of the government to cast the specter of criminality on President Trump’s enemies.

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Edward R. Martin Jr. has said that if he is unable to successfully obtain indictments against the targets of his inquiries, he will name and shame them.
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The Politics of Crime Are Perilous for Left and Right Alike

Par :Shaila Dewan
19 août 2025 à 05:02
President Trump has latched on to concerns about crime, as liberals point to its decline. The politics often flip when it comes to mass shootings.

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Department of Homeland Security Investigations agents and Metropolitan Police Department officers at a checkpoint on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.
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In Maine, a Political Novice Makes a Long-Shot Bid to Oust Collins

Par :Annie Karni
19 août 2025 à 05:01
Democrats hope to recruit Governor Janet Mills to challenge the powerful Republican senator, but an oyster farmer with a working man’s pitch thinks he has a better chance.

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Graham Platner shucking oysters at the farm he co-runs in the Frenchman Bay in Maine.
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Seeking Tales and Sipping Whiskey in a Shack Floating Down the Bayou

Par :Rick Rojas and Annie Flanagan
19 août 2025 à 05:00
The shanty boat was bound for New Orleans, but the destination mattered less than the challenges, chance encounters and lessons learned along the way.
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