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Trump Nominates Nick Adams, ‘Alpha Male’ Influencer, for Ambassador to Malaysia

10 juillet 2025 à 20:17
Nick Adams rose to prominence with a hypermasculine identity and crass jokes about Hooters. President Trump named him ambassador to a country of 35 million people.

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The incendiary online history of Nick Adams, who has been picked to represent the United States before a majority-Muslim nation, includes Islamophobic comments.

State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs

10 juillet 2025 à 19:03
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan to downsize a “bloated” department had been on hold after a court ruling.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the changes would better align the department with core American values and root out pockets of “radical political ideology.”

Justice Dept. Promised to Prosecute Abrego Garcia. Now It’s Not So Clear.

10 juillet 2025 à 18:50
In the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the administration appears primarily concerned with ensuring that a man it has described as a “dangerous illegal alien” never walks free on U.S. soil.

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Supporters of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia rallying outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., during a hearing on his case on Thursday.

Four Ex-Jail Officers Are Sentenced in Death of West Virginia Inmate

10 juillet 2025 à 17:57
The former officers, who brutally beat a 37-year-old man, received prison terms ranging from three years to more than two decades.

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The Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., where Quantez Burks, 37, died in March 2022 after being brutally beaten by corrections officers.

Missouri Governor Signs Bill Rolling Back Voter-Approved Minimum Wage and Sick Leave

10 juillet 2025 à 17:21
The reversal reflected a growing struggle over the use of ballot measures to answer policy questions in Republican-led states.

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Gov. Mike Kehoe of Missouri in January.

Secret Service Suspends Six Agents Over Trump Assassination Attempt

10 juillet 2025 à 16:58
The announcement comes near the anniversary of the shooting at Donald J. Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

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Secret Service agents protecting Donald J. Trump after the shooting in Butler, Pa., in 2024.

Angela Paxton Files for Divorce From Ken Paxton, Texas’ Attorney General

10 juillet 2025 à 16:50
The announcement could have a significant impact on the race for U.S. Senate in Texas. Mr. Paxton is challenging Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary.

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State Senator Angela Paxton in her office at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.

Wife of Ken Paxton Files for Divorce, Citing ‘Recent Discoveries’

10 juillet 2025 à 16:29
The announcement could have a significant impact on the race for U.S. Senate in Texas. Mr. Paxton is challenging Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary.

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State Sen. Angela Paxton in her office at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.

The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials’ Loyalty

10 juillet 2025 à 19:47
Some senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel.

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The use of the polygraph, and the nature of the questioning, is part of the F.B.I.’s broader crackdown on news leaks, reflecting, to a degree, the director's acute awareness of how he is publicly portrayed.

Targeting Brazil, Trump Tests Legal Limit of His Tariff Powers

10 juillet 2025 à 16:10
The president signaled he would seek to use the threat of steep levies to reorient trade and protect his political allies.

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President Trump linked his threat of a 50 percent tariff on Brazil this week to that country’s treatment of its former president Jair Bolsonaro, above.

Justice Jackson Says ‘the State of Our Democracy’ Keeps Her Up at Night

10 juillet 2025 à 15:58
At a bar association event in Indiana, the justice told those gathered that she is focused on drawing attention to what is happening to the government.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, photographed last year, is the Supreme Court’s most junior member, but she wrote an unusually large number of concurring and dissenting opinions during the court’s most recent term.

Schumer Says Trump Bill Boosts Democrats’ Hopes in 2026 Midterm Elections

10 juillet 2025 à 15:56
The top Senate Democrat said the law would lead to widespread pain for voters, imperiling Republicans who supported it and allowing his party more openings to contest control of the Senate.

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Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, on Capitol Hill this week. “The three issues we’re going to most campaign on: costs, jobs, and health care,” he said in an interview on Thursday.

Some of Iran’s Enriched Uranium Survived Attacks, Israeli Official Says

10 juillet 2025 à 14:15
The assessment came as experts are trying to determine how long it would take Iran to rebuild its nuclear program in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli strikes.

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A uranium processing site in Isfahan, which hosts Iran’s nuclear laboratory, seen in 2005.

Texas City Racked by Floods Becomes a Hub for Search and Recovery

10 juillet 2025 à 12:32
Most summers, Kerrville, Texas, draws crowds for its July 4 celebration. This year, the streets are filled with emergency responders.

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A Beloved Bloodhound, a Fatal Treat: A Gruesome Murder Mystery in Italy

10 juillet 2025 à 11:45
The killing of Bruno, a decorated sniffer dog who ingested sausages stuffed with nails, has set off an outpouring of grief in Italy.

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Dog trainer Arcangelo Caressa with his bloodhound Bruno in Taranto, Italy, in January.

Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order in Class-Action Challenge

10 juillet 2025 à 11:42
The federal judge reignited the legal standoff over President Trump’s efforts to deny citizenship to children born to undocumented parents.

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The federal courthouse in Concord, N.H. Judge Joseph N. Laplante allowed the case to proceed as a class action.

Trump Administration Is Forcing Prosecutors to Ignore Law, Whistle-Blower Says

10 juillet 2025 à 10:41
In an interview with The New York Times, a former Justice Department lawyer, Erez Reuveni, said officials pressed subordinates to mislead judges, and dared the courts to stop it.

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At his confirmation hearing for a judgeship, Senate Democrats asked Emil Bove III about a claim that he and Trump administration officials were willing to defy rulings regarding deportation.

L.A.-Area Bishop Excuses Faithful From Mass Over Fear of Immigration Raids

10 juillet 2025 à 18:38
Bishop Alberto Rojas of the Diocese of San Bernardino lifted the obligation for members to celebrate Mass if they had a “genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions.”

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Bishop Alberto Rojas leading Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Chino Hills, Calif., in 2023.

Trump Says Bolsonaro, Like Other Allies Under Pressure, Faces a ‘Witch Hunt’

10 juillet 2025 à 10:15
President Trump’s defense of the former president of Brazil was the latest example of him invoking a term he has frequently used while describing himself as a victim.

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Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, leaving a courthouse in Brasília last month.

As Israel and Ukraine Advance Drone Warfare, U.S. Sees Its Own Vulnerabilities

10 juillet 2025 à 10:13
Israel and Ukraine have used drones against their adversaries in audacious ways that have helped the Pentagon see the need for new technology.

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Ukrainian soldiers at an air defense position, where they monitor for, and shoot down armed Russian drones in May.

Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural, White Americans, Too

10 juillet 2025 à 19:20
The N.I.H. has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump.

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Lucas Dillard at Johns Hopkins.

Discovery of Texas Flood Victims Slows After Nearly a Week of Searching

10 juillet 2025 à 17:22
In Kerr County, the hardest-hit region, officials said the number of missing remained unchanged, at 161, since Tuesday. The floods have killed at least 121 people statewide.

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Volunteers cleared up debris as they searched along the Guadalupe River in Center Point, Texas, on Wednesday.

As Texas Flood Raged, Camp Mystic Was Left to Fend for Itself

10 juillet 2025 à 05:02
Flash floods surged through in the middle of the night, but many local officials appeared unaware of the unfolding catastrophe, initially leaving people near the river on their own.

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The belongings of campers were piled outside a pair of cabins at Camp Mystic.

These Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party’s Status Quo

10 juillet 2025 à 05:01
Majority Democrats, a new group of elected officials from all levels of government, has outsized ambitions to challenge political orthodoxies and remake the party.

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“We’ve got to lay out the case for what we’re for as a party,” said Representative Angie Craig, a Democrat from Minnesota and a leader of the initiative.

Signs of Violence in Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office Dated Back Years

10 juillet 2025 à 05:00
The F.B.I. and a Mississippi sheriff investigated complaints about brutal assaults, but the deputies accused remained on the force and never faced charges.

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Department records and interviews with a former F.B.I. agent show that the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department had evidence of deputies’ violent acts long before the abuses of the “Goon Squad” came to light in 2023.

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for calling for international investigations of Americans and Israelis over the war in the enclave.

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Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, in Copenhagen in February.

Trump Names Sean Duffy as Interim Head of NASA

10 juillet 2025 à 00:39
President Trump had pulled the nomination of a close associate of Elon Musk to lead the agency in May. The decision fueled a public breakdown of their alliance.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy at the White House in May.

27 Workers Make Improbable Escape from Collapsed L.A. Tunnel

10 juillet 2025 à 02:52
They climbed over a mound of loose soil and emerged at the tunnel’s only entrance five miles away, officials said.

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The Los Angeles Fire Department rescued dozens of workers trapped inside an industrial tunnel that collapsed on Wednesday.

Trump Administration Sues California Over Transgender Athletes

9 juillet 2025 à 12:41
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against two California agencies, accusing them of violating Title IX by allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports.

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The Trump administration’s lawsuit aims to overturn state policies allowing transgender athletes to participate in girls’ high school sports.
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Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists

9 juillet 2025 à 21:05
A senior Homeland Security official testified in court on Wednesday that his department had relied in part on an anonymously compiled list to identify foreign academics for investigation.

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Peter Hatch, the assistant director of the Homeland Security Investigations department within ICE, testified that a team he oversaw had been directed to pore over the thousands of individuals profiled by the Canary Mission, an anonymous group that has been accused of doxxing individuals engaged in anti-Israeli activism.

Tillis Suggests He Regrets Vote to Confirm Hegseth, Calling Him ‘Out of His Depth’

10 juillet 2025 à 18:16
The North Carolina senator, who recently said he did not plan to run for re-election, said the defense secretary’s decisions had been amateurish and showed he was unfit to lead a large organization.

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Senator Thom Tillis, right, the North Carolina Republican, listening to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a rally last month at Fort Bragg.

Abbott Asks Lawmakers to Redraw Texas’ Congressional Maps in Special Session

9 juillet 2025 à 19:54
Democrats criticized Gov. Greg Abbott for seeking a redistricting, favored by President Trump’s political team, just days after devastating floods in Texas.

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Gov. Greg Abbott added redistricting to a special session set to start later this month. The session was already going to consider new legislation to improve how the state prepares for floods.

Maine Paddleboarder’s Death Is Investigated as a Homicide, Police Say

9 juillet 2025 à 19:47
Sunshine Stewart, 48, disappeared on the night of July 2 during an outing on Crawford Pond in Union, Maine. Her body was found hours later near an island preserve.

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Crawford Pond in Union, Maine. The police are investigating the killing of a woman last seen paddle boarding on the pond.

Trump Asks Liberian President Where He Learned English, the Country’s Official Language

9 juillet 2025 à 19:27
English is the official language of the West African country, which was founded in part by freed American slaves.

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President Trump in the state dining room at the White House with the leaders of five African nations on Wednesday.

Boy, 13, Started California Wildfire With Illegal Fireworks, Police Say

9 juillet 2025 à 17:51
The Rancho fire, which burned nearly five acres in Laguna Beach, prompted evacuations and caused power outages.

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The Rancho fire burned 4.6 acres in Laguna Beach, Calif., before it was fully contained early Wednesday morning, officials said.

Mexican Firefighters Join Search for the Missing in Texas

9 juillet 2025 à 17:09
The day after a deadly flood killed more than 100 people in Central Texas, firefighters from the Mexican nonprofit Fundación 911 crossed the border to help search for survivors. They described the difficulty of the mission and what it means to them.

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Discovery of 178-Year-Old Baptist Antislavery Document Elates Faith Leaders

9 juillet 2025 à 17:11
The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to have been lost.

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The Rev. Diane Badger unfurls a recently found, 178-year-old antislavery scroll at Grotonwood, the home mission of the American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, in Groton, Mass.

New U.S. Army Shaving Rule Could Affect Many Black Soldiers

9 juillet 2025 à 16:45
Soldiers with skin conditions like razor bumps will no longer be granted permanent medical waivers that allow them to grow beards and could be kicked out of the Army if they are not clean shaven.

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A U.S. soldier shaving while deployed in Afghanistan in 2011.

James Comey Tracked by Secret Service After Post Critical of Trump

9 juillet 2025 à 18:03
After the former F.B.I. director put a picture on Instagram of seashells arranged to say “86 47,” law enforcement tailed his car and tracked his cellphone, steps usually reserved for serious threats.

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James B. Comey in 2019. President Trump fired him as F.B.I. director in May 2017, amid the agency’s investigation into possible collusion between Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.

Supreme Court Won’t Revive Aggressive Florida Immigration Law

9 juillet 2025 à 15:48
The law, enacted this year, made it a crime for unauthorized migrants to enter the state. Challengers say immigration is a federal matter.

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At least six other states have similar laws. Every court to consider them has blocked them, relying on a 2012 Supreme Court decision endorsing broad federal power over immigration.

Trump Officials Take Steps to Target Comey and Brennan, Who Investigated Trump

9 juillet 2025 à 21:36
It is unclear whether moves targeting the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan will lead to charges.

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John Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, testifying before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligences’s Russia Investigation Task Force in May 2017.

Senate Confirms Bryan Bedford to Lead FAA

9 juillet 2025 à 16:23
The agency is under pressure to modernize outdated air traffic control systems that have contributed to a series of outages, near-misses and deadly accidents in recent months.

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Bryan Bedford testifying before the Senate transportation committee during a confirmation hearing at the Capitol last month.

Thune Says Russia Sanctions Vote Could Come as Soon as This Month

9 juillet 2025 à 14:17
Momentum has been building behind a bipartisan bill to impose sanctions on countries that purchase Russian oil, as Republicans work behind the scenes to win President Trump’s support.

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An oil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, in 2022.

Biden’s Former Doctor, Kevin O’Connor, Refuses Questions in GOP Health Inquiry

9 juillet 2025 à 13:18
Kevin O’Connor cited both physician-patient privilege and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee.

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Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor, in 2022.
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