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Hegseth Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels

The Defense Secretary and President Trump said a small boat was carrying drugs but offered little evidence and few details.

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Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, listens as President Donald Trump makes an announcement in the Oval Office, yesterday.
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Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines

Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Federal policies on vaccines have been changing rapidly since Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, became secretary of Health and Human Services,
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Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.

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The unique culture of the judiciary, which can tilt toward tradition over innovation, has led it to move more slowly than a private company or other branches of government might.
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Maine Mass Shooting Survivors File Suit Against Army

The behavior of the gunman, an Army Reservist, had worried colleagues and supervisors for months before he killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley.

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A makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, in 2023.
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Angela Rayner, UK’s Deputy Prime Minister, Admits Underpaying Tax

Angela Rayner, the deputy to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said the property tax underpayment was a mistake related to care arrangements for her disabled son.

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Angela Rayner, Britain’s deputy prime minister, said she had relied on legal advice but has come under intense scrutiny in recent days for her tax affairs.
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Trump to Welcome Poland’s Right-Wing President to White House

The meeting between President Trump and Poland’s largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlights divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union’s eastern fringe.

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Poland’s right-wing president, Karol Nawrocki, is set to meet with President Trump on Wednesday in the White House.
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UK Moves to Ban Sale of Energy Drinks to Children Under 16

The legislation, which would affect sales to anyone under 16, mirrors regulations in a number of other European countries.

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Energy drinks advertised outside a store in Shrewsbury, England. The ban would apply to all retailers — those selling online and in shops — as well as to restaurants, cafes and vending machines.
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Trump to Welcome Poland’s Right-Wing President to White House

The meeting between President Trump and Poland’s largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlights divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union’s eastern fringe.

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Poland’s right-wing president, Karol Nawrocki, is set to meet with President Trump on Wednesday in the White House.
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Far-right Israeli Minister Calls for West Bank Annexation

Bezalel Smotrich said Israel should take over most of the territory, partly in response to growing international moves to recognize a Palestinian state.

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A wall separates the Arab village of Al Eizariya, in the West Bank, near where the Israeli government plans to build a new neighborhood.
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In Yellowstone, Migratory Bison Reawaken a Landscape

A recent study hints at the potential benefits of restoring bison to an ecosystem.

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Bison grazing near the Roosevelt Arch of Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont. Yellowstone is home to the last migratory herd — migratory bison are otherwise functionally extinct in their former range.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Walks a Political Tightrope as Rubio Visits Mexico

U.S. pressure to crack down on corrupt politicians has squeezed President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico ahead of her meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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For months, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, has tried to manage two complex relationships at the same time: Mexico’s with the United States and her own with her powerful party at home.
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The Communist Warrior Stranded for Decades in an ‘American Colony’

Ahn Hak-sop was captured during the Korean War by the South and imprisoned for more than 40 years. Now 95, he wants to return to the North to die.

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Ahn Hak-sop at his home in Gimpo, South Korea.
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Dan Kleban Joins Maine Democratic Primary, Seeking to Unseat Senator Susan Collins

Dan Kleban enters a crowded Democratic primary as party leaders wait for Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, who is “seriously considering” a run for Senate.

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Dan Kleban at his brewery, the Maine Beer Company, in 2019. He said Americans were “feeling that no matter how hard they work, even if they play by the rules, the system’s rigged against them.”
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Missouri Legislators To Start Special Session on Redistricting

The lawmakers, led by a Republican majority, are expected to consider new maps that would help Republicans gain another seat in Congress. They already hold six of the state’s eight congressional seats.

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The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City.
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What We Saw at a Job Fair for ICE

As ICE ramps up for more deportations under President Trump, Nicholas Nehamas, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks with applicants at an ICE recruitment fair in Texas.
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"Pour les Chinois, il ne s'agit pas de renverser l'ordre international, mais de le subvertir de l'intérieur", affirme l'ancien ambassadeur Claude Blanchemaison après la rencontre entre Xi Jinping, Vladimir Poutine et Kim Jong-un

L'ancien ambassadeur de France en Russie et en Inde Claude Blanchemaison est l'invité du "10 minutes info" de franceinfo mercredi 3 septembre. Il revient sur la rencontre au sommet entre Xi Jinping, Vladimir Poutine et Kim Jong-un.

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Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11

The vessel was transporting illegal narcotics through international waters to the United States, the president said.

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President Trump signed a still-secret directive in July instructing the Pentagon to use military force against some Latin American drug cartels that his administration has labeled “terrorist” organizations.
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