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

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.
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Officers Clear More Homeless People from Sites Around Washington

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.
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Rencontre Trump-Poutine : un rendez-vous décisif pour l’Ukraine ?

Rarement, un sommet aura été aussi attendu. La planète a les yeux rivés sur Anchorage en Alaska (États-Unis) pour la rencontre entre Donald Trump et Vladimir Poutine. Elle a lieu ce vendredi 15 août, à 21h30 heure française. Une question reste en suspens : un accord de cessez-le-feu en Ukraine pourrait-il être décidé, contre toute attente ?

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Mali’s Junta Accuses Frenchman of Plot to Overthrow the Military Government

A representative of the junta said the man had worked “on behalf of the French intelligence service, which mobilized political leaders, civil society actors and military personnel” to foment a coup.

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The leader of Mali’s ruling junta and “transitional president,” Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, in 2022. The junta said it had foiled an attempted coup, organized by French intelligence.
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Air Canada’s Flight Attendants Reject Call for Arbitration

Their union says one of its core demands, to receive pay for groundwork, is unlikely to be introduced in arbitration. The airline began canceling flights ahead of the potential strike.

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Passengers waiting at an Air Canada check-in counter at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada on Friday.
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Hours Before Putin Meeting, Trump Calls Belarusian Leader, Kremlin’s Closest Ally

President Trump referred to the authoritarian ruler of Belarus, who has been isolated by the West for years, “the highly respected President.”

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President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus during a news conference in Minsk in 2023. President Trump said he spoke on Friday with Mr. Lukashenko, who has long been shunned by Western leaders.
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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.
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Congressional Democrats Move to End Trump’s Control of D.C. Police

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.
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How Trump-Putin Summit Signals Return to Imperial Thinking

The two leaders are bringing some old-world approaches to bear on a 21st-century conflict.

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President Trump meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018.
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A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

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Kaltum Mohammad with her daughter, Fatima, in the Gubio internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, in November.
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Who’s Attending the Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska

The delegations include top diplomatic, military and economic officials, a sign that the U.S. and Russia will discuss more than the war in Ukraine.

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Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, will lead the entourages of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump during their bilateral meeting in Anchorage on Friday.
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Man Rescued From Behind California Waterfall After 2 Days

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.
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A Timeline of Trump’s Complicated Relationship With Putin

President Trump has long admired President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Their meeting in Alaska will be at least their seventh face-to-face encounter.

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President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Hamburg, Germany, in 2017.
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DC Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Federal Takeover of City’s Police

The suit argues that the move to federalize the city’s Police Department was a “brazen usurpation of the district’s authority” that exceeded the president’s authority.

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Amtrak police officers and National Guard troops patrolling at Union Station in Washington on Thursday.
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United Nations Plastic Treaty Talks End Without Deal

Countries failed to bridge wide gaps on whether the world should limit plastic manufacturing and restrict the use of harmful plastic chemicals.

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Plastic waste collected at a California state park in May.
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Flash Floods in Pakistan Kill at Least 150 People in a Single Day

The country has endured heavier rain during monsoon seasons, which scientists have attributed to climate change. The authorities said that at least 194 people died on Friday.

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Residents and rescue workers at an area hit by flash flooding in Salarzai, in Bajaur District, northern Pakistan, on Friday.
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