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Man Fleeing an Immigration Raid Dies After Running Onto an L.A. Freeway

Par :Jesus Jiménez
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.
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Newsom Kicks Off California Redistricting Campaign and Calls for Special Election

Par :Laurel Rosenhall
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.
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Thousands Ask Harvard Not to ‘Give in’ and Pay Fine to Trump

Par :Vimal Patel
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.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

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

Par :Neil Vigdor
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

Par :Campbell Robertson and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
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.
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Judge Halts White House Effort to Defund Schools With D.E.I. Programs

Par :Dana Goldstein
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.
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Dale Webster, Who Surfed Every Day for 40 Years, Dies at 76

Par :Livia Albeck-Ripka
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.

© Darcy Padilla for The New York Times

Dale Webster, who became known as Daily Wavester for his surfing streak, at Salmon Beach in Bodega, Calif., in 2000.
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Minnesota Assassination Suspect Indicted on First-Degree Murder Charges

Par :Mitch Smith and Ernesto Londoño
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.
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Texas Democrats Will Return Home, Allowing Vote on Redistricting Plan

Par :J. David Goodman
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.
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Russia and Ukraine Agree: A Trump Summit Is a Big Win for Putin

Par :Andrew Higgins and Nataliya Vasilyeva
The talks on Friday in Alaska pull the Russian leader out of diplomatic isolation from the West, and Ukrainian and European leaders fear it gives him an opening to sway the American president.

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A summit meeting with President Trump is widely seen as a victory for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, even if no agreements are reached.
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Woman Claims Marine Laced Her Drink With Abortion Pills

Par :Alexandra E. Petri
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.
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As Trump Seizes D.C.’s Police, Critics Say He’s Undercut Its Ability to Fight Crime

Par :Tyler Pager and Devlin Barrett
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.
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Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally

Par :Laurel Rosenhall · Jesus Jiménez and Hamed Aleaziz
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.
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Federal Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty in Fatal Shooting of Border Patrol Agent

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

Par :Jill Cowan and Orlando Mayorquín
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.
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Plan for Israeli Settlements Advances and Will ‘Bury’ Palestinian Statehood, Minister Vows

Par :Ephrat Livni
Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said on Thursday that a plan to significantly expand a settlement near occupied East Jerusalem had won approval. But a procedural step remained.

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of Israel, center, arriving for a news conference regarding settlements expansion on Thursday.
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Air Canada Cancels Flights Ahead of Possible Flight Attendant Strike

Par :Ian Austen and Niraj Chokshi
The dominant air carrier in Canada set in motion a process that could ground 130,000 passengers a day by Saturday.

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Air Canada flight attendants picketed outside Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, on Monday.
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Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Law on Children’s Use of Social Media, for Now

Par :Adam Liptak and Zach Montague
A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First Amendment.

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The Supreme Court’s precedents have protected the First Amendment rights of both children and social media sites.
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All National Guard Troops Sent to Washington Are Mobilized, Pentagon Says

Par :Eric Schmitt
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

Par :Linda Qiu · Claire Hogan · June Kim and Zach Wood
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.
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Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police

Par :Devlin Barrett and Karoun Demirjian
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.
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Troops in Washington Remain Largely Unseen So Far

Par :Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
Federal agents are assisting the local police, but a surge in National Guard troops hasn’t hit the streets.

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Members of the National Guard on Thursday morning at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
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Pilgrimage Route Hit as Flash Flood Kills Dozens in Kashmir

Par :Showkat Nanda
Hundreds more were missing, many of them Hindu pilgrims, after a cloudburst triggered flooding in mountainous terrain.

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An image from a video of an injured person being carried to a hospital on Thursday in the Paddar area of Kishtwar District in India-controlled Kashmir.
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Echoes of Old Walls Appear, Briefly, in Britain’s Arid Soil

Par :Amelia Nierenberg
Unusually dry conditions are revealing the outlines of old walls at British historical sites. Climate change is making the lines, called “parchmarks,” more frequently visible.
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Epstein Defenses

Par :Linda Qiu and Jamie Leventhal
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.
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Israel Says More Aid Is Entering Gaza, but Relief Groups Warn of Bottlenecking

Par :Natan Odenheimer and Adam Rasgon
Israel says it has allowed more aid into Gaza in recent days, and food prices are dropping, but humanitarian groups warn it is not enough.

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Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, on Monday.
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In Reversal, Toronto Film Festival Will Screen Documentary About Oct. 7 Attack

Par :Vjosa Isai
Organizers said they had addressed concerns that led the festival to cancel screenings of the Israeli film, which includes footage of atrocities recorded by Hamas fighters.

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Cameron Bailey, the chief executive of the Toronto International Film Festival, said the festival had failed to “clearly articulate the concerns and roadblocks” that led to the withdrawal of the documentary from its lineup.
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Judge Orders Liquidation of Infowars to Pay Sandy Hook Families

Par :Jonathan Wolfe
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.
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