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

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

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

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.

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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

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

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

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

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.

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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

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

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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Woman Claims Marine Laced Her Drink With Abortion Pills

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

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

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

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

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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Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Law on Children’s Use of Social Media, for Now

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

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

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

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

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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Fact-Checking Trump’s Epstein Defenses

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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Judge Orders Liquidation of Infowars to Pay Sandy Hook Families

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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Florida to Open Second Immigrant Detention Center Called ‘Deportation Depot’

The state says it will run the new center from an empty prison that could hold 2,000 federal detainees. This one will be called “Deportation Depot.”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed to help the Trump administration enforce immigration laws.
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The Auctioneer and the Treasury Chief: Billy Long’s Quick Fall at the I.R.S.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sought total control over the I.R.S., an agency where Mr. Long, the new commissioner, had started to put his own mark on the job.

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Within days of being sworn in as the I.R.S. commissioner, Billy Long began to lose his grip on the role.
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Man Who Faked His Death and Fled to Scotland Is Convicted of Rape

Nicholas Rossi lived for years as a fugitive before being extradited. A jury in Utah found him guilty of a 2008 sexual assault.

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Nicholas Rossi appeared in a jury trial in Salt Lake City on Monday. Mr. Rossi was charged with rape in 2022 by the Salt Lake County Prosecutor. At the time, he was living under an assumed name in Scotland, and had faked his death in America under an alias.
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Alaska’s Ukrainian Refugees Brace for Putin’s Arrival in Their Safe Harbor

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was not invited to the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, but 1,000 Ukrainian refugees in Alaska will be watching with trepidation.

A small group of protesters with Stand Up Alaska tested their signs in advance of protests scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Anchorage.
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He Was Lost. Could a Shooting Range Like Thunder Ranch Help Him Find Himself?

Thunder Ranch is one of the best-known shooting schools in American gun culture, offering firearms as a way to change your life when all else fails.

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Targets scattered all across the shooting ranges at Thunder Ranch in Lakeview, Ore.
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Law Firms That Settled With Trump Are Asked to Help on Trade Deals

Boris Epshteyn, a personal lawyer for President Trump, connected two firms — Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps — to the Commerce Department.

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Kirkland & Ellis is one of several law firms that reached deals with the Trump administration to head off a crackdown.
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Trump’s D.C. Police Takeover and National Guard Deployment: What to Know

President Trump is the first president to use a declared emergency to wrest control of Washington, D.C.’s police force.

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National Guard members on patrol around the Washington Monument on Tuesday.
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Federal Agents Ramp Up D.C. Presence as Protesters Converge on Police Checkpoint

The Army expects up to 200 soldiers out on the capital’s streets within the next few days at any given time in support of federal law enforcement.

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People gathered to watch federal agents and police in Washington on Wednesday evening.
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Bakers on Texas-Mexican Border Are Found Guilty of Harboring Illegal Workers

Leonardo Baez and his wife were among the first employers prosecuted for taking on undocumented immigrants at their bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas. They face up to 10 years in prison.

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Leonardo Baez, the owner of Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas.
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Solomon Peña, Republican Ex-Candidate, Sentenced in Politically Motivated Shooting Plot

Solomon Peña, who lost a bid for a seat in the New Mexico Legislature in 2022, was found guilty in March of orchestrating the attacks against state Democrats.

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Solomon Peña was arrested in January 2023. The authorities said he had paid four men in cash to shoot at the homes of certain Democratic officials.
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At the Kennedy Center, Trump Puts His Pop Culture Obsession on Display

President Trump held forth about the nature of show business and his own tortured relationship with celebrity.

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President Trump announced the new class of Kennedy Center honorees on Wednesday and revealed that he would host this year’s ceremony.
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Why Does Trump Want to Meet With Putin, and What Are the Risks?

President Trump wants to be seen as a peacemaker, but the meeting comes with enormous stakes.

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The meeting on Friday will be the first for an American president since the Western world isolated Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
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After Reassuring Europe, Trump Strikes a Different Tone About Russian Threats

Hours after presenting a united front with allies, President Trump warned Vladimir V. Putin of “severe consequences” if Russia refuses to end the war in Ukraine. But he also suggested that he has limited power to alter the Russian leader’s behavior.

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A residential building in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian missile last month.
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Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.

A video showed a man repeatedly calling a group of officers “fascists” before throwing a sub sandwich at one.

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A man seen approaching federal agents while holding a sandwich in Washington on Sunday. He was later arrested, accused of throwing the item at an officer.
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Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid, Appeals Court Rules

In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.

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President Trump and his advisers have consistently claimed expansive authority to freeze federal dollars allocated for projects they have endeavored to snuff out.
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Bessent Has Yet to Fully Divest Assets, Raising Concern at Ethics Agency

The Treasury secretary has been slow to shed assets, including farmland, posing potential conflicts of interest.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Cabinet officials are required to shed certain holdings and investments within 90 days of being confirmed to avoid the potential for conflicts of interest.
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4 Inmates Are Killed in Less Than a Month at Nevada Prisons, State Says

The homicides appear to be unrelated, according to prison officials, who said that drugs were believed to have been a contributing factor.

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High Desert State Prison in Indian Springs, Nev., where three inmates were killed in the past month.
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Hispanic Democratic Officials in Texas Plead Not Guilty to Voter Fraud

Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, has now used his “election integrity unit” to indict 15 Latino Democrats under a 2021 statute that outlawed delivering ballots for other voters.

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“Let me be crystal clear: the integrity of our elections is the bedrock of our democratic process, and any elected official trying to cheat the system will have to answer for it,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.
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Florida Approves First Black Bear Hunt Since 2015

State wildlife officials say a regulated hunt is needed to manage the bear population. Opponents say the new rules will lead to trophy hunting.

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Biologists weigh a black bear during a legal black bear hunt near Lake Mary, Fla., in 2015.
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Florida Approves First Black Bear Hunt Since 2015

State wildlife officials say a regulated hunt is needed to manage the bear population. Opponents say the new rules will lead to trophy hunting.

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Biologists weigh a black bear during a legal black bear hunt near Lake Mary, Fla., in 2015.
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Judge Appears Skeptical of Lawsuit Against Federal Bench in Maryland

The spectacle of the White House suing an entire district court in the name of the United States of America underscored just how rancorous relations between the two branches had become.

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Judge Thomas T. Cullen, who normally sits in Roanoke, Va., is presiding over the case because all 15 federal judges in Maryland were named as defendants.
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Trump Warns of Economic Disaster if Court Strikes Down Tariffs

The president has crowed about the billions of dollars collected so far from tariffs. That money could be at risk if the White House loses the legal battle.

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President Trump has widened the scope of his punishing trade war even as its legality remains unsettled.
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Trump Picks Gloria Gaynor, Sylvester Stallone and Kiss for Kennedy Center Honors

The actors Sylvester Stallone and Michael Crawford, the singers George Strait and Gloria Gaynor and the rock band Kiss will be honored later this year.

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Sylvester Stallone, one of the five Kennedy Center honorees announced by President Trump on Wednesday, during a gala at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., in November.
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Trump’s Affinity for Putin Will Be Tested at High-Risk Summit in Alaska

President Trump has largely held back from harsh criticism of Vladimir V. Putin personally, despite recent complaints about Russian intransigence in ending the war in Ukraine.

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In a 2018 meeting in Helsinki, President Trump said he accepted President Vladimir V. Putin’s denial of election interference over the judgment of American intelligence agencies.
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Trump Will Visit Kennedy Center to Announce New Honorees

The president has taken a strong interest in the Kennedy Center’s affairs ever since naming himself chairman in February, when he restocked its traditionally bipartisan board with loyalists.

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President Trump has taken an interest in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since taking office.
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How a U.S. Senate Race Is Shaping the Fight Over Redistricting in Texas

Senator John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton are vying to be the tougher candidate on Democratic lawmakers who left Texas, as potential Democratic rivals seek their own spotlight.

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Senator John Cornyn, speaking with the press on Capitol Hill last month, has taken a forceful stance against Democratic lawmakers who have fled the state to oppose redistricting.
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Trump Administration Violated Order on U.C.L.A. Grant Terminations, Judge Says

Judge Rita F. Lin ordered the National Science Foundation to restore grants awarded to the university, which she said had been suspended in defiance of the court.

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Judge Rita F. Lin wrote that the Trump administration had misleadingly framed its latest attempt to cancel National Science Foundation grants as suspensions.
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Trump to Meet Putin at U.S. Military Base in Anchorage

The American and Russian presidents will meet face to face at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday, according to a White House official.

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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in 2020.
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Human Rights Report Under Trump Blunts Language on Israel and El Salvador

A collection of U.S. reports on human rights offenses trimmed or omitted past language on violations in El Salvador, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Israel, all seen as partners by President Trump.

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The Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in March. El Salvador has faced criticism over high incarceration rates and overcrowding of prisons.
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Fatal U.S. Steel Plant Explosion Raises Questions of Mill’s Safety History

The mill, which is part of the recent merger between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel, has faced scrutiny from federal and local regulators.

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An explosion on Aug. 11 at a U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, Pa., killed two workers and injured several others.
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Fact-Checking Trump’s False and Misleading Claims About Crime in D.C.

The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital.

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National Guard members patrolled near the Washington Monument on Tuesday.
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Trump Deploys National Guard for Local Crime After Calling Jan. 6 Rioters ‘Very Special’

President Trump said he needed to send in the Guard to secure the nation’s capital. But on Jan. 6, 2021 — the most lawless day in recent Washington history — he had a very different reaction.

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National Guard soldiers at the Capitol on the night of Jan. 6, 2021. President Trump has sought to rewrite the history of the riot and called those arrested “hostages.”
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New Video Shows Uvalde School Chief Trying to Negotiate With Gunman

The video, part of a trove of materials that authorities had refused to release, shows the minutes in which a commander tried to talk to a gunman barricaded in a room with dozens of children.

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A makeshift memorial outside Robb Elementary School, the site of the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022.
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White House Will ‘Definitely’ Host a U.F.C. Fight on July 4, U.F.C. Head Says

The event would take place on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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Dana White, the chief executive of U.F.C., and President Trump at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event in Miami last year.
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Rollout of Trump’s D.C. Crackdown Included Fox News Stars and Charts

Jeanine Pirro had a starring role in promoting the president’s federal takeover on TV, and Will Cain’s charts made a cameo.

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Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host who is now the U.S. attorney for Washington, holding a news conference at the Patrick Henry Building on Tuesday.
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Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System

Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.

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The Justice Department previously issued guidance in early 2021 about protecting federal court documents after the case management system was first hacked.
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Judge T.S. Ellis III, 85, Dies; Stirred Outcry Over Manafort Sentence

He imposed a 47-month prison term on Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, who was convicted of fraud. Sentencing guidelines recommended up to 24 years.

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Judge T.S. Ellis III in 2008. He was known for sparring with lawyers on both sides in a case, running brisk trials and sometimes going off on personal tangents.
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Sherrod Brown Plans to Try for a Senate Comeback in Ohio

The former three-term senator is said to be running to get his old job back, delivering a recruitment coup for Democrats facing an uphill battle to win a Senate majority next year.

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Former Senator Sherrod Brown at his home in Cleveland in March.
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D.C. Officials Discuss Federal Police Takeover and National Guard Deployment

Mayor Muriel Bowser said city leaders were focused on how to make the most of the additional federal support.

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Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, during a news conference on Monday. Ms. Bowser met with Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday to talk about President Trump’s takeover of the city’s police force.
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Appeals Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data at Several Agencies

The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration.

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An appeals court ruling means members of the Department of Government Efficiency can have access to personal information stored at several agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management.
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Minnesota Lake Is Accidentally Drained After Valve Malfunction

Dead fish, puddles and weeds are all that’s left of Alice Lake after a pipe, which was unable to close, pushed all of the water into the St. Croix River.

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The lake bed of Lake Alice, in a state park northeast of the Twin Cities, was left exposed, after a valve was stuck in an open position.
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DeSantis Appoints Ally to Be Lieutenant Governor

Gov. Ron DeSantis elevated a loyal ally, State Senator Jay Collins of Tampa, as Republicans jostle over who should succeed the term-limited governor.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida named State Senator Jay Collins as lieutenant governor on Tuesday.
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Trump Promised a Golden Age. Then a Montana Lumber Plant Closed Down.

Anger over well-paid manufacturing jobs giving way to lower-wage work fueled President Trump’s rise. With his movement now in power, who gets blamed as the trend continues?

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When Trump Meets Putin, Anything Could Happen

The U.S. president is pushing to end the war in Ukraine, but analysts say the Russian leader could turn a hastily planned meeting to his advantage.

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President Trump sided with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on whether the Kremlin had meddled in the 2016 U.S. election during their meeting in Helsinki in 2018.
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The D.N.C.’s New Leader Seeks to Curb Dark Money Influence in 2028 Primaries

The move is the first significant maneuver from Ken Martin to shape the party’s next presidential nominating process, but how much bite his proposal could have remains to be seen.

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Ken Martin’s proposal notably does not attempt to address the role of super PACs or direct-but-limited contributions from corporations.
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For Trump, Cities Like Washington Are Real Estate in Need of Fixing Up

“It’s a natural instinct as a real estate person,” he said in announcing his federal takeover of the capital’s police, despite falling crime.

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President Trump’s bleak description of Washington fits in with his long-held view of American cities as dangerous and violent.
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How College Financial Troubles Could Reshape Student Life

Austerity is coming to colleges boxed in by President Trump’s cuts and their own troubles. As they lay off workers, cut majors and take other steps, the changes may eventually be felt in classrooms.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the universities carrying out cost-cutting measures.
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These Are the Voters Who Should Scare Democrats Most

Working-class Americans who until recently voted Democratic said the party should not count on a backlash to President Trump to win them back. Still, there were pockets of opportunity.

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For D.C., Threats of a Federal Takeover Were Familiar. Now They Are a Reality.

Federal law gives presidents the power to take over Washington’s police force after declaring an emergency, but Donald Trump is the first president to do so.

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Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., at a news conference on Monday.
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Judge Tells Trump Officials to Release Funds for Democracy Group

The Trump administration had been withholding $239 million in congressionally appropriated funding from the National Endowment for Democracy when the group sued in March.

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A judge ruled that the Trump administration had withheld funds from the National Endowment for Democracy “for impermissible policy reasons.”
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West Point and Air Force Academy Affirmative Action Lawsuits Are Dropped

A group that represents students sued the military academies over their consideration of race in admissions but dropped its case after the Trump administration rejected diversity initiatives.

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The U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Maryland Woman on Hiking Trail

Republicans have seized on the case of Victor Martinez-Hernandez, an immigrant from El Salvador, to justify harsher immigration policies.

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Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez in custody last year.
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Does President Trump Want to Be Mayor, Too?

President Trump has long railed about crime in blue cities. Now he’s effectively put himself in charge of policing one of them.

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President Trump, during a news conference on Monday morning, announced his intention to deploy National Guard troops in Washington.
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Trump Says He’s Going to Alaska to See What Putin ‘Has in Mind’

President Trump set a low bar for his summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, saying he was ready to walk away if no deal was forthcoming.

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President Trump’s description of his goals for the negotiation, the most high-stakes international meeting yet in his second term, were telling — as much for what he omitted as for what he included.
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Over 60,000 Are in Immigration Detention, a Modern High, Records Show

The numbers reflect the significant effort the Trump administration has put into its escalating immigration crackdown.

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The Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, in May.
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Richest Gain Most and Poorest Face Steepest Cuts Under G.O.P. Law, Analysis Finds

Millions of people could lose access to federal food aid or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest analysis of President Trump’s marquee legislation.

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The Congressional Budget Office estimated that stricter work requirements would reduce participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by roughly 2.4 million people in an average month over the next decade.
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New York’s Democratic Governor Called in the Troops Last Year to Fight Subway Crime

President Trump is deploying the National Guard to the streets of an American city for the second time this year, but the Guard has been used by other leaders, too.

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Members of the National Guard patrolling the New York subway system in 2024.
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D.C. Mayor Calls Trump’s Police Takeover ‘Unsettling’ but Promises Cooperation

Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, seemed resigned to President Trump’s announced takeover of local police, telling reporters that the city’s home rule charter gave him the right to do so.

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Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., during a Monday news conference.
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Trump Pulls Military Into Another Political Issue

The National Guard troops who will move into Washington, D.C., will not perform law enforcement tasks but may be able to detain people temporarily, officials said.

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President Trump has previously used the military to advance his domestic agenda by deploying around 10,000 active-duty troops to the southwest U.S. border and 5,700 National Guard troops and Marines to quell protests in Los Angeles.
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3 Dead, 1 Injured After Target Shooting in Austin, Texas

Ethan Nieneker, identified by police as the gunman who led them on a violent chase, had a history of domestic violence, mental health problems and arrests.

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Adidas Apologizes After Mexico Criticizes Oaxacan-Inspired Shoe

Willy Chavarria, the designer of the shoe, also apologized after Mexican officials leveled accusations of cultural appropriation.

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Designed by Willy Chavarria, the Adidas Oaxaca Slip-On resembles a huarache, the traditional sandal made by Zapotec artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Harvard Nears a Deal With the Trump Administration to Restore Funding

A potential $500 million settlement would end a monthslong battle that pitted the nation’s wealthiest school against the Trump administration’s extraordinary crackdown on higher education.

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Harvard is the only university that has sued the Trump administration over the cancellation of its research funding.
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As Trump Takes Control of D.C. Police, He Ignores the Reality of Crime in Washington

The president has railed against crime in urban, largely liberal cities for decades, but Monday’s announcement was an extraordinary exertion of federal power over an American city.

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“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” President Trump claimed on Monday, despite falling crime in Washington.
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Trump Wields Tariffs as a Force in Diplomacy, to Questionable Effect

The president has threatened more tariffs on Russia and its trading partners and has imposed harsh ones on India and Brazil to try to sway matters of war and politics.

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Workers transporting coffee beans in Alfenas, Brazil. President Trump raised tariffs on Brazilian goods to 50 percent last month.
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