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

Par :Karoun Demirjian
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

Par :Mark Walker and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
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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Trump Depicted Youth Crime in D.C. as Rampant. Here’s What the Data Shows.

Par :Campbell Robertson and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
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

Par :Michael Gold
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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Man Rescued From Behind California Waterfall After 2 Days

Par :Aimee Ortiz
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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DC Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Federal Takeover of City’s Police

Par :Campbell Robertson
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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How Trump’s Meeting With Putin Could Unfold, as Trump Seeks Cease-Fire in Ukraine

Par :David E. Sanger
A sudden feud, an impasse or a first step toward a cease-fire are all possible at the summit in Alaska as the two leaders navigate thorny issues such as Ukraine’s territory and NATO expansion.

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President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018. The summit on Friday will be their first face-to-face meeting since Mr. Trump’s first presidency.
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Feds Turn Into Beat Cops in Trump’s D.C. Policing Surge

Par :Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
In the nation’s capital, federal agents have operated a sobriety checkpoint, made gun and drug busts and carried out other day-to-day police work. Some residents are uneasy.

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Federal agents detained a man in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night.
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How Ambitious Democratic Governors Are Navigating Trump’s Redistricting War

Par :Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti
Some have emerged as a front line against Trump’s push to grab more seats in Congress, putting the issue at the center of their party’s politics. Others are ceding the spotlight.
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With a Shovel and a Dream, a Woman Finds a 2.3 Carat Diamond in Arkansas

Par :Mark Walker
After three weeks, with bug bites and tattered hiking boots, Micherre Fox found the stone at Crater of Diamonds State Park.

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Micherre Fox, who lives in Manhattan, holds a 2.3-carat uncut white diamond she dug up at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park after three weeks of searching.
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Tribal Colleges Rely on Federal Funding. Their Leaders Fear the Trump Years.

Par :Alan Blinder and KC McGinnis
As the Trump administration has publicly targeted elite universities, it has also quietly pursued funding cuts for the nation’s tribal colleges, which rely on federal dollars to operate.

Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Neb. Many tribal colleges are hubs of Native culture. Little Priest, for example, promotes itself as the only college in America that teaches the Ho-Chunk language.
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Trump-Putin Meeting: What Time, Where and How to Watch

Par :Ashley Ahn
The leaders of the United States and Russia will hold talks at an American military base in Alaska and are expected to hold a news conference afterward.

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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on Wednesday.
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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.

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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

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.

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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

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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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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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 and Names ‘Emergency’ Commissioner

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

Par :Patricia Mazzei
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.

Par :Andrew Duehren and Maggie Haberman
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

Par :Ali Watkins
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

Par :Jack Healy · Julia O’Malley · Emily Schwing and Ash Adams
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?

Par :Thomas Gibbons-Neff
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

Par :Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman
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

Par :Chris Cameron
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

Par :Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs · Darren Sands and Ashley Ahn
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

Par :Edgar Sandoval
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

Par :Pooja Salhotra
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

Par :Shawn McCreesh
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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