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At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Did a Detainee Just Faint or Need CPR?

Par :Patricia Mazzei
Homeland Security says a detainee fainted. But other accounts say the man was unconscious. One witness said the guards did not seem to know how to check his pulse.

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The immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Defends Gaza ‘Genocide’ Remark After AIPAC Criticism

Par :Robert Jimison
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee said the Georgia Republican was betraying “American values.” She says she is upholding “America First.”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene was the first Republican in Congress to use the term “genocide” to describe the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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E.P.A. Cancels Federal Union Contracts in Push to End Collective Bargaining

Par :Lisa Friedman
President Trump has faced legal challenges from unions representing federal workers for his push to strip them of labor protections.

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The Environmental Protection Agency in Washington.
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Thousands of Dollars Worth of Labubus Stolen From California Store

Par :Rylee Kirk
Demand for the trendy dolls, elf-like creatures with nine-tooth grins, has people lining up for hours to buy them.

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Thousands of dollars worth of Labubus were stolen from a store during a break-in in California.
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Trump Officials Press Case Against Harvard, and Add New Investigation

Par :Stephanie Saul and Alan Blinder
The administration doubled down against Harvard, asserting that rising violent crime on campus meant the school should not host international students. It will also review the school’s patents.

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Harvard University and the White House are discussing a deal to end their legal battles. But Friday’s moves suggested that the relationship remained contentious.
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Trump Is Building a Maximalist Government

Par :Jess Bidgood
In a series of actions this week, the president sought to expand the government’s reach.

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The Trump administration is requiring the Education Department to collect detailed data on college applicants.
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Inspector General to Review F.A.A.’s Handling of D.C. Airspace After Crash

Par :Karoun Demirjian
The announcement comes a week after the National Transportation Safety Board grilled aviation officials about safety gaps in the airspace near the capital.

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Wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 on the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport in January.
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Minnesota Man Is Sentenced to 28 Years in Federal Food Aid Fraud

Par :Michael Levenson and Mark Walker
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 36, played a leading role in a scheme that stole more than $47 million from a program meant to feed children during the Covid-19 pandemic, prosecutors said.

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Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, who was sentenced this week, was co-owner of a business that stole funds from a program claiming to feed children.
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‘Chimp Crazy’ Star Gets Nearly 4 Years in Prison for Lying About Ape’s Death

Par :Neil Vigdor
Prosecutors said that Tonia Haddix perjured herself to avoid giving up custody of Tonka, who had appeared in the movies ‘George of the Jungle’ and ‘Buddy.’
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Trump Says He Will Meet With Putin in Alaska Next Week

Par :Tyler Pager and David E. Sanger
Mr. Trump also suggested that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine would include “some swapping of territories,” signaling that the U.S. may join Russia in trying to compel Ukraine to cede land.

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President Trump at the White House on Friday.
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Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside CDC Near Emory University in Atlanta

Par :Rick Rojas · Andy Newman · Sean Keenan · Apoorva Mandavilli and Hannah Ziegler
The gunman fired at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because he blamed the Covid vaccine for his maladies, an official said.

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Suspect in Deadly Montana Bar Shooting Is Captured, Official Says

Par :Jake Ellison · Jack Healy and Tim Arango
An Army veteran wanted in connection with the killing of four people at a bar in the town of Anaconda was taken into custody on Friday after an eight-day manhunt.

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Four people were killed in a shooting at the Owl Bar in Anaconda, Mont., on Friday.
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Firefighters Work to Contain Wildfire Northwest of L.A.

Par :Jesus Jiménez and Amy Graff
The blaze, called the Canyon fire, began early Thursday afternoon near Lake Piru, a reservoir about 60 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

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Texas Attorney General Moves to Oust Democrats From Office Over Walkout

Par :J. David Goodman and Shawn Hubler
Democratic lawmakers maintained their walkout to thwart a Republican gerrymander, prompting Ken Paxton to ask the state’s Supreme Court to remove 13 of them from their seats.

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Dustin Burrows, the speaker of the Texas House, during a meeting on Friday at the State Capitol in Austin.
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Trump Just Shrugs as Kennedy Undermines His Vaccine Legacy

Par :Katie Rogers
President Trump’s laissez-faire approach is notable, given that the development of the Covid vaccine was seen as one of his first term’s most notable achievements.

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President Trump’s willingness to give the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the space to impose his views leaves room for Mr. Trump to position himself with the portion of his base that has grown deeply skeptical about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
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Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

Par :Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender
The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.

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The University of California, Los Angeles. campus.
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Trump Is Removing Billy Long as the I.R.S. Head 2 Months After He Was Confirmed

Par :Andrew Duehren · Alan Rappeport and Maggie Haberman
Billy Long, a former Republican congressman, will no longer serve as the tax agency’s head. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will oversee the agency as acting commissioner.

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Billy Long during his nomination hearing in May.
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Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Sign Peace Pledge at White House

Par :Karoun Demirjian and Luke Broadwater
Armenia said it would give the U.S. exclusive development rights to a transit corridor through its territory, which will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.

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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia, left, and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan at a meeting in Moscow last October. The two leaders’ declaration comes after months of shuttle diplomacy between the countries.
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Texas Redistricting Fight: Is Any of This Legal?

Par :Mattathias Schwartz and J. David Goodman
Democrats have left the state, the Republican governor and attorney general have vowed to remove them from office, and a senator has called in the F.B.I.

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Republican leaders in Texas have given Democratic state lawmakers until Friday to return to the state capitol in Austin.
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Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

Par :Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender
The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.

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The University of California, Los Angeles. campus.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Defends Gaza ‘Genocide’ Remark After AIPAC Criticism

Par :Robert Jimison
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee said the Georgia Republican was betraying “American values.” She says she is upholding “America First.”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene was the first Republican in Congress to use the term “genocide” to describe the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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Robert Pursley, 97, Dies; Pentagon Aide Became Critic of Vietnam War

Par :Trip Gabriel
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara tasked him with creating an encyclopedic history of the war, which became known as the Pentagon Papers.
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Appeals Court Blocks Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry Into Trump Officials

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s order that they return to the United States.

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Judge James E. Boasberg had ruled in April that there was probable cause to believe the Trump administration had committed criminal contempt by ignoring his order. But the administration appealed.
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Senate Heads for a ‘Nuclear’ Showdown on Trump Nominees

Par :Carl Hulse
Republicans say they are preparing to impose rules changes to speed confirmations after Democrats thwarted them before Congress headed into recess.

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Triggering a rules change through majority muscle is known in the Senate as going nuclear because of the extreme partisan nature of such a move.
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Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels

Par :Helene Cooper · Maggie Haberman · Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt
The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.

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President Trump ordered the State Department to label drug cartels as terrorist organizations after taking office in January.
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Manhunt Leaves a Montana Town in Limbo a Week After Bar Shooting

Par :Jack Healy · Jake Ellison and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
Experts on mass shootings said it’s rare for the gunmen who carry out such crimes to elude the authorities for so long.

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The Owl Bar in Anaconda, Mont., where four people were shot and killed a week ago.
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Trump Escalates a Fight Over How to Measure Merit in American Education

Par :Stephanie Saul · Dana Goldstein and Sarah Mervosh
President Trump’s most recent executive order wades into a debate over how elite colleges should weigh grades and test scores versus the obstacles students have overcome.

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President Trump signed an executive order requiring schools to submit information about the academics of applicants, which was designed to prevent universities from using “racial proxies” in admissions.
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F.A.A. Plans to Hire 8,900 Air Traffic Controllers but Still Expects Shortages

Par :Karoun Demirjian
The Federal Aviation Administration says it plans to “supercharge” hiring and training between now and late 2028. It would not be enough to end a shortage of controllers.

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An air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport.
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Trump Orders Deployment of Federal Law Enforcement in Washington, D.C.

Par :Chris Cameron
The deployment follows President Trump’s effort to portray the nation’s capital as rife with violent crime, despite data showing crime rates dropping significantly.

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Department of Homeland Security agents patrolled the entrance to the Foggy Bottom Metro station in Washington last month.
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Still Fuming Over a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Finds Some Numbers He Likes

Par :Luke Broadwater
President Trump promoted his own version of reality in the Oval Office after firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics last week.

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The new figures President Trump presented in the Oval Office on Thursday came from an economist at the Heritage Foundation.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Lift Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

Par :Adam Liptak
A lower court had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like race or speaking Spanish.

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Protesters in Pasadena, Calif., in June. Aggressive enforcement operations in Los Angeles set off days of protests and clashes in the area.
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Military Raised Water Level of River in Ohio for JD Vance’s Family Boating Trip

Par :Lisa Friedman and Eileen Sullivan
The Secret Service said the boats the agency uses for security are usually motorized and need deeper waters to operate.

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Vice President JD Vance took his family on a boating trip in Ohio for his 41st birthday.
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Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson’s Ex-Husband, Dies at 48

Par :Alexandra E. Petri
Mr. Blackstock’s death followed a three-year battle with cancer. An established talent manager in the country music world, he was the son of Reba McEntire’s ex-husband.

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Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson’s ex-husband, has died from cancer at 48.
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Trump Nominates Stephen Miran to Temporarily Join Fed Board of Governors

Par :Colby Smith and Tony Romm
If confirmed, Stephen Miran, the current chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, would temporarily fill a position left vacant by Adriana Kugler, who is stepping down early.

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Stephen Miran is President Trump’s top economic adviser.
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Neo-Nazi Leader Gets 20 Years in Plot to Attack Baltimore’s Power Grid

Par :Michael Levenson
Brandon C. Russell, 30, of Orlando, Fla., plotted with a Maryland woman to attack electrical substations in what prosecutors described as a plan motivated by their white supremacist beliefs.

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U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
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Judge Orders Halt to Construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center

Par :Patricia Mazzei
A federal judge said work must stop for 14 days while she considered arguments that building and operating the immigration detention facility would harm the environment.

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The judge said that Florida could not install any more lighting, paving, fencing or other fixtures at the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” for 14 days.
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Man Kills Neighbor, Shoots 2 Troopers, Then Is Killed by Police, Officials Say

Par :Aishvarya Kavi
The Pennsylvania State troopers, who were in stable condition on Thursday night, were ambushed while responding to a report of an injured person at a home in the northeastern part of the state, the authorities said.

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Law enforcement officers blocking the street leading to where two Pennsylvania state troopers were ambushed and shot around Thompson Township in Susquehanna County, Pa., on Thursday.
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Baltimore Schools Face Investigation Over Antisemitism Allegations

Par :Dana Goldstein
The Trump administration has scrutinized colleges over their handling of antisemitism. The new investigation suggested the government was widening its focus.

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The Trump administration has also investigated public schools in California, Illinois and Maine.
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Minnesota Man Charged in Attack on Lawmakers Pleads Not Guilty

Par :Ernesto Londoño
Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting two state lawmakers in June, killing one, entered the plea at a brief hearing in federal court in Minneapolis.

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Representative Melissa Hortman, a former speaker of the Minnesota House; her husband, Mark; and their dog Gilbert were killed in a shooting in June.
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Trump Administration to Require Universities to Submit Data on Applicants’ Race

Par :Michael C. Bender and Anemona Hartocollis
The administration has become increasingly focused on admissions data in its effort to bring the higher education system in line with President Trump’s political agenda.

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The presidential action would also require Linda McMahon, the education secretary, to increase the number of accuracy checks on the data provided by the schools.
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Cambodia Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Par :Sui-Lee Wee
The gesture comes after a U.S.-brokered cease-fire with Thailand, and a trade deal with Washington that blunted a threat of heavy tariffs.

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President Trump has made no secret of his desire to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Trump Demands Census Excluding Undocumented Immigrants Amid Redistricting Fight

Par :Tyler Pager
With the midterm elections looming, Republicans are trying to secure every advantage they can as they face the prospect of Democrats taking control of the House.

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President Trump said he had ordered the Commerce Department to begin work on a new census.
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Trump Delayed a Medicare Change After Health Companies’ Donations

Par :Kenneth P. Vogel · Sarah Kliff and Katie Thomas
The president posted talking points provided by one firm that donated millions, and his administration delayed a change on coverage of pricey bandages that could have hurt the company and others like it.

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The head of Extremity Care joined a candlelit dinner in March at Mar-a-Lago, where he spoke of his company’s regulatory concerns.
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Senior Agent Who Helped Oversee F.B.I.’s Response to Jan. 6 Is Fired

Par :Adam Goldman · Devlin Barrett · Glenn Thrush and William K. Rashbaum
Deepening its purge, the bureau forced out Steven Jensen, whose ascent had angered Trump supporters, and Brian Driscoll, the acting director in the early chaotic days of the administration.

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The reason for Brian Driscoll’s ouster was not entirely clear, but his removal will most likely deal another blow to the bureau’s morale.
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Cornyn Says F.B.I. Will Help Find Texas Lawmakers Who Left State

Par :J. David Goodman and Julie Bosman
The senator said the agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state legislators who departed to try to block a vote on congressional maps. Democrats said federal law enforcement was being misused.

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Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, at the Capitol last month.
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