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G.O.P. Push Behind Trump Agenda Has Congress in an Uproar

Par :Carl Hulse
Shouting matches, walkouts and bitter fiscal fights have led to a series of legislative meltdowns, with big spending clashes ahead.

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G.O.P. Push Behind Trump Agenda Has Congress in an Uproar

Par :Carl Hulse
Shouting matches, walkouts and bitter fiscal fights have led to a series of legislative meltdowns, with big spending clashes ahead.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

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Inside the Reindustrialize Summit and Its Push to Revive U.S. Manufacturing

Par :Farah Stockman and Nic Antaya
Trump cabinet officials mingled with tech investors and manufacturers in an effort to supercharge factories.

The Bullfrog, an autonomous gun turret developed by Allen Control Systems, on display at Reindustrialize 2025 in Detroit.
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As Trump Courts a More Assertive Beijing, China Hawks Are Losing Out

Par :Ana Swanson and Tripp Mickle
The Trump administration has dialed back aggressive measures against China and reversed its position on technology controls as the president angles for a Chinese trip later this year.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, and Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, second from right, meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva in May.
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​A Trump-Themed Beach House vs. ‘the Hamptons of the South’

Par :Richard Fausset
Local officials spent years trying to force Marvin Peavy to remove the giant pro-Trump banners from his home in the Florida Panhandle. This summer, Mr. Peavy is basking in victory.

© Emily Kask for The New York Times

Marvin Peavy reveals a new banner, which he said cost $2,700.
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A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk

Par :Brian M. Rosenthal and Julie Tate
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

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Misty Hawkins’s parents have not touched the bedroom of their daughter, who had a lifelong cognitive disability.
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Number of Missing in Kerr County, Texas, After Floods Drops to 3

Par :Alyce McFadden and Chris Hippensteel
The new figure was a significant decline from 97 just days ago. The death toll in the county remained the same, and officials said many of the missing were reported safe.

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The Guadalupe River flowing past debris from the summer camp Heart O’ the Hills after one of the deadliest U.S. floods in decades in Hunt, Texas.
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Heavy Rains in Washington Area Flood Roads and Prompt Water Rescues

Par :Hannah Ziegler
More than five inches fell in some suburbs of the capital. The authorities in Maryland rescued dozens of people, including some who were stranded in their cars.

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Flooding on Sligo Creek Parkway in Silver Spring, Md.
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Investigators in L.A. Explosion Examine Condo for Link to Explosives

Par :Tim Arango and Ana Facio-Krajcer
Officials were looking into whether the explosion, which killed three sheriff’s deputies, was caused by devices seized from a condo in Santa Monica a day before the blast.

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Law enforcement officials investigate the scene of the condo complex on Bay Street in Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday.
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Fire at Massachusetts Assisted Living Facility Claims a 10th Life

Par :Ashley Ahn
Brenda Cropper, 66, died at a hospital after being in critical condition all week after the fire erupted on Sunday, officials said.

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Ten people died and more than two dozen were injured in a fire on Sunday at the Gabriel House in Fall River, Mass.
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Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

Par :Alan Feuer and Matthew Goldstein
For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.

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Mar-a-Lago in March 1996.
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Driver Purposely Plows Car Into Crowd in L.A., Injuring at Least 30, Officials Say

Par :Rebecca Fairley Raney · Rick Rojas and Alyce McFadden
Seven people were in critical condition after the driver veered onto a sidewalk outside a music club, officials said. The driver was booted from the club earlier in the night for being disruptive.

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Police vehicles near the scene in Los Angeles where a driver plowed into a crowd early Saturday.
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Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death

Par :Reid J. Epstein and Shane Goldmacher
An audit being conducted by the D.N.C. is not looking at Joe Biden’s decision to run or key decisions by Kamala Harris’s team, according to six people briefed on the report.

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A Democratic audit of the 2024 election is said to be focusing less on the Biden and Harris campaign and more on how outside groups supported the effort.
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Why Are More Than 100 People Still Missing in Texas, 2 Weeks After the Floods?

Par :Orlando Mayorquín and Pooja Salhotra
The number of people unaccounted for dropped this week but remains stubbornly high as some searchers lose hope of finding them.

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Members of the military presented an American flag on Friday to firefighters and relatives of Michael Phillips, the chief of the volunteer fire department in Marble Falls, who is among those missing from the floods.
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Trump Order on International Criminal Court Likely Violates First Amendment, Judge Rules

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
The ruling’s scope is limited to two American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s efforts to penalize and isolate the world’s highest criminal court.

© Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

President Trump has accused the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, of targeting the United States and Israel.
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Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant

Par :Caroline Kitchener and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
A little-noticed plan for an “infertility training center” signals that the administration intends to take a new approach with Title X, which has long helped low-income women access contraception.

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The Trump administration is aiming to refashion Title X, a 55-year-old program focused on providing birth control to millions of low-income women, to combat infertility instead.
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Judge Orders Trump Officials to Restore Funding for Radio Free Europe

Par :Minho Kim
In a stern ruling, the judge rebuked the Trump administration for refusing to disburse funding that Congress had already approved.

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The headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague.
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Plane Is Diverted After Man Threatens to Kill Flight Attendant, Authorities Say

Par :Aishvarya Kavi
The jet, bound for Detroit from Omaha, made an emergency landing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a man shoved a flight attendant and displayed unruly behavior, SkyWest Airlines said.

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Gabbard Claims Obama Administration Tried to Undermine Trump in 2016

Par :Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger
Democrats denounced a report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as politically motivated and error-ridden.

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Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, during a cabinet meeting this month.
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Trump Administration Requests Release of Epstein Grand Jury Records. What’s Next?

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.

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The Justice Department has formally filed two petitions in the Southern District of New York seeking to unseal grand jury records in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
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When Getting Fired Is Only the Beginning for Federal Workers

Par :Eileen Sullivan
One thing is clear from a reporter’s conversations with laid-off federal workers this year: The cuts have been anything but straightforward and efficient.

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Martin Basch was initially laid off from his federal job in February, but the move wasn’t official until May.
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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections

Par :Michael Crowley and Julian E. Barnes
A State Department cable telling officials to avoid comments on the “fairness or integrity” of most elections continues a U.S. turn away from promoting democratic values abroad.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a department cable that public comments on foreign elections “should be brief, focused on congratulating the winning candidate and, when appropriate, noting shared foreign policy interests.”
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Minnesota State Senator Found Guilty in Burglary Trial

Par :Jeff Ernst · Ernesto Londoño and Mitch Smith
Nicole Mitchell, a Democrat, was charged with felonies and accused of breaking into her stepmother’s home. Her party holds a slim majority in the Minnesota Senate.

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State Senator Nicole Mitchell, left, during opening statements at her trial in Detroit Lakes, Minn.
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To Staff Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, ICE Entices Its Retirees

Par :Karoun Demirjian
The administration is offering financial incentives to lure back recently departed immigration officers as it works to fill 10,000 job openings.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at the agency’s Delaney Hall facility in Newark, N.J., in June.
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In Response to Epstein Letter Report, Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures’

Par :Tyler Pager
The president disputes reporting from The Wall Street Journal that he drew a picture for Jeffrey Epstein, but as a real estate mogul, he often sketched for charity.

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Donald Trump created this drawing of the Empire State Building for a charity auction in 1995, where it sold for $100. In 2017, during his first presidency, it sold for $16,000.
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White House to Release $1.3 Billion in Frozen Funds for After-School Programs

Par :Sarah Mervosh
The money will allow federally funded after-school programs to open this school year, preserving a lifeline for working parents. But other federal dollars remain on hold.

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After-school programs were among the several federal education programs that the Trump administration abruptly withheld funding from this summer.
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Trump Hosts I.R.S. Commissioner in Oval Office

Par :Andrew Duehren
The ceremonial swearing-in is the latest sign of the unusual relationship the president is cultivating with the tax agency.

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Billy Long, the new commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination in May.
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Robert Alvarez, 76, Dies; Called Attention to Nuclear-Waste Safety

Par :Clay Risen
A self-taught expert, he spent decades working in both nonprofits and the government to expose problems in the production of atomic weapons.

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Robert Alvarez, left, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Jeffrey Patterson of Physicians for Social Responsibility in 2011 at a news conference in Washington about the accident triggered by an earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in Japan.
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Lawmakers Question Whether CBS Canceled Colbert’s Show for Political Reasons

Par :Ashley Ahn
Paramount, the network’s parent, recently agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”

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Stephen Colbert said on Thursday that CBS was canceling “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" after next season.
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After the Floods, a Pain So Vast It Makes Texas Feel Small

Par :Rick Rojas · Margarita Birnbaum and David Montgomery
The Hill Country has a hold on the hearts of many Texans, meaning the suffering caused by the disaster is reaching as far as the region’s appeal.

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Rescuers embrace in grief at a memorial in Kerrville, Texas.
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State Dept. Official Testifies That Criticism of Israel Can Lead to Deportations

Par :Zach Montague
The head of the Bureau of Consular Affairs said his office regularly weighed criticism of Israel when determining whether to deny or revoke student visas.

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A pro-Palestinian demonstration at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in May.
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When It Comes to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump Says He Is Ready to Defer to the Courts

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
After months of pushing back against federal judges and the courts, the president has requested the release of Epstein-related grand jury testimony to be “subject to Court approval.”

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President Trump at the White House this week. He asked the attorney general on Thursday to seek the court’s permission to release pertinent grand jury materials relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s indictment for sex trafficking.
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Jewel Thais-Williams, Whose Nightclub Catch One Celebrated ‘Queer Black Joy,’ Dies at 86

Par :Ash Wu
Catch One, which she opened in Los Angeles in 1973 in the face of local animosity, became a glittering sanctuary for a largely shunned community.

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Jewel Thais-Williams in 2015 at her nightclub, Jewel’s Catch One. She sold the venue that year.
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Explosion at Los Angeles Training Center Kills 3 Sheriff’s Deputies

Par :Jesus Jiménez · Tim Arango and Shawn Hubler
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Training Academy center. No one else was injured, officials said.

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Officers monitored a street closure near the site of the explosion in Los Angeles.
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Trump’s War With Powell Throws a Little-Known Planning Board Into Scrutiny

Par :Alan Rappeport
The National Capital Planning Commission has become pivotal in the administration’s campaign to discredit Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve.

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White House officials have focused their attention on the cost of renovating the Federal Reserve building, suggesting that the $2.5 billion makeover could be grounds for sacking Jerome H. Powell.
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work Force

Par :Madeleine Ngo
Nursing homes and home care agencies have lost workers as the Trump administration has moved to end deportation protections for migrants with temporary legal status.

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Staff members serving food to residents of Sinai Residences, a retirement community in Boca Raton, Fla.
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As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure

Par :Alan Blinder · Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration will meet for a significant court hearing on Monday.
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Debate Ignites at U.S. School Over Netanyahu’s Hall of Fame Status

Par :Kenneth P. Vogel
Recent comments by the Israeli prime minister and a Fox News commentator about Cheltenham High School, their alma mater in suburban Philadelphia, have inflamed a debate.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, known then as Ben, graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1967, and was inducted into its hall of fame in 1999.
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As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure

Par :Alan Blinder · Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration will meet for a significant court hearing on Monday.
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Army Special Operations Warns Retired Members of Terror Threat

Par :Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes
The alert, issued to retired service members who served in Iraq or Syria and live in Florida, did not specify what kind of threat or which terrorist group was involved.

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The military’s overall Special Operations Command has its headquarters in Tampa, Fla.
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House Republicans Dangle Possible Vote on Epstein Files, After Voter Backlash

Par :Michael Gold
The House Rules Committee laid the groundwork for an eventual vote to call for release of the Epstein files, reflecting Republican uneasiness with the president’s refusal to divulge information from the investigation.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Republicans in Congress, including Speaker Mike Johnson, have still been calling for the release of the Justice Department’s files about Mr. Epstein.
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Border Patrol Agents Raid a Home Depot in Northern California

Par :Jesus Jiménez
The raid indicates a new strategy of going deeper into California after focusing on Southern California for several weeks.

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Gregory Bovino, center, the head of Border Patrol’s El Centro region, at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles last week. Mr. Bovino said that federal agents had begun operations in the Sacramento area.
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Trump Tells Bondi to Seek Release of Epstein Grand Jury Testimony

Par :Glenn Thrush
The attorney general plans to ask a court to release the papers. But even if the request succeeds, it would fall far short of critics’ demands to release all investigative materials.

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“We are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media.
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Newsom Wants California to Counter Texas on Redistricting

Par :Laurel Rosenhall
Gov. Gavin Newsom says California should redraw its own congressional districts if Texas tries to gerrymander its lines. His idea faces long odds.

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As Texas considers redrawing its maps to help Republicans win more seats in Congress, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has said it should make a similar move to help Democrats.
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Ex-Voice of America Employee Arrested and Charged With Threatening Marjorie Taylor Greene

Par :Chris Cameron
Federal prosecutors accused the man of threatening to kill Ms. Greene, her staff, and their families, months before President Trump sought to dismantle the news agency.

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene in April.
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A Timeline of What We Know About Trump and Epstein

Par :Luke Broadwater
Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

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Donald J. Trump and Melania Knauss, his girlfriend and future wife, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2000.
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Marine General to Lead Naval Academy, a First

Par :John Ismay
Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte, an aviator who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, will relieve Vice Adm. Yvette M. Davids, the academy’s first female superintendent.

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Underclass midshipmen during the Oath of Office ceremony at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., last month.
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Man Who Sent ‘I Raped You’ Message Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault

Par :Alexandra E. Petri
Ian Cleary, 32, attacked a fellow Gettysburg College student in her dorm room more than a decade ago. A series of Facebook messages helped lead to his arrest.

© Matt Rourke/Associated Press

Ian Clearly leaving a court hearing in Gettysburg, Pa., in May. He pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in 2013, when they were both students at Gettysburg College.
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