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A judge blocks FEMA from repurposing disaster mitigation funding.

Par :Zach Montague
A federal judge in Massachusetts said the Trump administration’s move to redirect $4 billion left states exposed to damage from natural disasters.

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Damaged homes after a tornado tore through Cave City, Ark., in March.
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Trump Suggests Vance is MAGA Movement’s Heir Apparent

Par :Enjoli Liston
President Trump said Vice President JD Vance was “probably favorite at this point” to succeed him as leader of the hard-right political movement.

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President Trump said on Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance was “most likely” to succeed him as the leader of the MAGA movement.
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Lindsey Vonn’s Comeback Is Winning 40-Something Fans. Can She Win Gold?

Par :Bill Pennington
The ski racer’s comeback has made her a folk hero among aging Americans who want to live fearlessly. Vonn, taking aim at the 2026 Olympics, isn’t done yet.

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Lindsey Vonn is expected to compete at the Olympics in February in one or both of the most dangerous events: the downhill and super-G, where racing speeds reach 70 miles an hour.
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Trump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges

Par :Jeremy W. Peters
Under Obama, federal rules pushed universities to build new bureaucracies to address sexual misconduct. Trump is doubling down on that tactic for antisemitism claims.

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Columbia University and other institutions have added the position of Title VI coordinator to their administrative rosters.
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Jacob’s Pillow Cancels Remainder of Festival After Death at Center

Par :Francesca Regalado
A production manager died at the dance center last week in what the district attorney’s office in Berkshire County, Mass., described as a workplace accident.

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The Doris Duke Theater at Jacob’s Pillow.
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Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. Advance in Detroit Mayoral Election

Par :Mitch Smith
Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. will face off in a November election. Mike Duggan, Detroit’s mayor for a dozen years, is not seeking re-election.

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Mary Sheffield, Detroit City Council president, at her campaign office.
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Georgetown Scholar Reaches Deal to Return to Work While Fighting Deportation

Par :Zach Montague
In a settlement, the government agreed to reinstate Badar Khan Suri’s legal status amid litigation over the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him.

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Badar Khan Suri was arrested in March and held for nearly three days in an immigration detention center.
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Trump Threatens Federal Takeover of D.C. After Member of DOGE Assaulted

Par :Nicholas Nehamas and Campbell Robertson
President Trump shared a photograph that appeared to show a 19-year-old software engineer shirtless and bloodied, after an attempted carjacking.

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President Trump boarding Air Force One on Sunday.
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4 Dead After Medical Transport Plane Crashes in Arizona

Par :Alexandra E. Petri and Hannah Ziegler
The plane was landing at Chinle Municipal Airport in the Navajo Nation in Arizona to pick up a patient for a medical transfer. It was not immediately clear what had caused the crash.
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A judge blocks FEMA from repurposing disaster mitigation funding.

Par :Zach Montague
A federal judge in Massachusetts said the Trump administration’s move to redirect $4 billion left states exposed to damage from natural disasters.

© Houston Cofield for The New York Times

Damaged homes after a tornado tore through Cave City, Ark., in March.
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Officials Move to Open Inquiry on Trump’s ‘Russia Hoax’ Grievance

Par :Glenn Thrush · Alan Feuer · Devlin Barrett and Maggie Haberman
Such an investigation would have to overcome a number of legal and practical hurdles, but an order by Attorney General Pam Bondi asking for a grand jury inquiry in Florida accomplishes political objectives.

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The decision by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “Russia Hoax” comes at a time of increasing pressure on the Trump administration to produce more information about the F.B.I.’s files on Jeffrey Epstein.
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LeShon Johnson, Ex-N.F.L. Player, Is Convicted in Major Dogfighting Case

Par :Neil Vigdor
Federal investigators said that they had seized 190 pit-bull-type dogs from the former running back, who previously pleaded guilty to state dogfighting charges in 2004.

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LeShon Johnson playing for the Arizona Cardinals in 1996.
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ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants

Par :Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas
The short-lived effort underscored the mounting pressure on ICE to meet President Trump’s aggressive deportation targets.

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Members of ICE arresting a man from Mexico in Miami Beach, Fla., in May.
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Trump Administration Illegally Withheld N.I.H. Funding, Watchdog Finds

Par :Tony Romm
Lawmakers from both parties have criticized the White House for halting money for cancer research and other cures.

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The National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Md.
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California Democrats Look to Redraw House Map Amid Texas Redistricting War

Par :Laurel Rosenhall · J. David Goodman · Shane Goldmacher and Nick Corasaniti
As a Texas senator summoned the F.B.I. to round up Democrats, the redistricting war that began in Texas was spreading, with California aiming at five Republican House seats.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California at a news conference in Downey, Calif., in July.
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4-Day Manhunt Yields No Confirmed Sighting of Montana Suspect

Par :Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Jake Ellison
The man accused of fatally shooting four people in a bar disappeared into a rugged forest. An official said the search for him was law enforcement’s “top focus.”

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Public access to an area west of Anaconda, Mont., known as Stump Town has been blocked while the authorities search for the suspect in a deadly shooting.
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F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats

Par :J. David Goodman
It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.

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Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, faces a primary challenge from the state’s conservative attorney general, Ken Paxton. Both seek President Trump’s endorsement.
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Why the G.O.P. Isn’t Doing Many Town Halls

Par :Annie Karni · John Pappas · Gabriel Blanco · Nikolay Nikolov and Claire Hogan
The booing started in seconds at Representative Mike Flood’s town hall in Lincoln, Neb. Annie Karni, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times, reports from the auditorium after the Republican congressman’s town hall, which she said was one of the most raucous political events she’s ever witnessed.
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Owner of Funeral Home With Nearly 200 Decaying Bodies Admits to Fraud

Par :Jonathan Wolfe
Prosecutors say the couple who ran the funeral home cheated customers of cremation services and spent the money on vacations and jewelry.

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According to prosecutors, the Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., had been leaving bodies to decompose at the site for years.
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House Oversight Committee Issues Subpoenas for Epstein Files

Par :Michael Gold
The committee’s Republican chairman requested that the documents from the Justice Department and former government officials be delivered by Aug. 19.

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Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, at President Trump’s inauguration in January. They were among the former officials who received subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee.
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Trump Says Scott Bessent Rules Out Replacing Powell at Fed

Par :Alan Rappeport
With Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent not in the running, President Trump said that he has narrowed his list of replacements to four people.

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President Trump said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doesn’t want to run the Federal Reserve.
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Mike Flood Heckled at Town Hall Over Trump’s Domestic Policy Bill

Par :Annie Karni
Most Republican lawmakers are avoiding town hall meetings, reluctant to confront energized Democrats and answer tough questions. When Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska gave it a try, the booing started in seconds.

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Representative Mike Flood, Republican of Nebraska, was booed almost as soon as he took the stage at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Monday night.
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Titan Submersible Deaths Were Preventable, Coast Guard Report Says

Par :Chris Hippensteel
The 2023 implosion killed five people on a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic, prompting a sprawling search of the north Atlantic Ocean.

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Footage from a remotely operated vehicle shows what the Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation says is the debris of the Titan submersible.
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Tennessee Inmate Executed Despite Ethical Health Concerns

Par :Emily Cochrane
Lawyers for Byron Black, found guilty of three murders, had argued that an execution may be more painful because of his heart implant.

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Byron Black is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. on Tuesday
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Texas Republicans Bet Big on Latino Voters With Redistricting Map

Par :Pooja Salhotra
In order to flip five U.S. House seats, Republicans are gambling that they can retain President Trump’s 2024 gains with Latinos and that voters won’t mind their hardball tactics.

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Republicans are hoping to flip five of Texas’ U.S. House seats, in towns like Laredo, from blue to red.
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Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Townhouse: Birthday Letters, First Edition ‘Lolita’ and More

Par :David Enrich · Matthew Goldstein · Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Steve Eder
In his seven-story townhouse, the sex offender hosted the elite, displayed photos with presidents and showcased a first edition of “Lolita,” according to previously unreported photos and letters.
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Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families

Par :Hamed Aleaziz
The practice appears to be a more targeted version of the mass separation of migrant children from their parents from President Trump’s first term, which caused a global outcry.

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Evgeny and Evgeniia, who fled their native Russia to seek political asylum, have been separated from their 8-year-old son, Maksim, since May.
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Public Schools Try to Sell Themselves as More Students Use Vouchers

Par :Dana Goldstein
A decline in the number of children and rise in the number of choices has created a crisis for public schools. Some are trying new strategies to recruit students.

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Caroline Christian, one of Caissa’s team of paid canvassers who have fanned out across Orange County, Fla., to recruit parents to enroll in, or return to, public schools.
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FEMA Will Deny Grants to States and Cities That Boycott Israeli Companies

Par :Maxine Joselow
The move by the Trump administration may be largely symbolic since official boycotts on Israeli firms are rare.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency workers in Pasadena, Calif., in January. The Trump administration is linking its stance on Israel to grants awarded by the agency.
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Trump to Create Task Force for Los Angeles Olympics on Security

Par :Jesus Jiménez
The group would likely work with city officials, who have a strained relationship with President Trump, ahead of the 2028 Olympics.

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Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, and Nicole Hoevertsz, an International Olympic Committee executive, talked to reporters in June.
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Trump Administration to Reinstall Albert Pike Confederate Statue in D.C.

Par :Chris Cameron
Albert Pike was a Confederate general and diplomat who negotiated alliances with slave-owning Native American tribes during the Civil War.

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National Park Service workers removed a statue of Gen. Albert Pike in Washington after it was toppled by demonstrators in 2020.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Asks for George Santos’s Sentence to Be Commuted

Par :Michael Gold
Ms. Greene, the hard-right House Republican from Georgia, called her former colleague’s seven-year sentence “excessive” in a letter to the U.S. pardon attorney.

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Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos during a vote on Capitol Hill in 2023.
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Tensions Flare Between Two Federal Agencies Charged With Aviation Safety

Par :Karoun Demirjian
A marathon of recent public hearings highlighted a rift over the investigation into the fatal midair crash in January between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet.

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Jennifer Homendy, the National Transportation Safety Board chair, accused the Federal Aviation Administration of stonewalling parts of the board’s investigation into the crash.
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After Trump’s Firing of BLS Commissioner, Republicans Fall in Line With His Criticism

Par :Luke Broadwater
President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past.

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President Trump in Allentown, Pa., on Sunday. He has a pattern of accepting results that benefit him and denigrating those he dislikes as being rigged or part of a scam.
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Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

Par :Michael S. Schmidt · Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender
The university was open to spending $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge.

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Harvard officials have been sensitive to the possibility that a deal with the government would be seen as surrendering to the president and offering him a political gift.
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The Origins of the Political Power Grab in Texas

Par :Jess Bidgood
President Trump seized a moment ripe for another redistricting war.

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A Texas state representative reviewing a congressional map last Friday during a redistricting committee meeting in Austin.
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Drunken Boater Hits Swimmers in N. Carolina Lake, Killing Girl, 10, Police Say

Par :Neil Vigdor
A woman was also critically injured in the collision, which happened on Shearon Harris Reservoir, about 25 miles southwest of Raleigh, N.C., the authorities said.
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Man Who Killed 4 in Arkansas Grocery Store Shooting Gets Life Without Parole

Par :Alexandra E. Petri
The man, Travis Eugene Posey, also injured 11 people in the shooting at the Mad Butcher in Fordyce, Ark., in June 2024. He received four consecutive life terms.

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The shooting on June 21, 2024, temporarily shuttered the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, a small town of 3,400 people about 70 miles south of Little Rock.
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U.S. to Require Some Foreign Visitors to Pay Bonds of Up to $15,000 for Entry

Par :Michael Crowley
A State Department pilot program will tie the cash deposits to tourist and business visas for people from countries with high visa overstay rates.

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The move is the Trump administration’s latest in a multifront effort to crack down on illegal immigration.
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Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

Par :Alan Feuer
Legal experts say the actions causing concern from the bench could have a more systemic effect, eroding the healthy functioning of the courts.

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Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui recently pushed back against Justice Department prosecutors for trying to convince him that he needed to be “highly deferential” to their request to keep a search warrant sealed.
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House Democrats Renew Effort Calling for Palestinian Statehood

Par :Robert Jimison
More than a dozen progressive lawmakers had signed onto a draft letter, but a lack of Republican support meant it was unlikely to affect policy decisions by the Trump administration.

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Thirteen progressive House Democrats have signed on to a letter urging the recognition of a Palestinian state.
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FEMA Will Deny Grants to States and Cities That Boycott Israeli Companies

Par :Maxine Joselow
The move by the Trump administration may be largely symbolic since official boycotts on Israeli firms are rare.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency workers in Pasadena, Calif., in January. The Trump administration is linking its stance on Israel to grants awarded by the agency.
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With Texas Democrats Gone, Redistricting Plan Is Stymied for Now

Par :J. David Goodman · Grace Ashford · Julie Bosman and David W. Chen
The speaker of the Texas House issued civil arrest warrants for lawmakers who fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum, but the scattered Democrats remained defiant.

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