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Federal Appeals Court Reinstates an F.T.C. Commissioner Fired by Trump

Par :Cecilia Kang
The court said the commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, had been illegally terminated “without cause.”

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday reinstated Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission, saying she had been fired without cause.
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House Oversight Panel Releases Some Epstein Files as Pressure Mounts

Par :Michael Gold
The move came as Republican leaders pressed colleagues not to force a vote on disclosing all the material. Most of what was released on Tuesday was not new.

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Demonstrators called for the release of the Epstein files outside the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.
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Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11

Par :Helene Cooper · Eric Schmitt · Edward Wong and Alan Feuer
The vessel was transporting illegal narcotics through international waters to the United States, the president said.

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President Trump signed a still-secret directive in July instructing the Pentagon to use military force against some Latin American drug cartels that his administration has labeled “terrorist” organizations.
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Trump Relocates Space Command to Alabama, Reviving a First-Term Plan

Par :Erica L. Green · Jack Healy and Emily Cochrane
President Trump said his decision was motivated in part by his grudge against Colorado, a state he lost in all three of his runs for president.

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While making his announcement at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump said that moving the U.S. Space Command would create tens of thousands of jobs and help America “defend and dominate the high frontier.”
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Trump Responds to Rumors About His Health During Oval Office Press Conference

Par :Katie Rogers
In the world of presidential health, distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump’s online assurance that he was fine was immediately explained away as part of a cover-up.

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President Trump was seen looking at his cellphone as he departed his golf club in Virginia on Sunday.
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After Trump Says ‘We’re Going In’ to Chicago With Troops, Illinois Officials Slam Plan

Par :Julie Bosman
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said the state was ready to fight the Trump administration’s plan in court.

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Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, center, alongside Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton during a news conference on reports of federal deployment in Chicago, on Tuesday.
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Judge Apologizes to Conservative Justices in Case Over N.I.H. Cuts

Par :Zach Montague
The display of contrition came after Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh issued a stern warning directing judges to heed their orders in August.

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The grants in question supported a wide variety of research at the National Institutes of Health.
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L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities

Par :Charlie Savage
As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments, Democratic governors see in a lower-court ruling the potential for legal protections.

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Members of the California National Guard outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles in June.
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Rubio Flies to Mexico for Security Talks Amid Trump Pressure Campaign

Par :Edward Wong
President Trump has ordered military action against Latin American drug cartels and has threatened a new tariff. President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has pushed back.

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Marco Rubio is making his third trip to Latin America as secretary of state.
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Houston Man Is Charged With Murder in ‘Ding Dong Ditch’ Shooting

Par :Christine Hauser
The man, facing a murder charge, is accused of firing at an 11-year-old boy who rang a doorbell and ran away as part of a prank, the police said.

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The 11-year-old boy was out with friends in a Houston neighborhood in the east of the city when he was shot, the authorities said.
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Trump’s Use of National Guard and Marines in California Is Illegal, Judge Says

Par :Shawn Hubler
The federal judge found that the deployment exceeded legal limits that generally prohibit the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.

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President Trump mobilized National Guard troops in California in June.
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House Oversight Committee Is Set to Meet With Accusers of Jeffrey Epstein

Par :Francesca Regalado
Lawmakers are continuing their inquiry into Mr. Epstein, the disgraced financier, despite the Trump administration’s efforts to quell public demand for information.

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Representative James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, has issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice and to Jeffrey Epstein’s estate for documents related to his case.
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Trump Says He’ll Give Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Par :Ali Watkins
President Trump’s announcement came days after Rudolph W. Giuliani, previously his lawyer and a New York City mayor, was hurt in a car accident. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian honor.

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Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, advised President Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and served as his lawyer during his first term.
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Trump Signals Imminent Supreme Court Appeal to Protect Tariffs

Par :Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
The president said he would seek expedited review of a federal appeals court’s ruling that found many of his administration’s tariffs to be illegal.

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President Trump has maintained that any erosion in his ability to impose levies using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act will inflict damage on the United States by robbing it of both revenue and leverage.
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Animal Activists Target Farmers in Sonoma, Known as ‘America’s Provence’

Par :Soumya Karlamangla
A new generation of activists has used extreme tactics and viral video to challenge farmers in Sonoma County, a region known for some of the industry’s most humane practices.

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A protest organized by the group Direct Action Everywhere outside a Trader Joe’s in Berkeley, Calif., in August.
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Trump Family Profits Even With Tepid Launch of Crypto Tokens

Par :Eric Lipton
World Liberty Financial’s cryptocurrency token fell short of investors’ hopes. But a previous deal paved the way for a payment to the Trump family of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. outside the Nasdaq building in New York last month.
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2 Are Found Dead After San Antonio Flooding

Par :Johnny Diaz
The bodies of a man and a woman were found on Monday, the authorities said. The discovery came after heavy thunderstorms struck the area on Sunday evening.

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The bodies of the two victims were found in Salado Creek in the northern section of the city, following heavy rain on Sunday.
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Labor Day Protests Denounce Trump While Supporting Workers

Par :Robert Chiarito · Abigail Geiger · Sean Piccoli and J. David Goodman
The demonstrations were part of the continuing effort by Trump opponents to try to pressure his administration, even if many events were modest in size.
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Gene Espy, Pioneering Hiker of the Appalachian Trail, Dies at 98

Par :Richard Sandomir
In 1951, always an adventurer, he was the second person to walk the trail in a “thru-hike,” from Georgia to Maine, in an arduous 123 days. He later met the first to do so.
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Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights

Par :Eileen Sullivan
The president, who has targeted collective bargaining contracts for nearly one million government employees, has said their functions touch on national security.

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Edwin Osorio, president of Local 3369, the union representing the Social Security Administration, speaking at a news conference in New York last month.
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Trump’s D.C. Crime Crackdown Shows Administration’s Uneasy Relationship With Guns

Par :Glenn Thrush
If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.

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National Guard troops around the National Mall in Washington. President Trump declared a crime emergency in the capital in August.
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Trump’s Push to Punish Flag Burning Puts Landmark Free Speech Ruling at Risk

Par :Adam Liptak
The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning an American flag is speech protected by the First Amendment. President Trump says it should be punished.

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Gregory Johnson displayed a flag he has used in protests, in Venice, Calif., in 2021. Mr. Johnson won a landmark Supreme Court case in 1989 protecting political expression that is now being challenged by President Trump.
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Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington

Par :David W. Chen
Republican governors who have mustered National Guard troops for deployment in blue-state cities may re-examine their deployments if federal intervention significantly brings crime down.

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National Guard troops patrolling around the Washington Monument.
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Ukraine War Leads to Global Shortage of TNT for Military and Mining Use

Par :John Ismay
Mining materials to make cement, gravel and a host of other common products require an explosive that is becoming more expensive and limited in supply.

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One-pound charges of TNT like these are critical for blasting rocks and minerals needed for construction projects.
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Robert Mueller Has Parkinson’s Disease, Family Says

Par :Michael S. Schmidt and Nina Agrawal
The former special counsel, who led the Russia investigation during President Trump’s first term, has had difficulty speaking in recent months. A congressional committee dropped a request for Mr. Mueller to testify this week.

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Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in 2019.
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Man Found Dead at Burning Man, Prompting Homicide Investigation

Par :Johnny Diaz
The victim, whose identity was unknown, was found “lying in a pool of blood” on Saturday night, officials said.

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The body of a man who was “obviously deceased” was reported at the Burning Man festival on Saturday night, a sheriff said.
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Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation

Par :Alan Feuer
One of the rioters’ lawyers wants to create a panel that would decide on financial damages for what the rioters believe were unfair prosecutions.

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The lawyer Mark McCloskey in 2021. He wants to establish what he calls a “voluntary nonjudicial resolution committee” that would consider rioters’ cases individually, and says he met with top Justice Department officials recently.
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Hard-Nosed Sheriff Who Inspired ‘Walking Tall’ Movie Killed His Wife, Inquiry Says

Par :Adeel Hassan
Buford Pusser, who was portrayed in the 1973 hit movie, led people to believe that his wife was ambushed by his enemies, cold-case investigators in Tennessee said.

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Sheriff Buford Pusser outside his home in Adamsville, Tenn., in 1973.
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Chicago’s Mayor Rejects Trump’s Plans to Send Troops to His City

Par :Sonia A. Rao
Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago ordered local police officers not to aid the federal crackdown, ramping up the tensions between the White House and state and local officials.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago has pushed back against the Trump administration’s threats of militarized immigration enforcement in the city.
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Chicago’s mayor rejects Trump’s plans to send troops to his city.

Par :Sonia A. Rao

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Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago has pushed back against the Trump administration’s threats of militarized immigration enforcement in the city.
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Pirro Defends Guard Deployment and Takeover of D.C. Police Force

Par :Eric Schmitt
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, also deflected criticism of a case in which her office was unable to obtain an indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent.

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More than 2,200 member of the National Guard have been deployed in Washington.
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Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac

Par :Miriam Jordan and Aishvarya Kavi
The temporary block ended another last-minute flurry of legal action over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewing a list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City on Sunday.
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What Motivated the Minneapolis Church Shooter? We May Never Know.

Par :Ernesto Londoño
Investigators combing through piles of evidence from an attack on a Minneapolis church cautioned that these kinds of shooters often leave more questions than answers.

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Ben Rasmussen embraced his daughter, Jemma, at a vigil honoring the victims of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.
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Redistricting Push Creates Chaos for Incumbents in Both Parties

Par :Annie Karni
Republicans and Democrats in Congress are wary of the potential consequences of President Trump’s drive to redraw districts.

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The California State Capitol in Sacramento. The state’s Democrats are retaliating against Texas’ redistricting with their own plan.
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Trump Crime Strategy May Work for Now, but Not for Long, Experts Say

Par :Tim Arango
The president is looking to add troops to city streets while cutting funds for programs that work, experts and local officials say. But one idea, beautifying neighborhoods, has buy-in.

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Metropolitan Police and federal agents responded to a stolen vehicle this month in Washington, D.C.
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In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

Par :Erica L. Green
President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.

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Dr. Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department, was dismissed after a 35-year career as part of the Trump administration’s plan to drastically reduce the size of the federal work force.
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Trump Says He Will Sign Executive Order Mandating Voter I.D.

Par :Yan Zhuang
He also wants to restrict mail-in voting and allow only paper ballots. The Constitution doesn’t give the president explicit authority over election law.

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President Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he would sign an executive order mandating voter ID.
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Suspect in Montana Bar Shooting Faces 4 Murder Charges

Par :Orlando Mayorquín
The man is accused of fatally shooting four people in a bar in Anaconda, Mont. He had led the police on an eight-day manhunt that rattled the community.

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The shooting at the Owl Bar in Anaconda, Mont., had rattled the community.
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Minneapolis Community Grieves Together After Catholic School Shooting

Par :Jeff Ernst and Soumya Karlamangla
In the first Mass since an assailant attacked Annunciation Catholic Church, parishioners gathered to grieve and support one another.

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Flowers and signs are placed near Annunciation Catholic Church after Wednesday’s school shooting.
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Before Minnesota Shooting, a Program Aimed at Preventing Attacks Lost Federal Funding

Par :Chris Hippensteel and Orlando Mayorquín
The cut by the Trump administration does not appear to have affected the handling of the church shooting this week, but state leaders say it weakens efforts to identify future threats.

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At Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.
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