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Texas Senate Passes Bill to Crack Down on Mail-Order Abortion Pills

Par :Yan Zhuang
Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign the legislation, which allows nearly anyone to sue abortion medication providers and distributors.

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Lawmakers praying on Tuesday during a special session at the Texas Senate in Austin.
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Man From Russia Identified as Festival-Goer Found Dead at Burning Man

Par :Hannah Ziegler
The man, Vadim Kruglov, 37, was found “lying in a pool of blood,” the authorities said. Officials are investigating his death as a possible homicide.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow His Sweeping Tariffs

Par :Ann E. Marimow
A federal appeals court had invalidated a centerpiece of President Trump’s economic strategy, finding that a 1977 law did not authorize the tariffs.

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The Port of Baltimore. Since taking office, President Trump has relied on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 as a central part of his efforts to force companies to invest in the United States.
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ICE Opens Immigrant Detention Center in Louisiana’s Angola Prison

Par :Rick Rojas
Critics are questioning the decision to hold immigrants at the maximum-security facility known as Angola, which has a troubled history.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem toured the prison on Wednesday.
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Seattle Police Conclude 13 Years of Federal Oversight

Par :Mike Baker
A federal judge ended the monitoring imposed after allegations of excessive force and racial bias. The city pointed to progress in improving officer accountability and training.

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Seattle Police Department officers blocked a street as crews dismantled a protest area in the city in 2020.
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The Odd Couple Keeping Epstein in the Headlines

Par :Jess Bidgood
A Kentucky Republican and a California Democrat have joined forces, but the task is getting taller.

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Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, speaking, and Representative Ro Khanna of California, in the crowd behind him, appeared in front of the Capitol on Wednesday with women who spoke of having been abused by Jeffrey Epstein.
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G.O.P. Thwarts Epstein Disclosure Bill as Accusers Plead for Files

Par :Michael Gold
Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers went to the Capitol to ask Congress to get behind their calls for more disclosures, but momentum for a bill demanding it appeared to stall.

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Women who said they were victimized by Jeffrey Epstein recounted their experiences at a news conference with lawmakers outside the Capitol on Wednesday.
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Trump Grows Frustrated With Putin, as Russian President Bonds With China’s Leader

Par :Erica L. Green
President Trump’s extraordinary summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month has yet to yield any concrete results on the war in Ukraine.

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President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with President of Poland Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday.
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Newsom and Republicans Scramble to Raise Cash in California Redistricting Fight

Par :Theodore Schleifer · Shane Goldmacher and Laurel Rosenhall
Total spending could top $200 million in a November contest that could help determine control of the House next year.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California is asking wealthy donors to back his redistricting ballot measure. His advisers have privately said they want to raise more than $100 million for his November campaign.
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Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Canceled Harvard Funding

Par :Alan Blinder
The ruling was a victory for the university in its battle with President Trump, but the judge’s decision may not be the final word.

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The campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
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Senator’s Visit to Spy Agency Was Canceled After Laura Loomer Complained

Par :Julian E. Barnes · Robert Draper and Robert Jimison
Senator Mark Warner’s visit was classified and not intended to be publicized. It was to include a meeting with the head of the agency and a briefing on the agency’s use of artificial intelligence.

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Laura Loomer has questioned the loyalty of various intelligence officers, and helped oust the National Security Agency’s director, deputy director and general counsel.
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In Texas, a Senate Race Turns Brutal Before It’s Even Declared

Par :J. David Goodman
Attorney General Ken Paxton is waging “legal war” against Beto O’Rourke, a possible Democratic rival, threatening jail and an investigation that could bankrupt his organization.

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The clash between the politicians started last month as an offshoot of President Trump’s push to have Republicans redraw congressional lines in Texas.
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Trump Floats Sending National Guard to New Orleans Despite Drop in Crime

Par :Emily Cochrane
Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, welcomed news of the potential deployment to New Orleans, a city run by Democrats.

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New Orleans has experienced a drop in its murder rate this year.
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Epstein Victims Demand Release of More Files as Trump Labels Campaign a ‘Hoax’

Par :Minho Kim
The accusers’ demands come as some Congress members push to compel the release of the full investigative file on Jeffrey Epstein.

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Victims of the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein gathered near the Capitol Wednesday to demand the release of documents related to his case.
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Florida Moves to End Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

Par :Patricia Mazzei
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.

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Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, has long opposed vaccine mandates.
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Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates

Par :Patricia Mazzei
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.

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Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, has long opposed vaccine mandates.
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N.Y. Attorney General Sues Far-Right Group VDARE for Misusing Funds

Par :David A. Fahrenthold and Alan Feuer
The suit says the nonprofit’s leaders — who helped bring anti-immigrant ideas into the G.O.P. mainstream — used donor money to buy a castle-like home.

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Peter and Lydia Brimelow, leaders of the anti-immigration nonprofit VDARE, are being sued by Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, for allegedly misusing funds to purchase a medieval-style castle in West Virginia.
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Snubbing RFK Jr., States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines

Par :Emily Baumgaertner Nunn
California, Oregon and Washington said they would work together to review scientific data, saying the C.D.C. could no longer be trusted. But Florida said it would abolish all vaccine mandates.

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Federal policies on vaccines have been changing rapidly since Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, became secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Trump Team Urges G.O.P. to Rebrand Signature Policy Law

Par :Annie Karni
Top campaign officials told House Republicans they should rebrand the measure the president dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” in a nod to its unpopularity with voters.

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The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is one of several veterans of President Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign urging a rebrand of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
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John E. Sununu Is Exploring a Senate Run in New Hampshire

Par :Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher
The former senator has been out of office for more than 15 years, but his last name is synonymous with Republican politics in a state where party leaders see a chance to flip a seat.

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Former Senator John E. Sununu in 2007. Mr. Sununu has been out of office for more than 15 years, but his family has long been a formidable political dynasty in New Hampshire.
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Trump Administration Says Boat Strike Is Start of Campaign Against Venezuelan Cartels

Par :Eric Schmitt · Helene Cooper · Alan Feuer · Charlie Savage and Edward Wong
The defense secretary and President Trump said a small boat was carrying drugs but offered little evidence and few details.

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The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Sampson in Panama City on Tuesday. The Pentagon has been amassing a small armada of warships in the southern Caribbean.
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Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines

Par :Emily Baumgaertner Nunn
Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Federal policies on vaccines have been changing rapidly since Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, became secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.

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The unique culture of the judiciary, which can tilt toward tradition over innovation, has led it to move more slowly than a private company or other branches of government might.
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Maine Mass Shooting Survivors File Suit Against Army

Par :Jenna Russell
The behavior of the gunman, an Army Reservist, had worried colleagues and supervisors for months before he killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley.

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A makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, in 2023.
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Trump Welcomes Poland’s Right-Wing President to White House

Par :Andrew Higgins
The meeting between President Trump and Poland’s largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlighted divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union’s eastern fringe.

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Poland’s right-wing president, Karol Nawrocki, is set to meet with President Trump on Wednesday in the White House.
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Dan Kleban Joins Maine Democratic Primary, Seeking to Unseat Senator Susan Collins

Par :Shane Goldmacher
Dan Kleban enters a crowded Democratic primary as party leaders wait for Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, who is “seriously considering” a run for Senate.

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Dan Kleban at his brewery, the Maine Beer Company, in 2019. He said Americans were “feeling that no matter how hard they work, even if they play by the rules, the system’s rigged against them.”
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Missouri Legislators To Start Special Session on Redistricting

Par :Julie Bosman
The lawmakers, led by a Republican majority, are expected to consider new maps that would help Republicans gain another seat in Congress. They already hold six of the state’s eight congressional seats.

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The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City.
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What We Saw at a Job Fair for ICE

Par :Nicholas Nehamas · Kassie Bracken · Christina Shaman · June Kim and Andrew Cagle
As ICE ramps up for more deportations under President Trump, Nicholas Nehamas, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks with applicants at an ICE recruitment fair in Texas.
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Lightning-Sparked Fires Force Evacuations and Destroy Buildings in California

Par :Yan Zhuang · Thomas Fuller and Amy Graff
Fires sparked by lightning strikes that hit California early Tuesday razed over 13,000 acres in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, officials said.

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The 6-5 fire was burning in and around Chinese Camp, an important center of early Chinese American life about 20 miles northeast of Modesto.
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Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans

Par :Alan Feuer
The case appears set to return to the Supreme Court in a decisive battle over President Trump’s use of the 18th-century law to deport migrants.

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The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was the first time that federal appellate judges had weighed in on the substantive question of whether President Trump had properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
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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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Trump Blames AI for Viral White House Trash Bag Video That Was Confirmed as Real

Par :Luke Broadwater
President Trump blamed A.I. for a widely shared video of a trash bag being thrown from a White House window. But the White House had already confirmed it was real.

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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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