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After Court Defeat, Trump Warns of Economic Chaos From Loss of Tariffs

The president and his advisers have suggested they will fight a federal appeals court’s ruling that found many of the 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’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Pirro Defends Guard Deployment and Takeover of D.C. Police Force

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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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An Online Group Claims It’s Behind Campus Swatting Wave

Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.

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An online group has said that it was behind a number of recent swatting episodes that have drawn law enforcement officers to American college campuses, including Villanova University on Aug. 21.
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From Cracker Barrel to Sydney Sweeney, Trump Has an Opinion to Share

In his second term, President Trump is using his power to reshape American culture, not just American policy. He has threatened consequences for many who disagree.

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Mr. Trump at the Kennedy Center earlier this month.
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Marin Lately, a New Satire Publication, Skewers Marin County

In February, the publication Marin Lately began satirizing the wealthy, idyllic swath of the Bay Area. The author has been a mystery, until now.

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In Marin County, residents can surf, mountain bike and paddle board all in the same weekend.
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In Secret Diaries, the Church Shooter’s Plans for Mass Murder

Robin W. Westman described how she had obtained guns and how she had visited the church on a test run this summer during a Sunday Mass.

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A shooter killed two children and injured 18 others on Wednesday at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.
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A Father Took His Daughters to School. Then Came the Gunshots.

Anders Holine was among the first parents to arrive at the scene of a mass shooting at a Minneapolis church on Wednesday. He spoke to The New York Times about what he witnessed as he went searching for his two daughters.

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20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is Still Home for Those Who Left

For many displaced by Hurricane Katrina, distance did not diminish their bond with the city they left behind, even as they built new lives.

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Alex Webber left New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, only to have her business in Marshall, N.C., flood last year during Hurricane Helene.
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Targeting Iran’s Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards

Israel was able to track the movements of key Iranian figures and assassinate them during the 12-day war this spring by following the cellphones carried by members of their security forces.

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A banner in Tehran showing pictures of Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists killed by Israeli strikes. Israel used its technological and intelligence capabilities to track and target key figures in Iran during the 12-day war in June.
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Duke Cunningham, 83, Congressman Convicted in Corruption Scandal, Dies

A war hero turned politician, he was first elected to the House in 1990 but stepped down in 2005 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit bribery.

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Representative Duke Cunningham, Republican of California, in 2005, the year he pleaded guilty in a bribery scandal and left Congress after 15 years in office.
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The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled

President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.

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Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists

The layoffs set up a potential battle with a federal judge who blocked previous efforts by Kari Lake, a fierce Trump ally, to restructure the agency.

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A Voice of America studio in Washington.
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Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

Judge Jia M. Cobb rejected what she called “a truly startling argument” from the government that it could use a fast-track procedure to remove people arrested far from the southern border.

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The Trump administration has sought to expand the process known as expedited removal, which typically avoids court proceedings.
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U.S. Is Working With Guatemala to Return Hundreds of Children

The children, who crossed the border as unaccompanied minors, are being kept in shelters. Experts said the move raised troubling legal questions.

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Unaccompanied minors waiting to be transported to a U.S. Border Patrol processing facility after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. in 2021.
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Trump Administration Weighs Having Military Lawyers Work as Immigration Judges

No final decision has been made, but the proposal comes as President Trump increasingly uses the military in various aspects of domestic life.

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The proposal would send military lawyers to work at the Justice Department in an effort to reduce the capacity of the immigration system to process a backlog.
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