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President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

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.

© Rachel Bujalski for The New York Times

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.

© Liam James Doyle for The New York Times

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.

© Gilad Thaler for The New York Times

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