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Man Dies After Roller Coaster Ride at Epic Universe

Par :Adeel Hassan
The authorities are investigating the death of the visitor to Universal’s new theme park in Orlando, which opened in May.

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Stardust Racers, at Universal Epic Universe in Florida has dueling trains that drop and spiral in perilous proximity.
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Judge Blocks Administration From Immediately Removing Guatemalan Children

Par :Zach Montague
Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote that the government had given dubious justifications for removing the children that “crumbled like a house of cards.”

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A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewed the list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City last month.
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U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid

Par :Edward Wong
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States would negotiate agreements to deliver aid in new ways and would focus on the Western Hemisphere and Asia Pacific.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pictured in Israel on Tuesday, has announced changes to international U.S. health aimed at ending “a culture of dependency among recipient countries.”
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In Texas, Parents Fighting Vaccinations Say Their Movement Is Winning

Par :Edgar Sandoval · Pooja Salhotra · Soumya Karlamangla and Desiree Rios
Public health advocates hoped that the measles outbreak might persuade the reluctant to get shots. That has not turned out to be true.

Deborah Glenn, a mother of three in Fort Worth, chose not to vaccinate her children.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Removal of Fed Governor

Par :Ann E. Marimow
President Trump had pressed to fire Lisa Cook before the central bank’s meeting, at which the Fed voted to cut interest rates.
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Kennedy Announces Firing of Organ Transplant Group After Safety Problems

Par :Brian M. Rosenthal
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the firing of one of the groups that arrange U.S. organ donations, effectively closing it down — and sending a warning to others.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been promising to overhaul the organ transplant system amid revelations of safety lapses.
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Democratic Senators Call for U.S. Recognition of Palestinian State

Par :Robert Jimison
The resolution has little chance of advancing in the Republican-controlled Senate, given growing G.O.P. opposition to a two-state solution in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

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A group of Democratic senators, led by Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, on Thursday introduced legislation calling on President Trump to recognize a demilitarized Palestinian state.
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Amid Republican Crackdown on D.C., City Leaders to Testify

Par :Campbell Robertson
Washington’s mayor and other local officials will be grilled by members of a House committee seeking to expand federal control over the city.

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After standing up to President Trump in his first term, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has been trying a more diplomatic approach this time around.
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Robert Redford and His Beloved Utah Canyon

Par :Thomas Fuller
The actor, who died on Tuesday at 89, spent much of his life working to preserve the serene natural beauty of Utah, even as his Sundance Film Festival brought Hollywood glamour to the state.

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Robert Redford at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994.
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As Shutdown Looms, Democrats Outline Demands on Medicaid and Obamacare

Par :Catie Edmondson
After rejecting a G.O.P.-written plan to keep federal funding flowing, Democrats released a counteroffer that would add more than $1 trillion in health spending.

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“The contrast between the Republican proposal and what Democrats have put forward is glaring,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.
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Trump Administration Announces New Civics Effort With MAGA-Aligned Groups

Par :Michael C. Bender
President Trump has long sought to imbue the nonpartisan idea of civics — the rights, responsibilities and duties of citizenship — with his politics.

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President Trump has yet to clearly define his views on civics or patriotism in education, although he has repeatedly suggested that schoolchildren should be taught to love their country.
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California Judge Gets 35 Years to Life for Fatally Shooting His Wife

Par :Michael Levenson
Jeffrey Ferguson, 74, said at his sentencing hearing that the shooting was an accident. “I wish God had taken me instead,” he said.

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Jeffrey Ferguson during his trial in February in Santa Ana, Calif. He has served as a Superior Court judge in Orange County, Calif., since 2015.
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How Vaccines Are Revealing Cracks in Trump’s G.O.P.

Par :Jess Bidgood
Some Republicans are starting to worry that the issue of health care could cost them politically.

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Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana invited Susan Monarez, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was fired last month, to testify before the Senate health committee.
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Upending Precedent, Thune Bows To Realities of a Polarized Senate

Par :Michael Gold
In using the nuclear option, John Thune has turned a Senate precedent on its head, defying his reputation as an institutionalist.

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Congressional experts said that Senator John Thune’s piecemeal changes have dealt a significant blow to the minority party’s ability to force bipartisan consensus.
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After National Tragedies, Obama and Trump Are a Study in Contrasts

Par :Tyler Pager
Former President Barack Obama said the job of an American president was to “remind us of the ties that bind us together.” President Trump apparently disagrees.

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President Barack Obama hugging Mark Barden at an Oval Office event in January 2016. Mr. Barden lost his son, Daniel, in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Republican Senator Casts Doubt on Kennedy’s Vaccine Advisers

Par :Megan Mineiro
Senator Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the health committee, said Americans should not trust a possible change to the childhood vaccine guidance.
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Missing Teen’s Remains Found in Tesla Registered to the Singer D4vd

Par :Christine Hauser · Neil Vigdor and Matt Stevens
The decomposing body of Celeste Rivas, who was reported missing in April 2024 in Southern California, was found inside the vehicle in an impound lot, the authorities said.

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A car was found at an impound lot last week with remains inside. The car was registered to the singer D4vd, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
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After Kirk’s Death, Students Return to Campus and Learn ‘How to Be Adults’

Par :Anna Griffin
Utah Valley University burst into the nation’s consciousness when Charlie Kirk was slain there. Its students resumed classes Wednesday, most trying to get on with their busy lives.

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Makeshift memorials dotted the campus of Utah Valley University, where Charlie Kirk was killed.
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Thieves Steal $700,000 in Gold From Natural History Museum in Paris

Par :Christine Hauser
The heist was the latest in a string of thefts at museums in France.

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“Native gold specimens” were stolen from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris overnight Monday.
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‘Pay Attention!’: Spirit Airlines Pilot Scolded for Flying Near Air Force One

Par :Caroline Hopkins Legaspi
An air traffic controller sternly told the pilot to “pay attention,” “get off the iPad” and turn the plane to steer clear of a flight carrying President Trump.

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Spirit Airlines planes in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2022. A Spirit Airlines plane flying from Fort Lauderdale to Boston on Tuesday was instructed to move farther away from Air Force One.
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Senator Says Meeting Between Kennedy and His C.D.C. Director Was Recorded, Then Backtracks

Par :Christina Jewett
The senator, Markwayne Mullin, quickly backtracked after pressing the now former director, Susan Monarez, on an exchange with the health secretary.

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Senator Markwayne Mullin, Republican of Oklahoma, asserted that Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was not correctly describing an exchange she had with the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Ousted C.D.C Chief Describes Tense Meeting With Kennedy

Par :Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Dr. Susan Monarez told senators at a committee hearing on Wednesday that the health secretary had hurled false and hurtful accusations about the nation’s health agency.

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Dr. Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, detailed a tense meeting with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that led to her being fired.
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What to Know About ‘Hate Speech’ and the First Amendment

Par :Adam Liptak
There has been a lot of talk from Trump administration officials about punishing speech. Here is what the law says.

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“Speech is powerful,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in 2011. “It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and inflict great pain.”
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Georgia Election Official Who Defied Trump Enters Governor’s Race

Par :Rick Rojas
Brad Raffensperger, the two-term Republican secretary of state, joins a primary that also includes the state’s lieutenant governor and attorney general.

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Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, announced on Wednesday that he was running for governor.
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Top Bessent Aide, Daniel Katz, Expected to Be Tapped as No. 2 at I.M.F.

Par :Alan Rappeport
The appointment would come as the Trump administration has called for sweeping reforms at the global economic institution.

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The International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington. The United States is the largest shareholder of the I.M.F.
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Nonpartisan Groups Change Course After Their Initial Words Help Trump

Par :Laurel Rosenhall
Two nonprofits prided themselves on being neutral voices. Then they found that there seemed to be no middle ground in the nation’s redistricting war.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators placed a redistricting plan on the November ballot as a response to gerrymandering in Texas.
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A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing

Par :Jack Healy and Anna Griffin
The man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk left a trail of evidence and had no way to outrun his parents’ recognition, court documents showed.

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F.B.I. officials last week outside the home of the parents of the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Fired C.D.C. Director Describes Clashes With Kennedy and Turmoil at Agency

Par :Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Megan Mineiro
At a Senate health committee hearing, Dr. Susan Monarez painted a picture of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a man wedded to his own ideology and uninterested in government scientists.

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Susan Monarez, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, described in vivid detail some of the turmoil inside the C.D.C.
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At Home and on the Seas, Trump Expands Use of American Force

Par :David E. Sanger
His first term focused on America’s rival superpowers. Now the emphasis is on homeland defense and troops on city streets.

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President Trump signed an order on Monday to send federal resources to Memphis, including the National Guard.
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A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

Par :Reid J. Epstein
Led by a former aide to Senator Harry Reid, the Searchlight Institute is hoping to persuade Democrats to play down causes like climate change and L.G.B.T.Q. rights to appeal to more voters

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Adam Jentleson, center, is introducing the Searchlight Institute, with an annual budget of $10 million and a staff that includes, from left, Cam Thompson, Charlotte Swasey, Tré Easton and Danielle Deiseroth.
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Head of University of California Warns of Risk From Trump Threats

Par :Alan Blinder
After the Trump administration ratcheted up its demands of the university system over the summer, its Board of Regents met on Wednesday to consider how to respond.

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The University of California system has been criticized over its decision last month to give federal investigators information about students and employees linked to antisemitism complaints.
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He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.

Par :Miriam Jordan
After three decades in California, Narciso Barranco was arrested by agents while weeding outside an IHOP, stirring outrage and a fight to stop his deportation.

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Narciso Barranco at home in Tustin, Calif.
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Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Could Hamper Efforts to House the Homeless

Par :Jason DeParle and Caroline Gutman
President Trump’s signature domestic policy law could make it harder for states to fund programs to help people find stable housing.

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After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’

Par :Tyler Pager
Speaking at an educational summit, former President Barack Obama criticized his successor’s attacks on his political rivals in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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Former President Barack Obama speaking last year. In recent months, Mr. Obama has gone increasingly public with his criticisms of President Trump and his administration.
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San Francisco Politician Recalled Over the Great Highway’s Closure

Par :Heather Knight
Supervisor Joel Engardio was ousted by voters who were angry that he helped turn a thoroughfare into a park.

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Supervisor Joel Engardio of San Francisco had supported the closing of the Great Highway.
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Hiker Found Dead in Cascade Mountains of Washington State After Apparent Fall

Par :Hannah Ziegler
The man, 37, was hiking near Dragontail Peak, a rugged region of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.

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The body of a New York man who apparently died from a fall while hiking in the Enchantments in Washington State was found last week, the authorities said.
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Democrat Wins Seat of Slain Minnesota Lawmaker, Leaving State House Evenly Split

Par :Ernesto Londoño
Xp Lee, a former City Council member, won a special election to replace his political mentor, former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June.

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Xp Lee works at the Minnesota Department of Health and served on the City Council of Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis.
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Trump Invokes Kirk’s Killing in Seeking to Silence Opponents on Left

Par :Zolan Kanno-Youngs · Andrew Duehren · Kenneth P. Vogel and Katie Rogers
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, President Trump and his allies have laid out a broad plan to target liberal groups, monitor speech, revoke visas and designate certain groups as domestic terrorists.

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“The radical left has done tremendous damage to the country,” President Trump told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, as he continued to play down violence on the right.
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